With the upcoming release of Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and a lot of the tepid reactions to it I'm reminded of the fact that people have started to kinda sour on the Yoshi series as a whole. Even with a lot of good reception from previews people just don't seem to care all that much. I saw a poll on a Mario focused channel (Piantapedia) that really put into perspective how little people cared, with "not interested" getting significantly more votes than the "excited" and even "get it later" or "wait and see" options.

Part of the reason I see often is because the series is seen as overly easy, and while that is a part of it, I feel like Kirby, a generally easier series, doesn't really have this problem, Kirby has a much more active fanbase than Yoshi who gets extremely excited at the series' new games, and even Forgotten Land and Robobot seem to be decently well liked even outside of the Kirby fanbase, and Triple Deluxe had a lot of defenders when IGN gave it a 6/10 review.

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