Yoshi Touch & Go: Difference between revisions

*Finally, when Baby Mario nears the ground, there are small formations of tree leaves. Touching them with the stylus may reveal bonus points such as [[Yellow Coin]]s and [[Blue Coin]]s.

When a high score is achieved, regardless if a player makes to the end goal or gets defeated, it is placed on a leaderboard that can be accessed by tapping "Rankings" on the title screen. Here, players select an icon to represent themselves, ranging from enemies and characters from ''Yoshi Touch & Go'', various ''Mario'' franchise characters and items including adult [[Mario]] and [[Luigi]], and 8-bit sprites from ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''

|align="center"|[[Needlenose]]

|Hops about, oblivious to Yoshi. Also hides in trees and throws bombs, Needlenoses, and bananas; they can switch between what they throw and throw in multiple angles. Worth two points.

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''Yoshi Touch & Go'' was directed by [[Hiroyuki Kimura]]; his resume included directing most of the ''[[Super Mario Advance (series)|Super Mario Advance]]'' titles. The game was his last role as a director before he served as a producer and a co-producer in future games. [[Yasuhisa Yamamura]] and Masataka Takemoto were both involved with the level design; Yamamura was involved with the creation of the map design of many ''Mario'' titles, including ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''. [[Kazumi Totaka]] was the sound director of the game and he provided the Yoshis' voices. This game contains the famous "[[Totaka's Song]]", a little tune included in almost every game where Kazumi Totaka is a member of the music staff. Here, pausing in the windy area explored in Marathon Mode to allow the background music to loop long enough will yield a short section with the Totaka song's notes. [[Asuka Hayazaki]] and [[Toru Minegishi]] composed the game's soundtrack; the former would go on to compose music for future ''Mario'' titles namely ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' among other games. [[Charles Martinet]] provided the voice for Baby Mario, though his voice clips are reused from ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]''

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|align="left"|"''Really, the only harsh criticism that can be attached to Yoshi Touch & Go is that it breaks from the expected "beginning, middle, and end" platform presentation, instead going back to the old-school arcade days of trying to see how far you can get on a single try. And I'll admit that, initially, it was someone concerning to discover the lack of an extensive level progression in the latest Yoshi game. But the game modes offer an enormous amount of replay in their simplistic design; the main game mode has a ton of "combo" strings to discover and pull off. Marathon Mode constantly offers a fresh take on the same Yoshi rounds by randomizing challenges throughout the run-through. And the intense multiplayer mode is incredibly hard to turn off once it gets started. It was difficult to see the direction Nintendo was heading with the concept of Yoshi Touch & Go back at E3, or at the very least, how it was all going to come together as a full-fledged gaming package. But in its final form, Nintendo succeeded admirably, both in game concept and in an experience that can't be obtained anywhere else but on the Nintendo DS platform. Don't expect and extension of the Yoshi's Island series on the DS, as this game doesn't come anywhere close to attempting the next generation of platform design. Rather, what you're getting is a wonderful throwback to the days of self-competition: Nintendo's "Donkey Kong" arcade game of the 21st century.''"

*''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' - There are three sets of high-score icons to use on the high-score table: One based on the [[Yoshi (franchise)|''Yoshi'' franchise]], one based the [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'' franchise]], and one that uses the same characters of the previous set, but uses original sprites from this game instead. Also, the stomping and shell-hitting sound effects from this game are re-used in ''Yoshi Touch & Go''.

*''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' - The ''Mario'' series high-score icons previously mentioned uses the same design as the ones from this game. Various voice clips are reused from this game.