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

[Mr Khan]

Scizor_99 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 was a baby when the original Yoshi's Island came out, so I never experienced the never hype for it, but I can understand how impressive it was on an artistic and technical level. The thing is, when I went back and played it, it just didn't feel that fun. I didn't like the art direction (yes, not even the art direction of the original) and found the gameplay to be dull and slow-moving. I got my hopes up for this game when I saw a lot of the same neat mechanics that people seemed to liked in the trailers, but it looks like it wasn't enough. Though, I have to wonder if people just got turned off by the art style (which I think is actually quite appropriate for the game) and the initial. Regardless, it seems like I'll be skipping this one. On to Kirby: Triple Deluxe!

Honestly i was never that jazzed by the original Island either. I was very "meh" on it when it came out on GBA, which is odd because i LOVE Yoshi's Story (could be an issue of nostalgia filter, but i feel the game holds up much better. Could be i'm a sucker for branching-patch platformers with an exploration element)