This might be one of the first cozy platformers ever made.
Yoshi's island probably has my favorite art style of any SNES game and it's got one of my favorite videogame soundtracks ever.
I've started Yoshi's island multiple times, and I loved playing it every time. Unfortunately, something would always come up and cause me to drop the game before I could make significant progress. I recently managed to find a cart for pretty cheap and decided to finally finish it.
The controls feel just right, and the level design provides a good variety of different platforming challenges without the need to resort to gimmicks that drastically change the gameplay style, that games like Crash 3 suffer from. The bosses are also super creative and fun little puzzles to figure out and the final boss is really good and surprisingly tense.
Going for 100% wasn't as bad as I thought it would be considering how much I've heard people complain about it. However, I'm not sure I'd say it's worth it in the end since you don't get much for it, but if you find a particular level to be too easy, I'd recommend trying to 100% it to add a good challenge. The only times the 100% experience didn't work for me were the instances where an enemy holding a red coin would spawn off screen and fly away by the time I reached it (which wasn't super often) and missing a secret in one of the big nonlinear cave levels because I stood a few pixels off from the spot that reveals the secret.
Yoshi's island is still very worth playing and one of the comfiest and most charming 2D platformers out there. I'd say it's better than Mario World, cause the controls clicked for me more.
Yoshi's island probably has my favorite art style of any SNES game and it's got one of my favorite videogame soundtracks ever.
I've started Yoshi's island multiple times, and I loved playing it every time. Unfortunately, something would always come up and cause me to drop the game before I could make significant progress. I recently managed to find a cart for pretty cheap and decided to finally finish it.
The controls feel just right, and the level design provides a good variety of different platforming challenges without the need to resort to gimmicks that drastically change the gameplay style, that games like Crash 3 suffer from. The bosses are also super creative and fun little puzzles to figure out and the final boss is really good and surprisingly tense.
Going for 100% wasn't as bad as I thought it would be considering how much I've heard people complain about it. However, I'm not sure I'd say it's worth it in the end since you don't get much for it, but if you find a particular level to be too easy, I'd recommend trying to 100% it to add a good challenge. The only times the 100% experience didn't work for me were the instances where an enemy holding a red coin would spawn off screen and fly away by the time I reached it (which wasn't super often) and missing a secret in one of the big nonlinear cave levels because I stood a few pixels off from the spot that reveals the secret.
Yoshi's island is still very worth playing and one of the comfiest and most charming 2D platformers out there. I'd say it's better than Mario World, cause the controls clicked for me more.