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 scheduled for release in Australia on March 15, 2014, and in Summer 2014 in Japan. It is the third game in the Yoshi's Island series and is a direct sequel to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, making it an interquel to Yoshi's Island DS.

Story

Right after the events of Super Mario World 2: 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.

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.

Confirmed features

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
• The Stork
• Poochy

Transformations

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

Enemies

New

• A white Shy Guy with green spots, which transforms into a duplicate of Yoshi
• Metallic Shy Guys
• Pokeys

Returning

Bandits Boo Guys Boos Bowling Goonies Bumpties Clawdaddies Cloud Drops Crazee Dayzees Dizzy Dandies Dr. Freezegoods Fangs

Fishin' Lakitus Flightless Goonies Flopsy Fish Fly Guys Giant Shy Guys Goombas Goonies Grim Leechers Grinders Grunts Gusties Harry Hedgehogs

Jean de Fillets Koopa Paratroopas Koopa Troopas Lantern Ghosts Lava Drops Lemon Drops Little Mousers Lunge Fish Mufti Guys Needlenoses Nep-Enuts Piranha Plants Piro Dangles

Preying Mantas Pyro Guys Ravens Seedy Sallys Short Fuses Shy Guys Spear Guys Snifits Tap Taps Toadies Wall Lakitus

Mid-Boss

• Kamek

Bosses

• Big Beanie
• King Clawdaddy
• Count Fang
• Baby Bowser
• Bowser

Items/objects

! Blocks ! Switches A pair of binoculars with wings Baron von Zeppelins Buckets Chomp Rocks Coins Donut Lifts Doors Egg Blocks Egg-Plants Flatbed Ferries Flutter Wings GOAL! Ring Hint Blocks Keys Logs Mega Eggdozers Metal Eggdozers Middle Rings One-Way Flippers Red Coins Smiley Flowers Stars Super Green Watermelons Super Red Watermelons Super Blue Watermelons Tulips Warp Pipes Mr.Pipe Whirly Gates Winged Clouds Yoshi Eggs Yoshi Stars

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 1-4: Fort Bucket Booby Trap
• World 1-6: Bouncy Beanstalk Way 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 2-2: Inside the Outside
• World 2-3: See-Saw Scramble
• 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 3-1: Rise of the Nasty Nep-Enuts
• World 3-3: Harry Hedgehog's Labyrinth
• World 3-5: Don't Fear the Spear
• 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 5-1: Brave the Bumpty Blizzard
• A cave level with Clawdaddies and Boo Guys.
• A cave with maces and Fangs. Count Fang is the boss of this level.

Minigames

• 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.

Gallery

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  Artwork of Yoshi and Baby Mario.

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  Yoshi and Baby Mario in a grassland level similar to 1-1 from Yoshi's Island.

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  A cave level with maces.

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  A level with platform trees.

External links

• Official North American website
• Official United Kingdom website