Pushing 60 instead of a hard resolution? Thank you. Maybe more developers should follow suit. Nintendo has always pushed for 60fps in most titles because it makes gameplay feel the best. A platformer should never be 30. It just wouldn't feel right.

Damn, I knew the resolution was low but I didn't realize it was THAT low. Game still manages to look great, though.

Ayo I was dying when he showed us Yoshis new Island music... sounds like a parody..

3:26 "so while it's still a 2d platformer on paper" HA good pun.

I honestly didn’t notice the resolution dropped that low.. I think it’s the fact that the colours blend in nicely with each other and the art style helps to make it less noticeable

10:02 straight up thought the "Song of Storms" from Ocarina of Time was about to play...

I don't think the soundtrack is strong, but it's nowhere near as awful as New Island was. Plus we've still yet to hear the other tracks, so I'm holding out hope that it'll get better

Yoshi's Woolly World had a pretty good soundtrack, with "Bowser's Castle Halls" being a major stand out. Not surprising, as the game was co-composed by Tomoya Tomita, who worked on the underrated Wario Land: Shake it/The Shake Dimension. Yoshi's Story & Yoshi Island DS, while not as good as the original, do have some catchy tunes. Yoshi's New Island is pretty bad, but there are some hidden gems in the soundtrack, like the special level theme.

Great video that got me even more excited to play the game! I love Nintendo’s dedication to getting many of their games running at 60FPS.

The game looks great but if Unreal 4 can't get to 720p60 at least, Nintendo would be better off sticking with its own engines.

Glad to see someone mention Bug on the Sega Saturn

love the colors on this game. UE4 still comes thru

"Watch video, get informed" - Sadly there will always be those trolls who comment without watching the video.

Such a cute game 😀

When the music and the introduction of the video comes from the first Yoshi's Island... still the best Yoshi game in 2019.... another amazing DF video... this is my favourite channel on this platform, no doubt about it.

the game looks amazing from the artistical standpoint. The gameplay will be superb, I have no doubt about it

Thanks for the in-depth look! Crazy that this game targets 60fps... it'd be nice to have a mode that balances 30fps with higher resolution since this doesn't seem like a fast-paced platformer. Its music isn't the best in the series but I found it cute and relaxing. Yoshi's Island still holds the crown for best Yoshi game soundtrack, though.

Whaaaat? Wooly World has the best Nintendo soundtrack of 2015-2016.

I was hoping John might make a video about this game. I was quite impressed by the demo and it's underlying tech. There is just something very neat about the look of the environments.

6:34 The drop to 30 FPS mode is analogous to how games used to switch from 240p to 480i for crisper menus, or you could compare that to how a codec works where motion obscures resolution drops while stillness has to be more crisp.

Man, Dunkey will be happy to have 100 of these

So far I love the demo and the experience that it offers, I just hope the game isn't as short as Kirby was.

Nintendo, Yoshi, Handheld, Unreal engine 4. these are words i didn't know i would ever use in a sentence.

I have a plethora of Mario and Yoshi games, but still think the Snes's Yoshi's Island is simply astounding from the ground up.

Disagree with the music, i guess it suits well the game...

I'm glad they are focusing on frame rate rather than resolution. While I got used to it after a while, I wish Kirby Star Allies was 60fps rather than 30fps

Surprised to find that the games resolution is so low, my wife and I have both played the demo on our individual Switches and the game looked phenomenal!

Came back here because Princess Peach Showtime! is running on the same engine, has half of the FPS as this, and is made by the same dev studio.

I personally really like the mellow soundtrack of the new game, but hey to each their own.

I rather have better framerate than resolution but it still a demo so maybe they might improve the resolution a bit

Mate - woolly world had a great feel, soundtrack, graphics and gameplay. Best Yoshi game since the SNES

I played the demo in portable mode and it looked great. I didn't realize the resolution was that low so good job to the devs.

Keep in mind Yoshi’s Woolly World had the most AMAZING soundtrack

Fun Fact: In Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Yoshi has a Crafted World skin

Damn I figured the resolution was at least 720p, it looked blurry but I agree it was worth the trade off for the graphics and framerate. Does the 30 fps world menu/map run at a higher resolution to compensate too?

