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Not animation and decompression exclusively, no. I think they used it intelligently across different facets of the game. What's the point of having a technology and using it only for one part of a game? I look at it like having more RAM/bandwidth to work with.
Well as you can see the result is still S3&K, its just kinda of obvious that a Sega game will be most voted for on a Sega website (especially being a Sonic game), but I am glad to see it's a little bit more of a variety of votes....
And that's absolutely fine, as long as majority opinion doesn't influence the individual's opinion of a game. I say play all three back to back!
I went with S3K, I thought about it for a while, and whilst I think Yoshi's Island is the best designed game on the list, I gave it to S3K because the theme, and style simply fit me better, I like the Saturday morning cartoon feel of S3K over the cutesy, happy stuff in Yoshi's Island.
If it had been any other Sonic game on the list, or if Sonic 3, or Sonic and Knuckles had been separate I would've gone with Yoshi's Island in a second without needing much thought (in fact Donkey Kong Country would possibly take 2nd too in this scenario, though Sonic 3, standalone would be tough competition for it so I'm not certain)
What's funny is that Yoshi's Island feels more like a Saturday morning cartoon to me. Nothing wrong with Sonic 3/K, I love them both equally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thenewguy
As far as DKC goes, DKC2 is where it's at IMHO.
Well, maybe you have different stuff played on Saturday morning in the US, I would say my Saturday mornings as a kid here in the UK were filled with cartoons which generally had action plotlines and a small amount of peril (in fact I think there may well have been a Sonic cartoon on Saturday morning, but I'm going back very far so I'm not sure), over here I don't think stuff for very small children tended to be shown on Saturday morning, of course there's a possibility that I simply avoided it due to my interests I guess, like I said its going back too far for me to remember, these days we have CBeebies for that sort of stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by NostalgicMachine
In Yoshi's island, The Super FX-2 chip is used for sprite scaling/rotation and a couple of polygonal effects. Remember, the SNES itself can only scale a single background under extremely particular conditions, actual sprite scaling is something it can't do (while the Game Boy Advance can). I do think the SFX-1 chip would probably have been enough for the game, though.
I was JUST going to come into this thread and talk about scaling effects! The rotating platforms, falling walls; the PAUSE menu is a great example.
Going back to the OP where Super Mario Bros. 2 is mentioned; there's so much reference to this game in Yoshi's Island, it's kind of funny. The Shy Guy enemies, some of the sound effects, and some of the pipes take you into similar "vase" style "rooms" with platforms and enemies. Also, I feel like some of this game may have rubbed off on the New Super Mario Bros. series.
I like the fact that the special chip in YI2 didn't feel as wasted as it did in some games like MegaMan X3 or Seta's F-1 ROC 2.
old man, what do you think of Golden Yoshi's hacks? (SMW2+ and SMW2+2). I've been plugging through the first and it's opulent, typically of hacks, but pretty faithful in overall feel, which is highly atypical of hacks. These are thorough level hacks, not sprites or some trivial garbage.
Uhhhhmmmm, completely different "special chip".
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Originally Posted by old man
If you got a copy, I advise giving Yoshi's Island another shot. I couldn't stop playing last night and made it through several worlds; it's actually a lot more fun trying to get 100% in all the levels than you'd think. With no time limit other than when you lose Baby Mario, it encourage exploration and the controls start to become second nature (they are already super easy, IMO). I think Yoshi's Island, for all it's stigma, is a shining example of how Nintendo wraps genius, simple and addicting gameplay under a deceptively child-like exterior.
There's even an article called, "Why “Yoshi’s Island” should be studied at game design schools"
You can read about here.
http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012...esign-schools/
^This is excellent! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Hum, tough article to counter, but I'll try anyway:Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFHGg_IAfGc