Yoshi's Story

Yoshi's Story, released in Japan as Yoshi Story (ヨッシーストーリー Yosshī Sutōrī?), is a side-scrolling platform game, published and developed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released on December 21, 1997, in Japan; March 9, 1998, in North America; and May 10, 1998, in PAL regions. It was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console service in September/October 2007. It was also released on the Wii U Virtual Console in Japan on February 17, 2016, in North America on March 24, 2016, in Europe on April 14, 2016, and in Australia on April 15, 2016. This was the last home console Yoshi game released until Yoshi's Woolly World in 2015.

Known as the sequel to the SNES title Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the game continues within the platform genre, presenting gameplay similar to its predecessor. However, Yoshi's Story turns in a more puzzle-oriented direction, with the aspect of challenge being foremost tied to the achievement of a high score by strategic means. Taking place within a pop-up storybook, the game features vivid pre-rendered 3D graphics, illustrating worlds that are crafted from different materials, such as cardboard, fabrics, plastic, and wood.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Smooth gameplay.
 * 2) The Yoshis are very cute.
 * 3) Appealing, colorful, and lively graphics, especially by Nintendo 64 standards, as this game has clean textures, unique and creative backgrounds, extremely animated animations, and vibrant colors and also combines with 3D environments and even a 2D aesthetic.
 * 4) Simple yet nice story.
 * 5) This was Nintendo 64's follow up to Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, even the gameplay is similar.
 * 6) Awesome music.
 * 7) Easy and fluent controls.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The bosses are somewhat limited, bland, and too easy, in game, there are three different boss battles (four if counting the final boss), but in world 2, you can only fight one out of the three normal bosses and then the final boss, this means that the story mode only has two boss battles, which is a very odd design choice.
 * 2) The game is very short since passing a level sends you to the other world suddenly, and can be completed in around 45 minutes. The fact that the game is lacking in difficulty doesn't help matters either.