Nintendo keeps finding new ways to reinvent platformers

In most platforming games, you’re fighting against the world around you. You’re trying to beat a level, nail a seemingly impossible series of jumps, or defeat a powerful boss. But even though Yoshi and the Mysterious Book uses familiar gameplay — you traverse the world by jumping, climbing, and, uh, eating — it reframes your goal to focus on exploration instead of competition. And in doing so it reimagines the classic side-scrolling platformer as something that feels refreshingly new: laid-back, playful, and bursting with ideas.

The new Yoshi game looks like a storybook, and that’s because it takes place inside of one. Early on you meet a sentient book named Mr. E who has a slight memory problem: He can’t remember much of what exists on his pages. So, as Yoshi, your goal is to venture inside his pages and learn about each creature that dwells within. It’s sort of...

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