Overview

• Nintendo announced the platformer during the September 2025 Nintendo Direct as part of Mario’s 40th anniversary slate.
• The reveal opens with a sentient tome named Mr. E crash-landing on Yoshi’s Island, prompting a journey inside its pages.
• Gameplay emphasizes documenting unfamiliar creatures and using their behaviors to interact with the world and progress.
• Footage shows specific systems such as dandelions weakening a rock for a ground-pound, plus activities like fishing, surfing, and a darts game.
• The 2D presentation evokes a children’s picture book, with deliberately choppy character motion noted by GameSpot, drawing comparisons to 1997’s Yoshi’s Story and following 2019’s Yoshi’s Crafted World.