Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Super Mario Advance 3 is a GBA remake for the SNES with the dinosaur Yoshi and his friends as main characters carrying Baby Mario and Luigi on their back. Super Mario Advance is a four-part series for the GBA…
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is an adventure developed by Nintendo, released 24 September 2002 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
What Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is an adventure game developed by Nintendo and released in 2002. It was published by iQue. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a 1995 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The player controls Yoshi dinosaurs on their quest to reunite baby Mario with his brother Luigi, who has been kidnapped by the wizard Kamek. Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of each level while solving puzzles and collecting items with Mario's help.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Mario series
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is the 266th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Party 4 in 2002. Its critic score of 90 is 13 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 50 votes.
What it launched against
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 launched on 24 September 2002, within three weeks of Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Battlefield 1942, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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