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Yoshi's Island DS - 1up.com review (Warning: Parish review)
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nincompoop
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Exactly, he's like the William Hung of video game reviewers. Who cares if he's a complete embarassment to your site, as long as people are talking about him!skip said:
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I have a question for the 1up dudes.
What do you think of the notion(many believe this) that reviewers judge games based on what they perceive the majority of gamers will think about them(the games) and not necessarily what they the reviewer thinks about them themselves??
Just going by this score from this guy on Yoshi's Island 2, it seems like at least he would scoff at this myth as he kind of went against the grain as far as how others see or would see this game but I wonder if this has any relevance in reviews at all. I would think it should be entirely what the reviewer thinks of the game but several people have said that it is common that the gaming public gets catered to when a game is scored.
What do you think of the notion(many believe this) that reviewers judge games based on what they perceive the majority of gamers will think about them(the games) and not necessarily what they the reviewer thinks about them themselves??
Just going by this score from this guy on Yoshi's Island 2, it seems like at least he would scoff at this myth as he kind of went against the grain as far as how others see or would see this game but I wonder if this has any relevance in reviews at all. I would think it should be entirely what the reviewer thinks of the game but several people have said that it is common that the gaming public gets catered to when a game is scored.
Yoshi's Island DS is fantastic. The graphics and music may not be as charming as the original, but everything else sure as hell is. Brilliant gameplay, with a slick difficulty curve and the type of hardcore gamer gameplay that DS actually needs. I'd personally give it a 9.0 - I like it more than New! Super Mario Bros., which I'd give like an 8.0.
Icanplaythat
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TheGreatMightyPoo
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Amir0x said:
Is the level design up to the brilliant standards set by the original??
I would have given NSMB a 9. There are certainly things I can knock it for like being too easy and short but it still had that oldschool Mario magic for me despite these shortcomings.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:
I don't know if it can be up to the standard of the orginal - it being one of the greatest games of all time - but it sure does a hell of a job trying. It truly IS a worthy successor, which is all I could ask for. I had soooo much doubt going in, I hold Yoshi Island to a ridiculous standard. That this lived up to it - and on DS, a system I'm always in conflict with - should tell you just how great it is. Do not miss this, no matter what any review tells you... much less one from Jeremy Parish.
TheGreatMightyPoo said:
The easy / short complaints don't really apply here. The game's levels are very very long with many challenges.
New SMB was a lot of fun, no doubt, but I was always conflicted about its 3d graphics. Although I agree YIDS looks less good than YI SNES, I definitely prefer it to NSMB on that level.
Tyrone Slothrop
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why do virtually none of the 1ups pages work? can somebody copy and paste some key points or something?
Don't know if I'd say it's better than NSMB just yet (in the middle of world 3 right now) but it definitely is awesome. The gap problem is a minimal one at best, and while the music is rather dull it doesn't ruin the experience at all. Easily an 8.5 in my book; probably higher.
I have no idea why but for some people (including me) 1up.com and gamevideos.com simply don't load at all for me whether I'm on IE or FireFox. The only way I can go to it is if I sign on to my parents AOL account, which is a pain in the ass. Again, I have no idea why this happens, but it seems to affect quite a few people on GAF.
Tyrone Slothrop said:
I have no idea why but for some people (including me) 1up.com and gamevideos.com simply don't load at all for me whether I'm on IE or FireFox. The only way I can go to it is if I sign on to my parents AOL account, which is a pain in the ass. Again, I have no idea why this happens, but it seems to affect quite a few people on GAF.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Yoshi's Island is my favorite platformer of all time and maybe my favorite game period.
This new game may not top it but it seems like you can mention it in the same breath as the original without cringing and/or laughing and this speaks volumes to its quality.
I wonder if Nintendo worked closely with Artoon on it. Even if they supervised the project, credit must be given where it is deserved and Artoon seems to have really brought it home with this game.
A little ways back, it seemed like it might be average at best. Now it seems like one of the best games of the year.
Impressive.
This new game may not top it but it seems like you can mention it in the same breath as the original without cringing and/or laughing and this speaks volumes to its quality.
I wonder if Nintendo worked closely with Artoon on it. Even if they supervised the project, credit must be given where it is deserved and Artoon seems to have really brought it home with this game.
A little ways back, it seemed like it might be average at best. Now it seems like one of the best games of the year.
Impressive.
Tyrone Slothrop
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at least they changed the name from YI"2" to "DS"
that would be like naming that ewok movie star wars episode VII.
(maybe not that extreme, but whatever)
that would be like naming that ewok movie star wars episode VII.
(maybe not that extreme, but whatever)
VultureDude
Member
Roi said:
anyone else find this comment inherently funny? It's not like anyone is lying :lol
obviously one person just loved the game more than the other... not like that isn't uncommon amongst neoGAFfers... or me any my friends for that matter...
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
another very poorly written review from 1UP - wtf, sort your act out.
Phobophile
A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
drohne said:
Next up: Kid Icarus and the Kharybdis Excursion
mr_sockochris
Member
No surprise here, they did nothing but whine about pathetic little things on last week's 1up show. The review is the sort of crap I've come to expect from 1up reviews to be honest, completely uninformative and packed with filler paragraphs to make it look like they put some effort into it when really there's bearly more than a couple of hundred words that actually tell you anything useful. A review does not need to be long to be good, IGN prove that with their 3+ page reviews sometimes, but at least they're informative.
Phobophile
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Ravager61 said:
I hope that wasn't out of bad taste.
Souldriver
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I know everybody has different preferences en different opinions, but when you give a game like Yoshi Island 2 a score of 6.5, people will see that as *teh official opinion of the 1up-crew*. I know the 1up guys explained in the latest podcast that the review is just and only the opinion of that one reviewer, nothing more or less, but by saying that it totally trashes the credibility of the rating system in my opinion. Just try to find a good compromise (let different people review it and take the average) to give games scores instead of relying on one person who (hypothetically) by default hates platformers and automatically rates such games lower. But because reviewing games is time consuming this isn't a possibility, which draws me to the conclusion: drop the rating alltogether and just keep it at the text of the review itself, which gives a lot more opportunities for nuances.
Or people should just stop caring to much about reviews, but we all now that's asking too much...
Or people should just stop caring to much about reviews, but we all now that's asking too much...