Yoku’s Island Express — a pinball metroidvania
Nintendo Switch Indie Review
6 min readSep 30, 2020
Yoku’s Island Express is a bewitching combination of arcade pinball mechanics and enchanting metroidvania. But is it more than the sum of its parts, or does the gimmick result in a game which falls short of the two genres’ potential?
Arriving on Mokumana beach as Yoku, a lovable dung-beetle, your movement is…