Life on Yoshi’s Island
That’s right, I’m featuring another DS game- kind of hard to tear me away from my favorite handheld. It’s Yoshi’s Island DS, which I started playing two days ago, and have become hooked on.
At first, I didn’t expect too much from this game. Sure, I’m a hardcore Mario-fan, but I was too enamored with New Super Mario Bros. to pay it much attention. Surely, I believed, an island populated by the Yoshis couldn’t be as much fun as the Mushroom Kingdom? Well, I was wrong. It’s a LOT of fun.
Yoshi’s Island DS is a side-scrolling platformer much like Super Mario Bros., but you control the Yoshis, who in turn carry around Baby Mario, Baby Princess Peach, Baby DK (that’s Donkey Kong!), Baby Wario, and Baby Bowser as they try to save Baby Luigi from the evil Kamek.
What I love love love about this game is that each of the babies have their own “special powers”- Baby Mario, for example, is the only one who can hit “M” blocks, only Peach can fly with her little pink umbrella, and so on. You can switch babies by visiting a “stork stop” (this is too cute), and Yoshi can also turn into special “vehicles”- like a helicopter to fly the skies.
The graphics are gloriously cute, as is the music. In fact, the whole game just screams cute- which, for a kawaii-loving girl like me, adds to its charm.
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