- The title of this article contains the character ♥. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as "Heart".
♥s are the collectible points in the video game Yoshi's Story.[1] They are symbols of happiness and essential to improving Yoshi's Mood. They also recover petals on the Yoshi's Smile Meter. ♥s are earned by eating Fruit, defeating enemies, and collecting special Heart Coins. Additionally, one hundred extra ♥s apiece are awarded for each Melon eaten, each Special Heart collected, and for each Baby Yoshi that survived the current stage.
♥'s return in Yoshi's Woolly World and this time are functionally identical to Stars, but representing Yoshi's overall health instead of the Countdown Timer, including most ♥'s being found in Winged Clouds in sets of five. Yoshi begins each course with 10 ♥'s and can carry up to 20, which is needed to obtain one of the four stars of that course. If Yoshi takes fatal damage when he has more than one ♥ remaining, he will be down to one ♥, which is shown half-broken and flashing. Losing the last ♥ will end the current Yoshi's life.
Unlike Yoshi's Story, the ♥'s in Woolly World do not represent the Yoshi's overall mood, nor can ♥'s be replenished by eating anything that isn't a ♥.
References
- ^ The Yoshi's Story Instruction Booklet consistently refers to this subject with the symbol "♥," as opposed to the word "heart."