Brainiac 8
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It can't be any easier than Yoshi's Island was. The game is still one of the best platformers ever made, but it was piss easy.
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And Now Comes a YOSHI'S NEW ISLAND REVIEW THREAD to spread controversy
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It can't be any easier than Yoshi's Island was. The game is still one of the best platformers ever made, but it was piss easy.
WrenchNinja
Member
Yeah, never understood the fascination with the original
For the record, I've only played the GBA and DS games. Never made it past the second world with the GBA. Made it up to when you get baby Bowser and called it quits on the DS.
Party Popper
Member
I have the game for about one month and a half now (Belgium), so I guess UK also got the full game (there were previews in the past weeks, but those were based on the final build) at that time.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Coming from NintendoXplain, I'm not surprised.
Coffee Dog
Banned
This is the risk of farming it out. What a shame
my review VGNetwork.it : 7
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
They gave Sticker Star 2/5 and Pikmin 3 3.5 / 5. They're probably one of the harder-hitting of the Nintendo sites
Anyway, the difficulty in the original game came from 100%'ing it. I wonder if the reviewers took that into account
Chill Penguin
Member
I'm in the same boat. I played it and i liked it, but i don't understand the legendary status some give it. Super Mario World was far far superior.
Beelzebufo
Banned
This was how it was for me. The cave sections always put me in a bad mood, and I didn't like having to hunt down the collectibles.
I laughed.
I'd kill for a VC release of Yoshi's Island to wash away the taste of this shit sandwich.
Wiz
Member
I think he was put in charge to make sure the development was going in the right direction and that the game remained true to the original. But, no amount of supervision can save a game that is not being made without care.
That's why EAD should have done this game. It would have been a lot more polished visually and technically and the soundtrack would have been top notch.
*sigh* I wanted this to be good.
Lord_Byron28
Member
Same here. I remember enjoying Yoshis Story as a kid but then again as a kid I enjoyed DK64 as well. However I played Yoshi's island when it came with the ambassador program and nothing really stuck out to me. I held it out until world 3 and I occasionally go back to it but it really isnt that interesting. Its a very ho hum game like the rest of the Yoshi's Islands. I do hold out that one day Yoshi can have a truly awesome game outside of World and Galaxy 2.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
So predictable.
Nope. Wonderful 101 is 100% a Nintendo IP. They have number of IP that have been developed the same way.
Not the first no.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
@Max, please exchange the quote from my review, because it's just a short sentence about the multiplayer. This one:
Ein abwechslungsreiches und gelungenes Leveldesign mit vollem Fokus auf den Sammeltrieb des Spielers gepaart mit dem zeitlose Gameplay des SNES-Hits kann auch heute noch mühelos überzeugen.
Sloppy English translation: A varied and well made level design with a complete focus on the player's drive to collect paired with the timeless gameplay of the SNES-hit can convince [the player of the quality of the game] effortlessly even today
Ein abwechslungsreiches und gelungenes Leveldesign mit vollem Fokus auf den Sammeltrieb des Spielers gepaart mit dem zeitlose Gameplay des SNES-Hits kann auch heute noch mühelos überzeugen.
Sloppy English translation: A varied and well made level design with a complete focus on the player's drive to collect paired with the timeless gameplay of the SNES-hit can convince [the player of the quality of the game] effortlessly even today
Visualante2
Member
Nintendo working with third parties is all about trust.
You must be joking.
You think levels like Poochy Ain't Stupid and Hit That Switch are easy? And to 100%?
No. Just no. Nintendo hasn't put challenge like that into any of their other platformers other than the original DKC Returns.
Pretty much what I expected the reviews to look like. I'm not writing off this game completely, because what I seem to be getting is that it's just the original with terrible music and less charming visuals, which is what I thought it'd be anyway. So I'm sure it'll be good for a train journey in which I have nothing else to play.
To be fair, NSLU wasn't a cake walk either.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
YIDS and DKCTF are both more difficult than YI1, both on average and if you are comparing the most difficult parts.
