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TMK Stuff => Latest News => Topic started by: Deezer on January 10, 2014, 12:22:45 PM
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Yoshi's New Island (http://themushroomkingdom.net/games/yni) will launch in North America on March 14, Nintendo of America announced today in a press release. Arzest is developing the game, which will be the third in the "Yoshi's Island" series.
Link: NOA press release (http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=41129)
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Oh, yeah. Which platform will it run on?
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3DS.
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Arzest is developing the game
I'd never heard of Arzest before, so I looked them up.
It was formed on June 25, 2010 by key members of Artoon
But what's this Artoon you speak of, Wikipedia?
Games developed by Artoon
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-Yoshi's Island DS
Well, there go my expectations for this game.
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Yeah.. I don't know why Nintendo allowed them to make another one, after the travesty that is YIDS.
YI should be on consoles anyway, not handhelds.
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It never stops bothering me that a game which used to basically be Miyamoto's statement about imaginative, visually-unique games triumphing over prerendered drek has been farmed out and recycled at least twice in the last five years.
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Unless that statement was actually sensationalized bullhonk (http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/9856).
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Wii Play: Motion (Wii)
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Nintendo 3DS) - Additional new features
Time Travelers (3DS, PSP, Vita) - Character models
Yoshi's New Island (Nintendo 3DS)
Well, at least two of those are actual games. Time Travelers is a choose-your-own-adventure story on cartridge.
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Unless that statement was actually sensationalized bullhonk (http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/9856).
That's the hypothesis that seems the most likely to me. The translation (quoted on page #2 of that thread) has some rather obvious errors.
That makes me wonder, though... Could Yoshiaki Koizumi's infamous statement of "DKC characters aren't fresh enough so that's why we didn't include them in Jungle Beat" similarly be tabloid hokum? The site that translated the interview (NSider) is apparently not very reliable.... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Sources/Archive_4#N-Sider_as_situational_source)
It never stops bothering me that a game which used to basically be Miyamoto's statement about imaginative, visually-unique games triumphing over prerendered drek has been farmed out and recycled at least twice in the last five years.
To the people that made Vampire Rain, at that.
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If that Jungle Beat interview was actually mistranslated, then that means DKVine may have gone through about 2-3 years of feeling insulted for nothing.
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Upon looking at today's screenshot update, I am slightly more impressed with the game. They're screaming "Snes YI inspired level design" at me, and that is a good thing.
I still don't like how the game looks (particularly Yoshi..and everything in the foreground), but I am willing to play a demo now, at least.
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If they try to be more SNES-inspired, they might put Mini-Battles and Poochy in that!
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The reviews are in.
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F25.media.tumblr.com%2F73c1cd00bf17dd08739e7c401df6f061%2Ftumblr_mfmjayKP5h1rrftcdo1_250.png&hash=3206986ab2a51e1d5a7f065e65c80455)
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The final box battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5DlHTio2E) is a microcosm of all of Nintendo's recent issue with badstalgia. And lol[wtd] @ the ending.
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Most reviews claim it's decent. Most that gave it a 5 have 5 as their average game. IGN gave it a 7.8.
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..."box" battle?
Edit: Also, Baby Bowser seems to have be redesigned to look exactly like Bowser Jr....again. After he was unredesigned to look like regular Baby Bowser again in Yoshi's Island DS. Can they just not make up their minds?
Edit 2: Also also, Artoon/Arzest really has a thing for sudden time-traveling Bowser, it seems.
Edit 3: So uh, walking pipe dude was really a time-traveling Mario all along? I guess that's kinda new. Makes me sad such an idea was wasted on such a lazy game.
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A new nostalgia-baiting Nintendo game is mediocre? Shock of shocks.
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Almost as preposterous as a subpar Paper Mario.
EDIT: Started playing. Certainly not at the standard of the original YI, but a vast improvement over YIDS. Anyone else notice a delay as Yoshi prepares an egg to throw?
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I don't think anyone at Nintendo really knows what to do with Yoshi.
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Neither does anyone at Arzest, it turns out.
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They know what not to do with him.
And do it.
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Apparently "make a game that doesn't suck" never crossed their minds. :V
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I think the game is trying to be too much like older games while adding some new game mechanics that ultimately work against it, resulting in a mess of something that ends up with some parts being too different from the original to be liked and some parts being too similar to be liked.
See also: Sonic 4
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The music tracks that aren't merely an unimaginative arrangement of the same boring tune sound (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AB1p6wpaY) like (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vo3RG5i4WY) a (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsphCdhmt7Q) baboon mating ritual.
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I think they confused the definitions of "whimsical" and "infantile". Reminds me of this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJvHrx1X-Gk) [language warning if you have annotations on].
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Someone motivate me to progress beyond World 2.
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FINISH OR SSB4 IS CANCELED
Source: Dad is Nintendo (http://i.imgur.com/mCbMIpE.png)
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I-I doubt SSB4 was going to be that good anyway...
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Beating Yoshi's New Island will increase your chances of getting laid by 2%.
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The final boss is the guy playing the kazoo.
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Beating Yoshi's New Island will increase your chances of getting laid by 2%.
Bringing my chances up to... -98%.
The final boss is the guy playing the kazoo.
IT'S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG
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The final box battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5DlHTio2E) is a microcosm of all of Nintendo's recent issue with badstalgia. And lol[wtd] @ the ending.
You can't have that battle without the amazing music! You just...can't!
I saw it streamed on Vinesauce, actually. The game looks decent, I would probably be entertained by it. Compared to Yoshi's Island SNES, though, I can definitely see why everyone seems so disappointed.
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Someone's trying to fix the music. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4C4c1jKaE) I hope they don't go insane from having to listen to all the music in the game multiple times.
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This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbKxCgr6dXw) fix is more consequential.
At first I thought the whole thing was going to be silence and I grinned.