/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6707340
Happened to me with pic related. Not actually bought, but I rented it expecting it to be a Yoshi platformer. The game wasn't bad but not what I expected at all.
At least Yoshi's Island came out eventually, and I was pleased.

Thoughts on the Yoshi puzzle games?
My gf is super into Yoshi's Cookie, but I like Yoshi (aka Yoshi no tamago) better, but I have to play it alone.

No, this isn't a bad game. But I had a sort of bitter memory of renting this game, based solely on the cart label (it was a Famiclone cart, it just said "Yoshi", no mention of puzzle or anything like on the official box art).
I had played a bit of SMW on a friend's SNES and was anxious to own one. Since I was still stuck with a Famiclone, I fell for a few bootleg tricks. First was buying a copy of "Super Bros. 6", a Tiny Toon Adventure hack. Joke was on them because TTA is actually a great title, even though I was a bit disappointed it wasn't SMW.
Then I saw this game, and thought it might be a Yoshi spinoff game, I guess I was thinking of an 8-bit Yoshi's Island, when YI still didn't exist.
It was disappointing to find out it was a puzzle game. I remember playing it for a bit, but not much.
I played it much later again (Game Boy version) and it's very fun, the egg mechanic is fun. But yeah, not what I was expecting at the time.