What were they thinking?
>>719280654What did you dislike about it?
>>719280654Lets make a great soundtrack
>>719280654>Let's make our most technical platformer yet into a baby game
>>719280654EAT ASSHOLE
>>719281254>too easy>ruined the Yoshi character forever>Yoshi's Island was an unironic 10/10 masterpiece, and yet despite being the very next game in the series, Story went in a completely different and far worse direction>the music>can be beaten in like 2 hours on a casual runand don't even come at me with the bullshit about "B-B-BUT YOU HAVE TO DO ALL MELONS THEN IT'S HARD". fuck you
>>719280654They wanted to make my childhood great and they succeeded
>>719281548errr yeah but also Yoshi cute
It always makes me laugh when I see people cry that because it's not Yoshi's Island it's shit. That's how life goes. But because Nintendo didn't make Yoshi's Island Crayon Clones for 30 years they are the worst company ever. Same people buy every Nintendo game and give them infinite engagement as well.
haha
>let's make a kino game
>>719280654I kinda liked it.
>>719282157the irony of posting this with a pokemon pic lol
>>719280654It was fine. I enjoyed it.
>tfw have 29/30 melons in a stage but can't find the last one because it's invisible and hidden in some obscure location you need a guide to know about
>>719280654>brnggg ahh game
>>719282341>watermelons don't count as real melons, even if you are black yoshi
>>719280654I always liked Yoshi's Story better than Yoshi's Island.
>>719280654I thought the black and white yoshis were cool
>>719281548Those are probably the reasons why I didn't rent it again and barely remember it.I agree Yoshi's island was a masterpiece.
>>719281548But did you go for all melons?
>>719282157>people cry that because it's not Yoshi's Island it's shitNobody said that.
yoshi is my friend
>>719283679>Yoshi's islandYeah baby Mario annoyed the hell out of me.
me, an enlightened centrist>both yoshis island AND yoshi's story are bad games for babies that people pretend are hard because 100% completion is a pain in the assboth games make platforming a joke with the hover, both games have projectiles that bounce and wipe out most enemies on the screen, both games make actually dying and getting a game over really hard. the first game having great music instead of yoshis singing about their asshole doesn't rly change the game itself being boring
this game is pleasant to look at
>>719280654I think a lot of it could be fixed if the levels had better objectives. The fruit circle is one of the worst mechanics known to man. It's mostly because every level has too much fruit so you don't even see half the level if you collect all fruit. There is also little to no incentive to specialize on certain fruits. And collecting the melons is just too annoying for a casual run. So the objectives are so shit that you never can get any satisfaction. I honestly don't know what they were thinking. And this is putting aside how most levels just plain suck ass.
>>719281410I watched people do melon runs to get high scores and finally got how to play the game.
This eel thing freaked me out as a kid
>>719284025Yoshi's Island is for babies but you must be legally retarded to say it's a bad game. Yoshi Story outside of graphics almost is entirely ass. The level design is one of the shittiest ever seen in a platformer.
Never was a fan but hearing the Yoshis sing gives me PTSD, just makes me deeply uncomfortable.
>>719284297yoshi's movement is too fast and sonic-adjacent for a game that wants you to constantly stop and pick up shit for 100%. yoshi's jump makes any attempts at platforming a joke so instead they fill the levels with gimmicks, the shooting isn't fun because instead of actually aiming they babyfied it but speedrunners will pretend memorizing the angles they have to throw premtively and holding it there is epic.neither game is fun, one game being even less fun doesn't really matter when you could be playing better games on both snes or 64
>>719281548>can be beaten in 2 hoursit's an arcade style game where you redo it to do all the levels and redo the game to get a high score.It requires at least 4 playthroughs to play every level.
>>719280654About children. And probably about fucking them too.
>>719282341that's what the sniff button is fornow go sniff across the entire damn stage looking for the random spot you need to ground pound to make a melon appear
That your tight little ass pussy needed to be stretched wide the fuck open cause you were a little fucking tease. Disgusting slut.
>Nintendies arguing over which zero difficulty baby game for toddlers is more infantileWow, so even maxi man children have standards, albeit basement level low ones? Who woulda thunk it?
