Yoshi's Story bounces off of the success of the SNES of Yoshi's Island into the Nintendo 64 with a lot less screaming baby Mario and more just wholesome fun with our favorite dinosaur. What does this game do right? What does it get wrong? All that and more below!
Positives:
1. Graphics wise, this game looks absolutely spectacular. It's a very well designed game, incredibly colorful and vibrant, and the graphics are simply amazing to marvel at in the N64 era.
2. The music is also superb, but much of this was to be expected with a Nintendo game it feels but still you have to hit the soundtrack and the folks at Nintendo did it with Yoshi's Story.
3. This is a tremendous game for young players who were coming of age in the 90's who wanted a quick game to play. Also a very easy pick up and play game. Both were still staples in the 1990's for those who didn't want to go through so many hours of playing other games and just pick up and play and go through a game in a weekend or a few days.
4. The story is actually kind of cute to follow along with. I enjoyed the story for the most part (more on that below) but its a story that a lot of up and coming gamers will enjoy especially, considering the game is more pick up and play and breeze through it in a weekend's time
Negatives:
1. Unfortunately, if you are of the older variety who play this game for the first time later in life (It's me, I'm that person) you will find this game really, really easy. Which is fine, I am not the tailored market. I will say this isn't an overwhelming negative though because I was the target audience when the game first released. This is more of a "That's on me" type negative.
2. However, the boss (yes another one of those posts, like Star Fox 64) is just.. underwhelming at the end. It doesn't help that it's essentially a recycled boss from a previous game just with a different trick up his sleeve. It's just one of those things where it seemed Nintendo wanted to grasp onto at least for a while (They changed this up a lot in future Yoshi games though.)
Final Thoughts: Another decent Nintendo game, albeit a bit lower on a rating scale than that of Yoshi's Story or Super Mario 64. I think I said it was a 7.5 or 8 out of 10 at the time I beat it and after studying it longer, I'll stick with it. It's definitely a very good game for kids getting into gaming, but for adults it probably falls short of expectations (which is definitely fine).
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