Excellent work John! Game plays well and reminds me a fair amount of Tearaway on PS Vita. Looking forward to getting hold of the full game.

You guys dud play Yoshi's Woolly World right!? That game was incredible and the soundtrack. 😍

Extreme depth of field in games (Octopath being one example) really strains my eyes... am I the only one? I wish there was a way to turn it off.

Good análisis as usual, you guys always do a good job analyzing the technical aspect of the game 🥰

It really looks 1080p on dock mode and 720p portable mode. The game looks beautiful even on 4k televisions.

540-freakin-p docked. Come on Nintendo.

Thanks, John! Will you be doing an analysis of the Daemon x Machina demo next? It is another example of UE4 on the Switch, but they have taken a very different approach with it compared to Yoshi. Playing both demos back to back was interesting.

You're spot on regarding the music on post-Yoshi's Island games.

Wow I was surprised to hear the resolution is that low. It looks great in motion

I’m actually shocked lol this game looks beautiful... what are you talking about?? lol the music is perfect... oh well, to each their own i guess

"It's bad that we never had a game with good music since Yoshi's Island" How can you say something like that?, have you forgotten Yoshi's Wooly World soundtrack witch is amazing and has a new song for each level? It makes the game even a little superior to Yoshi's Island. I really love DF but this .... it's really clear you didnt think before saying it. Now, go listen to "Clawdaddy Beach" and "Shy but Deadly" and the Castle theme.

It was running at native 1080p when they first reveal it back in E3 2017 I knew the resolution was downgraded when they revealed it again but I didn't know the resolution was that low in docked mode I was think maybe a dynamic resolution up to 810p docked.

Im guessing the cut framerate on the overworld is to free up the cpu for dynamic aggressive preemptive loading of the levels, making the time from selection to gameplay shorter.

I'm not impressed by the stable fps with that resolution, I imagine playing this on a 4k tv is jarring as hell.

Got a 'Clockwork Knight' vibe while playing the game.

Not to worry. When the next console comes out Nintendo will release Yoshi's Crafted World Deluxe with a locked 1080p.

I noticed the low resolution since the game is overall quite blurry but didn't think it would be as low as 360p

More like Yoshi's Fuzzy World, am I right? With the image quality being so low, it begs the questions as to why Nintendo doesn't just, you know, have Good Feel make a new Yoshi game in the same vein as the game every one of these Yoshi games keep trying to ape i.e. 2D art that looks like it was colored in with crayons that still holds up incredibly well.

Still can't understand why Crash on Consoles is 30 fps when something like this runs at 60 fps on the Switch.

and this guys is why you should use your own in house engine, so you can fully utilise the hardware and optimise for it so that your game doesnt look subpar to other titles published on the hardware with even higher ambitions

10:02 I love how this tune was used to make Song of Storms

It reminds me of LittleBigPlanet.

How can you be surprised at them getting 60fps when the resolution is 576p docked and 495p portable? It's not magic. That's how they did it.

Interesting. The only thing I noticed was the motion blur when the camera flipped around.

wow, I remember Bug!. damn, I'm getting old.

60fps. All I needed to know.

This game is optimized for the Super Switch coming out October, 2019.

Somehow despite it being around the 500 to 600s it somehow feels like 720P

having watched the extended demo and the direct footage there are actually multiple songs

Bring on the Switch Pro and fast...

So thats why the damn game is so Blurry, they should of honestly gone with an inhouse built engine like the captain toad engine.

That Yoshi's Island music sounds like a precursor to OoT's Song of Storms! Pretty cool...

I didn't notice anything of the above mentioned when playing the demo...I wonder if it is possible to tell the difference between 30 and 60fps with a naked eye...

What's wrong with the main theme?

I only play Yoshi games because I hope someday they will be as good as the SNES one.

I wonder if they can up that res a little bit by doing away with the SSAO (which surprised me, I didn't expect it to be enabled on a game targeting 60fps).

Yeah, I do go for frame rate over resolution like I've experienced with the Touhou games which I find as magical and charming as the Yoshi ones.

