Read that thread about that 1-hour footage. Bunch of people trashing the game without playing it. Also somehow rewriting history and making games that never were a challenge hard.
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Yoshi's New Island | OT | Is you is or is you ain't my Baby (Mario)
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Read that thread about that 1-hour footage. Bunch of people trashing the game without playing it. Also somehow rewriting history and making games that never were a challenge hard.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Who's claiming that? I'm asking my fellow reviewers: Which button is the run button? I can't find any run button and I don't feel the need for one yet, but as a Sonic fan I of course like speed ^^.
Benzychenz
Member
Every time I see the box art and official art I want to buy this, but then I remember the game doesn't look like that.
Is that a false tooth or something? So shiny.I really like this screenshot, hope most of the game looks like this.
It might be. You might have to knock it out in order to make him re-submerge into the water.
Platy mentioned this. If it's not true I'll gladly remove it.
Gamespot's preview.
I know I've not been this game's biggest fan lately, but I don't really think people come to preview videos to hear someone vent out their frustrations on how modern Nintendo is nothing but rehashes.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Funny that he's complaining you can't be sure which walls are solid, while walking into a wall that's clearly marked as not solid.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Did you like it for its gameplay mechanics and collection-oriented-level design at a reasonable degree of difficulty or for its fresh looks and charming music?
You sure about that? From the way Yoshi just sort of edges forward during that part, I imagine the player is only pushing on the circle pad lightly.
Ah ha. Thank you! I edited the OP.
MisterHero
Super Member
Retcon of the century if that story is true. Poor Mario babies. 
ShadowElliot
Banned
I love the title, reminds me of when Tom sang that song in Tom & Jerry, haha.
I'm sorta-maybe kinda waiting to get this game. I usually like the games Nintendo comes out with, but with the music and videos, it doesn't do it justice. Hopefully Nintendo World will have demos of it when the game is out...
I'm sorta-maybe kinda waiting to get this game. I usually like the games Nintendo comes out with, but with the music and videos, it doesn't do it justice. Hopefully Nintendo World will have demos of it when the game is out...
CharminUltra
Member
I dunno how I feel about this game. I think I'll wait for a friend to buy it first so I can try it
Pea-ness
It's... not even suggestive. It's a genuine dong. Since when do peapods have a cockhead.
With all due respect, when you've played thousands of games in your life, you can pick up a lot about the tone/mechanics/direction of a game from a video.
We're not idiots here.
I'll be happy to find out this game is awesome though.
I think I'll go ahead and get this. I really like how this game looks. I haven't seen the full hour video and I'm crazy not to. I mean, I should check out what's making people say "terrible music, terrible level design, terrible EVERYTHING" but me, man, I'm crazy.
I've been debating whether to use my Best Buy certs on this or not but I might as well. I can get the game free this way. Gotta print them out.
I've been debating whether to use my Best Buy certs on this or not but I might as well. I can get the game free this way. Gotta print them out.
Idiots or not here, it does not guarantee what u think is 100% correct here. We had seen many other games which actually does not deliver even when the first preview is good here.
Sonic Lost World? The first preview makes everyone said the time for Sonic to beat Mario has come. And what did we get? A mediocore sonic game here.
Remember Total War? Boy man we are hyped for that one too right? What did we get? Ohhhhhh boy. Ship can pass through desert kind of game. Enemy A.I playing running in circle game?
How about Alien Colonial Marines then? Gearbox quality I guess?
(Boy o boy. I can only remember Sega as example lol.)
Meanwhile we already see the opposite to ever happen here.
Remember the backlash Mario 3D World get? Remember the backlash of Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze?
I guess due us being so smart, we already know for sure that those games are going to be so bad that Nintendo is doomed.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Just got my copy of Edge Magazine, oh dear they didn't like it at all
Got a 4 for anyone interested
Seems about right from the footage Ive seen.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Just got my copy of Edge Magazine, oh dear they didn't like it at all
Got a 4 for anyone interested
What did they complain about? 4/10 seems extradordinarilly harsh.
