Of all the Super Mario Advance games to hit the Game Boy Advance, this game is the finest available. When I played through the original Super NES game back nearly a decade ago, I felt that Yoshi's Island was the best 2D platformer ever created. And after playing through the Game Boy Advance version, I still feel that way...the variety in what Yoshi can do and the diversity in level designs, not to mention the wonderful use of scaling and rotation for the level structures and the incorporation of a half-dozen clever mini-games makes Yoshi's Island the best damn platformer ever.
And why Nintendo insists in having the same dang Mario Bros. mode that's been included in the previous two Super Mario Advance games is just a mystery. And it's a huge disappointment to see, considering that Yoshi's Island features some great mini-games that would make some seriously fun two, three, or four player challenges. But nope...the only multiplayer game you get in Yoshi's Island is the identical multiplayer game that's been released twice before. It's almost insulting the way Nintendo's rehashing it again and again.
IGN Score: 9.4
Gamespot score: 9.2
Gamers.com user rating: 9.6
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