Yoshi's Island DS for Nintendo DS Review
Break it down:
The game includes many of our old Nintendo favorites from Yoshi and Mario through to princess peach and donkey Kong, the twist in this game is most of the characters are babies, all with there own special abilities. Yoshi is on a mission to rescue these babies that were stolen by the wicked bowser!
The look of the game is your typical Nintendo graphics, a lot of colours, a lot of cartoonish levels that are bright and good quality, Nintendo’s always done a good job at keeping things amusing but basic at the same time and Yoshi island is no exception. The sound is also typical Nintendo with fun noises and adventure game music which is generally cheery and bright. The weapons in the game is something new to me (only playing Nintendo games on the Game boy pocket or NES or Super NES) were you catch enemies with your tongue, swallow them and then some how lay eggs, now we all know that is pretty strange, but hey! Its Nintendo, they don’t need to explain anything! The shooting isn’t just a regular up and across shooting system either, its hard to explain but the egg floats in front of you up and down, when the angle is rite you press the button and it shoots in the chosen direction, though it sounds difficult it is actually a very effective control.
You play as Yoshi, on your back your carrying either baby Mario baby princess peach or baby donkey Kong as your running through the levels, unlocking doors an jumping over obstacles, each character with there unique skill helps you get along quicker, for instance baby DK can grab onto ropes, baby Mario can make blocks appear and baby princess can use her dress to float temporarily. The difficulty is challenging especially if you haven’t chosen the rite character but each level can be beaten after 2 or 3 go’s. The controls are nice and basic, B to jump, Y to attack with your tongue and A to shoot eggs. The split screen is a nice feature forcing the player to play the game differently by having to shift your eyes from top to bottom. The packaging is basic, coming in a plastic case with the paper cover on the outside, you get 2 booklets with it, 1 is more of a health and safety booklet explaining the likely hood of seizures attacks, radio wave effects and sore fingers, the other booklet is the games 25 page instruction book telling your the controls of the game in more detail, but the game is pretty basic an you shouldn’t need the manual to figure things out.
Yoshi's Island DS is a pretty fun game for the casual gamers and Nintendo fans, defiantly got the old school feel of the NES and game boy games, it costs just under $70AU from eb games and is well worth the price. We give it 7 Eggs out of 10.