Thread 11895647

>Nintendo creates a masterclass in 2D platforming with a distinct and attractive visual style
>They follow it up with a literal baby game with blurry pre-rendered graphics

What the FUCK were thinking?

It wasn't that different. Hatred of Yoshi's Story is evidence Yoshi's Island wasn't good in the first place.

I actually liked this game a lot when it came out and that’s all that matters as I was its target audience at the time. I thought the aesthetic of the game looked good and a lot of the darker stages look cool and almost ominous even. This is the only yoshi game I ever bothered to complete and I probably have played through it like ten times over the years.


> be me in 2003
> family goes to Disneyland
>hotel has n64 where you rent a game digitally
>rent this despite beating it before in the 90s
>play it again anyway for a few hours
>have fun yet again great game
Kino memory
> later on Disneyland trip
>dad lets me buy different flavors of licorice
>root beer blueberry green apple etc
>eat so much I get completely incapacitated in pain from severe constipation
> not kino memory

>>11895672
What retarded logic.

I liked it. One of the few games my sisters would play with me.

just do a 30 melon run then if it is so baby easy

Story is secretly better

island is so much more fun than island it's unbelievable. i was honestly shocked when i first came on /vr/ and discovered people like island and dislike story.

Yoshi turned gay with the release of Mario Kart 64.

>>11895647 (OP)
I remember renting this when I was 8 or 9 and thinking it was stupid and boring even then.

>>11895760
Compared to what? this is like star fox 64 where you can at the very least beat it in a few hours. Even if you don’t like it, it respects your time. Compared to something like ocarina of time or Mario 64 where I never finished either game because I would always lose interest, start a new game later to replay it, would lose interest, start a new game to replay it, etc.

Very disappointing game.

>>11895768
If an 8 year old started lecturing me about games not respecting my time id piss myself laughing.

>>11895768
Sounds like your ADHD problem

>>11895647 (OP)
It has a great visual style and the main controls of Yoshi feels fine. Its just that the levels are not that great. I also rather dont like most of the music in it.

>>11895768
You were a weird kid. I wanted my games to be huge experiences with a shit load of worlds and areas to explore.

>>11895783
This is, it's just you're expected to play the game through a few times to find everything.

>>11895768
>>11895783
both of you are right
when I was a kid, I loved oot
now I find it a little insufferable

>>11895783
Honestly I never have finished a Zelda or Mario game I find them to be boring franchises. they could have scaled down Mario 64 and OOT by 10 or 20% and streamlined it and it would have been better IMO. OOT just felt too large to be bothered to go everywhere and the world was not interesting. It’s just a very watered down interpretation of an old western fantasy world with none of the grit because it’s a Nintendo franchise. you can’t make something more generic than that if you tried too. even in 3rd grade I found it to be a boring world where everything looks boring and is boring. Mario 64 was a fun game in short bursts but for every few good levels there is some shit tier world you need to replay multiple times and if they cut like 10 or 20% of the worlds from that game it would probably improve it. Or they could have just spent a few more months on the game making better stages.

There are things that stand out that I liked about the games I can list but I didn’t find either one interesting enough to complete and I think a lot of it comes down to pacing. Both games have a good start but after a few hours they turn into a slog like walking through knee deep mud.

>>11895647 (OP)
>yet another thread shitting on the only good yoshi game
It's a fun little platformer to play for a couple of hours on a lazy evening with buttery controls, nice musix and cool pre-rendered graphics. The only reason anybody hates this game is because they were either A) retarded and thought it only had 6 levels, or B) because it's muh baby game, meanwhile the same crowd sucks off Yoshi's Island to no end even though it is, literally, a game about a baby.

>>11895820
The appeal of Zelda is the quirk if anything. It's a very Japanese and a very pleasant interpretation of Western fantasy.

>>11895898
>There's a baby involved so it.must be a baby game
Fyi shitting on something superior to try and prop something shitty up only makes people want to think even worse of it. FF8tards make the same mistake all the time.

>>11895908
My issue with Zelda games is there is no way to describe it without it sounding like 1000 other generic fantasy franchises. Because that’s what it is. there is nothing about it that is unique or interesting because the entire concept has been done over and over. They didn’t reinvent it or change anything. And even worse they just watered it down to make it as friendly and non threatening as possible. it’s just really boring. There are too many other places you can get the Zelda experience but better elsewhere. I have never understood how or why there is a die hard Zelda fan base. I don’t understand what the draw is or what the secret is to its success. It’s just guy in green pajamas with a used sword to fight monsters in his newest quest 2025 like it’s a fifa game.

It being watered down and friendly looking inherently isn’t even the problem. I like Kirby games. but whatever experience Zelda games are trying to give you are just better executed by other offerings.

>>11895647 (OP)
Both were babby games, its just that the follow up was vastly inferior.

>>11895949
This is because the original Legend of Zelda is the best game in the series and every subsequent game is progressively worse.

Weird level structure.

