Yoshi's New Island

Yoshi's New Island is a title for the Nintendo 3DS, released on March 14, 2014, in North America and Europe, and released in Australia on March 15, 2014. It is also scheduled for a summer 2014 release in Japan. It is the third game in the Yoshi's Island series.

Story
After the events of Yoshi's Island, the couple to whom the Stork gave Baby Mario and Baby Luigi allege that the brothers are not their babies. It goes on searching for the real parents, when it finds Kamek wanting to steal the babies once more. Again, he proceeds to take only Baby Luigi away, and Baby Mario falls on the nearby Egg Island. He is found by a group of Yoshis who decide to take him to his brother and defeat Baby Bowser, since he is planning to turn Egg Island into his vacation home.

After defeating both Baby Bowser and his older self, Egg Island is saved, and Baby Luigi is rescued. The Stork proceeds to take the brothers to fulfill his job of sending them to the correct parents. After the Stork gets there, this couple confirms that Mario and Luigi are indeed their children. After this, the helpful Warp Pipe is seen; it reveals its true identity and vanishes.

Gameplay
Yoshi's New Island is a platform game which plays the same in style as its predecessors, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island DS. Much of the scenery and moves from the game are similar, as well.

The main addition to gameplay is the ability to swallow extremely large enemies and turn them into colossal eggs, bigger than Giant Eggs. When thrown, they function similarly to Mega Mushrooms, wrecking everything in their path, the accumulating damage filling a meter that can provide Yoshi with up to three extra lives.

Characters

 * Yoshi (species)
 * Green Yoshi
 * Pink Yoshi
 * Light Blue Yoshi
 * Yellow Yoshi
 * Purple Yoshi
 * Orange Yoshi
 * Red Yoshi
 * Blue Yoshi
 * Super Yoshi
 * Baby Mario
 * Baby Luigi
 * Kamek
 * Baby Bowser
 * Bowser
 * The Stork
 * Poochy
 * Mario

Transformations

 * Yoshi Helicopter
 * Yoshi Jackhammer
 * Yoshi Submarine
 * Yoshi Minecart
 * Yoshi Bobsled
 * Yoshi Hot-Air Balloon

New

 * A white Shy Guy with green spots, which transforms into a duplicate of Yoshi
 * Beanies
 * Golden Chomps that shoot out of volcanoes in the background
 * Metallic Shy Guys
 * Pokeys
 * White Pokeys that hang upside-down

Mid-Boss

 * Kamek (All Towers)

Bosses

 * Big Beanie (World 1)
 * Count Fang (World 2)
 * King Clawdaddy (World 3)
 * Fred de Fillet (World 4)
 * Punkey the Pokey Prince (World 5)
 * Baby Bowser (World 6)
 * Bowser (World 6 True Final Boss)

Levels

 * World 1-1: Little Eggs, Big Eggs - A hill course with pink flower gardens.
 * World 1-2: Chomp Rock 'n' Roll - A forest course with Gusties, Chomp Rocks, and the mine cart transformation.
 * World 1-3: Cave of the Nipper Plants
 * World 1-4: Fort Bucket Booby Trap
 * World 1-5: Heads Up, Hop Up
 * World 1-6: Bouncy Beanstalk Walk A level with beanstalks that grow to reach new areas as well as leaves that can only hold Yoshi's weight for so long.
 * World 1-7: Ground Pound Rebound
 * World 1-8: Big Beanie's Castle
 * World 2-1: Koopa Canyon
 * World 2-2: Inside the Outside
 * World 2-3: Seesaw Scramble
 * World 2-4: Beware the Boo Brigade
 * World 2-5: Lantern Ghost Grotto
 * World 2-6: Gusty Glory
 * World 2-7: Hidey-Hole Hooligans - A level featuring Wall Lakitus that break parts of the level as they aim their Spiny Eggs at Yoshi's head.
 * World 2-8: Count Fang's Castle
 * World 3-1: Rise of the Nasty Nep-Enuts
 * World 3-2: Ukiki Jammin'
 * World 3-3: Harry Hedgehog's Labyrinth
 * World 3-4: Slime Drop Drama
 * World 3-5: Don't Fear the Spear
 * World 3-6: Ukiki Trouble in Clawdaddy Cove
 * World 3-7: Lose the Lunge Fish
 * World 3-8: King Clawdaddy's Sewer Castle
 * World 4-1: Hop 'n' Pop Till You Drop - A level where Yoshi must traverse floating balloons while avoiding bubbles that contain enemies and bombs.
 * World 4-2: Underground Pokey Patrol
 * World 4-3: Spin-Lift Drift
 * World 4-4: Fort Key Calamity
 * World 4-5: Mega Eggdozers on a Roll
 * World 4-6: Chomp Shark Chase
 * World 4-7: Flatbed Ferry Freefall
 * World 4-8: Furious Fred de Fillet's Castle
 * World 5-1: Brave the Bumpty Blizzard
 * World 5-2: Fine Feathered Friends or Foes?
 * World 5-3: Ski Lift Leap
 * World 5-4: Ready, Steady, Go!
 * World 5-5: Cruise the Clouds
 * World 5-6: Fire Watermelon Wonderland
 * World 5-7: Eggstraordinary Terrain
 * World 5-8: Punkey the Pokey Prince's Castle
 * World 6-1: Chomp Rock Challenge
 * World 6-2: Bandit Valley
 * World 6-3: Gargantua Blargg Attacks!
 * World 6-4: Spray Day Mayday
 * World 6-5: Hotfoot Hurdle
 * World 6-6: Pyro Guy Peak
 * World 6-7: Crumble Rock Rumble
 * World 6-8: Baby Bowser's Castle Break-in
 * : Make way for King Bowser!

Minigames

 * Ground-Pound Pop
 * Tulip Toss
 * Flutter Fortune
 * Enemy Eat-Off
 * Eggy Pop
 * Flutter Finish

Reception
As of March 13, 2014, Yoshi's New Island has garnered mixed or average reception, having a 64 average based on 32 reviews in Metacritic and a 66.88% based on 25 reviews on GameRankings. Jose Otero of IGN praised the solid gameplay, but criticized the game for reusing ideas from the original and its soundtrack, while its new ideas do not stand out. He ended with, "Yoshi’s New Island ' s inconsistent art and tacked-on new ideas are all layered on top of the same strong platforming and level design that made the original great.", giving the game a 7.9 out of 10. Edge lambasted the game, giving it a 4 out of 10, heavily criticizing the game's reliance on throwback to the original Yoshi's Island. Susan Arendt of Joystiq gave the game a 4 out of 5 stars, praising the solid gameplay. Jim Sterling of The Escapist says the game "boasts some charm and is certainly inoffensive, it's just not all that exciting." He praised the solid gameplay but criticized the tedium and difficulty. He gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. Dave Letcavage of Nintendo Life gave the game a 5 out of 10. He also criticized the game for being not being necessarily bad, but being "dull" and "unimpressive". He stated the game is playable, but mostly filler. GameXplain gave it a 4 out of 5 stars, saying it was more of the same but that was a good thing, while stating the soundtrack was often subpar.