After eating an enemy, Yoshi will produce a small puff of air instead of making eggs.

[4] The game's Metacritic score of 60/100, indicating "mixed or average" reviews from critics,[2] is the lowest for any Yoshi title.

1UP.com's Jeremy Parish called the tilt controls "graceless and clumsy" and the character animations "choppy", concluding that it was a "mediocre" and "boring" game.

GameSpot's Justin Calvert thought the tilting worked alright and enjoyed the graphics and difficulty curve, but overall found the game to be "repetitive and disappointingly short".

Game Informer enjoyed the tilt sensing, calling it a "neat" and "inventive" mechanic that "breathe[d] new life into the [platformer] genre", but was disappointed by the level designs, which were mostly "pretty standard fare.