Alright- I'm gonna be the one to say it- as the official Yoshi fan of Backloggd (the only one with a rating above 4 stars), this is an absolutely charming and addicting puzzle game that stacks up (pun intended) to Dr. Mario and Tetris, both of with I love. The mechanics of swapping the stacks allows for a lot of precision in how you control the board, the egg sandwiching mechanic is IMMENSELY satisfying, moreso than getting a tetris imo, and both the high score and challenge modes are a ton of fun, and are different enough to warrant playing.

There's also a lot of freedom in how you set your options before starting a game, including playing all of it in competitive multiplayer! Honestly I randomly selected this on NES Online the other day knowing nothing about it before hand, and I instantly was grabbed by the addicting gameplay loop and score systems and had played for well over two hours.

It might not be on the level of impact of Tetris or Dr. Mario, but I really do think Yoshi is great and totally worth putting a few hours into to see if the mechanics grab you like they did with me. Especially now that it's so readily accessible on NES Online, and is free because of that!

Yoshi is a game I really want to like but it's just something I can't really get into. It's a puzzle game similar to the later Yoshi game, Yoshi's Cookie. But unlike that game where I have some appreciation for it, not much of that is here.

So the goal of Yoshi is to stack enemies onto eggs and sandwhich them with the other half of the egg to hatch a Yoshi. You'll move Mario to move the 4 stacks around so enemies will land on the correct one but to me the problem I have is that it's just too boring, even when you get the best Yoshi possible to hatch, it's just not satisfying.

There's also another mode where you have to clear every enemy on a board and I have to say this, I swear it feels luck based, sometimes you'll have an easy time getting rid of all of them but sometimes the game just doesn't get me the right enemies to poof them away. I get this can be a problem in other puzzle games too but here it feels the most annoying.

There's also multiplayer that uses the 2nd game mode but I didn't play much of it cause the person I played with didn't have a good time.

The presentation is nice. It's got some decent graphics to it and the music is pretty good and is composed by the same person who composes for Pokemon. In fact, I have failed to mention that this game was actually made by GameFreak so that's pretty interesting to see them make games before Pokemon.

Yeah I don't really have much to say, it's not really worth your time nowadays to actually go play this game. There are much better puzzle games you could be playing now, it's honestly a shame Nintendo isn't legally allowed to rerelease Yoshi's Cookie because I would have definitely preferred that one on the NES/Famicom Online for Switch.