In this sequel to Super Mario World, you play as Yoshi. Your goal is to successfully carry Baby Mario back to his parents in the Mushroom Kingdom while avoiding all of Kamek’s clever traps and evil minions. Enjoy the various backgrounds of the rich and vibrant locales of Yoshi’s Island as you race to.
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Walkthrough: World One[edit]
World One | World Two | World Three | World Four |
World Five | World Six | Special Stages | Extra Stages |
Start off this stage by heading right, picking up the coins and swallowing the Shy Guys you see. When you see a wooden platform, jump onto it and then jump to the right to pick up a FLOWER PETAL. Continue on your way until you see a second wooden platform. Throw an egg into the ? Cloud right above you. Stairs will form from the egg and heading up will lead you to another FLOWER PETAL as well as 6 RED COINS. When you head back down, knock out the two Piranhas guarding the pipe and then enter it.
You are now in a cave. Push the Chomp Rock to the right until it falls off the ledge. You can use it for extra leverage to grab the coins. Shy Guys also hold RED COINS, so take them out as well. There are 8 RED COINS in this cavern. Head to the right until you see a red flower. Eat up a Shy Guy and the spit him into the red flower. Little stars will emerge from the flower, adding to your time bonus. The exit is to the right.
As soon as you emerge from the pipe, head left to pick up your 3rd FLOWER PETAL. Head right until you see a 4-piece rotating platform. On the bottom are 4 RED COINS as well as the 4th FLOWER PETAL. You don't have to whack the Piranha's. Just walk underneath them and then jump back onto the rotating platform and head right.
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When you reach a pipe that spawns out Shy Guys, recharge your egg ammo. From this point on, always have the maximum amount of eggs with you. You can also hit the ? Cloud to give you more stars. When you continue to the right, hit the ? Cloud to sprout a bean stalk. Jump up all the way to the top until you can see a Piranha Plant. Jump to the left and head toward the edge of the cliff. You will see a ? Cloud and a coin tied to a balloon. Shoot the cloud for your final FLOWER PETAL. If you fall down the cliff, make your way back to the Piranha Plant and jump up until you ride another 4-piece rotating platform. The last 2 RED COINS are just above you, so grab'em and head right.
This is the last stretch. Push the Chomp Block and watch it obliterate anything in its path and then shoot the ? Cloud for some more stars. The finish marker is just a little bit further down.
Stage 1-2: Watch Out Below!
This stage features Chomps that destroy ground. They're fairly easy to avoid if you keep moving and watch the shadow. When you first receive the FLOWER PETAL, a Chomp from the background will leap towards you and destroy the ground to the right of the ledge. There are no tricks--Chomps will always aim for a set place. When you continue to the right, you should fall off a ledge onto a large flat plain. Chomps will make pits in the plains, so you have to jump carefully. There are 2 RED COINS in the row of coins above you. Keep going right until you see a ? Cloud.
This stage features Chomps that destroy ground. They're fairly easy to avoid if you keep moving and watch the shadow. When you first receive the FLOWER PETAL, a Chomp from the background will leap towards you and destroy the ground to the right of the ledge. There are no tricks--Chomps will always aim for a set place. When you continue to the right, you should fall off a ledge onto a large flat plain. Chomps will make pits in the plains, so you have to jump carefully. There are 2 RED COINS in the row of coins above you. Keep going right until you see a ? Cloud.
A Chomp will plow the ground right underneath the ? Cloud, so best rest yourself to the left of the ? Cloud. Pop the cloud to receive your second FLOWER PETAL. When you head to the right, there'll be another flat piece of land soon to be plowed by Chomps. Cities skylines free download mac. Grab the coins above you, including 4 RED COINS. Head right and pop the second ? Cloud for some stars and then pass the middle ring through a set of flippers.
A message box will tell you to make eggs and break the dirt. Do so and make sure you grab the coins with your eggs on top of the pipe. There are 4 RED COINS here. Once done, break the dirt that holds the trampoline. Jump onto the trampoline and head up.
You will now enter a small maze. Head right first until you have a split to go right or left. Head left first until you see a middle ring. Cross it and then head back right. Go past the message box and small trampoline until you reach another message box with a helicopter transformation. Grab the helicopter transformation and then follow the path of coins.
After you pass the first cave, keep flying high until you reach another cave at the top. You should see a FLOWER PETAL, but you picked the wrong entrance. Enter from the bottom.
By now, you should be out of helicopter time. If you're not, just sit there until you're finished. When Yoshi flies back to Mario, hit the transformation again, but this time, immediately head down until you hit the ground. Head right until you pick up some more RED COINS and another FLOWER PETAL. For the moment, wait until you lose your flying ability and head back to Mario. Once again, grab the transformation bubble. Now just head right, stopping for no one. Avoid the middle column (the one where you had to fly from the bottom to get that flower PETAL). After the middle column, hang up and keep heading right until you can see two arrows pointing down. Instead of taking those directions, just fly into the cave for some more red coins. Now move through this cave by going down.. then once you see the ground, head left to hit the big headed Yoshi block.
