Yoshi Topsy-Turvy
In Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, Yoshi Island has been turned into a picture book. Yoshi will not stand for this outlandish attempt at flattening his world, and he heads off on an adventure to return things back to their…
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy is a platform developed by Artoon, released 9 December 2004 on Game Boy Advance.
What Yoshi Topsy-Turvy is
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy is a platform game developed by Artoon and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Yoshi Topsy-Turvy, Yoshi Island has been turned into a picture book. Yoshi will not stand for this outlandish attempt at flattening his world, and he heads off on an adventure to return things back to their original state. To help in on his quest, a group of spirits who like to surprise people give Yoshi the ability to rotate the world to his liking. The big catch with Yoshi Topsy-Turvy is its use of a motion sensor, similar to the one set to be featured in the second Wario Ware GBA game. The game cartridge includes a built in motion sensor which detects how you move the GBA system. By turning the system, you make the world rotate. A meter on the upper right corner of the screen shows…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Yoshi series
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy is the 29th of 61 entries we hold in the Yoshi series. It arrived a year after Doubutsu no Mori e+: D06 - Design Card: Yoshi no Tamago. The next entry was Yoshi Touch & Go in 2005. Its critic score of 60 is 19 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island at 100.
How it was received
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Yoshi Topsy-Turvy launched on 9 December 2004, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Gran Turismo 4. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4.
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