Dark Aspects of Yoshi's Story - Thane Gaming
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- A complete analysis of the dark aspects found in Yoshi's Story on Nintendo 64! From the infamous losing a Yoshi/game over sequences to the surprisingly scary enemy designs, I explore the many details that make this unassuming game a little less kid-friendly than you'd expect.
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I love how every Yoshi's Island game is themed after some sort of art. The next one should be clay, like Kirby and the Rainbow Curse
I was having a hard time deciding what The Next Yoshi game's Art Style would be. But I would absolutely love A Clay Yoshi game!
I would say maybe something different because Kirby did it but both did yarn in a pretty different way so yoshi shoud be able to differentiate itself in clay too
Minus the reused asset spinoffs like topsy turvy and touch n go
YI: Crayons
YS: popup books
YIDS: Pastels
YNI: Colored Pencils
YWW: Crochet
YCW: Cardboard
We need a yoshi game with animation cels! This 2D animated yoshi game is loooong overdue!
Story, my favorite type of art
The Game Over Screen and music remains one of the the most heart-wrenching moments I ever witnessed in a Nintendo game.
The fact that Yoshi literally passes out In Yoshis. Story And the toadies Carry him to bowsers castle scarrd
me.
Shit was actually kind of depressing.
I really hate the game over screen 😞. However that said, I always reset the game when I got down to my last Yoshi because I would have thrown it out of the window if I saw it again 😔.
Fr.
It feels very Banjo Kazooie than yoshi.
Yoshi's Story has always given me that weird "children's nightmares" vibe in certain aspects like the game's art style, enemy uncanny designs, and, of course, the depressing game over screen. To me, it's one of the things that made the game strangely charming.
Honestly, I loved the Game Over sound, I went to the Practice Mode just to die and enjoy how my heart reacts to the music xD
@@VenusFeuerFalle The Game Over (or at least just the Yoshi(s) being taken away to the castle) sound actually stuck to me throughout these years despite me trying my hardest to avoid getting the Yoshis killed lol
i thought that more about Kirby...
Yoshi's Story is the precursor to Nuzlockes. When a Yoshi dies in a level, they're gone forever. This game was trying to warn us about this and we didn't listen...
Even if The Yoshis don't really die, not playing as a certain color after they get carried away by those Toadies really sends a shiver down my spine.
@@disneyvillainsfan1666 I used to restart/reload the game from that point. I lost count how many times that reset button was pressed by me. In the longer run, it made me play better and show no mercy to the enemies in the game.
I've been thinking for years now that Yoshi's Story is actually lowkey a horror game and it's nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks so. So many oddly unsettling things in this game, parts of it actually used to scare me as a kid
Saaaaaaame, that's why it was my favorite franchise until I met Kirby. (:
I couldn't sleep because of this game
It’s not that bad now. Eh kinda scary but maybe when I was little
A very fun game but too damn short
Same here! I've realized over the years that the majority of the most unsettling parts of it weren't from the game, but from the wistful, winding paths it led my imagination down as a child. In my mind, that's a feat in itself, and it still gives me a melancholic, atmospheric feeling whenever I play it.
All in all, it's a creative game that doesn't get the love it deserves.
I always thought that when Bowser stole the Super Happy Tree, all the Yoshis died. The pre menu prologue refers to the Yoshis we play as as “the surviving eggs.”
So as a child, I thought that the game was literally about genocide, and every time I died, the stakes just got higher. That’s also why I thought Yoshi’s voice changed after the game. The adult Yoshis were dead, so we were left with the baby Yoshis and their baby voices.
My favourite level in Yoshi's Story was Tall Tower with the lullaby music, bouncy springs and building block aesthetic. Though towards the end you have to jump across balls where you can literally get smashed on the head by a spiky mace. Who built that tower?! What's the purpose? That comic about Black Yoshi is mind boggling! Black Yoshi was always my favourite because his voice was pitched slightly lower and I found it cuter. In contracts, White Yoshi's voice was slightly higher and I loved the attention to detail they put into that game.
Yooo, its Maqaroon
Yoshis Story is a based interest
I second that Yoshi's Story was easily my favorite, no contest.
Even though this game seems super chill and childish, I think this was the game that made me the most anxious about losing when I was a kid, because when you lose, it plays that sad cutscene of the Yoshis being kidnapped and locked away on the castle tower. I used to feel terrible and think it was my fault that had happened, so I used to take all the care in the world when playing Yoshis Story.