Continue to the right until you see a pipe. Before you go down, jump onto the wooden stick platforms and then jump into the cave for more RED COINS. Head down into the pipe.
The first thing you'll see is a ? Cloud, holding the last FLOWER PETAL. To the right of that is a Shy Guy holding a 1-up. After you picked both of them up, head right, avoiding all the enemies and Chomp until you see the end.
Stage 1-3: The Cave Of Chomp Rock
If you want a 1-Up, knock out the Piranha Plant on the upper right corner before you enter the pipe. Once it disappears, jump to where it was and a secret ? Cloud will appear. Hit it and you'll earn yourself a 1-Up. Now head down into the pipe.
If you want a 1-Up, knock out the Piranha Plant on the upper right corner before you enter the pipe. Once it disappears, jump to where it was and a secret ? Cloud will appear. Hit it and you'll earn yourself a 1-Up. Now head down into the pipe.
As soon as you're down here, a Chomp Rock will push you to the right. When you reach the message block, there will be a crate and a stake. You can butt pound both of these things. The crate will give you stars and the stake could hide coins, but not this one. Keep heading to the right until you see a Shy Guy.
There are 2 coins surrounded by a dirt wall and separated by a stake. This stake actually hides a RED COIN, so be sure to grab it. Grab all the coins you see in arranged in a trapezoid shape. There are 4 RED COINS hidden within this group. Continue to the right until you see mushrooms and a Chomp Rock. Head down to the stems of the mushroom and into this small area. A FLOWER PETAL and 2 RED COINS are treasured down here and is guarded by just a few Shy Guys. They look a tad different, because they're in the caves. Now head back up to that Chomp Rock. Push it down and then make your way down until you see another Chomp Rock. Head toward the bottom left path for another FLOWER PETAL and 2 more RED COINS. If you head toward the middle left path, you'll end up at a locked door. This contains a mini-battle. Head back and push the Chomp Rock to the right and follow it. There are 4 RED COINS and a ? Cloud with Stars. Now head back all the way up and to the right. Before you do, there's a middle ring if you jump to the very center top platform.
A Chomp Rock will roll against you so the best thing to do is just to jump over it. Jump onto the column and look up. There will be small parachuters that will morph into small white flower chompers that you can devour. Look up and you can see another FLOWER PETAL. Head right until you see 3 stakes. Pound the middle one and the right one for RED COINS. When you jump on to the stair-like ledges, look up and you'll see a 4 balloons. Three carry a crate full of stars and another one with a key. If you want, you can go back and play a mini game with the key. Otherwise, grab the arch of coins above you. Two of them are RED COINS. Keep heading right while avoiding the enemies and pushing another Chomp Rock away. Continue on this path until you reach a dirt wall. This dirt wall is pretty big, and there's a hidden ? Cloud with a 1-up on the left corner. There's also a FLOWER PETAL to the right embedded in this dirt.
When you reach the ground, there will be a colum with a wooden platform to the right of it. Pound the stake for a hidden ? cloud and then hit the red switch. Find the red arrow to the right and then enter it like you would a pipe, but first you have to pound the right stake. As soon as you land, you'll be on a gigantic teeter-totter. Grab all the coins if possible. There are no items here except for coins. Once you come back out, continue on to the right. Push the Chomp Rock to the right until you see a break at the top. Your goal is to jump on the rock and jump onto the ledge on top in order to grab your last FLOWER PETAL. Because the rock rolls easily, timing is the key. The rest of the RED COINS are here as well. Once done, head to your right to get back out into the open. Don't get careless now. Piranha Plants pop up and will cause you to lose your stars but other than that, you will be fine.
Stage 1-4: Burt The Basful's Fort
When you start off this stage, beware of the background. The wall will slam down and kill you. Rest between the breaks and you'll be fine. The first wall that slams is the fifth wall. Head right and avoid the rotating spike traps. Jump on the trampoline until you see two funny looking enemies that jump around. You cannot eat these guys or give them brain damage, but you can certainly knock'em out with your eggs. As a reward for knocking them out, they give you some stars. You could try to avoid them, but either way, you have to get that FLOWER PETAL. Head up the riding platform and head right. If you notice the cracks on the ceiling, you can destroy them with your eggs. They have a few coins, none being red though, so 5 coins isn't worth wasting an egg. Drop through the pair of flippers and quickly move toward the second FLOWER PETAL. If not, the wall will slam on you. Head right and jump on the trampoline. Before you fall off the ledge, notice again that there is a crack in the ceiling. This one has a lot more coins but again, none are red. The normal way will have 7 RED COINS and the jumping is really easy. Make your way to the pipe and go down.Run to the right, avoiding the first ? Cloud. It only has 5 coins for you and it's near a spinning spike trap. Just keep running until you see another ? Cloud. Shoot it and it will form a bridge. When you cross this bridge, there will be a lava boogy man that will jump outta the lava to bust up yoshi, so avoid him by jumping. Be sure to pick up all the RED COINS on this bridge as well. When you're on the teeter-totter, he'll also be there. Grab the RED COINS and the FLOWER PETAL. Jump onto the island break. Instead of heading right, run, jump and fly to the left for a hidden FLOWER PETAL. After that, then head right onto the rotating 4-piece platform. Grab the 2 RED COINS and avoid lava boogy man. Head past the pipe and past the locked door. Jump on the platforms, grabbing all the RED COINS and avoiding a BIG lava boogy man. When you reach the end, push the vase off and retrieve the key. Hit the big lava boogy man with your eggs and run back. Now enter the door.