>>719284534why bother when you could get the same experience but faster and more fun in mischief makers, another game that' encourages you to replay it for high scores and picking shit up off the ground but without being made for 5 year olds
>>719284591At this point, can you look at anything without being reminded of your fantasies?
>>719284621>>719284591Rape hivemind
>>719281548all the yoshi games are baby games. this is like complaining that Spy Fox was too easy.
>>719282107This. I was a child and I loved that game regardless of it's place in the yoshi franchise metanarrative
>>719284636Because contrary to popular /v/lief it's possible to play and enjoy more than one videogame.
>>719280654Miyamoto was mindbroken and desperate, so they threw Yoshi's identity away to copy Donkey Kong's 3D-render style and turn him into a gay moaning frog
Always hated Yoshi and Kirby. If you want to start your faggot career as early as possible these are the games to play.
>>719281548>Yoshi's Island was an unironic 10/10 masterpieceBabysitting isnt fun and Baby Mario (and all Baby chars) are shit.
>>719284284I haven't seen that in probably 26 years. Fever dreamish game.
>>719285030I was gonna form an argument, but it's easier to just call you a faggot.
I kind of hate how cutesy they made Yoshi. He was a cool character that appealed to boys in Super Mario World. A dragon you can ride on that eats the bad guys, shoots fire, and can fly. But they rounded all of the edges off and made him a cute character not long after.It's not really worth complaining about since he's been this way for far longer than he hasn't, and it was likely a smart move for marketing and merchandise sales. But dammit, I liked him better before.
All things considered you have to give some credit how fucked up they made the experience to lose a Yoshi. There is probably hardly any other games where losing a "live" feels worse.
>>719285030>Babysitting isnt funIt's not supposed to be
>>719284636I mean, you aren't wrong. Mischief makers was a much better 2D platformer and had way better secrets.I can see what they were going with when they made yoshi's story but I honestly think nintendo just got into the gimmick of picking one level a world to make your own "story" through the game and singled down on it too hard. It was always going to be easy (yoshi's island was way easier than mario world or any of the DKC trilogy) because yoshi was intended to be targeted at a younger audience than mainline mario.The real problem is that yoshi's story has only 20 something levels which is pretty lackluster considering how small some of them are.
>>719280654I don't know what it would be like today, seeing it on modern screens, but when I was a kid I played this game on my N64, on my obsolete CRT screen, and I honestly thought the graphics were WORSE than those of Yoshi's Island on the SNES. Not worse technically, but worse aesthetically.In fact, ever since I was a kid, I've always hated the aesthetics of the N64, with those blurry and ugly things. Holy shit, how ugly N64 games are, damn it, it's the only hardware in history that doesn't have a single game that's nice to look at. It's all horrendous.Note: I thought several SNES games were better graphically than the N64. Clayfighters, which was already ugly on the SNES, at least wasn't as aggressively ugly as that pile of crap that is Clayfighters 63 1/3. Castlevania Dracula X, in my opinion, was light years ahead of Castlevania 64 in terms of aesthetics. The Bomberman games wasn't just prettier on the SNES than on the N64, it was superior in every other way as well.
>>719281548>Yoshi's island is a masterpiece>has autoscroll levels that scrolls so slow you're standing around waiting for the screen to catch up most of the timeno
>>719280654EEEEAAAAAATTTTT ASSSSSHOOOOOLEEEEEEE
>>719280654>Make the best Yoshi game to date>Refuse to ever return to the formula>What were they thinking?
>>719285421Wanting to use 3D is the main reason. 3D was still pretty ass looking for the N64 and 3D worlds were nowhere near as detailed as 2D flats had become.Compared to other platformers at the time using 3D graphics, I honestly think yoshi's story is one of the better looking ones.
>>719285862Mediocre sales compared to Yoshi's Island.
>>719281548>>ruined the Yoshi character foreverYes, a colorful children's book of a game on the SNES with crayon drawings in the scenery, bright colors, rhyming help blocks and Yoshi carrying a baby that cries regularly really cemented the concept of masculinity in the IP before Yoshi's Story stripped it away.
