A prequel to the Mario franchise, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island casts players as Yoshi as he escorts Baby Mario through nearly 50 levels in order to reunite him with his brother Luigi, who had been kidnapped by Baby Bowser's minions. Yoshi runs and jumps to reach the end of the level while solving puzzles and collecting items. Each level casts players as a different colored Yoshi, who must escort Baby Mario on his back and reach the end of the level, where he is passed on to the next Yoshi.

In a style new to the series, the game has a hand-drawn aesthetic. This aesthetic descends from producer and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto's distaste for the computer pre-rendered graphics of the game's contemporary Donkey Kong Country. The game is the first to have Yoshi as its main character and introduces his signature abilities to flutter jump, produce eggs from swallowed enemies, and transform into vehicles.

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Alternative Titles

Super Mario: Yoshi Island, スーパーマリオ ヨッシーアイランド

Platform

Nintendo Super NES

Developer(s)

Nintendo EAD

Publishers(s)

Nintendo

Genres(s)

Platformer

NA Release Date

October 4, 1995

JP Release Date

August 5, 1995

EU Release Date

January 5, 1996

AUS Release Date

October 25, 1995

ESRB Rating

Everyone

MVGL User Score

8.4 by 824 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

2.0000

Composer(s)

Koji Kondo

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1264 User(s)

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