Knock out the little Burts (those jumping enemies) and enter the first door you see. As soon as you enter the room, do not move. Just knock out all four Piranha Plants for your last FLOWER PETAL. When you exit the door, the enemies respawn. Head down to the right red door to fight your first boss.
First off, I hope you have 6 eggs. If you don't, you're gonna risk getting hit by Burt to get eggs from that spitting flower. Step left into this ditch and just hit Burt with your eggs. If he's on top of you, just duck and wait until he's away from you.
Stage 1-5: Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts
This is the first stage that will keep moving no matter what. Start off by reading the message box and hop onto the donut platforms. As soon as you can see the 4-piece rotating platform, jump onto it. Grab all the RED COINS and then jump on to the platform next to it for a FLOWER PETAL. Jump onto the other 4-piece rotating platform to the left of it and grab all the RED COINS as well.
This is the first stage that will keep moving no matter what. Start off by reading the message box and hop onto the donut platforms. As soon as you can see the 4-piece rotating platform, jump onto it. Grab all the RED COINS and then jump on to the platform next to it for a FLOWER PETAL. Jump onto the other 4-piece rotating platform to the left of it and grab all the RED COINS as well.
When you see a green 4-piece platform, ride it. You will manually power this platform by applying your weight. Grab all the coins along the way. A Shy Guy with a RED COIN is very close by. Don't lose him. Drop back down to the green rotating platform and ride it until you get the second FLOWER PETAL.
Next, jump onto the donut platforms while eating the singing flower enemy. A ? Cloud contains stars, but if you're not comfortable grabbing it, don't. Head up with the scrolling and pick up another FLOWER PETAL. Make sure you cross the middle ring at the top left. Once at the top, you'll have to manually move another platform. Grab all the RED COINS and the FLOWER PETAL. Follow the screen and grab all the coins. A Shy Guy holding a ? Cloud will fly around. His cloud holds more stars. When you see a rock cliff, jump onto it but beware of a Shy Guy disguised as a flower patch. Basically, look out for a Shy Guy moving around with yellow flowers for hair. Jump onto the vertical moving platform and grab the coins including one RED COIN to the left. Wait for the screen to scroll some more and then whack the Shy Guy holding another RED COIN.
When you reach the section of donut platforms again, keep jumping so the donut platforms will not drop. As soon as the screen reveals a FLOWER PETAL embedded in dirt, use your eggs to grab it. After that, stand on the set of donut platforms that need to drop in order for you to grab the final RED COINS. The exit marker is just to the right.
Stage 1-6: Shy-Guys On Stilts
Near the beginning of the stage, you will encounter a Shy Guy on a stilt. You cannot devour him or even throw eggs at him, but you sure can slam him. If you jump on them, you turn them into regular Shy Guys, so you have to stomp on them twice to rid them. Jump on the trampoline. At the very upper right hand corner has a secret ? Cloud that contains a 1-Up. Head into the doors first and then read the message box. You'll receive your first RED COIN by throwing the flashing egg at any Shy Guy. Exit this room and then enter the pipe.
Near the beginning of the stage, you will encounter a Shy Guy on a stilt. You cannot devour him or even throw eggs at him, but you sure can slam him. If you jump on them, you turn them into regular Shy Guys, so you have to stomp on them twice to rid them. Jump on the trampoline. At the very upper right hand corner has a secret ? Cloud that contains a 1-Up. Head into the doors first and then read the message box. You'll receive your first RED COIN by throwing the flashing egg at any Shy Guy. Exit this room and then enter the pipe.
Head through the cavern, whacking any Shy Guys you see. After your jump from the first trampoline, head left. Fill up on eggs and then look up. A bigger trampoline is being suspended by a balloon, so you must pop it. After you drop the trampoline, HOP on it and hug right. There is a FLOWER PETAL. After you retrieve it, JUMP on the big trampoline, following the coin trail. You'll pick up some RED COINS as well. Ride the yellow platform outta this cave.