>>719284284I remember when I finally got to the area it is in and got scared shitless
>>719284607Having replayed all the levels with 30 melons recently, *most* of the sniffing spots are obvious, they're usually hinted at with the scenery or have a coin or something interesting above them.That of course doesn't apply to all. In one of the water stages there's a melon in a beehive when no other beehive gives you anything asides damage for throwing an egg at them, and in the Bone Dragon stage there's a weird one where unlike every other sniffing spot ground pounding doesn't work, but you have to throw an egg just above it where some coins are. However like anything, it's easy to grab the coins first and come back later which may leave the player thinking the spot is broken.
>>719285862The game's artstyle in the beta is interesting. I wish it'd turn up one day so we could see more.
made a game for nintendo's core demographics: toddlers.
>>719284534Don't bother, zoomers can't into arcade design. They need game to be live service and full of dialogue, cutscenes and RPG ''elements''
>>719286553It is stupid of you to blame customers for things that they are forced to choose from.
>>719285164I accept your concession.
>>719280654https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghTrcPBp3sBalls, look at my balls, Balls, look at my balls, Balls, look at my balls, look at my balls, look at my baaaaaaaaaaalls,
>>719285862>buy used cart>at W6, it has all Yoshis>pick Black Yoshi cuz cool>die>dont see it again>lose white yoshi and green yoshi next>suspect the game is in an advanced state cuz used>delet data>BW Yoshis goneI was disappointed until I randomly found the black one in the cave level, didn't have internet back then
>>719280654It's gay shit for retards and nintentoddlers. They have literally always developed games with fetuses in mind as the sole audience.
>>719280654haters just regurgitate youtuber opinions
>>719280654I would let the phiranas eat me on purposehaha
>>719289687t. retard who likes this game because his favorite youtuber does
Yoshi's Island fucking sucks.
>>719289942wrong. dont watch youtube. bet you didnt know that about me idiot.
>>719283697I wish White Yoshi was actually white and not light grey. Mostly because those Yoshi plushies are very cute and I would have liked one that is actually, genuinely white.
>>719284607See, this is what pisses me off about Yoshi's Story. On the one hand, it's genuinely easier for a casual player, which I don't really have a problem with. On the other hand, if you're going for 100% melon completion, it's nearly as bad and obtuse as Crash 4. They hide some of the melons in some of the most bullshit and obscure locations. And some of the minigames only give you one chance to get all the possible melons. So, if you fail, welp, fuck you, restart the stage!In Yoshi's Island, if you miss a red coin or with less than 30 stars, you can instantly go back and try again (and also have optional powerups to assist you). But Yoshi's Story? You can't find that last melon? Well fuck you then!
>>719285639>has autoscroll levelsOk so did SMB3/SMW and those are masterpieces as well.
>>719280654 (OP)>get hyped for this game because I assume its a sequel to Yoshi's Island>its none of that>>719281548Some of the music was ok, but Yoshi's Islands's tracks were so fucking good even if it was limited in numbers.And I hate the Yoshi voice that was cemented after Yoshi's Story. I would've much preferred the whoopie cushion noises prior.
>>719286157>the concept of masculinity Who are you quoting?
>>719281548yoshi's island is not a masterpiece, calm the fuck down
>>719284607>2 coins appear from the ground pound
i have a soft spot for yoshi's story since it was the first game anybody bought for me as a gift. But good lord nobody should ever try to do a melon run.
>>719281548ME ASSHOOOOLEME ASSHOOOOLE
>>719284284>he doesn't know about pipefish
>>719284284I always thought it was related to yoshi's eggs in some way due to its color scheme
>>719289775I thought I was the only one. they can't even kill you so you could just do it over and over again
>>719280654let's make a baby game
>>719280654I bet someone in charge recently had a baby when it was time to make a new Yoshi gameThis kind of shit always happens when the game devs become fathers
>>719280654Always felt like they thought they needed Yoshi to be for a younger target audience so they made all his games more childlike and simplistic compared to Yoshi's Island which has a certain amount of edgy humor and challenge to it setting the visual standard for the series.
