Yoshi's Island 2 Among Nintendo Europe's 2006 Line-Up

[fitbabits]

Our buddies over at Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com) managed to snag Nintendo of Europe's 2006 line-up. Of note on the list is Yoshi's Island 2, developed by Artoon (of the Blinx series on Xbox).

You can read what Gamasutra thinks of the list here (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10098).

As would be expected, the majority of titles are for the Nintendo DS, with the already-passed releases of Big Brain Academy and Electroplankton on July 7th the last major summer releases for the company until 42 All-Time Classics (aka Clubhouse Games) on September 29th.

This is followed by the Nintendo DS Browser on October 6th and the English Training: Have Fun Improving Your Skills on October 13th. The relevance of this title to the British market is unclear, since in Japan, it is aimed at teaching English as a foreign language, but it has been listed by Nintendo UK, and may be of more interest to the rest of Europe if using the same concept.
I can almost hear thousands of Yoshi's Island fans openly weeping... Oh, and could English Training finally be the cure for the poor English on display at most forums?

[Spigot]

I can almost hear thousands of Yoshi's Island fans openly weeping... Oh, and could English Training finally be the cure for the poor English on display at most forums?
Wut u tlkn bout?

[fitbabits]

Wut u tlkn bout?
Exactly. :)

I can think of several websites that would benefit from a complimentary copy of English Training.

[TrackZero]

I can almost hear thousands of Yoshi's Island fans openly weeping... Oh, and could English Training finally be the cure for the poor English on display at most forums?

If the Gamespot forums are any evidence of this, I think not. Despite if English is your first language.

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15103

[SexualChoc]

English training. A good concept, but I would much rather have 'Japanese Training'. Providing it works, it could be used for any amount of languages. I never really liked Yoshi's Island. I had kirby Power Paintbrush, and found it was better.

[Manzy]

Nintendo, why have you forsaken me?

[fushi]

Nintendo, why have you forsaken me?
Nintendo has not forsaken you, he is just busy caring for all those ignored by the lesser gods.

Be patient, young one, for our souls will soon be shown the light of the Wii.

***

I would like to have Nintendo Dick Training ~ Enlarge your penis with minutes a day.

[EvilBob46]

Sucks for Europe seeing as neither the Final Fantasy 3 remake nor the Castlevania game are on the list.

[TrackZero]

English training. A good concept, but I would much rather have 'Japanese Training'. Providing it works, it could be used for any amount of languages. I never really liked Yoshi's Island. I had kirby Power Paintbrush, and found it was better.

I thought there was originally talk of there being a Japanese training game coming to North America. Ah well, I'll have to make due with all the books I'm currently learning from anyways. ;)

[jacktion]

Despite if English is your first language.



What?
I think you are a little too hasty to cast stones.

[Blade]

Artoon is making Yoshi's Island 2. I haven't cried in 10 years and I think it's time.

Nintendo really needs to stop outsourcing 1st-party projects to 3rd-party developers. Pretty much all of the games that have been developed in this manner in the past 2-3 years have been sub-par. A few exceptions include Mario & Luigi 1/2 and obviously Camelot's work.

[HumpYourWay]

Yoshi's Island 2? Sounds like millions of furr fans weeping tears of joy....

PS: Star Fox forums are even worse, check out somethingawful's work on that ;)
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3949&p=7

[Kefkataran]

I think Yoshi's Island 2 was already announced/on display at E3. Also, I seem to recall various sources (the 1Up Show sticks out in my mind right now) saying it looked hot.

[HumpYourWay]

Also, I seem to recall various sources (the 1Up Show sticks out in my mind right now) saying it looked hot.

Do you mean 'Hot' like the folks in that above mentioned starfox forum use the word 'hot"? :cool:

[Kefkataran]

I have no idea what that means, so, um... no comment. :p

[Worldcrafter]

Artoon is making Yoshi's Island 2. I haven't cried in 10 years and I think it's time.

Nintendo really needs to stop outsourcing 1st-party projects to 3rd-party developers. Pretty much all of the games that have been developed in this manner in the past 2-3 years have been sub-par. A few exceptions include Mario & Luigi 1/2 and obviously Camelot's work.
Yeah, both Metroid Prime games turned out to be terrible. :rolleyes:

[HumpYourWay]

I have no idea what that means, so, um... no comment. :p

LOL, good for you ;)

[Snoy Cracken]

English training. A good concept, but I would much rather have 'Japanese Training'. Providing it works, it could be used for any amount of languages. I never really liked Yoshi's Island. I had kirby Power Paintbrush, and found it was better.
I think maybe you are thinking of Yoshi Touch and Go. This is a sequel to yoshi island the game for the SNES.

