/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2172534
Nah, I don't just mean the art style. Yoshi's Island's art style is actually really good.

I mean that Yoshi's Island was more like his property in Super Mario World. He's got a house, he's got a mail box (implying the island is developed enough for a postal system) he's got signs all about. There are bridges and Ladders, switch boxes and stuff, and this all appears to be the work of the Yoshis, since the Koopas have only very recently invaded. In Yoshi's Island, he just lives in a jungle like a dumb wild animal.

But even then he wasn't as lobotomized as he was in Yoshi's Story and beyond
I'd argue that his last good appearance was in Super Mario 64.

>>2172568
It'd be hard to make the squat cute little designs look good with low-poly, low-res hardware of the past. But today? It would work just fine. Just look at the mini forms in 3D World, and the smallness way more exaggerated than the older 2D designs in that.
Not that I'm complaining, the designs look fine as they are, I simply prefer the older ones.