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Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Game Boy Advance
Released On: Sep 24, 2002
9.1
All Platforms
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
91
96% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
91
96% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Just another bright and shining jewel on the Miyamoto crown of accomplishments! This often overlooked masterpiece will finely get the time in the lime light it deserves.
The mini-games and various vehicles Yoshi can transform into are just icing on an already delicious cake. [Spring 2003, p.41]
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 224 User Ratings
9.1
94% Positive
210 Ratings
210 Ratings
4% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
3% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 224 User Ratings
9.1
94% Positive
210 Ratings
210 Ratings
4% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
3% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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Un platform straordinario, forse la punta di diamante dei "Mario" in 2 dimensioni.
Game design fantastico, stile grafico memorabile, giocabilità alle stelle.
Un capolavoro assoluto.
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The variety in what Yoshi can do and the diversity in level designs, not to mention the wonderful use of scaling and rotation for the level structures and the incorporation of a half-dozen clever mini-games makes Yoshi's Island the best damn platformer ever.
The special rotational and background effects, the sound and voice effects...and, of course, the overall engaging challenges make Yoshi's Island a must-play title for anybody who values classic platformer action.
Seven huge, trap-filled worlds and many mini-games.
It has everything a gamer could want, including challenge, hidden stuff, replay value and a healthy helping of Miyamoto magic. [Oct 2002, p.195]
The only problem I noticed was a very rare slowdown caused by too many sprites on the screen. While it can be annoying when it happens, the occurrence is so sporadic that it's barely noticeable.
Una delicia de juego, que personalmente creo que supera en muchos aspectos al Super Mario World original. El apartado artístico es impecable. La jugabilidad es perfecta y super fluida, y es uno de los juegos más creativos que haya jugado en años, aparte de Octahedron una joya de las plataformas. En fin, delicatessen, caviar puro. Un juego super rejugable y que no debería quedar en el olvido. Aparte para los más completistas si se quiere completar al 100%, el juego ofrece retos extra, que alargan la duración y deja satisfechos a los paladares más exigentes. Oro puro.
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the platform super mario game as is knowledge with a little different gameplay, it is yoshi's time
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This is Yoshi's first port game for Game Boy Advance. The gameplay is a Mario mixed with Kirby and some more unique aspects of this franchise. The game starts extremely easy and more towards the end it has some very challenging moments. Star Mario adds a nice gameplay diversity, but unfortunately it is little used. The game also has some morphs that bring a good diversity. The story is basically a pretty stupid fan service but it does its job. The soundtrack is good and unique but too repetitive.
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When I was a kid I didn't own a SNES so I couldn't play this game on its time, now, the years have come, and as an adult, sadly I find a lot of issues within this game.
The first thing that came to my mind while playing this game and a thing that was so hard to get past, is that this isn't a Super Mario game, or at least not in a conventional way, the controls are tight and responsive but the level design is frustrating and unintuitive, it has some verticality and a puzzle design that simply doesn't work, and a lot of times you'll find yourself just wandering around in circles because of its maze-like environments, the navigation is not that fun, but what makes it more annoying is the baby mechanic: if an enemy or projectile hits you, automatically Mario will be floating on an erratic bubble, and if you don't touch him in a specific set of time, you'll lose that life, in theory, this will be fun and challenging, but given the number of projectiles, annoying patterns and enemies that came out of nowhere it seems more like a cheating mechanic to make it more "challenging".
As I said before, this is not a Super Mario game, so you can't advance the stages at a speedy pace if you like, instead, you regularly find stages that put you in a platform that automatically navigates the stage while you avoid things, sometimes they're a little challenging but more often than not they're too boring, and if you for some reason die on any part, you have to restart from the very beginning, it may sound like I want an easy challenge or a lot of checkpoints but the fact that you have to wait instead of jumping and running in a platform, it really kills the mood.
Although almost my entire time was painfully in this game, there are certain commendable things like the soundtrack, each song it's pretty good and has a lot of memorability and style, the only bad thing is that there are few songs, so you'll listen to them more than necessary. The art direction is an obvious thing to praise, and with good reason, it is simply beautiful and stylish, not only the sprites are great but it seems that they recreate the concept art on point. Finally, the thing that I enjoyed the most, were the boss fights, they sweat creativity and exploit the particular art style to the point that makes you think how this game doesn't have more bosses than stages. As a little side note I loved stage 6-7 it felt quite a lot like a great platformer and it was challenging and fun, if only the other stages were more like it...
Sadly, Yoshi's Island wasn't what I've expected, at a glance at this review it may be that I didn't grasp the mechanics but I'm pretty sure that it was more a design issue, nonetheless, I can hardly recommend it to anyone who likes Super Mario games or platformers in general.
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Summary
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- Game Boy Advance
Initial Release Date: Sep 24, 2002
Developer:
- Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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