Yoshi's New Island
Yoshi and Baby Mario are back in Yoshi's New Island, the third installment in the beloved franchise. The series' fun game-play mechanics such as Yoshi's Flutter Jump, Ground Pound and Egg Throw return, but now…
Yoshi's New Island is an adventure developed by Arzest, released 13 March 2014 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Yoshi's New Island is
Yoshi's New Island is an adventure game developed by Arzest and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Yoshi's New Island takes place immediately following the events of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, where a stork delivers twins Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to a couple in the Mushroom Kingdom assumed to be their parents. The opening of Yoshi's New Island reveals that the stork had delivered the babies to the wrong couple. The stork reclaims the babies and sets off to locate their real parents, but is ambushed by Kamek in mid-flight. Kamek captures the stork and Baby Luigi, but Baby Mario falls and reunites with the Yoshi clan on Egg Island, a floating island that was conquered by Baby Bowser. Baby Mario can telepathically sense Baby Luigi's location; the Yoshi clan agrees to escort Baby…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Yoshi's New Island is the 505th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was NES Remix 2 in 2014. Its critic score of 63 is 14 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Yoshi's New Island holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Yoshi's New Island launched on 13 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yoshi's New Island yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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