No one thought 3D World or DK would be bad. No one. The backlash was disappointment at the direction that both series had taken. Basically that 3D World was much less ambitious than Galaxy, and a safe sequel to 3D Land. Which is exactly what it proved to be. And that Retro had made a safe sequel to DKCR, which didn't really need one, rather than doing something fresh and new.
That 'backlash' was entirely deserved, and the fact that both games were excellent - as expected - doesn't change that.
Okay, let's see. I can't talk for Total War, but if I recall, people were outright lied to with Colonial Marines, being shown footage that the final game was severely different to. Sonic turned out mediocre because of the controls and some of the later level design being messy, neither of which are concerns with New Island. Plus I think games that looked good and turned out bad aren't really comparable situations to games that looked bad and turned out good.
Super Mario 3D World was only doubted from the initial reveal. As soon as Nintendo showed that October direct, everyone became excited for it, and people were thinking it'd be fantastic during the weeks before its launch. We're what, 3 days away from the New Island launch? And Nintendo still haven't made the game look any more exciting than its initial reveal.
Donkey Kong looked great from the first trailer. The backlash from that came from the fact that people wanted Metroid or a new IP out of Retro. I, and many others who were up for more Donk, thought it would be good, and as more footage came out and more people accepted that this is the game we were getting, the hype grew. Plus there was the incredible soundtrack, which I will happily eat my laptop if New Island manages to top.
Plus, it's not exactly like people don't want to be proven wrong. When I get this game, I'll be thrilled if I get past the third world and it gets crazy good.
To sum up...
- Unresponsive controls
- Poor level design
- Anachronistic checkpointing
- Lack of anything 'new'
- Very poor use of 3D
- 'Horrid' music
cascardian
Member
Do keep us updated, please. The one hour of footage that was released did not exactly do the game any favours.
Beelzebufo
Banned
I don't care about 3D and can't speak to the controls, but if I had to make a list about why I'm hesitant to buy it based on the footage I've seen, this would basically be it.
Retcon of the century if that story is true. Poor Mario babies.
It is kind of a strange retcon considering how heartwarming the ending of the original game was.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Not they too, if certain games journalists have their way, we will soon end up with games that place checkpoints every two seconds. Rayman Legends was already dangerously close to that :/. Really surprised to read "unresponsive controls, too, regarding the other points, I guess you could always discuss it and find ways of looking at things that can justify the statement (easily so for the music, which really is - as everyone can see by the videos - bland), but these two points really confuse me. I'm very sensitive to controls and if they don't immediately react to what I'm pressing, I'm raging. No rage in YI3 though, not at Gamescom, not in the preview phase and I probably can't say much about the review phase here, but let's just say, why would the controls change after the preview phase with the final product.
Velcro Fly
Member
They aren't the first to say the controls are unresponsive. GameXplain said the same thing about the gyro controls.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Bigger budget, more talented developers in the art team, no restrictions due to use of 3D, difference of taste?
Just got my copy of Edge Magazine, oh dear they didn't like it at all
Got a 4 for anyone interested
Thanks for the info!
For reference, Yoshi's Island DS per Edge:
NSLU:
NES Remix:
Lego City Undercover:
They gave Wario: Master of Disguise, widely considered a quite poor game, a 4/10.
Yoshi's New Island would be one of their lowest-scoring reviews for a Nintendo game in recent memory.
TL;DR you may not always agree with Edge's reviews. FWIW I expect Nintendo Life's review to be an 8/10 if I had to predict. I usually find them pretty reliable to my own tastes.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Just as it was in Yoshi's Island.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Yes, it's exactly the same.
I wonder, what kind of checkpoint system Edge envisions, I consider 1-2 checkpoints per level appropiate for levels of a size comparable to the first Yoshi's Island.
Brainiac 8
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The_Darkest_Red
Member
Why does Nintendo continue to refuse to give this series the treatment it deserves?