What an inventive little platformer let me tell you. Yoshi's Island (or, if you wanna be complex: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island) is a game that even having the implication of being a sort of continuation to the critically acclaimed Super Mario World, these two share nothing in common when it comes to gameplay, looks, level design philosophies and a billion other aspects. In fact, I feel like this is kinda what Super Mario World should've been to differ from other classic Mario platformers and to break the norm. The art style is just that good.

It not only plays very smoothly, it just looks and sounds so awesome. This game is full of charm from the start to the end, and it is really a shame this type of platformer were only limited to a course of really okay-ish games that followed, the gameplay feels refreshing and there's a bunch of new cool enemy designs and some cool level mechanics. Music is great too, although a bit overplayed and not really fitting of some levels in my opinion.

The only real issue I've had with this one is that some levels in the latter half, and levels in general tend to overstay their welcome and become too long and can be numbing to repeat some sections if you die from spikes that insta-kill you, fall to the void or make the Shy Guys take the baby away. Truly a shame, because this is the one game where I feel like short and sweet levels would've been just great, not only for first-time players but specially for people looking to complete the game in its entirety, something I really never dug deeper because I admit that the collectibles in this game are kinda sucky and getting them is sometimes a bit of a hassle, but that's pretty much it.

Yoshi's Island is probably among the best SNES platformers and for a good reason, really had a blast playing this as my first time. :)