Nintendo fans discover that an old game released by the United States government includes audio that it took from the Nintendo DS game, Yoshi's Island DS.
Yoshi has been a part of the Mario series since 1990, but wasn’t the main headline of his own title until a few years later. The lovable dinosaur has been a partner to Mario, played sports, solved puzzles and even helped Mario shoot down enemies in a safari, but where he shined most was his platforming appearance in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island. Today this game is still praised as one of the best from the SNES era and as Yoshi’s best title by far, so why does it seem that Nintendo is straying further from what made it work in favor of Yoshi titles that aren’t as good?
I just bought Yoshi’s Island on Wii U and I may try Yoshi’s Island DS again next
Agreed, Yoshi's Island was the shit. One issue might be their attempt at keeping the graphics current-gen. They're so focused on realism they turned him into a ball of Yarn and now are having him traverse cardboard scenery. Yeah, the art styles look nearly perfected and in many ways near real, and if they tried to do a realistic jungle it might look imperfect all around, but the fact of the matter is they're too focused on gimmicks.
Forget the superrealistic art style influencing the entire game for a second, bring back the mechanics and design of the old ones. Even if the style is imperfected, they can do BETTER.
Some of it, like oversizing elements so they can show all the detail, or completely redesigning levels is hampering everything about the old games that made them special.
So what if they can't do a superrealistic jungle? Bring a cartoony one but keep all the core elements the same.
To be fair I liked Yoshi's Story as well. But these new ones are focusing too much on graphics to the point graphics are changing gameplay mechanics.
Critically maybe, but even there the games come out okay. From a sales perspective the games do perfectly fine, hence why Nintendo continues to make them the way that they are.
Relax, the new Yoshi game hasn’t come out yet. Let reserve our judgement until it hit the store shall we?
I think people are worried because of Kirby. They have always catered to similar audiences and it is not too far fetched to think that the new Yoshi will be shallow and too easy like Star Allies was.
However you are right, we won't truly know until it releases.
We’ve had how many entries In the Yoshi franchise now and how many have been as good as the original yoshi’s Island? I think people have a right to be concerned.
Phil writes, "Nintendo's Yoshi originally debuted in the masterful Super Mario World in 1991. Four years later, Yoshi received his first starring role, albeit sharing the spotlight with an infant Mario. This game would create a series of games starring the ever faithful dinosaur (even in Super Mario World when Mario heartlessly leaps off of him, causing Yoshi to fall into a pit). The games range from console offerings to handheld entries. These five Yoshi platformers are what I consider the best and my absolute favorites."
KSD writes: Wario is one of the most fascinating alter-egos/counterparts/antago nists in videogame canon. Maybe not on first blush, because on first blush he’s another Metal Sonic (or Shadow, yuck) or the other Jake Gyllenhaal in Enemy, you know, the one married to a giant spider. This is the classic narrative construct of the evil twin, the nefarious doppelganger, or the clone bred by obscure, dark forces. Or, like, Shadow Mario, actually just Bowser Jr. It doesn’t take long to realize that Wario isn’t any of that in relation to the heroic Mario, despite the physical resemblance and the name/letter flip. Sure, his name in Japanese roughly means “bad Mario,” but a closer examination of Wario reveals a character that is only “bad” insomuch as to the degree in which Mario is close to the moral ideal and Wario is, well, he’s not. He’s cantankerous, greedy, and, yeah, a bit of a disgusting slob—not unlike your average human male. Certainly, Wario is the only strong reference point for duality in the Mario series; the correlation is non-existent between the midget plumber whose conscience must be clean as virgin snow and a giant, fire-breathing dinosaur whose sole purpose is to steal princesses and fairies and wreak havoc.
Wario is Mario, but Mario without the charmed status, Mario after a series of poor life choices, the Mario who isn’t held aloft by society, Mario with a thing for garlic and probably beer if Nintendo would let him. Mario with vices to feed. He’s our Mario.
whelp y'know how governments are corrupt n' all.
So someone hired a developer to make a flash game, and that developer used music from Yoshi's Island. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't it the developer's fault first and foremost for knowingly ripping off the music?
And No! Most likely no one in the EPA questioned the music because they most likely never played Yoshi's Island. So, IMO, it's not the gov's fault, it's the developer's fault... and I'm damn certain the gov will be no longer doing business with them.