YI DS is mediocre. It's not terrible but it's not great. It just is. The mechanics are mostly solid while the level design is very forgettable. Most people acknowledge it as inferior to the original YI SNES.
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2015 Is The Year Of Yoshi, unofficially
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YI DS is mediocre. It's not terrible but it's not great. It just is. The mechanics are mostly solid while the level design is very forgettable. Most people acknowledge it as inferior to the original YI SNES.
It's okay. I played it last year first time in almost 8 years and I had some good time. The level desing is rather forgetable like jres80 said. First worlds kept my interest but the later worlds didn't feel as good as the ones in the original Yoshi's Island.
Haven't played the newest and probably won't. But really looking forward to Woolly World. Looks amazing and I liked Epic Yarn despite the easyness. Perfect game to play with your younger siblings.
WrenchNinja
Member
It was the second DS game I ever bought. I chose it instead of buying New Super Mario Bros.
Was a mistake. Only thing neat about it was having all the different babies to have as partners but it just made the progression confusing at times.
I agree only because the Yoshi's Wooly World amiibos are freaking cute, and have the potential to be one of the biggest amiibo shitshows so far:
I want all three of those.
FunkyDealer
Banned
You're thinking of Kirby, but this is a new game in a similar style as Epic Yarn. I understand being upset they removed Kirby's signature ability, but Yoshi can actually eat in this. So that's good. Also, Kirby was never in Super Mario World.
It's one of the best games on the original DS. The level design isn't as creative as the original YI (few games are), but it's still really good and more geared toward fans of hardcore, challenging game design. The different babies give the game a lot of variety as they all have different abilities that come into play when you try to complete the levels with 100% collection. The vertical screen orientation also works really well with the game since the platforming has a lot of verticality and you often have to throw eggs at things that are way above you which you wouldn't be able to see with a traditional aspect ratio.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
Yoshi Sucks? More like the Artoon sucks, but that's what happens when you give the series to a third rate developer like them..
As for Jeff Gerstmann
As for Jeff Gerstmann
Pancakes R Us
Member
Seriously. That emo cow can do one. This thread is about Yoshi.
I really enjoyed Yoshi's Story back in the day. Art style is awesome. After Epic Yarn was introduced, I secretly hoped they'd made a Yoshi game instead, because it looked like the natural visual follow-up to Story. That level with the big mama Cheep Cheep that kept jumping out of the water is awesome.
I have New Island, only played a few minutes, but can definitely say they screwed up the Yoshi character model in that game. Looks similar to the messed up character model in SSB Melee. So glad Woolly World is giving us a decent model.
I can't quite describe why but I LOVE the look of the gem collectibles in the game. They feel so nostalgic of... something.
-Mutsukki-
Member
I always thought Jeff was the odd one out in the Yoshi hate, but wowee. I understand not liking Yoshi as a character but Yoshi's Island is one of the most brilliant platformers ever made. The atmosphere, the music, the level design, everything is top notch. It's what Mario 2D plataformers strived to be but never were.
Yoshi's Island is also pretty good, but it's definitely not for everyone, it's really weird overall. The rest of the Yoshi games do bring the series quality down, but I'd think people would have more faith in the developer who made Epic Yarn.
It's not about performance, it's legal issues like a poster here said. The chip was made by a different company which Nintendo doesn't work with anymore. I doubt they really would want to sell an inferior version of Yoshi's Island if they could put up the better one.
Yoshi's Island is also pretty good, but it's definitely not for everyone, it's really weird overall. The rest of the Yoshi games do bring the series quality down, but I'd think people would have more faith in the developer who made Epic Yarn.
It's not about performance, it's legal issues like a poster here said. The chip was made by a different company which Nintendo doesn't work with anymore. I doubt they really would want to sell an inferior version of Yoshi's Island if they could put up the better one.
GayForMaster
Banned
But is it actually a sequel, or a remaster with additional content?
It's a sequel
Pancakes R Us
Member
It is Woolly with two Os and two Ls. Not one O and two Ls or two Os and one L. Thank you.
BRAVO
Useless first post strike again.
On topic ... I don't really like Yoshi as character, but I hope Yoshi's Woolly World will be a good game.
What's with the Yoshi Touch & Go hate. That game was fucking godlike.
Anyway:
New Island is an okay game that would've been sick were it not for a bunch of annoying things marring it (the mostly bland soundtrack with the exception of a couple standouts/repeated melodies, brutally obtuse collectible locations, visual style, short levels, no minigames). The cumulative effect is such that it weakens the game as a whole. Ending segment of the game is pretty ridiculous, too, but whatever.
SNES Yoshi's Island is GOAT
Anyway:
New Island is an okay game that would've been sick were it not for a bunch of annoying things marring it (the mostly bland soundtrack with the exception of a couple standouts/repeated melodies, brutally obtuse collectible locations, visual style, short levels, no minigames). The cumulative effect is such that it weakens the game as a whole. Ending segment of the game is pretty ridiculous, too, but whatever.
SNES Yoshi's Island is GOAT
Silphthrax
Neo Member
Gotta love yoshi's island, best SNES game, and easily my favourite platformer ever made.
Pancakes R Us
Member
Whilst I like the original Yoshi's Island, I feel like some people hold it up on too high a pedestal.
Yeah. In that same video you can hear the music in two other levels though, and I think it's pretty great. Especially the third one.
Not a Giant Bomb fan I take it.
Its a new game.
theres a lot of tilt only vehicle sections like yni but the main gameplay is standard platforming with a tilt gimmick.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I'm an atheist, so I'm not praying (and even if I were religious, I'd not bother my virtual friend with my hobby, when there are more important things in life), but I hope for new Yoshi games all the time. I'd pay hundreds of euros for a 3D Yoshi collectathon.
staticneuron
Member
I would like to take the time to publicly apologize to you for the numerous times I have abandoned you to a disgraceful death while I continued to achieve my goal. I also would like to apologize about the fact that I will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
It's pretty ironic that I echo that sentiment when it comes to Super Metroid.
Furthermore, it's hard to hate Yoshi's "character" when it's nonexistent like all the other Mario characters sans Bowser.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
To be fair that game was a travesty too.
Theanine3D
Member
I replay the original Yoshi's Island from start to finish every year, so every year has been Year of Yoshi for me since it came out on SNES. I have really high hopes for Woolly World.
Pancakes R Us
Member
I hope they release Yoshi's Story on Wii U VC before Woolly World's release.
GayForMaster
Banned
StarStabbedMoon
Member
To be honest, I didn't realize until today that the year of Luigi ever even ended.
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKllG-_pxg
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKllG-_pxg
We're all living on Nintendo's time and it doesn't end until they say it does.
-Mutsukki-
Member
I dunno, Wooly World's soundtrack is looking pretty fantastic. New Island and YIDS are Arzest's fault though.
AzureTranquility95
Banned
Year of Kirby was 2011-2012. 3 games released, one handheld, one console, one collection. Twas glorious.
When YIDS first came out, I liked it a bit. Not as much as the original, but it was fine enough.
Once New Island released though, I somehow disliked YIDS even more.
Disgusts me when people keep saying the DS and 3DS games are remakes. At least with YNI I can kinda understand it, but still.
Anyway YNI is way better than YIDS, for several reasons that barely anyone gets into for some reason. Like how getting 100% isn't a test of patience, you can get all of one collectable per run instead of trying to get all 3 in one go(Or get coins and flowers on one run and just stars on a second one)
Sure the majority of YNI's soundtrack sucked, but that doesn't make it a bad game.
Would be nice, but it's already available on the Wii VC.