Usually it's just easier to eat up thirty random fruit and breeze through a level, but again, if points are important to you, then you'll want to search and gobble up all that you can. They're hidden in the ground, inside poles that need to be ground pounded, mini-games that need to be won such as running to a marked goal with a stack of melons that your Yoshi has to careful balance, and inside one-chance prize bubbles.

Yoshi has a bone to pick with these dragons!ДЄnd these melons aren't easy to obtain either. But you still only get to play one level in each chapter. If you collect all three, the next chapter will have all four levels open to choose from. So if you don't collect any of these giant hearts in a level, you'll have access to only one level in the next chapter. Depending on how many hulking happy hearts you collect, there's three in each level, you open up new levels to choose from. You select one of the levels to play through, and after that level is completed, you move onto the next chapter. Instead, there are six chapters to the tale of the Yoshis, and each chapter has four levels. And so the Yoshis' journey begins.ДЄs stated there are indeed twenty-four levels to explore, but you won't be able to access all of them in one runthrough of the game. Depending on which path you embark on, the story changes until the obvious and given conclusion of Baby Bowser's defeat. While there are twenty-four different levels, only six can be played during a given playthrough. The plot may be grim, but the Yoshis are adamant on retrieving their tree and shelving Baby Bowser for good. Baby Bowser intends to be on Santa's naughty list for yet another year in a row by stealing the Yoshis' Super Happy Tree and flattening their world into a pop-up book.

Six baby Yoshis awake from their slumber with their island caught in the middle of chaos. While a grand idea on paper, the execution isn't necessarily a storybook ending. However, even he isn't above making a misstep here and there. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most acclaimed, if not the most, game directors in the video game industry's history.

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