Also those big fishes from the swamp level from the forest world were sooo scary to me. As I mentioned, dying is this game made me super anxious, and the fact that they can 1 hit kill you made things even worse
lmao i commented almost the same thing.fishes and all
Jungle puddle isn’t really hard you just have to not play wrecklessly…. But yea it is a scary level when you face instant death
Mecha Castle is worse than Jungle Puddle I hate that level ….
@@bryanc1772 I remember being scared of Mecha Castle, Yoshi can easily get stuck and get crushed to death between the giant gears or the presses in the second room, even at full health it's a one hit kill. I remember getting as many fruit as possible in the first room just to avoid getting that far in the level.
The snorkle snake was so unsettling to me as a kid-it took up half the screen!! And moved creepily
The fact that when the flower turns a sickly blue and the music slows down at a rather disturbing pace feels really jarring compared to the happy atmosphere Yoshi's Story has (as well as Page 2's and Page 6's showing)
That was the absolute worst. The sad tone really like, amps up your desperation?? It's so stressful!!
Boos wearing blindfolds actually negates their one weakness since looking at them won't make them shy
To get around this. I used to deliberately run fast in wrong direction to draw them away from where I needed to go then sneaked passed it. They are quite easy to outwit once you know what to do. The instant killer fish level was my top frustration on the game 🎮.
I believe the Boos have blindfolds so they don't get scared of Yoshi, as they normally cover their eyes and stay still when they see someone.
the boos themselves are scary looking as fk too! Those bloody red mouth & fangs!! God damn! Then can't forget bout Mr. Cheep cheep fish aka giant blurp will swallow u in one even if ur invincible!
I was always disturbed by the intro, which implies that a lot of Yoshis were KILLED.
Wait. Is that you, Meta Knight?
This is THE game of my childhood. I used to be obsessed with Yoshis because of this game. He's still my favorite Mario character, I always use him in most of the spin-offs till this day! But yeah, there are some aspects of this game that always scared me. Whenever a Yoshi died, I'd get up quickly to turn off the console, because I couldn't handle seeing the animation of them being taken to the bleak castle. It not only made me scared but also VERY sad, to the point of crying. Good times!
Oh man I used to do the same thing! I didn't want to see the cute Yoshi's crying.
When I played this game in 1998 at the age of 18 being a Yoshi fan. I used to sit nearer to the console so I could hit reset quickly and start over. I would have liked it if Yoshi could have armor and weapons in some levels. That said, this made Yoshi more ruthless when I played.
The CG renders of the enemies always unsettled me.
They're weirdly off-putting in this game! Whenever a new one appeared I'd pause for a moment in bewilderment lol
SNES/N64-era CG renders in general freak me out. Even friendly characters like Mario really unsettle me in that primitive CG style. Donkey Kong Country lives on this style and always felt off-putting to me. Fantastic games, but dammit if animal companions and enemies alike don't creep me out...
I'll admit it, this game scared me as a kid (age 5). Also 2 days before playing this I just learned about the concept of Hell. The first time I died was in the lava world and then seeing a Yoshi being carried to the castle, I literally screamed "AHHHHHH I KILLED YOSHI AND GOT HIM IN HELL!!!!" Never played this game since. It's been over 20 years. Planning to keep this up on Wii U vc soon tho.
This game terrified me as a kid. Always felt like I was protecting my Yoshi and then areas like the castle stage with the brutal instant death were the worst.
Some of the enemies' scary designs I think stem from one of the drawbacks of this style: The Uncanny Valley. Especially the larger models for the sky eel, the clown ball, the giant fish, and the health meter really can get creepy when they suddenly appear. They remind me of those creepy quick-cuts to the faces of the train models from Thomas the Tank Engine, as the sharp fast cuts, combined with the loud narration can make some moments terrifying!
Every time that I died in this game as a kid, I was so scared about the death sequence that I would run up to the console and turn it off.
YES! If i lost a yoshi I’d dive for the Reset button so that the game wouldn’t register that I’d died... it was just as much to avoid losing any yoshis as it was to avoid having to sit through that unsettling “death” scene...
Yoshi's Story is still one of my favorite games of all time, but yeah some of the design elements are unsettling, even in so-called helpful characters like the Neurons in Neuron Jungle.
