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Game Information
- Platform: Game Boy Advance
- PEGI Rating: Ages 16 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Pair up with Yoshi and all his multi-coloured friends
- Tackle Kamek and Baby Bowser
- Guide Yoshi over perilous landscapes and around devious traps
- Change into unique characters with special abilities
- Become a mole-machine or change into a helicopter
- Master Yoshi's legendary moves
- Replay each stage until you find every star, coin and flower to unlock secrets
- Connect with up to three friends in a multi-player Mario Bros. game
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Oh no! It looks like your grandad was right--things really were better in the old days. Well, they were if you liked 2-D platform games, anyway, and Yoshi's Island is indisputably one of the best ever made.
In a laudable attempt not to rehash its immediate forebear Yoshi's Island goes back in time to recount the touching story of the various yoshis' attempts to unite Baby Mario with his parents. For the first time ever in a Mario game you don't actually control the Italian plumber-to-be but instead his dinosaur pal, who has the curious ability to eat his enemies and then immediately turn them into eggs which he can then fling at more enemies and/or politicians.
Since Yoshi isn't particularly fast and can float in mid-air for a few seconds after making a jump, the whole dynamics of the normal Mario gameplay have changed, but the same incredible attention to detail and endless imagination that mark all of Nintendo's best efforts are still here in full effect. In fact they're joined this time, after the rather plain looking prequel, by some wonderful pastel-shaded graphics that were jaw-dropping when the game was originally released in 1995 and still manage to impress now.
As with the other Super Mario Advance titles this game also contains a four-player version of the original Mario Bros. arcade game, making it even more of a bargain than it already was. --David Jenkins
Edge
"Will introduce a new generation of players to platform creativity... shows how important history really is."
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Yoshi's island was a game for the SNES about 5 years ago.It was the sequel to the magnificent Super Mario World, and to many, (including me) thought it betterd the SNES smash hit.Why? Because Nintendo have come up with a brilliat game with memromble chracters, a game packed with quirky ideas that are bound to amaze you, and some of the most beuatiful graphics ever to grace the 16-bit consle. Now, its back on the GBA looking better than ever.
The general plot is this. Yoshi comes accross Baby Mario, whose brother has been kidnapped from the evil wizard Kamek. Its up to Yoshi and friends to guide baby Mario across perilous paths and save his brother.During the game, Yoshi can turn into different forms such as a car or a helicopter, for a short time.You'll soon get used to the controls and you'll be happily fireing eggs at enimies in no time.
The general plot is this. Yoshi comes accross Baby Mario, whose brother has been kidnapped from the evil wizard Kamek. Its up to Yoshi and friends to guide baby Mario across perilous paths and save his brother.During the game, Yoshi can turn into different forms such as a car or a helicopter, for a short time.You'll soon get used to the controls and you'll be happily fireing eggs at enimies in no time.
Overall, this game is absoulutly brilliant. If you are a GBA owner, this is a must-have. If you're not, its worth buying one for the game alone.The only downside is that its slightly short and that its another Mario GBA game with Mario Brothers in it.Again. But these minor niggles won't be noticed by the overall brilliance of the game.Buy it. You won't regret it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This is the best platform game, no the best game on GBA. Basically the storyline is, a stork is on its way delivering baby mario and baby luigi to their parents (don't ask why) when Kamek the magikoopa comes and steals baby luigi, while baby mario falls onto yoshis island. He falls onto Yoshi, and him and the other yoshis decide to take him to his parents, but Bowsers servant Kamek is always trying to steal him. The storyline isn't important though. This game rocks! Yoshi can eat his enemies or through eggs at them, and he can turn into a train, a car,a sub and other vehicles. When yoshi gets hit baby mario falls off his back and floats around in a little bubble until you pick him up again or you run out of time and kameks henchmen come and get him. There are loads of bad guys from shy guys to koopa paratroopas, and loads of bosses including a giant frog that swallows you and a massive black raven called Raphael. There are 6 worlds, 6 levels on each (not including the 2 boss levels on each world). Each level is different or has a different feature, and also theres 2 secret levels on each world. Also theres a game of mario bros on the cart. Overall I'd give this game 9 and a half/10.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Gameplay
This is a Story about a Baby Mario and Yoshi. A Strory that took place a long, long time ago. A Stork hurries thorugh the dusky , pre-dawn sky. In his bill he carries a pair of brothers, suddenly a shadow appears in a gap betweem the clouds and races towards the Stork at a blinding speed....SCREEEEEEEEEEETCH! The babies are mine! WOAH. Snatching only one baby, the creature vanishes into the darkness from whence it came. The second baby falls undetected toward the open sea.... OH NO! Meanwhile, down on Yoshi's Island, home of all the Yoshi's, It's a lovely day and Yoshi is taking a walk HUH? Suddenly out of nowhere, a baby falls on Yoshi's back! Well here is the most complete 2D platformer ever. Every level is brimming with clever ideas, great design and sweet little puzzles. The gameplay is simple. You control Yoshi who has Baby Mario on his back. You can eat enimies and make them into eggs. You can then use those eggs to shoot things to kill enimies, complete puzzles, etc. There are 6 worlds, 8 levels in each with 2 extra levels per world on top of that. In each world, level 4 and 8 are castle levels which contain some of the best platforming bosses ever. From Rapheal the Raven to the final fight with Bowser, they are all classic. Everytime you finish a level you are scored. In each level there are 5 flowers (10pts each) 20 red coins (1pt each) and 30stars (1pt each) Stars are obtained through the level, but when you are hit, you lose Mario from your back, and while he's not there you lose stars, so you have to get him back before the stars run out or you die. So as you can see, the idea is to do the level and not get hit ending with 30stars. Not easy :(
Graphics
Still brilliant to this day. Just take a look at the pics above. Its bright and colourful and very inventive. The bosses in the game are HUGE screen filling monsters. The game does all sorts of effects, scaling and rotating, 'mode 7'. It pushed the SNES to its limits and it shows. The world maps are beautifuly done, the enimies are inventive and the levels are full of detail.
Sound
Some of the most unforgetable music ever. EVERY level has head filling music, and i challenge ANYONE to do a Castle level and not have the music on repeat in their head afterwards :p My only complaint is they changed Yoshi's voice to the horrible girly one. The snes 'voice' was much better. Oh, the end music is a strong contender for the best ending music ever.
Lifespan
Beating the levels is pretty easy. It's not uncommon to have built up over 100 lives by the end of the game, but that isnt the challege. Getting 100% on each level is the REAL challenge and while its quite easy on the earlier levels, chances are you will be in tears by world 5 :'(
Overall Summary
Ive pimped this game enough, its one of my favourite games ever and i beg that anyone with a GBA to pick it up asap
Gameplay = 9
Graphics = 9
Sound = 9
Lifespan = 10
Overall Score: 9/10
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