Yoshi's Epic Ya-- I mean, Wooly World

[Eno]

Bowser basically appeared out of nowhere at the end as a surprise final boss. The game never built the moment up and it wouldn't have made a difference if he didn't appear at all.

Even Yoshi's Island DS did a better job with including Bowser in the story and it's made by practically the same developer, too.

Oh. Well that's lame.

I don't really care too much about the storyline in most Mario games, but "oh wait wrong parents sry" and then having the exact same thing happen all over again (right up to finding the stork strung up on top of Bowser Jr's castle because this game is completely different) is pretty lazy even by Mario plot standards. It's especially stupid if they're going to randomly throw time-travel in there at the end and not incorporate it into the rest of the story somehow.