Topic: REVIEWS: Yoshi's Island DS

[LuigiHann]

I liked MK better before the blue shell.

Blue shell was fine in Mario Kart 64. It wasn't until Double Dash that it became game-breaking

[DAaaMan64]

StarFox's worst venture ever is Command.

That's a pretty crazy typo you made. How could you get 'Command' when you were obviously trying to type 'Adventures'

See my review of Command.

And Adventures far from a terrible game, i'd say it's good but not great. Command is just not good.

The best Star Fox's ever are 1, 2, the 64 game. Which trump any other out by miles. They are really great.  You all need to play number 2, it's amazing.

[Jonnyboy117]

This game is on my GameFly queue, and I'm looking forward to finally playing it.  I was never a huge fan of the original Yoshi's Island; it felt like such a huge departure from other Mario games that I couldn't tell what to make of it.  The graphics were great, but the gameplay never totally clicked with me.  Also, the crying babies are obnoxious.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

StarFox's worst venture ever is Command.

That's a pretty crazy typo you made. How could you get 'Command' when you were obviously trying to type 'Adventures'

Don't you mean Assault? Anyway, I haven't played YI2, but if MB is complaining about the original's controls I'm not sure I can take his word on this being a good game...back at the E3 where this was shown, the controls caught me off guard.

[DAaaMan64]

I like Assault, it just doesn't touch the others. I enjoyed the on foot missions believe it or not

[IceCold]

F-Zero X was great. Not as good as GX but still.. Though I guess you could say it's a lot easier to transition a racing game to 3D.

[Halbred]

I like how all of the Star Fox games after Star Fox 64 have sucked. On that note, when is Nintendo going to get around to releasing the original SNES Star Fox on the Virtual Console? It's still my favorite. Hell, they could even localize Star Fox 2.

[Jonnyboy117]

Star Fox is difficult to emulate because of the FX Chip.  Also, there's a good reason that Star Fox 2 was never released... it wasn't all that great.  And it's not even 100% complete, so that would require some additional programming on code that probably hasn't been looked at in fifteen years.  Don't hold your breath.

[DAaaMan64]

Star Fox is difficult to emulate because of the FX Chip.  Also, there's a good reason that Star Fox 2 was never released... it wasn't all that great.  And it's not even 100% complete, so that would require some additional programming on code that probably hasn't been looked at in fifteen years.  Don't hold your breath.

"Not that great."

Your wrong sir. It's really good, I'm not lying. My review here references it and it's superiority over it's distance cousin, Command.

The game was was completed and released by a third party, I bought a SNES controller adapter and completed it on all difficulties. It's short, but is freaking awesome while it lasts. I highly recommend it.

[King of Twitch]

Enough small talk, peasants. This thread is supposed to be about whether Yoshi's Island DS is good or not.

[Halbred]

Quiet, you! Star Fax uses the FX chip, it's true, but so does Yoshi's Island, and THAT was released onto the VC.

[Nick DiMola]

I agree with DAaaMan64, Star Fox 2 is outstanding. It's a travesty that Nintendo didn't finish that up and release it in some fashion.

I must disagree with him on one point though, Command > Assault. I don't think either of them are awful, though both were disappointing.

[Jonnyboy117]

Quiet, you! Star Fax uses the FX chip, it's true, but so does Yoshi's Island, and THAT was released onto the VC.

No, Yoshi's Story (N64) is on VC.  There are no FX Chip games on VC yet.

[King of Twitch]

What about Blast Processing games?

[NWR_Lindy]

Yoshi's Island technically uses the Super FX 2 chip.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX

But Jonny's right, there are no Super FX chip games on VC at the moment.

[King of Twitch]

I want to go back and clear 100% on level 1-4, but when I get 1/3 of the way through the level I see a flower I can't get because Peach's egg toss doesn't bounce.

There's no character swap in sight without moving irreversibly forward in the level. So I have to hit 'return to map', find another level to swap to mario, and then 'return to map' again but when I go back, peach is still still there! WTF