StreetsAhead
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He didn't say anything about being interested in them. He merely said that Sony had created a lot and asked what had Nintendo created.
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He didn't say anything about being interested in them. He merely said that Sony had created a lot and asked what had Nintendo created.
So many things about the video confuse me.
Any guesses as to what is pre-rendered and what is polygonal? At first I though Mario and Yoshi were pre-rendered but I just watched the video again in 720 and I'm pretty positive that they arebing rendered in real time. This is very hard to just from screen shots but I think the video is pretty conclusive.
Related to the above, any thoughts on how the game will present 3D/depth? This will obviously vary depending on what ends up being polygonal/pre-rendered.
Do we know who is developing this? I don't have access to Nintendo's press site so I don't know if this has been revealed yet.
Any guesses as to what is pre-rendered and what is polygonal? At first I though Mario and Yoshi were pre-rendered but I just watched the video again in 720 and I'm pretty positive that they arebing rendered in real time. This is very hard to just from screen shots but I think the video is pretty conclusive.
Related to the above, any thoughts on how the game will present 3D/depth? This will obviously vary depending on what ends up being polygonal/pre-rendered.
Do we know who is developing this? I don't have access to Nintendo's press site so I don't know if this has been revealed yet.
DeviousAngel
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Loving it. Can't wait for more info!
Bill Rizer
Member
OK, sprites are prerendered but don't look bad, furthermore even still being 2d, being prerendered they could easily retain a 3d look like we already saw as a very nice effect in NSMB2 backgrounds (2d but with 'pop' on rocks or other particulars). At least I hope so, if this is the case, this Yoshi could very well look amazing on actual 3ds.
Solid SOAP
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I really don't think it looks bad, Yoshi's face could just use a bit more character is all. The colors are less bright and more blended in, giving it a more pastel style, but I don't think that's a bad thing. There are some weird inconsistencies such as the Egg-block with a black outline, but it looks good overall. It just is pretty damn unoriginal considering the level tropes are exactly as they were in the original game, more of a remake/re-imagining than anything.
Hopefully the actual level designs go beyond what we saw in the first game. Nintendo always does little homages to iconic levels when they release a new platform game (I must have played through a version of SMB Stage 1-1 in 20 different games), hopefully that's all this is.
The new game still has that Yoshi feel it's just a slightly different style, I'm excited to see more. It is going to look great in 3D.
The new game still has that Yoshi feel it's just a slightly different style, I'm excited to see more. It is going to look great in 3D.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the way it looks. Nothing that turns me off -- it's all about how it plays now.
The art isn't as charming as the SNES's handdrawn style.
IMO I'd rather have this for Wii U. Give the 3DS Yarn Yoshi, since we'd already gotten one on a console (Kirby for Wii).
Still will get, Yoshi's Island is a classic. They NEED to figure a way to get that on VC, and not that GBA version either!
IMO I'd rather have this for Wii U. Give the 3DS Yarn Yoshi, since we'd already gotten one on a console (Kirby for Wii).
Still will get, Yoshi's Island is a classic. They NEED to figure a way to get that on VC, and not that GBA version either!
Shadowlink
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Updated the OP! Thanks!
hydragonwarrior
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Okay the giant egg thing looked badass.
I think they were going for the same style that was in the opening movie for SNES Yoshi's island.
I think they were going for the same style that was in the opening movie for SNES Yoshi's island.
eudaemonic
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One of the sounds that always stuck out with me in a Yoshi game was "thank you" from the Topsy Turvy game.
I really liked that game. It's usually is forgotten about though.
GBA version is superior version. 6 new levels. All the other stuff is just nitpicking to get reasons to hate the port.
StreetsAhead
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No worries.
I was thinking about this, and I really hope they decrease the crying somehow. It's unbearable to hear a baby cry.
Basically after a day and a half to sit on it, I think I'm not really a fan of the way the 3D character models are integrated with the 2D art. But the art itself, as well as the models (in a vacuum) are awesome. I'm excited for this. I hope it slips out this year, but I can wait if necessary.
My 3DS has enough on its plate in 2013 as it is!
My 3DS has enough on its plate in 2013 as it is!
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Fuck that shit. Those 6 levels are mediocre, and hardly justify the shitted up graphics and garbage sound quality.
shinobi602
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It looks good, but nowhere near as good as the original in my opinion.
mariachi507
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I think it looks great, but it is a problem how much the flower enemy blends into the background. With the way I play I would have ran straight into it.
I don't want to be the bearer of possible bad news but this is possibly important enough to warrant posting
Those who don't know me, I run arguably the foremost Pokémon website around and as such, I'm constantly checking certain avenues for news. We have often found new Pokémon names through trademarks, and more relevant to my point here, domain names.
The domain operators I follow have shown that the same company that purchases the Pokémon and Nintendo domains has registered the following
NewYoshisIsland.com
It may be nothing, we see domains get registered all the time but it could be a sign of the name. MarioandLuigiDreamTeamBros.com was also registered on the same day.
So yeah, discuss...
Those who don't know me, I run arguably the foremost Pokémon website around and as such, I'm constantly checking certain avenues for news. We have often found new Pokémon names through trademarks, and more relevant to my point here, domain names.
The domain operators I follow have shown that the same company that purchases the Pokémon and Nintendo domains has registered the following
NewYoshisIsland.com
It may be nothing, we see domains get registered all the time but it could be a sign of the name. MarioandLuigiDreamTeamBros.com was also registered on the same day.
So yeah, discuss...
