A 2D platfomer statting Mario's beloved dinosaur.

Original N64europe Review

Yoshi's cool. N64 is cool. Platforms are cool. What happens if you put all these three things together? You get a sad childish game named Yoshi's Story.

Baby Bowser attacks Yoshi's Island again, and now he captures it in a picture book. He steals the Super Happy Three as well, which keeps every abitant of Yoshi's Island happy, now they're all very sad and evil... Sounds very scary, doesn't it??? Luckily, there are six brave Yoshis (a green, a blue, a yellow, a red, a light-blue and a pink one) who decide they should defeat Bowser. And there they go, with their 5 metres long tongue in there mouth, ready to kill any enemy.

Since every picture book is 2D, Yoshi's Story is in a 2D mode as well, the backgrounds though are 3D (well, a bit 3D, like in Mischief Makers). At the beginning of the game you choose the Yoshi you want to play with and the action begins. You have to walk through six different pages of the picture book, and each page exists of four levels. However, you only have to complete six levels (in each page one) to face Baby Bowser, this comes by the fact that if you've found thirty pieces of fruit in one page, you'll automatically go to the next page. That shouldn't be to difficult you think, well indeed it isn't. You collect pieces of fruit with Yoshi's enormous tongue, which you also use to kill the enemies. If a piece of fruit is locked in some sort of bubble, you have to throw an egg against it to free the fruit (and eat it, of course).

Nintendo thought they had to show the world that 2D games can be good as well, but unfortunately they failed doing that. Yoshi's Story is the same as Super Mario World on The SuperNES, with the different that latter was cool and not easy. Yoshi's Story is way too simple, it even takes children from 8 years old only 2 days to complete this game (with completing I mean defeating Baby Bowser, not having seen every level).

On the overall there's nothing wrong with this game, the sounds aren't bad (perhaps a bit too happy sometimes), the graphics are good and the gameplay is even great, but because it's so easy to complete a level, you won't be playing this game very long.

- By Gerben Stavast