>>11895783
This is the difference between games as a kid and games as an adult
when you're a kid you want games to be as long as possible with as much content as possible
when you're adult it's better when games are short and sweet and endlessly replayable

>>11895970
>when you're a kid you want games to be as long as possible with as much content as possible
>when you're adult it's better when games are short and sweet and endlessly replayable
thats just your tastes vs someone elses tastes, are you actually dumb enough to think you speak for all children and adults?

>>11895683
Are you currently obese? Honest answer please

>>11895973
Fucking kek lmao I knew when I posted that someone would think that. out of all my friends I grew up with I am one of the only one that has ever been in good shape and still is. I have never been 5 pounds over weight. I just binge eat sometimes. I will eat clean for like 2 weeks but then eat an entire bag of candy like a bag of lifesavers or 20 cookies. I exercise multiple times a week.

>>11896016
>some fag on 4chan calls you fat
>respond with a detailed paragraph explanating why you aren't fat
newfaggot 28 year old reddit immigrant

>>11896021
I’ve been here since like 2007 but the first time I used the website was around 2005. I didn’t take it personally it made me laugh because when I wrote it even I thought it made me sound obese

>>11896026
I'm the anon who questioned your BMI. This is why I come to this gentleman's club of a website. Carry on.

>>11895647 (OP)
In a fake world made of cardboard and plastic.

>>11895702
Its not that hard. The worst part is “sniffing” everywhere for hidden melons. Not a good game mechanic.

>>11895672
I take it you never played the game then. Yoshi's Story was so dumbed down you only needed to beat a single level per world in order to advance to the next world. You could beat the game in 5 minutes with casual play, not even a speedrun.

>>11895647 (OP)
They were thinking "let's make a better game than Yoshi's Island". And they succeeded in doing that.

I wish Rare had done a DKC4 on the N64 in the style visual pre-rendered style.

>>11895647 (OP)
/vr/ hates this game? I always thought it was good although I haven't played since I was a child. I beat it a handful of times at least.

I actually like yoshi story. I like how it looks and its kind of fun.

>>11895647 (OP)
The sound and visuals are top notch for what they were trying to do and while I admit the core ganeplay of eating 30 fruits to immediately finish the level was suoer flawed In the end I was the target audience when it came out and it succeeded in appealing to me. Its no yoshis island but its still a great game.

>>11895914
partially true,
Final Fantasy 8 is good but I am partial to 9. I think the problem is how everyone online presents their opinions as facts

>>11895647 (OP)
Even as a kid I didn't like it. Yoshis Island was the first game I owned and was so disappointed in Story when I got an N64.

>>11895647 (OP)
I need to give this game a second chance because I must have been missing something. I mostly just did the bare minimum to advance. If I went for 100% it would be more interesting.

>>11895647 (OP)
>literal baby game
? This game is FAR more challenging than Super Mario Bros.

>>11895647 (OP)
They thought Rare was gonna do DKC4 on the N64 so they beat them to a punch; unfortunately for them, that wasn't what they had in mind.

>>11895672
N64fags everyone

>>11895768
Star Fox 64 is a home arcade game with multiplayer as a plus.
Yoshi's Story is the generational tax write off. All the work for it would have been put on a Wario Land game had Nintendo not obsess over the Virtual Boy/VR32.

>>11895898
>the only good yoshi game
N64 glazers are deranged

>>11895647 (OP)
The game that utterly ruined Yoshi's character design.

>>11896638
I rented and beat this game right away and it was to the point that I still remember how easy and short it was. I later read the mailbag in a game magazine and somebody wrote in with the same complaint. This is what made me start thinking about game length and paying attention to clear times, etc.

>>11895672
It’s a shame that the mods never enforce the “trolling outside of /b/“ rule.

>>11895709
do you wanna try that again

>>11895949
apart from the fact all of the Japaneseisms give it a completely different tone to actual Western fantasy, and there's also a very celtic tone about the whole thing.
Plus, you really do rarely see just straight forward fairy tale stuff anymore. Disney hasn't even made that stuff since like the 80's. I'm far more bored of D&D Elves and Dwarves at this point.

>>11896719
you only beat one path of it
there's like 26 levels and you only played 6 of them

>>11896648
N64 was worse than the previous Nintendo consoles. t. the guy you replied to.

I thought it was better paced than Snooze Island.

>>11897616
Doesn't justify your shit thesis.

>>11897817
There was no thesis, both games just suck and look/sound gay anyway, Story at least was somewhat more fun.

>>11895949
Like, that’s just your opinion man. Game is a 10/10

>>11897616
Eh, depends what you're looking for. It didn't have as big a library, but it had some really good games (especially for the time).
Mario Kart, F-Zero, and Pilot Wings matured into actual franchises I give a shit about, as opposed to boring Mode7 demos. First person shooters existed, and weren't just really weak ports of DOS games.
And OOT and MM are the best games ever made. No take backs.

>you have to play yoshis story with your penis and collect everything or it will suck
cope for shit game