EDGE gives Yoshi's New Island 4/10 [62 on Metacritic]

[Mr Khan]

orniletter said:

Mr Khan said:

Squeezol said:
Graphics always looked terrible to me.. Also, the Metascore isn't horrible for Yoshi. I mean, Yoshi's Story doesn't have a great score either.

Yeah, the Yoshi games have never been critical darlings. Even "Island" was disliked in its day.

....I think you are misremembering things.

The GBA port of the original is at 91 on metacritic

...the boring DS game is at 81 .

That is pretty decent.

I would say that's because the GBA game came out after nostalgia for the original game and it's whimsical style had begun to wax. WindWaker-esque phenomenon there.