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Once outside, stay on the platform and ride it all the way up. Grab the 3 RED COINS and then continue on your way. Pop the ? Cloud for some stars and then pass through the middle ring. ground pound the stake underneath the red flower to grab a RED COIN and the FLOWER PETAL.
When you reach the message block, it'll tell you that you have to find an arrow for the switch. Having done this, you should know how to enter a secret area. For now, whack the Piranha Plant and grab the 2 RED COINS on each side, and then ground pound the stakes to get the FLOWER PETAL. Now you can hit the ? Cloud and then the ! Switch and enter into a secret area.
When you're in this cave, you have to find two red coins. However, you cannot fit into the small hole, so pop the ? Cloud for a mole transportation. I would recommend you hit the big headed Yoshi block so you won't fly back to Mario when you run outta time. Hopefully you have some eggs, so you can tear this place apart. When you're done, exit through the doors.
Once back outside, head right until you see another message block. Jump on top of it and grab the FLOWER PETAL. Continue on your way, ground pounding the stake blocking your path.
Inside the cave, make your way to the red platform. It will shoot straight up and make sure you jump off it. Ricochet your eggs off to grab the RED COINS as well as the FLOWER PETAL. The pipe next to you should provide a recharge for your eggs. Head back down through the flippers until you see another ? Cloud. It spawns a bean stalk, so climb it. At the top, before you jump to the trampoline to your right, look up or else you'll be hit by a bat.
Stage 1-7: Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
This stage is rather disgusting, not to mention dangerous. These clouds, called Fuzzy, will make Yoshi drunk. If you lick or touch it, you'll be in lala land. The only way to avoid it is to jump it or burst it by shooting your eggs at them. Start this stage and when you reach a pair of logs that look like a drawbridge, drop and then do your little Yoshi flutter to reach a safe platform. When you reach an incline with small spikey creatures, also known as TapTaps, avoid them at all costs. These enemies can be destroyed by only a Chomp Rock or falling off a pit. The only thing Yoshi can do is throw eggs at them to stun them.
This stage is rather disgusting, not to mention dangerous. These clouds, called Fuzzy, will make Yoshi drunk. If you lick or touch it, you'll be in lala land. The only way to avoid it is to jump it or burst it by shooting your eggs at them. Start this stage and when you reach a pair of logs that look like a drawbridge, drop and then do your little Yoshi flutter to reach a safe platform. When you reach an incline with small spikey creatures, also known as TapTaps, avoid them at all costs. These enemies can be destroyed by only a Chomp Rock or falling off a pit. The only thing Yoshi can do is throw eggs at them to stun them.
Head right until you see a locked door. You have to go up to grab two flashing Yoshi eggs and a FLOWER PETAL. Blade and soul patch download slow. There's also a hidden ? Cloud with a key. Enter the locked door if you want a mini-battle. Use your flashing eggs on the TapTaps to grab your RED COINS. Continue on your way, smashing all the dirt barriers and retrieving RED COINS. When you pass the middle ring, you should have four red coins and two flower PETALs. Grab the FLOWER PETAL and the 3 RED COINS on your way and be prepared to meet a whole bunch of Fuzzies.
Remember to avoid them at all costs. If you're curious, I suggest you touch or eat the first Fuzzy you see. There are 2 RED COINS on top of a Piranha Plant. Make right and hug the ground to make sure you restock on eggs and pick up the FLOWER PETAL. The ? Cloud you see next only has stars. Continue right, picking up the last FLOWER PETAL. Continue on your way picking up the RED COINS and snatching that 1-Up from the Shy Guy.
In the next area, head toward the red bridge. It will sag down and enable you to pick up the 2 RED COINS. When you reach the second red bridge, ground pound it and break it, so you can grab all the coins, including 3 RED COINs. Right now, you're missing 4 RED COINS. See the log? Walk up on it and keep jumping until a small trampoline falls out.
Once you're in this new area, head left. Move the boulder by walking right. As soon as you have enough room to push it to the right, you'll reveal a secret ? Cloud. Pop it for a bean stalk. Head up and grab the rest of the coins.
Stage 1-8: Salvo The Slime's Castle
Near the very beginning of the level is a giant rotating log platform. Get used to it right now--that's why they put it here. Grab all the RED COINS here. After you pass the manual 4-piece rotating platform, continue on to the right. Grab all the coins you can. Before you head into the pipe on the lower right, go up. You'll grab a FLOWER PETAL.
Near the very beginning of the level is a giant rotating log platform. Get used to it right now--that's why they put it here. Grab all the RED COINS here. After you pass the manual 4-piece rotating platform, continue on to the right. Grab all the coins you can. Before you head into the pipe on the lower right, go up. You'll grab a FLOWER PETAL.