Someone who acknowledges the 20 melon challenge. Never thought I'd see the day.
Yoshi seems to be bipolar in this game. When you eat the heart fruit, he turns manic while when Yoshi is almost dead, you hear a much more depressing version of the song. Not to mention there is an instant killing button combination.
Stage 6-1, Mecha Castle, always scared me when I played it as a kid. It was so easy to get crushed by the machines that it always catches me off guard. Those blades coming out of the floor and those crushers were always uncomfortable when I had to deal with them.
Same here too!! Then the worst is the giant blurp cheep cheeps that will eat u in one piece even if ur invincible!!
Great retrospective of this forgotten game! I forgot how dark this game was, defiantly the crystal shards of the yoshi games
I tried to explain to my boyfriend, that one of the things that was absolutely, irrationally? terrifying to me as a child, was dying in this game, the creepy flower meter, the kidnapping, the dwindling number of Yoshi's. He was so confused. :'D
It wasn't like you were losing lives, like in most games - you were losing your SIBLINGS. I remember me and my sib would run out of the room in fear?? And my poor/wonderful mom, who put up with our nonsense, because I think she found it to be a good, challenging game, like the side-scrollers on the NES she dug.
"Blarrgh" became a common phrase indicating frustration, named after the creatures of Blargg's Boiler. I'm still creeped out at the little phrase on the story select screen that plays at the end of the main song, that's a reference to something...
And I'm wigging out that the composer/yoshi voice actor is the guy who became KK Slider, everything comes full circle???
I agree that yoshi’s theming is more happy and charming than even Kirby. I can tell because the genuine happiness from the first level of Yoshi’s Story was so strong it made me angry and drop it altogether.
Ive never played Yoshis Island. I grew up with Yoshis Story and absolutely loved it.
As a German growing up in the 90s, those Club Nintendo scans hit my nostalgia nerves pretty hard. I think I even still have some of those issues lying around somewhere. And yeah, Yoshi's Story was pretty scary to me as a kid, mainly due to the creepy / weird music. Even though the game is so-so, the art style holds up very well to this day.
the last game I'd ever expect on dark aspects lmao
Same. Also, did you know that Orange\Brown and Purple Yoshi were in the intro, but never appeared in the game as actual choices for the player (despite being planned to be playable)?
@@gregzotter6189 nope
finally watching this!! you know, a lot of N64/PS1 era games are considered creepy or uncanny because of the "empty" environments, but this game weirdly always unnerved me the most as a kid even though it isn't 3D at all. even with Yoshi supposed to be for younger audiences, i didn't like playing this game when my older sister wasn't around. some of the musical changes, boss fights/boss themes, and enemy designs/level aesthetics scared me as a youngster.
for me though, the creepiest was always Inviso!! i know his visual design isn't as threatening as some of the others, but the way he could traverse the stage gave me a couple nightmares when i was little. i honestly don't think any videogame ever scared me as much as yoshi's story at that age, which is just so hilarious because even the Shadow Temple in Ocarina of Time didn't really bother me at that age hahahaha
0:57 That's wild! I was literally just listening to the music for this commercial about 10 minutes ago before watching this! Music is called for anyone interested "Destination Unknown".
I personally loved the manga-stylized comics from the German Nintendo magazines, and the special edition of Yoshi's Story was one of my favorites for all kind of reasons, but I was quite surprised when I found out that those comic magazines were something the local headquarters of Nintendo Europe/Germany created exclusively for Germany. Like even some of the inside jokes that often times referred to something typically German went too well with the drawings or even depicted something German that I often wondered back then how they would translate this into other languages.
As for the game, man, the whole gameplay confused me back then. As a kid I didn't get the structure of it, since your playthrough had an impact of the different paths, but it wasn't self-explanatory, and overall it added a lot to the confusion that you only had to beat one level of each world. And then there was the conception of not exactly dying but getting your Yoshis kidnapped by the shy guys bit by bit. It was so utterly unsettling and confusing lol.
I prefer those types of mangas compared to most modern mangas
I think I can speak for everyone when I say that for such an allegedly "kiddy" game, Yoshi's Story has what is possibly the most disturbing and bleak Game Over screen I've ever seen. Not just in the Yoshi series, but in the ENTIRE Mario franchise.