played this game at age 9 with my friend and we did challenge runs trying to unlock every yoshi etc. Its like banjo kazooie, it was 10/10 back in the day but i wouldnt want to play it now that im an old man
>>719284534The game would not have suffered in the slightest if they had made you play 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, etc all the way up to 6-4 without any of this "gather hearts to pick more levels" garbage.At least then it would have almost felt like a full game instead of 4 really crappy pick-a-path games all ending with the same absolutely garbage final boss.Baby Bowser in Yoshi's Story is absolutely top 5 worth final bosses ever.>tree of 10+ health refills and 2 invincibility with unlimited eggs>boss barely attacks>both phases can be beaten in about 10 seconds without moving an inch from where they spawn youYoshi's Story was the first time in my childhood that I understood not all games are made with love. Some exist just to patronize the player.
>>719281254>you finish levels long before reaching the end>piss-easy levels. even easier bosses>no bonus worlds, sections, or levels>on the flipside melon runs are absolutely frustrating>>retarded hidden fruit mechanic that requires you to move at a snail's pace while sniffing farts>>minigames that can't be reset or restarted without losing a life, making a melon run punishingly hard and frustrating>favorite fruit runs are usually downright impossible since most levels don't contain enough fruits of 1 type. to pull them off you need to seriously cheese the game (e.g. shy guy fruit abuse)>ditched classic yoshi design to introduce babified modern redesign>introduced crafts and art gimmick that contineus to plague yoshi's games to this day
Surprised this thread didn't devolve into the usual degen yoshifag shit
>>719280654Yoshi's Story is pure soul
>>719280654This game was way too hard
>>719296682>shy guy fruit abuse
>>719296592 Exactly, it's like they mistook "accessible" for "insultingly easy." The heart system was supposed to add variety, but all it did was cut the game's legs out from under it. You don't even get a satisfying sense of progression-just a weird meander through cardboard stages. Compare that garbage Baby Bowser fight to Yoshi’s Island’s final boss-huge, dramatic, scary-ass Kamek magic nonsense. Yoshi’s Story just tosses you into a sandbox with safety scissors and says “have fun, kiddo.” And don't get me started on the narrator's tone like they’re reading a bedtime story to a toddler.
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>>719280654I loved yoshi as a kid and then I turned into a gay bottom furry, however I present as a masc person too additionally
>>719293879I cannot get these words out of my head now in associating with the song after watching the Nin10doh video on youtube years ago... it really does sound like what is being said lol.
Miyamoto was on something again. First of all, why make such a disgustingly toddler game that you know it's going to alienate every young kid to teenager to young adult out of embarrassment? such a stupid idea. Yoshi's Island's intro is gay as fuck but apart from that its a classic that can be enjoyed by anyone.
I loved the aesthetics of this game - every level was so visually interesting, and varied in design due to the varied materials like paper mache, wood, cardboard, rubber, etc. Then add in 90s rendered models turned into sprites, and you have a visually interesting contrast of the hyper-real, and unreal.Something like Woolly World, or Epic Yarn didn't scratch the same itch, since everything felt so samey in design.
>>719280654The game that killed Yoshi's design and turned him gay.
>>719282341Never play Rayman 1, that game will mind break you
>>719305687oops, forgot this>ComBat>Spike>Tehee ButterflyPeak never-evers
>>719280654>Yoshis all live inside a bookMario lorists in shambles after this dropped.
what's going on in this threa- haha
>>719281548>>719296682this was the beginning of the end for nintendo, truly.
>>719281548>Playing a Yoshi game for story and Characterisation
>>719285253>yoshi has become forever tainted by emotionally-stunted autists and fetishistsis this the fate that awaits all characters that swallow their enemies?
>>719285639donut plains cave seems to ring a bell. the cool part about that level? you have to play it twice if you want to 100% the game
>>719280654The fucked up visual style hooked me on the game, I loved stuff like the lava monster and other weird enemies.
That fucking theme song still is in my head to this day, man.>RAAAH , REROHRE RAAAH>RUUUH, REROHRE RUUH>RAAAH , REROHRE RAAAH>REROHRE RUUH>REROHRE ROOOW
>let's make a good game disguised as baby shit on the surface levelThey got what they wanted.
