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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great game - but way too short, May 26, 2005
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
I love Yoshi! I remember playing Yoshi's Story quite a bit. The Yoshi Touch and Go is a great little game for quick playing - but it really is too short.
There are two basic modes. In the first mode, Baby Mario is floating downwards through the sky. He floats down in the top screen - and you see what is beneath him in the lower screen. You use the stylus to build a cloud stairway in essence for him to float down - aiming him at the coins, keeping him away from the enemies. You can draw cloud-circles around enemies to turn them into coins. It's a fairly short fall - only a few minutes - but it's fun to balance the enemy-circling and the slide-creating.
Once Mario is on the ground, he's in on essence a "runaway Yoshi" - a Yoshi that plows right, no matter what is in his way. If there's a ditch, he'll simply jump in! Yoshi isn't very bright :) Your job as the Fairy Guardian is to draw cloud bridges, cloud stairs, cloud ramps, etc. to make sure that Yoshi's path is safe. Again, you draw circles around the enemies, and now you also can point at items in the sky to shoot them down with eggs.
The game is a great deal of fun, and nicely non-violent for kids. You can replay the levels to work on your point count and try to get the highest score. But the problem is that this is literally all there is to the game. I'd love to have FAR more levels ... to have secret levels ... to have worlds you move between. Surely, for the price of the game, they could have given us far more to do! I feel like I'm playing the demo version of a real game, but that really is all there is TO the game.
So while I am thrilled with what I got, I really think they should have given us more. Once they got this cool engine designed, how hard could it have been to crank out 10 or 20 different worlds for us to go through, with different colors, themes, etc?
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun for children and adults, February 28, 2006
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm the father of a six year old. Both she and I love this game. I bought it primarily for her use since it seemed (and is) fairly tame and since the idea of (a) saving babies and (b) drawing clouds appealed to her. The interface is very intuitive and the approach (drawing clouds with your pen to guide baby mario to a soft landing before journying to find baby luigi) is imaginative and a superb use of the DS special features. The game play is thoroughly enjoyable for both six year olds and adults alike. The challenge is in besting you past scores and because the games are quick its ideal for the brief 15 minute game spurt in an otherwise hectic day. Highly recommended.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Once you TOUCH it you won't want to let it GO., April 6, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Yoshi Touch & Go is a highly original game that can't be duplicated on any other game system. It's a retro-themed game in the sense that there is no story, it's all about getting the highest score. Don't play this game expecing a Mario-esque experience. It's more like playing the same two Mario levels over and over again. That might sound more like torture than fun, but Nintendo has worked their magic on this title and I found myself addicted to it immediately.
The game starts off with Baby Mario falling from a stork flying in the sky. It is your job to draw paths of clouds to alter his decent; aiming for coins to gain points and trying to avoid the enimies flying by. You can also draw circles around enimies which captures them in bubbles that you can then fling up to Baby Mario to gain extra points. The combinations are endless and the more points you score, the faster and more agile the Yoshi that greets you once Baby Mario lands on the groud.
Once grounded, the gameplay changes to a side-scrolling environment. Yoshi automatically walks forward and it's your job to guide him past the dangers that await. Tapping Yoshi makes him jump, tap anywhere on the screen and Yoshi throws an egg to that spot, eliminating any enimies in it's path. You gain bonus points by making combos such as placing an bubble-trapped enemy in line of some coins and tossing an egg that destroys the enemy as well as collects the coins. The action can get very tense as the enemies, chasms and other obstacles keep coming in ever more intense waves.
The game keeps track of not only high scores, but the kind of Yoshi used to get them. This gives you great visual incentive to not only get the highest score, but to do it with the fastest, best Yoshi. Want to play with a friend? No problem. The game supports single cartridge network play as well.
This is a perfect game for people who like to play for short periods of time as well as those that like to play for longer periods. The controls are so intuative that inexperienced gamers will pick them up easily and won't feel left out yet the controls offer so many possibilities that more experienced gamers will be challenged as well. If you're looking for an exciting innovative game to keep you addicted for quite some time, you've got to pick up Yohi's Touch & Go.
Even my non-gaming boyfriend got into the game and has since begged me to let him play it more. I may have to get him his own DS so I can play myself!
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