Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 95% (SNES)
89.52% (GBA) |
| Metacritic | 91/100 (GBA) |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Allgame | (SNES)
(GBA) |
| Eurogamer | 9/10 (GBA) |
| Famitsu | 33/40 (SNES) 31/40 (GBA) |
| GamePro | 4.5/5 (SNES)
5/5 (GBA) |
| GameSpot | 9.2/10 (GBA) |
| GameSpy | (GBA) |
| IGN | 9.4/10 (GBA) |
The game received overwhelming praise from critics. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave Yoshi's Island its award for Best Action Game of 1995. GamePro gave the game a 4.5/5 rating. GameRankings.com gives Yoshi's Island a composite review score of 95%, based on five reviews. Yoshi's Island sold about four million copies. The game placed 22nd in Official Nintendo Magazine's 100 greatest Nintendo games of all time, later 18 in the 2012 remake. Next Generation Magazine called it the "high-water mark in 2D gaming." The game has garnered a huge cult following since its release. Yoshi's Island has often appeared on lists of "greatest games of all time."
Yoshi's Island also proved to be a critical and commercial hit in its Game Boy Advance version, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, which was released in 2002.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)