Oooh man, this episode is certainly a treat!
Yoshi's Island is incredibly dear to me. It's a big reason I got into drawing as much as I did and what not because I -LOVE- the art design in that SNES game. And the Music. and the elegant level design. and the super responsive controls. and... I could go on and on.
I haven't had the courage to take the dive on Yoshi's New Island still. I think I commented on one of the Connectivity episodes how much I felt Yoshi's Island DS was an insult and derivative nature aside, it was objectively worse than the original on so, SO many levels. I had bought many bad games before, but I think Yoshi's Island DS was the first time I immediately took a game back to gamestop and cut my losses because of the stink it left on me. I didn't even want to see the case sitting on my shelf because I'd hear the stupid Casio keyboard Xylophone music ring in my head and I see the stork switch points and I start getting flashbacks to Donkey Kong 64, because Yoshi's Island DS was a 2D version of that game, but with also a really spotty camera adjustment thing with the top and bottom screen... Seriously, it's one of the few 2D platformers I can think of where they had to finagle a bad form of camera control into because they were to herped in the derp to put missable enemies with collectibles on the screen.
Yoshi's New Island sounds like it's less egregious, but played so safe and so uninspired that rather than being objectively bad, it's just mired in blandness.
Funny, what happened to Jon happened to me in December. I was very much lamenting it, but thankfully I had a very charitable friend who lives in Redmond who helped me out. It was particularly maddening because I took a pass on a link between worlds and haven't had the cash to try and get a copy recently. I indeed had an update that installed incorrectly that busted mine. Actually, I did -NOT- have to send in my SD card, and my saves were saved. Thusly, I still have my Pokemon X version that had 19 boxes of Zorua that I was trying to Masuda Method. Still, eerie how that happened and that the other week I decided to shave bald. Soon the mountain of games in their shrinkwrap will pile up in my room, and then Jon will become a brony.
This episode has been a heck of a treat. the chemestry is great no matter what you guys talk about, and all of these subjects are great.
Also, I've had a hankering for my old copy of Mega Man ZX that got stolen from me. the Mega Man mod on Starbound kinda reminded me of how nead a concept the biometals was.