After you pass the pipe, you'll have to ride the green platform. The fish will squirt water that will knock you off so watch your timing. When you're riding the platform, head to the upper left corner. Just sit around for the ride to pick up a FLOWER PETAL at the very top and then another FLOWER PETAL after you go through the pipe. When you're back in the room with the moving green platform, head to the upper right corner. Check the middle ring and then head back to the room with the green platform, and then head to the lower right corner.
After you head through the pipe, head all the way to the right. Watch out for the bandit. It takes 3 jumps to whack him. Grab the FLOWER PETAL and then head back left. Hit the green switch and then jump onto the platform. There's a ? Cloud on the left wall which has some stars. If you head right, you can see a red platform, but the spikes are pointing up. If you have an egg, throw it to grab all the 3 RED COINS. Continue all the way to the top and hit the red switch to flip the red platforms. Hit the switch again once you're on the other side. Now head all the way on the right for the last FLOWER PETAL. Then move down and go all the way back to the platform where you got those 3 red coins with your egg. Jump onto that platform and then up to a rotating platform. Push the pot off and grab the key and then use it for the door.
The rotating arrow platform will be your ride to the top. Jump on it and the block will move. If you wanna change directions, just do a hop. Cross through the middle ring and then head toward the double door.
Salvo the slime is extremely easy to beat. He can't hurt you, but you can get damaged by lava pit on the right and the little slimes that come apart from Salvo. Salvo can only push you around.
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Developer(s) | Nintendo EAD |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
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Producer(s) | Shigeru Miyamoto |
Composer(s) | Koji Kondo |
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Platform(s) | SNES, Game Boy Advance |
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Genre(s) | Platform |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island[a] is a 1995 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. To reunite baby brothers Mario and Luigi, who has been kidnapped by Kamek, the player controls Yoshi, a friendly dinosaur, through 48 levels while carrying Baby Mario. As a Super Mario series platformer, Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items. In a style new to the series, the game has a hand-drawn aesthetic and is the first to have Yoshi as its main character. The game introduces his signature abilities to flutter jump and produce eggs from swallowed enemies.
The game's unique appearance descends from producer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's distaste for the computer pre-rendered graphics of the game's contemporary Donkey Kong Country. After four years of development, Yoshi's Island released in Japan in August 1995, and worldwide two months later. Some of its special effects were powered by a new Super FX2 microchip. The game was rereleased for the Game Boy Advance with few changes in 2002. This version was ported to the Wii UVirtual Console in 2014 and, as a promotional exclusive, to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.
Yoshi's Island received 'instant' and 'universal acclaim', according to IGN and review aggregatorMetacritic, and sold over four million copies. Reviewers praised the art, sound, level design, and gameplay, and posited Yoshi's Island as a masterpiece and one of the best platformers of all time. The game brought newfound renown to both Yoshi as a character and Miyamoto's artistic and directorial career. The distinct art style and Yoshi's signature characteristics established in Yoshi's Island would carry throughout a series of cameos, spin-offs, and sequels, including the 1997 Yoshi's Story, 2006 Yoshi's Island DS, 2014 Yoshi's New Island, and 2019's Yoshi's Crafted World. It was the last 2D game in the Super Mario series released on a home console until New Super Mario Bros. Wii over a decade later.
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Gameplay[edit]
Yoshi aims an egg at a Piranha Plant. The timer in the top right corner will count down if Mario falls off his back. The game has a hand-drawn, paper-and-crayon aesthetic.
