Yoshi's Cookie: Bland Vanilla Flavour But Still A Cookie

This little puzzler game proves that Yoshi gobbles down more than red fruit and random enemies. Cookies! Or does it? Yoshi or Mario are not exactly involved in the eating and making go away of the little pastry forms. Instead, they’re banished to the right side of the screen where they have to turn a wheel to make them appear out of thin air. Even Kirby’s Star Stacker has more Kirby flavour than this bland vanilla cookie, but let’s take a small nibble anyway. Perhaps there’s a juicy marzipan surprise inside. The reason for the apparent blandness is the interesting history of Yoshi’s Cookie. The insightful Game Boy Essentials article from Pierre-Luc Gagné delves deeper into this topic. Yoshi’s Cookie is a rebranded version (who would have thought) of an obscure puzzle game called Hermetica developed by Home Data that our good old Tetris Company friend Henk Rogers managed to procure and license under Bullet-Proof Software for Nintendo. It was initially styled as an alchemy-based game.…