{"id":136778,"date":"2026-04-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-199665"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:30:00","slug":"psa-hello-yoshi-hatches-on-western-switch-eshops-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/psa-hello-yoshi-hatches-on-western-switch-eshops-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: &#8216;Hello, Yoshi!&#8217; Hatches On Western Switch eShops Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5294e8f6557d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5294e8f6557d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"e5294e8f6557d\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Hello, Yoshi!\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5294e8f6557d\/hello-yoshi.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e5294e8f6557d\/hello-yoshi.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Hello, Yoshi!\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has been gradually rolling out its My Mario line to Western audiences since the start of the year, and today, the kid-friendly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hello_yoshi\">Hello, Yoshi!<\/a> app joins the roster.<\/p>\n<p>This one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/11\/reminder-hello-yoshi-app-now-available-for-switch-and-mobile-devices\">launched in Japan<\/a> back in November 2025, and promises a similar gameplay experience (if we can even call it &#8220;gameplay&#8221;) to the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/hello_mario\">Hello, Mario!<\/a> title. That means you have a cartoon Yoshi face on your Switch screen, and you can tab, stretch, spin, or play a handful of small games with it.<\/p>\n<p>It might not have much on offer for the adult gamers out there, but let&#8217;s not forget that the free app is aimed dominantly at your little ones, and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book\">Yoshi and the Mysterious Book<\/a> coming our way in just a few months, it&#8217;s never too early to get the toddlers up to date on everyone&#8217;s favourite dino.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a brief rundown of what the app has in store, accompanied by a handful of screens from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/hello-yoshi-switch\/\">eShop page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u25a0Make Silly Faces<br \/>Team up with your kiddo to see how silly Yoshi can get when you pull and stretch his face or take turns poking and spinning him around. Tap on the ? Block in the top-left corner of the screen and select an icon to make items\u2014like a Super Mushroom, a Super Star, or pipes\u2014and even enemies appear alongside Yoshi.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Peekaboo!<br \/>Invite Yoshi to play peekaboo by tapping on the leftmost icon in the ? Block menu. Boo may even make a guest appearance!<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Built-In Breaks<br \/>Good night, Yoshi! Yoshi gets tuckered out after playing for a while and will fall fast asleep. At that point no amount of poking can wake him up! This is a great opportunity to take a break and help parents limit their child&#8217;s screen time. If you want to keep the fun going, you can turn off this feature by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Play Offline<br \/>There&#8217;s no need to be connected to the internet to play this application. After you download it, you&#8217;re good to go!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>We went hands-on with the Hello, Mario! early last year, and it&#8217;s&#8230; <em>okay<\/em>! We&#8217;re far from the target audience, of course, but even we so-called &#8220;grown-ups&#8221; find it hard to resist a little bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_mario_64\">Mario 64<\/a> squishy-face nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/yoshi\/related-articles:187054,198930 @ 1775748473 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be checking out the Hello, Yoshi! app? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo Nintendo has been gradually rolling out its My Mario line to Western audiences since the start of the year, and today, the kid-friendly Hello, Yoshi! app joins the roster. This one launched in Japan back in November 2025, and promises a similar gameplay experience (if we can even call it &#8220;gameplay&#8221;) to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}