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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Yoshi's Island
Yoshi's Island (Super Mario World 2) box art.jpg
Developer(s) Nintendo EAD
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Takashi Tezuka
Toshihiko Nakago
Shigefumi Hino
Hideki Konno
Producer(s) Shigeru Miyamoto
Composer(s) Koji Kondo
Series Super Mario
Yoshi
Platform(s) Super NES, Game Boy Advance
Release date(s)
  • JP: August 5, 1995
  • NA: October 4, 1995
  • EU: October 6, 1995
Genre(s) Platformer
Mode(s) Single-player
Aggregate score
Aggregator Score
Metacritic GBA: 91/100
Review scores
Publication Score
AllGame SNES: 4.5/5 stars
GBA: 4/5 stars
Edge GBA: 8/10
SNES: 9/10
Eurogamer GBA: 9/10
GameFan SNES: 100, 99, 100
GameSpot GBA: 9.2/10
IGN GBA: 9.4/10
Nintendo Life GBA: 9/10
SNES: 10/10
Next Generation SNES: 5/5 stars

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a 1995 platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Acting as a prequel to Super Mario World, the game casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through 48 levels in order to reunite him with his brother Luigi, who had been kidnapped by Baby Bowser's minions. As a Super Mario series platformer, Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items. In a style new to the series, the game has a hand-drawn aesthetic and is the first to have Yoshi as its main character. The game introduces his signature abilities to flutter jump, produce eggs from swallowed enemies, and transform into vehicles. It also features 2D graphics with Linear transformations (similar to Super Mario World).

The game's hand-drawn aesthetic—a style new to the series—descends from producer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's distaste for the computer pre-rendered graphics of the game's contemporary Donkey Kong Country. Yoshi's Island was released in Japan in August 5, 1995, and worldwide two months later. Some of its special effects were powered by a new Super FX2 microchip. The game was rereleased for the Game Boy Advance with few changes in 2002 under the title Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3. Nintendo later released this version via the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console.


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