Yoshi’s New Island is a skewed dream version of the original (review)

Nintendo has never made a game in the exact same style as Super Mario World. It doesn’t seem like it ever will … so it’s weird that it keeps trying to do that with Yoshi’s Island.

The company is releasing the old-school platformer Yoshi’s New Island for 3DS today. It looks and plays almost exactly like its Super Nintendo predecessor, only it uses 3D graphics instead of the hand-drawn visuals we saw back in 1995. This isn’t the first sequel to the original Yoshi’s Island. Nintendo released Yoshi’s Story for Nintendo 64 in 1998, which was more of a followup, and Yoshi’s Island DS, a direct sequel, in 2006.