Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island or simply Yoshi’s Island, known in Japan as Super Mario: Yoshi Island (Japanese: スーパーマリオ ヨッシーアイランド Hepburn: Sūpā Mario: Yosshī Airando?), is a 1995 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Acting as a prequel to 1990’s Super Mario World, the game casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through 48 levels in order to reunite him with his brother Luigi, who had been kidnapped by Baby Bowser’s minions. 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, produce eggs from swallowed enemies, and transform into vehicles.
Music- fast paced and always refreshing, the music here pushes the capabilities of the SNES to the limit of what could be done on a cartridge. Tracks that never get old and always hype up the action on screen.
Such an enjoyable game- colorful, fast paced, had great music, pretty innovative for a platformer. Pretty much an improvement on SMW but maybe a little bit short and noticeably harder- still fantastic though.
Score Breakdown
“The Tale”
Story- 7
Pacing- 8
Characters- 7
Originality- 9
Linearity- 6
Length- 9
Epicness- 8
“The Presentation”
Visuals- 9
Display- 7
Music- 10
Sound FX- 7
“The Mechanics”
Ease of Use- 7
Innovation- 8
Replayability- 7