I used to restart every time I lost a Yoshi. I hated that Game Over screen back then and I still find it dreary even now. I kept the Black and White Yoshi's for backup.
Yoshi's Story was that game I played at my grandma's for 4 hours one time and couldn't remember the name of but was entranced by the charm.
Yoshi's Story of one of those games from my childhood that I still love. But I didn't remember it had so many unsettling stuff 😅
omg, 6:22 it took me moment to figure out that he was saying the fish would "gobble up your Yoshis, whole" rather than "gobble up your Yoshi's hole"!
Damn I used to love and play this game a lot as a kid and I'm honestly surprised at how many things I missed out on. I could never figure out how to unlock certain worlds on different chapters so I just got stuck playing the same 2 or something. I guess that's kinda lucky for child me because I was a huge scaredy cat back then and I know for a fact I would have been crapping myself with the giant sharp teeth bouncing sack among a bunch of others if I had ever played those worlds LOL.
It took me a long while as a kid to find out also how to unlock new levels but I did eventually find out how it worked.
I also quite enjoyed this game as a kid but could rarely ever get past Chapter 2 Cavern as I was also a chicken!
I only ever 100% the game as an adult because I didn't understand how to unlock new levels.
Never understood as why so many people poo poo'd this game as in really did (and still do) enjoy this game! I was a huge part of my childhood. Might be because I've never played Yoshi's Island 🤔
@@christelm1655 I am in the same boat in terms of never playing Yoshi's Island at all and it being apart of my childhood. I will say that it did take me forever to beat some of the levels but less because I was a chicken and more because I wasn't that good at the game at the time.
The only real thing that frightened me was the one with the cheep cheeps because it just jumped out of nowhere and Insta kills you so I always hated that level.
@@christelm1655 You know maybe that is why I liked the game as much as I did as well. I didn't play Yoshi's Island until it was re-released to the GBA so as a kid I used to think Story was the first one lol. It actually took me till collage to realize the game actually was originally on the SNES, which I never owned as a kid so yeah. I guess people sadly just see is as a downgrade which I can understand, but I still hold this game dearly even if its not a perfect.
Same I only figured out the unlocking levels (getting the hearts) as an adult lolol
the fire bubbles in the lava place with blargg, it's so haunting, "huuueeeeuuuuuhhhhhh...."
Huh never encountered those sharp toothed ball enemies when I played yoshis story. Good memories of this game the visuals still look good aged well I think
This game used to scare the hell out of me. Especially the Glorps.
10:16 - The irony about the black Yoshi thing is that a black Yoshi skin exists in _Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U,_ but was replaced in _Super Smash Bros. Ultimate_ with the _Yoshi's Crafted World_ skin.
I still miss playable black Yoshi.
I’m so happy to see an analysis of one of my favorite childhood games, no one ever seems to talk about this one!
9:50 “It takes all colors to make a rainbow… Except black.. There’s no black in a rainbow”
As a kid I was terrified by the Blurps, unsettled by the Lava Ghosts, and didn't want anything to do with the Mecha Castle. Fuck those blades and smashers. They startled me xP
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I can only see the flower life-meter as having a mustache whenever it turns blue
This reminds me almost of a Cybershell sonic video, really enjoyed this video.
It’s funny how Yoshi Story try to make Baby Bowser far more scary and nightmarish than he really is.
Also had nightmares after the death animation, your not the only one.
I always thought the flowers frowning was just a mustache for some reasons when I was younger
The flower life counter scared me so much as a kid, that whenever it got close to being empty, I'd shut off the console lol
No matter these factors, I loved this game a lot. It was very charming.
in the version of the comic i saw, the green yoshi straight up curses and says “yoSHIT” these are nintendo characters 💀
The big blurps scared me as a kid based on how they just kill you outright
Glad your doing a video on my childhood game Yoshis Story was my first Yoshi game still my favorite to this day.
All the yoshis want is to be happy. Whenever I read that at the end of each level while hearing the happy song play in the background, I always teared up 😢
Fun fact: When I played Blagg's Boiler for the first time, I *literally* said this: "C'mon Giygas! Get outta my Yoshi game!"
10:33 I'm gonna draw Green Yoshi pretending to be a cactus
My brother and I would get so upset playing this game. I remember him crying the first time we lost a yoshi and that made me cry and feel even worse. Great game, but so emotional for a child to go through!
