Yoshi Island DS

The second user review is upon us! This one is the true sequel of Yoshi Island (SNES), and not the Yoshi Touch and Go (DS) half sequel.

Follow Waterman65 as he follows the twists and turns of the game, from good to bad. If you enjoy this review, Waterman65 also wrote a Sonic Advance review 3, so check that one out! Who knows, maybe that one will be published here too?

Yoshi Island DS

Review made by Waterman
Console: DS
ESRB: E for all
Players: 1
Developer: Artoon
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: November 13, 2006

Intro:
Yoshi Island DS is really similar to all the other Yoshi Stories. It starts by Kamek and others flying out of Bowser’s castle going to a village stealing all the babies. While Kamek was leaving with all the babies, a stork flies at him and knocks baby Mario, peach and DK out of his hands, leaving him with baby Luigi and the rest. While a Yoshi is just walking around, Baby Mario and baby Peach falls right on two Yoshis. Thus, the adventure begins.

Storyline:
This game is about using Yoshi and the babies to get through various stages, enemies, and bosses to save baby Luigi and the other babies. You start the game with Baby Mario and Baby Peach, but before you now it, you’ve already gotten DK. You must go around getting past obstacles using special abilities from each baby.

Longevity:
For this game’s longevity, it’s kind of hard to say. The game is pretty long, the story part is short, but after you beat the story part, there are more challenges.
One of them being beating all levels with 100% just to unlock secret levels with the White and Black colored Yoshi. Another one being to unlocking all the Mini games for hard and normal mode.

Graphics:
The graphics for this game is pretty decent, but are really improved from all the other Yoshi Story games, Except Yoshi touch and Go. The background for the game is always colorful, bright, and happy looking. This game is average compared to all the other DS titles.

Game play:
This games game play is similar to the Mario games, just run and jump, except you can flutter and throw eggs. The controls are decent, not too hard and not to easy. It’s just using different colored Yoshis walking, running and fighting through side-scrolling stages. Using Yoshi to flutter across various ditches and eat enemies to make eggs to throw at certain switches can sometimes be fun if you’re new to this kind of game, And of course using the babies’ special abilities to overcome parts of the stages. The game can sometimes become a puzzle when using the babies.

Sound:
Not much to say here, Most of their music in Yoshi Story centers around one basic song or rhythm. The sounds for the Yoshis are the same as of every Yoshi sound, but when the Yoshis get hit and the baby is hit off the Yoshi, the babies crying can get pretty annoying.

Scores:

Storyline: 6.5/10 Basic Storyline, The same as all the other Yoshi Stories.
Longevity: 7/10 The games Longevity is pretty long when you want to unlock all the special parts of the game.
Graphics: 8/10 The graphics like I said, Are average for DS games, But improved from the other Yoshi Stories.
Gameplay: 8/10 Very similar to Mario games which is good, especially with all the new powers you get using the babies.
Sound: 9/10 The sounds of this game are great, always has a lot of tunes and sounds.

Overall:
38.5/50 This game is good, good enough to buy and enjoy it, especially if you are into Mario Games. It will give you a lot of joy especially when you are bored, or just wanna play it for fun. It entertained me a lot when I haven't played it in over 3 months.