Yoshi's Island is a 2D side-scrolling[1]platform game.[2] Its story begins as a Magikoopa[3] of the Koopalings attacks a stork delivering baby brothers Mario and Luigi. They succeed in kidnapping Baby Luigi, but Baby Mario falls out of the sky and onto the back of Yoshi,[2] the titular friendly dinosaur and player-character of the single-player game.[4] While the player controlled Mario and rode Yoshi in previous series games,[4] in Yoshi's Island, the player controls one of many Yoshis, which take turns traveling through 48 levels across six worlds[5] to rescue Baby Luigi and reunite the brothers.[2] In the Super Mario series platform game tradition, the player controls Yoshi with a two-button run and jump control scheme. The player navigates between platforms and atop some foes en route to the end of the increasingly difficult levels. Yoshi also collects coins to earn extra lives[6] and retains his long tongue from Super Mario World.[1] The game centers more on 'puzzle-solving and item-collecting' than other platformers,[4] with hidden flowers and red coins to find.[5] Levels include mines, ski jumps, and 'the requisite fiery dungeons'.[7] Every fourth level (two in each world[5]) is a boss fight against a large version of a previous foe.[4]
In a style new to the series,[7] the game has a coloring book aesthetic with 'scribbled crayon' backgrounds, and Yoshi vocalizes with its every action.[5] Expanding on his 'trademark tongue' ability to swallow enemies,[3] Yoshi, as the focus of the game, was given a new move set: the ability to 'flutter jump', throw eggs, and transform. The flutter jump gives Yoshi a secondary boost when the player holds the jump button.[2] It became his new 'trademark move', similar to that of Luigi in Super Mario Bros. 2. Yoshi can also pound the ground from mid-air to bury objects or break through soft earth. The dinosaur's long tongue grabs enemies at a distance.[6] Swallowed enemies can either be spat as projectiles immediately or stored for later use as an egg.[2] The player individually aims and fires the eggs at obstacles via a new targeting system. The eggs also bounce off of surfaces in the environment. Up to six eggs can be stored this way, and will trail behind the character.[1] Yoshi can also eat certain items for power-up abilities. For instance, watermelons let Yoshi shoot seeds from his mouth like a machine gun, and fire enemies turn his mouth into a flamethrower. Other power-ups transform Yoshi into vehicles including cars, drills, helicopters, and submarines. A star power-up makes Baby Mario invulnerable and extra fast.[6]
While Yoshi is 'virtually invincible', if hit by an enemy, Baby Mario will float off his back in a bubble while a timer counts down to zero. When the timer expires, Koopas arrive to take Baby Mario[2] and Yoshi loses a life.[8] The player can replenish the timer by collecting small stars[2] and power-ups.[4] However, Yoshi can also lose a life instantly if he comes into contact with obstacles such as pits, spikes, lava, and thorns. Similar to Super Mario World, the player can hold a power-up in reserve, such as a '+10 star' (which adds ten seconds to the Baby Mario timer) or a 'magnifying glass' (which reveals all hidden red coins in a level).[5] These power-ups are acquired in several minigames.[5] At the end of each level, the Yoshi relays Baby Mario to the successive Yoshi.[2] If the player perfects all eight levels in each world by finishing with all flowers, red coins, and full 30 seconds on the timer, two hidden levels will unlock.[6] There are three save slots on the cartridge.[2]
The Game Boy Advance version adds an exclusive bonus level for each world with 100% level completion.[5] It also includes four-player support via link cable,[2] but only to play Mario Bros., a pack-in feature also included on the other Super Mario Advance games.[5]
Development and rerelease[edit]
.. we have included a lot of magic tricks. The more you play the game, the more surprises it will give you. As far as the quantity and quality of game ideas are concerned, Yoshi's Island is second to none
Shigeru Miyamoto in Next Generation, September 1995
While Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto worked on Super Mario World, he thought to make Yoshi the series protagonist. He did not like the other Yoshi games, including Yoshi's Safari and Yoshi's Cookie, and thought he could make something more authentic. When he brought Yoshi's Island to Nintendo marketing, they rejected it for having traditional, Mario-style graphics rather than the vogue, pre-rendered graphics of Donkey Kong Country. Miyamoto recalled feeling that the marketing department wanted 'better hardware and more beautiful graphics instead of .. art'.[9] Around the time of his rejection, Miyamoto said that 'Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.'[9] Incensed, Miyamoto escalated the cartoonish visuals into a hand-drawn, crayon style.[9][1] Nintendo's marketing department accepted this revision. To achieve the style, the artists drew graphics by hand, scanned them, and approximated them pixel-by-pixel.[10]
Producer Shigeru Miyamoto was responsible for the Yoshi's Island art style.
Yoshi's Island was developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).[4] According to Miyamoto, who served as a producer, Yoshi's Island was in development for four years, which let the team add 'lots of magic tricks'.[11] The game cartridge used an extra microchip to support the game's rotation, scaling[8] and other sprite-changing special effects.[2]Yoshi's Island was designed to use the Super FX chip,[8] but when Nintendo stopped supporting the chip, the game became the first to use Argonaut Games's Super FX2 microchip.[11] The chip powered scenes including a drawbridge falling into the foreground, rotation effects like rolling and enlarged rather than reanimated enemies, and a psychedelic effect in a level when Yoshi touches a floating fungus.[6]
