Yoshi’s Island
Console: Super Nintendo/ Gameboy Advance
Genre: Platformer
Multiplayer: 1 Player
Wi-Fi: No
Here is the beginning story of the Mario Bros. Baby Mario and Luigi were getting delivered by a stalk but the stalk was then attacked, the thief stole Luigi while Mario was sent plummeting which happens to land on Yoshi, also Yoshi discovers a map, this is how the story opens up for saving Luigi. I know it is a simple storyline but this is the first stage of their lives. This was my first game on the Super Nintendo, and I got hooked on it. Yoshi’s Island is a nice challenge filled with amazing graphics for the Super Nintendo and outstanding music. This is one of those games that truly stand out as a gem among games.
The game starts out relatively easy, just exploring most of what you can do such as getting to grips with your hover jump, getting used to auto moving stages and taking on bosses. The game works differently to most games, Yoshi doesn’t die unless he steps on spikes, falls in lava or falls in a hole. Enemy attacks cannot kill you, but baby Mario falls off your back and floats in a bubble, you have a time limit between 10-30 seconds, if you do not retrieve him before the timer runs to zero, enemies will carry off Mario and you lose a life. Each stage has a scoring system too. You must raise your seconds to thirty, collect twenty red coins and collect five flowers which will earn you 100% on that level. One coin and one second is one point each but one flower is ten points.
There are several ways to beat your enemies, you can either jump on them, ground pound them, eat them, spit them out at other enemies or even convert them into eggs. This way you can throw eggs at enemies or hit flying question mark clouds. These always earn you some kind of reward. I also love that each level on a world uses a different colour Yoshi. Every boss have creative and different ways to beat, you just got to think how you will win. Earning 100% on Yoshi’s Island is a huge award on its own.
My favourite level has to be called Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy, the first half of the stage involves you spitting out a ball like enemy to get most of the flowers, coins and defeating enemies impervious to your attacks. The second part of the stage requires you to avoid hairy clouds, but avoiding them takes the fun out of it, keep collecting the clouds, go through the rest of the level like Yoshi is dizzy (drunk in my opinion). Apart from this level, every level is fun too, there are some water stages too. As you progress through the game, you will encounter bubbles with helicopters, submarines and cars, touching this will turn Yoshi into that object for a certain time limit. Each method is just as fun as the other.
Overall this game is a true classic, never forget the old Super Nintendo games as this game always comes to my head first whenever I hear Super Nintendo, also rereleased on the Gameboy Advance so pick up your copy as soon as you can!
Overall Score: 92%
Console: Super Nintendo/ Gameboy Advance
Genre: Platformer
Multiplayer: 1 Player
Wi-Fi: No
Here is the beginning story of the Mario Bros. Baby Mario and Luigi were getting delivered by a stalk but the stalk was then attacked, the thief stole Luigi while Mario was sent plummeting which happens to land on Yoshi, also Yoshi discovers a map, this is how the story opens up for saving Luigi. I know it is a simple storyline but this is the first stage of their lives. This was my first game on the Super Nintendo, and I got hooked on it. Yoshi’s Island is a nice challenge filled with amazing graphics for the Super Nintendo and outstanding music. This is one of those games that truly stand out as a gem among games.
The game starts out relatively easy, just exploring most of what you can do such as getting to grips with your hover jump, getting used to auto moving stages and taking on bosses. The game works differently to most games, Yoshi doesn’t die unless he steps on spikes, falls in lava or falls in a hole. Enemy attacks cannot kill you, but baby Mario falls off your back and floats in a bubble, you have a time limit between 10-30 seconds, if you do not retrieve him before the timer runs to zero, enemies will carry off Mario and you lose a life. Each stage has a scoring system too. You must raise your seconds to thirty, collect twenty red coins and collect five flowers which will earn you 100% on that level. One coin and one second is one point each but one flower is ten points.
There are several ways to beat your enemies, you can either jump on them, ground pound them, eat them, spit them out at other enemies or even convert them into eggs. This way you can throw eggs at enemies or hit flying question mark clouds. These always earn you some kind of reward. I also love that each level on a world uses a different colour Yoshi. Every boss have creative and different ways to beat, you just got to think how you will win. Earning 100% on Yoshi’s Island is a huge award on its own.
My favourite level has to be called Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy, the first half of the stage involves you spitting out a ball like enemy to get most of the flowers, coins and defeating enemies impervious to your attacks. The second part of the stage requires you to avoid hairy clouds, but avoiding them takes the fun out of it, keep collecting the clouds, go through the rest of the level like Yoshi is dizzy (drunk in my opinion). Apart from this level, every level is fun too, there are some water stages too. As you progress through the game, you will encounter bubbles with helicopters, submarines and cars, touching this will turn Yoshi into that object for a certain time limit. Each method is just as fun as the other.
Overall this game is a true classic, never forget the old Super Nintendo games as this game always comes to my head first whenever I hear Super Nintendo, also rereleased on the Gameboy Advance so pick up your copy as soon as you can!
Overall Score: 92%
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