4 YUMPs For Yoshi

Ever since his best friend Yoshi disappeared, Mario has had visions of a mysterious switch and one recurring thought: “Four YUMPs”. Not knowing what it all means, but feeling it has something to do with Yoshi’s troubling absence, Mario sets off on a quest to perfectly jump off of four Palace Switches in hopes of finding answers and maybe even his lost friend.

“4 YUMPs For Yoshi” is a kaizo-light hack that features:

• 4 fast-paced levels aimed at intermediate kaizo players
• Non-linear gameplay. You can play any level from the start!
• Frequent checkpoints
• A variety of fun* chocolate mechanics
• Many QoL features such as: autosave, fast retry, start+select to exit any level
• A bangin’** custom soundtrack
• A story (if you care about that sort of thing)
• An absurd but optional challenge that I don’t really mind if you save-state to beat!

*Fun is subjective and also not guaranteed **Bangin’ is not subjective and is definitely guaranteed

This hack was started less than two weeks ago as an entry for Global Game Jam 2021 with the theme “Lost and Found”. I finished mostly everything except the final level over the course of 5 days, then spent the last week completing the hack and polishing everything to smwc’s and my own standards. I hope you enjoy it!