Yoshi's Island was released first in Japan in August 1995, and two months later in North America and Europe.[4] At the time of release, the Super Nintendo was in its twilight as a console[12] in anticipation of Nintendo's upcoming console to be released the following year, 1996.[11]Yoshi's Island was rereleased for the Game Boy Advance as Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 in North America on September 23, 2002.[2] In the game's preview at E3 2002, IGN named Yoshi's Island 'Best Platformer' on a handheld console.[13] The Game Boy Advance version is a direct port of the original, apart from a change to use the Yoshi voice from a subsequent series game.[8] The visible area was also reduced to fit the handheld's smaller screen.[3] The new cartridge did not need an extra microchip to support the original's special effects.[8]
The Game Boy Advance version of the game was ported to the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U via Nintendo's digital Virtual Console platform.[2] The port retains the cropped screen of the handheld version and the pack-in Mario Bros. game, though the multiplayer is disabled.[3] The 3DS version was released on December 16, 2011,[14] as an exclusive reward for early adopters of the Nintendo 3DS. It did not receive a wider release.[3] The Yoshi's Island port for the Wii U was released worldwide on April 24, 2014.[3] At E3 2010, Nintendo demoed 'classic' 2D games such as Yoshi's Island as remastered 3D games with a 'pop-up book feel'.[15] The SNES version was also included as a part of the Super NES Classic Edition microconsole in 2017.[16]
Reception[edit]
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Yoshi's Island received 'instant' and 'universal acclaim', according to an IGN retrospective[23] and video game review aggregatorMetacritic, respectively.[17] At the time of its 1995 release, Matt Taylor of Diehard GameFan thought Yoshi's Island could be 'possibly the best platform game of all time'.[20]Nintendo Power too said that the game was 'one of the biggest, most beautiful games ever made'.[24]Next Generation was also most impressed by the game's 'size and playability'.[22]Diehard GameFan's three reviewers gave the game a near perfect score. To wit, Nicholas Dean Des Barres said it was 'one of the handful of truly perfect games ever produced', and lamented that the magazine had given Donkey Kong Country, which he felt was a lackluster game in comparison, the extra single point for a perfect score.[20] Casey Loe removed that one point for Baby Mario's 'annoying screech'.[20]Nintendo Power and Nintendo Life too found Baby Mario's crying sounds annoying.[24][4] Reviewing the Super Nintendo release over a decade later, Kaes Delgrego of Nintendo Life said the crying and some easy boss battles, while both minor, were the game's only shortcomings. Delgrego credited Yoshi's Island with perfecting the genre, calling it 'perhaps the greatest platformer of all time'.[4] The game has sold over four million copies.[25]
Both contemporaneous and retrospective reviewers praised the art,[26][24][4] level design, and gameplay,[2][26][24][6][20] which became legacies of the game.[12][1][23] Some called it 'charm'.[12][22][4] Delgrego of Nintendo Life would stop mid-game just to watch what enemies would do.[4] Martin Watts of the same publication called it 'an absolute pleasure on the eyes and unlike any other SNES game'.[3] Others praised the control scheme, technical effects,[2] and sound design.[12][4][27]Nintendo Life's Delgrego felt 'goosebumps and tingles' during the ending theme, and marked the soundtrack's range from the lighthearted intro to the 'epic grandeur of the final boss battle'.[4]
Edge praised the game's balance of challenge and accessibility. The magazine thought that the new power-ups of Yoshi's Island gave its gameplay and level design great range, and that the powers were significant additions to the series on par with the suits of Super Mario Bros. 3 or Yoshi's own debut in Super Mario World.[6]Diehard GameFan's Taylor wrote that there was enough gameplay innovation to make him cry and listed his favorites as the Baby Mario cape invincibility power-up, the machine gun-style seed spitting, and the snowball hill level.[20]Nintendo Life's Watts called the egg stockpiling mechanic as 'clever' for the way it encourages experimentation with the environment as well as tempered wastefulness.[3]Edge thought of Yoshi's Island as a 'fusion of technology and creativity, each enhancing the other'.[6] The magazine considered the game's special effects expertly integrated into the gameplay, and described the developer's handicraft as having an 'attention to detail that few games can match'.[6]
Reviewing the Game Boy Advance release in 2002, Craig Harris of IGN wrote that Yoshi's Island was 'the best damn platformer ever developed'.[2] While acknowledging the game's roots in the Super Mario series, he said the game created enough gameplay ideas to constitute its own franchise.[2] IGN's Lucas M. Thomas wrote that the game's story was also interesting as the origin story for the Mario brothers.[1] Harris felt that the FX2 sprite-changing effects gave the game 'life' and that the Game Boy Advance cartridge could handle the effects just as well. He added that Yoshi's morphing abilities[2] and sound effects were designed well.[5] Levi Buchanan of IGN said the game struck the right balance of tutorial by trial and error.[23] IGN's Harris also noted a few Game Boy Advance-specific issues: framerate drop in areas where a lot is happening onscreen, camera panning problems due to the screen's lower resolution, and a 'poor' implementation of the 'dizzy' special effect on the handheld release.[5] Critics wrote that the 'coloring book'-style graphics held up well.[5] IGN's Harris felt it was the best of the Super Mario Advance games.[5] Of the similar version for the Wii U, Watts of Nintendo Life also noticed the framerate issues and problems resulting from the screen's closer crop, which were 'not enough to ruin the game, but .. noticeable'.[3]Edge felt that game's only disappointment was the linearity of its overworld following the exploratory Super Mario World and that the sequel would 'inevitably .. have less impact'.[6][18]