Well it's basically because I know how much people complain about the New Super Mario Bros series so I fear the worst
Because of the reuse of assets (of a somewhat same-y artstyle) and music. Anybody who thinks the mechanics and level design isn't good in the series has no idea what he/she is talking about.
A new entry in the Yoshi's (Island) series is good news to me. It's only a name.
VGChampion
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I don't see the bad news either. I don't care what a games website is called and if that's an indication of actual name, that's fine by me. I don't have a problem with the "New" series besides the sequential games getting the same music.
MarcoZombieCannon
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I'm excited as heck for this! Yoshi's Island (along with ALttP) pretty much defined my childhood gaming years. I hope the music is good (DS' wasn't)
And they have a weird mix of 3D character models and sprites. Like the Question mark clouds are 3D, as well as the Piranha plants, but Yoshi is a sprite, and it looks like the shy guy and flower dude are sprites as well. It would be cool if they faked volume on the sprites (kind of like in Kid Icarus, the food specifically)
Edit: My view on the artstyle: It's kind of a halfway point between Yoshi's Story (I thought it looked horrendous) and the soft look that the story scenes in YI had. I like it, oddly enough.
And they have a weird mix of 3D character models and sprites. Like the Question mark clouds are 3D, as well as the Piranha plants, but Yoshi is a sprite, and it looks like the shy guy and flower dude are sprites as well. It would be cool if they faked volume on the sprites (kind of like in Kid Icarus, the food specifically)
Edit: My view on the artstyle: It's kind of a halfway point between Yoshi's Story (I thought it looked horrendous) and the soft look that the story scenes in YI had. I like it, oddly enough.
StreetsAhead
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Calling it New Yoshi's Island might actually help some disassociate it with the DS Yoshi games, if they didn't like it.
KojiKnight
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RIP Voiceless Yoshi.... I miss you.
Yoshi's Story was the worst thing to ever happen to Yoshi. It turned him from an intelligent dinosaur that could hold a conversation into some weird random noise maker.
Yoshi's Story was the worst thing to ever happen to Yoshi. It turned him from an intelligent dinosaur that could hold a conversation into some weird random noise maker.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Well with what came out after YS that's saying very little. That motion-controlled GBA game Artoon made looked awful, Touch & Go went for a blander 'clean' style and YIDS visually felt cobbled together from several different visually-distinctive games.
StreetsAhead
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The blood pressure that caused his massive eyes in the first games has moved to his feet.
KeeSomething
Banned
Agreed. This game is really ugly. I was so excited when I heard a third Yoshi's Island was announced, then I saw it....
Hopefully, this is just a really early beta version of the game.
KeeSomething
Banned
People don't like Super Mario Advance 3?! It's the best way to play Yoshi's Island!
KillerTravis
Banned
Agreed. This game is really ugly. I was so excited when I heard a third Yoshi's Island was announced, then I saw it....
Hopefully, this is just a really early beta version of the game.
And I will repeat what someone else said, where are these CDi games you are talking about?
TheUnknownForce
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It could very well be Arzest's first real game for Nintendo, and it makes some sense as some of the team did work on Yoshi's Island DS while at Artoon.
However, it could be done by NST, too, as Ninja said. There has to be a reason why Hirokazu Yasuhara (early Designer of Sonic series) is in NST, and it certainly should not be simply for Mario and DK for the eShop and tech stuff.
Rogue Agent
Banned
I like those flowers (or whatever they are) in the foreground. They look like paper cutouts. Sweet!
Yeah, the 2D stuff in the foreground, midground, and background look flat, but then the character models look rounded in they way they're shaded/designed. One or the other would be fine, but taken together, it just looks inconsistent.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I think that's where the CDi comparisons are coming from.
Of course this game looks nowhere bad as Hotel Mario, those Zelda games and what have you, but using 3D characters in 2D environments more often than not does give you this cheap, 'pasted-in' feeling that isn't too dissimilar to how a lot of CDi games had hilariously awful animation mixed with sprite work mixed with photograph/pre-rendered material. The NSMB games (though I guess U avoided this for the most part) and Sonic 4 suffered from this big time.
Zoramon089
Banned
Can some please show me these CDi games that this looks similar to? Because I have a feeling there aren't any
KeeSomething
Banned
It's not that it looks like a specific CDi game, but it has that CDi look, like how you can see a game and know whether it was a SNES or Genesis game based solely on its graphical presentation.
Or maybe not. Maybe my disappointment in the game not looking as pretty as the SNES or DS game is making me see things that aren't there. :/ Hey, it wouldn't be the first time I overreact. Ha ha ha!
StreetsAhead
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Considering this looks like an evolution of YIDS, I'm leaning toward Arzest. Plus, considering that Mr. Yasuhara has spent time at Naughty Dog in the interim, I have a hard time believing that this is their project. Just a hunch.
GoofsterStud
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I still think the game would look a lot better if the foreground moved at a different speed. >.>
Just seems like a huge downgrade form the SNES version. It's one of my favorite things.
Just seems like a huge downgrade form the SNES version. It's one of my favorite things.
Has anyone here actually seen the Zelda CDi games? They look incredible. The background art is literally the best of any Zelda game.
Of course there is Zelda's Adventure as well, which is a different story, and Yoshi is nowhere near that bad.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I wouldn't say 'incredible', but I think those shots tie-in nicely to my whole point where throwing in all these different art styles into one screen gives a cheap thrown-together look. The drawn landscapes are serviceable and even nice in some areas, but jesus those sprites. Not to mention whenever those hilarious awful animated cut-scenes pop up they're in a completely different style to the rest of the game. I think I may have confused Zelda's Adventure (that's the FMV one, right?) as being a part of the other CDi Zelda games though.