In fact, the only thing that doesn’t feel utilized all that well is the 3D effect, which obviously won’t be an issue to anyone playing on a 2DS, or preferring to keep the 3D Slider switched off.
Character models and environments alike, especially later in the game, look very charming and well-rendered, using the 3DS’s graphical capabilities exceptionally well. The craft-like, colouring book-style environments feel like a natural evolution of the visual sensibilities pioneered in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, and are definitely more visually striking than the less remarkable graphics of Yoshi’s Island DS. Yoshi’s New Island has clearly had an immense amount of effort put into its art style. If, as the title suggests, you just want a new Yoshi’s Island game for yourself, or have a young child gamer that needs a reliable 3DS birthday gift or something, Yoshi’s New Island gets the job done, but it likely won’t be remembered as one of 2014’s defining releases for Nintendo’s current handheld. The game seems oddly afraid to experiment and run with its handful of new mechanics, which gives it an aftertaste of lost potential. In the end however, it’s just a little too forgettable.
Yoshi’s New Island will still sustain itself for young children, and especially rosy-eyed adults who grew up on the 16-bit side-scrollers of the Super NES era, thanks to sharp, varied level design, clever, albeit easy boss battles, and a healthy offering of well-hidden, rewarding collectibles that make each stage worth revisiting until you master the lot of them. With Yoshi’s New Island however, it’s more of an unfortunate lack of creativity outside of what it’s borrowing from its Super NES predecessor. With Yoshi’s Island DS, it was the sometimes absurdly high difficulty level. Yoshi’s New Island is more comparable to the previous Yoshi’s Island DS in fact, being a reasonably enjoyable game that’s just let down by some unfortunate design problems. The game may look juvenile on the surface, but Yoshi’s New Island is a solid 3DS side-scroller that will entertain both the nostalgic and the young-minded.īut of course, we have to get this stark, predictable fact out of the way It’s not as good as the original.
Of course, if you’ve had the pleasure of playing one of the Super NES’s top classic platformers, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, then you would hopefully know better. It’s very easy to write off the cutesy, colouring book-esque world and annoyingly baby-ish sound design as the telltale signals of a lightweight kiddie platformer that’s not worth a real gamer’s attention. Yoshi’s New Island is a game that’s rather dependent on entering it with the proper expectations.
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