GAMER LOUNGE 20XX (NO CASUALS!!)

[Kosheh]

I picked Yoshi's New Island, and I'm honestly having a lot of fun with it. It's a little slower and clunkier than the previous Island games, and the story is shit, but it still retains quite a bit of Yoshi charm. My biggest complaint with it right now is how much easier it has been in comparison to the SNES original.

This is all from a guy who also likes YIDS, so take it as you will

Yeah, YIDS was kinda dissapointing. It's NICE but like NOT THAT NICE.  I don't know how they did it but they hire like literally the shittiest composers to do Yoshi's Island music, because the Yoshi games have an atmosphere that it has to set. Yoshi's Island is the preferred atmosphere, but it seems that Yoshi's Story became the new yardstick (which was fine in its own right, and kept its own aesthetic)
YIDS and YNI seem like they're attempting to blend the two, which is what just kills it for me.

I can't play Yoshi games with the sound on anymore. You shouldn't be intensely platforming to Animal Crossing lazytown music.

The new Yoshi games are also riddled with all sorts of bad design decisions: "Let's bring back transformations - but they NEED to be entirely gyrosensor-based!"

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If I could liken it to something Disney to streamline the issue, it's basically what Disney did to Dinosaur. "Check out this AMAZING Discovery Channel simulator with REALISTIC DINOSAURS. It's a dark film with zero dialogue save for the narrator."

Months later: "Okay, bear with us: the dinosaurs TALK NOW. DINOSAURS COULD TALK BACK THEN because it's COMMERCIALLY VIABLE"

okay, it isn't like that at all but basically it's how shitty decisions constantly made by the production team to make it more commercially viable only end up falling flat on their face.