Yoshi on the NES is a classic puzzle game, kind of like Tetris but with a cute Mario twist! Instead of blocks, you're matching up eggshells which is adorable. It's got catchy music and starts off easy, but difficulty ramps up fast, which can be frustrating. Honestly, it hasn't aged the best — there are better puzzlers out there, especially if you're into fast-paced action. But for nostalgia purposes or as a simple challenge, it's not a bad time!
Played this long enough to the point where if it were on Steam, I couldn't refund it. Of all of the Mario-themed puzzle games where it starts really hectic because there are a lot of things to clear at the start and you just kind of wait for RNG to give you the solution as the endgame of a given stage slows to an agonizing crawl... wow it's weird that they made three of them in just as many years, huh? But between this, Yoshi's Cookie, and Dr. Mario, this is certainly the worst of them. Forcing the game into a match-two system, solely vertically, takes out any sort of thrill from potential chains or strong building of anything; it's a purely reactive puzzler with a few moments at the start of rounds where you're shuffling around columns. If you are a fan of Mario's Puzzle Party from Mario Party 3, that will give you far greater depth for a match-two puzzler than Yoshi can give. There are moments where it's engaging, but you will either get past that in the first 20 seconds of a round or lose.
Oh so simple, but oh so effective. Seeing your stack of enemies approach the top of the screen, only for that fabled 'top egg' to appear... The satisfaction of watching the bastards get compressed down into an egg, and inexplicably
transformed into a Yoshi (with all the horror that mental image entails)... Brilliant.
The 3DS Virtual Console version having multiplayer was a stroke of genius - battles against friends were the stuff of legend in the Sixth Form common room.
transformed into a Yoshi (with all the horror that mental image entails)... Brilliant.
The 3DS Virtual Console version having multiplayer was a stroke of genius - battles against friends were the stuff of legend in the Sixth Form common room.