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 Yoshi's Story is the 2nd game in the Yoshi series that sees players directly taking control of everyone's favourite green dinosaur. Released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64 , developed by Nintendo EAD and published by Nintendo. The story of the game is, ironically, very simple. The island that the Yoshi's live on (a "Yoshi's Island", if you will) has been turned into a story book by Baby Bowser who has also stolen The Super Happy Tree, the source of all happiness on the island. Luckily some Yoshi's that were unhatched before their island was turned into a pop-up book are born into the world and are not effected by the appearance of their surroundings because this is all they have known since birth and it is likely going to be really weird for them when everything goes back to normal. Yoshi's Story has always felt a bit like a sleeper hit or a cult classic or whatever you want to call a piece of media that didn't get the recognition you think it deserved at the time. It came out in the same year that saw the release of Banjo-Kazooie, Ocarina of Time and F-Zero X to name a few of the bigger titles that would accompany it on the system within the span of a few months. Though despite being released fairly early in the year it never seemed to garner much attention. Though it's predecessor, Yoshi's Island, is often talked about and almost revered by some, I don't often see its quite frankly ridiculously adorable follow up talked about very much, and have yet to see a long thinkpiece about the psychology of Yoshi's Story. Though admittedly I have yet to see a similar article about Yoshi's Island either but I'm sure it exists somewhere. The absence of an incessant baby's cry, lovingly rendered by the Super FX Chip, every time you took damage was a welcome addition to this game, and the most recent addition to the series, Yoshi's Wooly World, feels more like it's paying homage to this game than Yoshi's Island which Nintendo have attempted to re-capture the magic of twice and neither attempt went very well in my opinion. Regardless of the highly subjective topic of what does or does not improve a game however, I'm not here to try and pit Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story against each other, honestly I love both games but I have a lot more familiarity with the latter and think it would be nice to shine the spotlight on one of the lesser talked about Yoshi games. In summary: Nobody talks about this game and that's criminal because it's super fun and adorable, So me and my good buddy Gertrude Perkins are gonna make some videos together that you can watch. thank you. Videos! Yoshi's Story: Intro - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 1: Beginning Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 2: Beginning Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 3: Cavern Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 4: Cavern Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 5: Summit Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 6: Summit Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 7: Jungle Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 8: Jungle Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 9: Ocean Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 10: Ocean Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Yoshi's Story Part 11: Finale Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy] Dex01 fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Update! The Yoshi's have conquered their first hurdles and head underground in their continued search for The Super Happy Tree! It's dark and scary but Yoshi's are brave and strong also we find a Hidden Secret! Yoshi's Story Part 3: Cavern Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Feb 3, 2017 00:09
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Update! The Yoshi's head depper into the Cavern and finally make it out safely! Also we say the phrase Game Theory at least twice and are not even slightly sorry about it Yoshi's Story Part 4: Cavern Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Feb 22, 2017 19:31
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Update! The Yoshi's head into the clouds, now accompanied by a 7th extra Yoshi! Wow! We face off against a couple of bosses and make some jokes about Denim Yoshi's Story Part 5: Summit Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Mar 1, 2017 18:38
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Update! The Yoshi's make their way off the Summit! We do a poor job of remembering what any enemy in a Yoshi game is called and one of the bosses shouts his OKCupid profile at us. Yoshi's Story Part 6: Summit Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Mar 10, 2017 13:43
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Update! The Yoshi's venture into the Jungle where the music is strange and Big Bertha is now called: "Blurp" Yoshi's Story Part 7: Jungle Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Mar 17, 2017 21:49
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Update! We finish off the latter half of the Jungle which is full of flying Piranha Plants that chew you up and spit you out, Neurons, and a sudden realisation of why I disliked this world so much Yoshi's Story Part 8: Jungle Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Mar 22, 2017 22:44
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Update! We head to The Ocean and witness something incredible: Swimming levels from a late 90s platformer that aren't awful! Yoshi's Story Part 9: Ocean Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Mar 28, 2017 11:35
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Update! We finish off the last of the Ocean levels which strangely take place on dry land but there is a pirate ship so that makes it OK Yoshi's Story Part 10: Ocean Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Apr 6, 2017 18:49
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Update! This video shows that I have the capacity to be a Speed Runner but also that neither of us remember how many SNES games used Mode 7 Yoshi's Story Part 11: Finale Levels 1 & 2 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Apr 13, 2017 16:49
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Update! And so our journey comes to a close as we take on Baby Bowser and bring peace to all Yoshi's but not before Gertrude unleashes the Pun Eggstravaganza Yoshi's Story Part 12: Finale Levels 3 & 4 - [YouTube]/[Polsy]
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Apr 26, 2017 17:03
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