[score]

Artoon is making Yoshi's Island 2. I haven't cried in 10 years and I think it's time.

Nintendo really needs to stop outsourcing 1st-party projects to 3rd-party developers. Pretty much all of the games that have been developed in this manner in the past 2-3 years have been sub-par. A few exceptions include Mario & Luigi 1/2 and obviously Camelot's work.

Yeah, both Metroid Prime games turned out to be terrible. :rolleyes:

Apart from Starfox Assault (Forget you Namco) most of the outsourced stuff, like Sega's F-Zero has turned out ok. Saying that though, Artoon were reponsible for the generally cruddy Yoshi's Universal Gravitation so I don't know what to think....

[Heretic Machine]

Wasn't there already a sequel to Yosh's Island on the N64?

EDIT: This? (http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/yoshisstory/index.html)

[Royal Fool]

Sucks for Europe seeing as neither the Final Fantasy 3 remake nor the Castlevania game are on the list.

They're most likely early 2007 titles.

[Blade]

Worldcrafter: Retro Studios is a 1st-party, wholly owned by Nintendo.

I'm talking recently. Nintendo's published a lot of mediocre crap from outside companies. I'm not talking about Sega or Capcom.

[Deadend]

Why do the european branches of Nintendo and Sony suck so much at getting games released within, oh 6 months of the US release?

[Evil Avnovice]

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

Or simply: Got my fingers crossed for this one.

[Evil Avnovice]

Wasn't there already a sequel to Yosh's Island on the N64?

EDIT: This? (http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/yoshisstory/index.html)

It was, but the less said about that one, the better. :mad:

The graphics looked good though. :p

[Worldcrafter]

Worldcrafter: Retro Studios is a 1st-party, wholly owned by Nintendo.
Ah, I stand corrected. Either way, I hope Yoshi turns out well.

[ECM]

Wasn't there already a sequel to Yosh's Island on the N64?

EDIT: This? (http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/yoshisstory/index.html)

Jesus, I'll let it go this time, but don't ever mention that game again! *shudder*

[jeffool]

Worldcrafter: Retro Studios is a 1st-party, wholly owned by Nintendo.

I'm talking recently. Nintendo's published a lot of mediocre crap from outside companies. I'm not talking about Sega or Capcom.In all fairness Retro was bought because Nintendo liked the work they were doing on Metroid Prime in the games development. But that has no bearing on your point about recent games.

[automaton]

I'm not crazy about Artoon working on Yoshi's Island 2. I really HATED Blinx. However, Artoon is working on Blue Dragon for X360 so maybe they turned a corner and learned how to develop video games. Surely if Sakaguchi & Nintendo trust them, there must be something there...

[fushi]

Worldcrafter: Retro Studios is a 1st-party, wholly owned by Nintendo.

I'm talking recently. Nintendo's published a lot of mediocre crap from outside companies. I'm not talking about Sega or Capcom.
If you're talking about Mario Party Advance (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=59940), then I can see where you're coming from.

I didn't have high hopes for this, but most of the people who managed to play this at E3 said it's pretty good. Maybe there's an internal Nintendo designer working on it, who knows (I could obviously try to find that out but eh).

[shnastybiznastic]

Jesus, I'll let it go this time, but don't ever mention that game again! *shudder*
What's so bad about Yoshi Story? The only even semi negative thing I can think of is that it wasn't as long and convoluted as it's contemporaries. The gameplay is tight, the music actually fits each environment perfectly, And it's easy to complete, but hard to 100%. Hell, I still go back and play it every once in a while.

[Lizard Dude]

Worldcrafter: Retro Studios is a 1st-party, wholly owned by Nintendo.

I'm talking recently. Nintendo's published a lot of mediocre crap from outside companies. I'm not talking about Sega or Capcom.

Wouldn't that make it 2nd party? If not, what exactly is 2nd party? An exclusive developer not owned by the company?

[Zeal]

Be patient, young one, for our souls will soon be shown the light of the Wii.

You mean Nintendo remaining in third place and shrinking even further into obscurity, right.

[fitbabits]

You mean Nintendo remaining in third place and shrinking even further into obscurity, right.
Holy moley! :confused:

[Spigot]

Holy moley! :confused:
There, there, my little Squidbabits.

It's just Zeal falling back into his usual anti-Nintendo rantings. Listen to him not. Let the soothing sounds of Mario lull you to sleep...

Man, I need to get out more. I've been trying to comfort my sick kid too long and now it's leaking out into the net :o

[Manzy]

You mean Nintendo remaining in third place and shrinking even further into obscurity, right.
Man, I wish the world was as predictable as defining a company's success on the outsourcing of one game!