And giving Sticker Star a 2/5 proof of that? lol
And I haven't played Pikmin 3 since I don't have a Wii U, but with the 87 Metacritic score along with a lot of positive impressions here on NeoGAF, I'm not likely to consider GameXplain's 3.5/5 score for Pikmin 3.
Tom Nook Sawyer
Member
The Metacritic is 75%; they came in far below that. So yeah
Huh? The point isn't whether you agree or not, the point was that they're don't automatically hand out abnormally high scores to Nintendo games
Hey TC, here's Invisible Gamer's review: http://www.invisiblegamer.net/reviews/yoshis-new-island-review/
and a pull quote: "It’s impossible to deny that in many ways it’s just a re-skinned, re-tooled Yoshi’s Island… but Yoshi’s Island is one of the greatest platformers ever made, and if this is how Nintendo wants to re-introduce it, who am I to complain? It’s been a long, long time coming, but Yoshi’s New Island is every bit as good as the original. And now, a whole new generation of players will get to call it their own."
Mr_Antimatter
Member
I think the issue with the Yoshi's island sequels is well, this: You can't recreate an iconic game. You instead, have to foster the sort of developer creativity which lead to that game in the first place.
Yoshi's Island was, imho, the single best 2d platformer game nintendo ever made, if not my favorite 2d plat former of all time. IMHO, it was even better then the holy Super mario Bros 3.
It was wildly creative, iconic is about every area one can be, and captured your imagination better then pretty much any other platformer of it's day.
You can't just lift it's concepts and put them into a new game and expect the same sort of experience.
Yoshi's Island was, imho, the single best 2d platformer game nintendo ever made, if not my favorite 2d plat former of all time. IMHO, it was even better then the holy Super mario Bros 3.
It was wildly creative, iconic is about every area one can be, and captured your imagination better then pretty much any other platformer of it's day.
You can't just lift it's concepts and put them into a new game and expect the same sort of experience.
Our review just went up as well.
6/10 Nintendo-Online.de: http://nintendo-online.de/3ds/artikel/review/16464/yoshis-new-island
6/10 Nintendo-Online.de: http://nintendo-online.de/3ds/artikel/review/16464/yoshis-new-island
Nintendo Insider's last paragraph / summary of the game's merits:
What number do you think someone would apply to this summary. Sounds pretty damn bad, right?
This is why I can't trust sites with 'Nintendo' in the name, and why the review scale in games media is so messed up. A disappointing, half-baked game is two points above average? What the hell?
Fair play to the UK publications of Edge, Eurogamer and Metro for calling it like it is. The text of most of these reviews seems exactly the same, the score they apply is what changes.
Nintendo Insider said:
What number do you think someone would apply to this summary. Sounds pretty damn bad, right?
7 out of 10
This is why I can't trust sites with 'Nintendo' in the name, and why the review scale in games media is so messed up. A disappointing, half-baked game is two points above average? What the hell?
Fair play to the UK publications of Edge, Eurogamer and Metro for calling it like it is. The text of most of these reviews seems exactly the same, the score they apply is what changes.
Coffee Dog
Banned
This is all very true. Compare tropical freeze to this game. Tropical freeze excels because it isn't just trying to be a throwback, it's just trying to be a damn good game.
Davey Cakes
Member
I could 100% Yoshi's Island without too much difficulty. Can't say the same for YIDS; it's a much more difficult game overall if you're going for full completion.
Here's the headline of Joystiq's 4/5 review:
Yoshi's New Island review: Not quite dino-might
Different expectations depending on track record is the only logical explanation, we expect nothing short of timeless masterpieces from Nintendo.
Davey Cakes
Member
There are enough scores below 7/10 to be at least a bit concerned though.
Brainiac 8
Member
Nope, not joking. I can 100% Yoshi's Island pretty easily. It's a super fun platformer, but challenge wasn't ever its thing, at least not for me. As was mentioned YIDS was much harder, I never did 100% that one.
Agreed, but some of the better reviews are by some of my preferred reviewers. Subjective, etc.