Would not have guessed its sub 720p. Demo looked great, little blurry in hand held, but that was expected. Game is very chill. Played plenty hard core platformers so now it’s time to kick back and relax :)

Yoshi looks great

this calm cool little video about yoshi's *box hitstop* craftedworld

Every time I hear a track from Yoshi's NEW Island I immediately think it's some kind of parody, like that one Jurassic Park one with the kazoos

I thought Kirby All Stars Allies was also made in UE4?

"Watch the video, get informed" /reads first few comments.... Yeah, it seems like they didn't watch it.

You should have showed Yoshi's Woolly World's soundtrack... ah it's so great

This game look great and plays great at 60FPS! Thank you for this video! I can’t do BR’s and FPS all the time.

This game is too god damn cute :D

post processing and lighting techniques..it's no excuse. this game with this simple aesthetic should be at 720p minimum, sharp, clear and smooth. if this was a wiiu game, the performance for its graphics would be mediocre

Well, I mean... The screen is rather small and combined with UE4's TAA solution it doesn't look bad at all. It's definitely ain't like Wolfenstein 2.

I’m surprised that it’s below 720p

Nintendo games need AA so bad!

Wow, no fanboy idiots in the comments yet! I'll be enjoying these two glorious seconds of peace...

Love the Yoshi's Island intro and music

Link's Awakening also seems to use Unreal Engine 4 from what I've gathered. Grezzo (the studio that made Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D and Tri Force Heroes) was even hiring developers with experience in UE4 back in 2017.

The game will look glorious at 4k using a hypothetical future Switch emulator.

Gonna disagree about the music, I like it and think it's great! Agree with the rest though

Bug! on the Saturn was pretty innovative and had a nice style. It still remains one of my favourite Saturn games. Currently playing Bug Too now 👍

Had a feeling it res was low but didn’t know it was that low dock mode

576p while docked and sub-480p while undocked. Holy shit that’s abysmal, maybe they should’ve gone with the Captain Toad engine. I thought it looked blurry and smeary in the trailers but I assumed that was just KZfaq compression.

Explains why it doesnt feel right like Woolly World.

It is a lovely game, just like most Nintendo games. Pure joy to play and watch. Often to listen too.. but i guess this aint the case here, but heres hoping.. its only for a level or 2 and then the good soundtrack kicks in ;p

I hope when the actual game releases they up the resolution because those graphics are gorgeous

That is some awfully low resolution holy heck. Now, by bias is gonna show heavily... but while playing the demo, none of this bothered me. The game, while clearly blurry, really looked passable. And I cant comprihend why. Yes I can pick out geometry edges with my naked eye, yet its never distracting. Compared to like Rocket League on switch, where when it drops rez, it drops hard. Or Warframe's Plains or Fortuna. Sure there were updates to improve those, but it looks like the games consist of blurry pixels, while yoshi just looks smooth and clean. I feel like the game could really use TAA that could resolve to like 800p

Not even 720p in docked mode? Who thought UE4 in Switch was a good idea?? No "global illumination" justifies such a poor resolution... I'm so focused on the pixels showing on every edge that I can't get that "real world objects" feeling you talk about... The Nintendo in house engine was capable enough to handle this game... And they wouldn't be struggling this much with resolution to maintain frame-rates. Digital Foundry analyzers tend to over-value frame-rate over resolution. And don't get me wrong, frame-rate is the most important parameter. But you can't say that the performance is shaping up to be "perfect" with a output resolution of 576p. No man, you can call it smooth, you can call it competent. But not perfect. Perfect would be a 1080p game at 60fps with nice visuals. Any other thing is a compromise... And in my opinion this game compromises a lot. As many do with the lacking Switch...

a lot of nintendo's games on the SNES had amazing sound tracks. stickerbush sympnony in dkc 2, yoshi's island, third party wise chrono trigger had an awesome sound track as well.

What I do not get is why Good Feel went for UE4, I was surprised they didnt modify the Wolly world engine which most Nintendo developers did to get an engine quickly running on Switch then add specific technology which take advantage of the hardware. Had the Wolly World engine had been used I could see this been at 900p granted not as graphically pronounced unless the scaling tech is to notch at Good Feel.