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)

HOW DARE YOU! Such slander!!! I even have the posters for it!

Such myths must be busted! :D :P

And it's still there :P

Wii Sports and Steel Diver I'll give you. However, they still don't have the magic of Pikmin :p and particularly Wii Sports is a different type of game (I loved it, I was there day 1 with the Wii just like I was with the Wii U) however, I still think Nintendo are "going through the motions" of their existing IPs at the moment and it's damaging them.

I grew up with a Nintendo who were constantly introducing new things. I'd say the last "New" thing they introduced was Wii Sports, look how many consoles that shifted. It's a mini game compilation rather than a full blown game, which is why I used Pikmin instead. Steel Diver is also a mini game rather than a full blown title. Hell Tearaway is considered too short to be a full blown game.

But I'd love to see Nintendo go back to their old ways. I'm a full blown old skool Nintendo fanboy. I think they've gone off on a tangent which worked great with the Wii because it drew in a new audience. They went into the Wii U expecting to be able to just replicate that success, that didn't work, so they're now looking back to previous successes trying to replicate them, hence the overload of "New" and "going through the motions" sequels.

I actually think if Nintendo go back to the thinking that led to Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Pikmin, etc being born, they would find they are able to enjoy a success irrelevant of what Sony and MS are doing.

Very disappointing to see these reviews. I was looking into buying this at launch since I'm a fan, but a lot of the negative points are common across the certain reviews I've looked at which have me thinking to buy later at a sale price.

Arzest is made up of former Artoon folks, the same people who made Yoshi's Island DS, which last I remember was well regarded. One horrible review does not = "Game sucks, confirmed". On the flip-side, Joystick, IGN and Game Trailers all gave it fairly positive reviews.

You can't judge something purely on pro reviews....after all, it's just somebody getting paid to give their own personal opinion, it's not as if their taste or opinions on gaming is better than anyone else's.

Hey, I got the gold Zelda 3ds too.

Surely it's a bannable offense even for a mod to say such blasphamy? :P

Yoshi's Story was a travesty in comparison to Yoshi's Island!!! Though those singing Yoshi's were just so adorable that you could forgive them enough to justify the £49.99 price tag :D eeeee eeeeeh ooooooh!

Yeah I had a wedding in 2013 (in another country, namely the US, with a further reception in the UK which pretty much made it 2 weddings to pay for) so my funds were massively diverted at that stage meaning I couldn't afford to buy it straight off the bat as my Feb wage paid for the minister to conduct the ceremony, so I bought it soon after my March wage was paid in. However I'd hardly call £26.86 for a £29.99 game a massive discount :p

I've owned about 30 or so 3DS titles and in 2011 I was really digging it. However the Vita is just a much better portable system so most of them got sold to fund superior handheld gaming experiences. 3rd party software on the 3DS is generally a joke. Though I do now have Senran Kagura Burst as well :p

As for my months old statement of blaming other Nintendo fans for not buying 3rd party software being the issue, I stand by it. I'm an old school Nintendo fan. They've massively fallen from grace and there is just no reason to have a Nintendo console as a primary format at the moment. GCN was my last Nintendo produced primary format. I buy multi platform 3rd party releases on my primary format. Simple logic.

*edit... the mightly Rol is quoting and calling me out on things *squeal!* [/starstruck]

To clarify. 3DS 3rd party software I feel personally has been a joke. There's very little that appeals to me personally.

The second quote more applied to Nintendo consoles in general.

In the GCN days, if a game came out on all 3 formats, I'd generally get it on GCN unless it was massively broken. If Wii U was my primary format, I'd be buying Need for Speed Most Wanted on it, I'd be buying Batman Arkaham Origins on it etc.

There are people who complain about the state of 3rd party support on Nintendo consoles and go on about boycotting the developer, yet never buy the software anyway.

I know you'd prefer it to be black and white, but life never is.

3DS is a unique beast, it's such a technically limited system, that multi format 3rd party releases are actually very difficult for it. Add in that the West in general just seems to have no desire to develop handheld software and it becomes quite clear why my 3DS lineup is so 1st party centric.

Can you see the difference? I'm not complaining about Nintendo being screwed over by 3rd party devs, as I have no real desire to get 3rd party titles on Nintendo systems as they're generally the worst version of it so I understand the low sales and I can still play those games on other systems. However many people here complain about the 3rd party treatment of Nintendo consoles, then still don't buy the games anyway because it's come out a few weeks later or because what was meant to be an exclusive game suddenly lost it's exclusivity.

There's just no reason for a multi format gamer to buy a Nintendo version multi platform release anymore. 99% of the time, it's inferior.

The first DKC was the year before SMW2, but yeah, Yoshi never got the mass accolades it truly deserved between arriving so late in the SNES' life and launching around the same time as DKC2 (which was nowhere near as good as Yoshi, IMO).

Also @bolded, way to make a guy feel old.

Yoshi's Island on the SNES was quite well received by critics back in the day, it was just overshadowed by the huge DKC/DKC2 train.

Oh well. Yoshi's New Island always looked kinda dull/mediocre from the get go, hopefully that will be a wake up call to the Yarn Yoshi team that they have to step their game up.

It's really not a big deal though IMO, there are so many good platformers on Nintendo systems these days. Buy DKC: Tropical Freeze guys, skip Yoshi and wait for Yarn Yoshi.