Yoshi's Island Lullaby

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Jul 31, 2013 I present, obviously, the lullaby from Yoshi's Island! I wrote this down for the harp in middle school for the talent show, in which one of my greatest friends Allie accompanied me on the violin. Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's Island MIDI, lyrics, sheet music, guitar tab on HamieNET.com Open Educational Music Library.

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  • Awesome Music: Enough to have a page of its own.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
    • There's a snowy level where getting 30 fruits teleports you into a room made of pipes and lined with newspapers, where you fight an alligator whose lips are so big that you kill him by making them pop.
    • The Bone Hydras on page 2 don't have to be paid any mind to, nor are they mentioned if encountered. Nor are the giant slugs located on the same page.
  • Breather Boss:
    • Even by the game's standards, Cloud N' Candy is very easy. She gently hops around doing Collision Damage if she hits Yoshi. You defeat her by licking her, which causes her to shrink until she disappears, which can be accomplished in all of ten seconds. The kicker is, every time you lick her, it restores your health. If you want to make it even easier, stay in the left corner of the stage; she won't be able to touch you at all.
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    • Baby Bowser is one of the easiest final bosses ever in a game. You just throw eggs or bob-ombs at the ceiling in the first phase while Baby Bowser fires easy to dodge fireballs. In the second phase, Baby Bowser tries to ground pound you while Bob-ombs float from the ceiling. If you have a full arsenal of eggs, you can defeat him in less than a minute as the explosion from the egg is all that has to hurt him. On top of that, the Super Happy Tree is available if you're low on health, and it even has a Heart Fruit to make you invincible during the battle.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • The Black and White Yoshis, for being cool-looking Game-Breakers.
    • The White Shy Guys, for being useful and interesting Sixth Ranger Traitors.
  • Game-Breaker: The unlockable black and white Yoshis. If you thought the game was easy enough with the other Yoshis, the game will present no challenge to you when using the unlockable ones. They can eat anything in the game without taking damage, regardless of the toxicity of the item or foe. They also gain extra health from eating various things, and have eggs with a larger explosive radius than usual. They also get infinite flutter jumps, and actually glide when doing it.
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  • It's Easy, So It Sucks!: The game was designed to bring in younger kids and get them interested in video games, so the game is substantially easier and shorter than usual. That is, unless you decide to take on the infamous 'Melon Quest'.
  • Sequelitis: Even fans of the game will admit that it isn't a worthy follow up to Yoshi's Island.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The melody to 'Baby Bowser's Lullaby' has some similarities to Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies' from The Nutcracker. The title theme also resembles the pa-rum-pum-pum—pum motif of The Little Drummer Boy.
  • Tastes Like Diabetes: It's so happy!
  • That One Level:
    • Level 5-4, 'Shy Guy's Ship', where the player must avoid Bob-Ombs and stop them from exploding if on breakable rocks, which must be kept intact if aiming for obtaining all 30 melons. Not to mention the constant ledges and the fact the Bob-ombs just love to hit you as you're leaping from one ledge to another. Finally, the second section has Yoshi riding seagulls as platforms while avoiding Bullet Bills, and on the last half of that section, more breakable rocks, the first two rocks not holding a Bill Blaster have Melons revealed by Ground Pound on them, which requires precise timing to avoid the Bullet Bills knocking Yoshi over the rock and into the Bottomless Pit.
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    • Level 4-2, 'Jungle Puddle' counts, because of the fish that can eat you alive and instantly take a Yoshi. You're practically guaranteed to lose half (or more) of your Yoshi team when trying to collect all thirty melons in this level.
    • Level 6-1, 'Mecha Castle'. The machinery can instantly kill your Yoshis if they get crushed or even get in between the cogs. The segment with the pistons has an unusual pattern that can throw you off if you're impatient.
  • That One Sidequest: The infamous 'Melon Quest' (where you have to eat nothing but 30 melons in a level), which instantly jumps the game up from being insultingly easy into 'throw controller at the wall' levels of difficulty.
  • Vindicated by History:
    • At the time, Nintendo was widely ridiculed for making this a 2½D platformer, with most critics claiming that games like Super Mario 64 and the then-upcoming Banjo-Kazooie were the way of the future. Nowadays, 2½D platformers are one of the most popular genres, with few people other than Nintendo themselves producing any 3D platforming games (and even then only in the Mario series).
    • Yoshi fans specifically who once directed their ire here are looking at it in a new light after both mixed reception of Yoshi's Island DS and the relative failure of Yoshi's New Island.
    • The game was originally made for children and is easy because of that. Many adult game reviewers and fans didn't like this. But now people who were the right age for the game when it came out are now adults so they remember it much more fondly and help its reputation because of that.

Posted 2001-12-23, evaluated by djpretzel

Yoshi's Island Lullaby Song

Wow - I know this wasn't intended as a Christmas ReMix, but it is so peaceful, beautiful, and delicate that it's perfect for this time of year. McVaffe takes on a slower, more emotional persona with this Yoshi's Island ReMix of the theme that plays most memorably during the game's conclusion. Fantastic piano, harp, oboe, and strings all are woven immaculately into a very flowing, human composition that to me at least is perfect tunage for sitting in the dark by the christmas tree, menorah, fire, or whatever glowing seasonal object you happen to have available, and enjoying the spirit of receiving shit for free. Wait, that came out wrong. Joking aside, this is a great track, one of McVaffe's more unique and intricate works, and lord knows that's saying a lot. In a sad way, it reminds me of the death of 2D, as Yoshi's Island looks like it'll be one of the last great 2D platformers - a masterpiece that hopefully won't be forgotten as gaming gets more and more advanced and technical. Regardless, it's the right ReMix at the right time, and builds both emotionally and intelligently on the original. Great.

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― djpretzel