Legacy[edit]
Multiple retrospective critics declared Yoshi's Island a 'masterpiece'.[28][4] IGN recalled it as 'one of the most loved SNES adventures of all time'.[29]Yoshi's Island brought newfound renown to both Yoshi as a character and Shigeru Miyamoto's artistic and directorial career.[1] IGN's Lucas M. Thomas wrote that game marked where Yoshi 'came into his own' and developed many of his definitive characteristics: the 'signature' flutter jump, and ability to throw eggs and transform shape.[1] IGN's Harris noted that the designers gave Yoshi a 'cute' voice to accompany its move set and remains a hallmark feature of the character.[5] Baby Mario, who debuted in the game, went on to feature in a number of sports-related games.[27] Series producer Takashi Tezuka said he consciously continued 'the handicraft feel' of the original throughout the series, which later included yarn and similar variations.[30]Official Nintendo Magazine called the art style 'a bold step .. that paid off handsomely'.[26] Delgrego of Nintendo Life wrote that the game marked a new era of art in video games that prioritized creativity over graphics technology.[4]
Delgrego continued that the game's countdown-based life was a 'revolutionary' mechanic that would later become ubiquitous in games like the Halo series.[4] Martin Watts also of Nintendo Life considered Super Mario 64 to be a more momentous event in gaming history, but felt that Yoshi's Island was the 'most significant' event in the 'Mario Bros. timeline'.[3] In a retrospective, IGN wrote that Super Nintendo console owners widely embraced the game alongside Donkey Kong Country.[1]
IGN's Jared Petty wrote that Yoshi's Island bested 'the test of time far better than many of its contemporaries'.[12] Levi Buchanan of IGN thought Nintendo took a risk with Yoshi's Island by making Mario passive and giving Yoshi new abilities.[23] Christian Donlan of 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die wrote that the game was a testament to the Mario team's 'staggering confidence' in its development ability. He said the game was 'perhaps the most imaginative platformer' of its time.[7]Yoshi's Island ranked 22nd on Official Nintendo Magazine's 2009 top 100 Nintendo games as a 'bone fide classic',[26] 15th on IGN's 2014 top 125 Nintendo games of all time,[12] and second on USgamer's 2015 best Mario platformers list.[31]
Sequels and spin-offs[edit]
Yoshi's Island led to a strong year for Yoshi as a character.[29] IGN's Thomas added that the hand-drawn style of Yoshi's Island made the computer-generated Donkey Kong Country appear outdated, though both games sold well, and Rareware included a Yoshi cameo in their sequel, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, released that same year. Yoshi's Island graphics and characters were also incorporated into the 1996 Super Nintendo tile puzzle gameTetris Attack.[1]
Following Yoshi's Island's success, Nintendo developed Yoshi's Story, a 1998 platformer for the Nintendo 64, which 'disappointed' audiences and deflated 'massive .. anticipation' with fetch quests and the 3D style Miyamoto eschewed in its predecessor.[29] The Nintendo 64 game expanded on Yoshi's character voice as introduced in Yoshi's Island,[5] but also 'dumbed down Yoshi's character'.[29] Nintendo created two Yoshi's Island spin-off games: the tilt sensor-controlled Yoshi Topsy Turvy (2004, Game Boy Advance),[32] which was developed by Artoon[32][33] and critically panned,[33] and the Nintendo-developed minigame Yoshi Touch & Go (2005, Nintendo DS).[34][35] The 1995 original release received a direct sequel in 2006: Yoshi's Island DS,[28] also developed by Artoon.[32] Titled Yoshi's Island 2 until just before it shipped, the game retained the core concept of transporting baby Nintendo characters, and added babies Princess Peach, Bowser, and Donkey Kong, each with an individual special ability. Yoshi had a similar move set to Yoshi's Island and added dash and float abilities, but was more passive a character compared to the babies on his back.[28]
About seven years later, series producer Takashi Tezuka decided enough time had passed to make another direct sequel, Yoshi's New Island (2013, Nintendo 3DS).[30] It was developed by former Artoon employees at their new company, Arzest.[32] As in the original, Yoshi carries Baby Mario and throws eggs. The game adds the ability to swallow big foes, which become big eggs that can destroy big obstacles. Yoshi's Island DS developer Arzest assisted in its development.[30] In 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die (2010), Christian Donlan wrote that despite the 'streamlined' Yoshi's Story and 'brilliant' Yoshi's Touch and Go, 'the original was never bettered and never truly advanced upon'.[7] In Eurogamer's 2015 preview of Yoshi's Woolly World, Tom Phillips wrote that it had 'been 20 years since the last truly great Yoshi's Island'.[36] The next console release of a Mario 2D side-scroller, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, was released 14 years later.[37]
Notes[edit]
- ^Known in Japan as Super Mario: Yossy Island (Japanese: スーパーマリオ ヨッシーアイランドHepburn: Sūpā Mario: Yosshī Airando)
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External links[edit]
- Official website(in Japanese)
- Mario video games – Wikipedia book
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