The music when you lose the final Yoshi made me cry as a kid
This is my first time coming across your channel, and I had to say, what a most excellent job this video was! Keep it up!
I love your videos, and Yoshi's Story is top 5 on N64 for me. Keep it up!
i legit couldnt get past world 2 cause i was so scared of the bone dragons and the blarrgs
Always nice to see obscure Nintendo trivia and facts, especially Yoshi related! Well done :)
So I played Yoshi Story in front of my then two year old. The whole time he's going "Papa you have to save the Yoshi's! And he was getting more and more distressed with each Yoshi I lost. I'm not sure how he would have reacted if I got a game over. I was down to like my last two Yoshis...
I LOVED Yoshi's Story! I could never get enough of it as a kid.
at least Baby Bowser is super easy to handle with 4:30
The one castle stage with all the machines feels like you just walked into a death trap.
i never thought about the existence of yoshi predujice until now
_and then baby bowser said a swear_
Yoshi's story was painted to look like a kid's book, but it never shyed away from some seriously disturbing imagery
I was always scared of kamek a child. I thought they would come at night from my window.
I used to do the yoshi suicide cheat all the time as a kid 🤣
This one brings me back
Used to be terrified of Cloud N Candy as a kid. Something about the lifeless smiling face combined with the boss music.
the enemy designs in this game are *weird*, by far the strangest things nintendo has ever made. it's even better because a lot of them are tucked away towards the end of a stage long after you would have collected enough fruit to continue, so most people probably wouldn't see them. I remember finding a black flying creature with a huge smile in one of the stages, I think the official name for the enemy is "ComBat" and they literally only show up at the end of the stage, right before the pot that warps you to the beginning.
Compared to the MOTHER series? Nopes.. They are pretty strange though.
I never played that giant fish level because it scared the crap out of me. XD
6:20 As a kid I feared those stupid fishes in Mario games that kill you by eating you. In Mario Bros. 3, Mario 64 and this game. I don't know why the first time I died to them it caused my an impression, I was like 4 or 5 yearsold, so, is understandable
Was I the only one who saw a moustache on the petaless flower as a kid? I can't be the only one.
No mention of Pach E. Derm, the horrific bipedal elephant that stares into your soul while somehow generating a forcefield spanning the entire area above them?
Speaking of Baby Bowser, I really wish they made his appearance in the later games stand out more so people would stop confusing him for Bowser Jr. Because that has always bugged me yet I understand why the mistake is made.
...........omg i never once realized this entire game as a metaphor for Depression O_o......
I always thought the health meter had a moustache when at low health
Looking back on it...
It does have its disturbing moments. The death scenes are nightmarish in itself. But the castle stages what scares me the most because often times I get knocked about.
I don't know why alot of people don't talk about this game these days like SNES Yoshi's Island.
This game was one of the first video games I played as a 3-4 years kid back in 2009/2010 with pokemon stadium and more n64 games
And it's the first video game I completed! 😊 It's still the most video game that is near my heart to this day.
But it was hella creepy back then to a point I couldn't play it some times alone 😅
The enemies, the soundtrack, the graphics it's one of the most creepiest Nintendo games ever
I will not allowed Yoshi Story music slander. Not after the end credits music box made me cry 🥺🥺🥺
Piranha Grove should've been on this video,that level was extremely Scary and hard
Been waiting a lifetime for this one
I remember being genuinely scared of that invisible boss from the second stage of world 3. Aside from the difficulty in seeing him, the noises he made and his face unsettled me.
If you thought that was scary Play 6-4 It's home for The most scariest thing Nintendo has ever created.
I really wanted to play this game as a kid but so much of it scared me so I never could
I personally believe it's a metaphor for what really happened to the Yoshis Parents. Killed by Bowser and their obtaining of the Super Happy tree being like, 'the best revenge is living Happy's
I didn't know this Comic book existed 9:00
im not gonna lie i would ALWAYS(and still will) power off my system if my yoshi would "die". the entire sequence creeped tf outta me and same with them big fishes from the jungle levels. they are way more accurate in their attacks than any fish from a mainstream mario game. ill pass on those jungle levels.jungle hut and piranha plant grove for me only thank you
tbh this game challenged me as a kid but even playing it as an adult its not an absolute cake run. easy for sure but definitely with challenging or frustrating moments, especially on a first play through or first return play through after childhood
Oh. A frown. Not...a mustache... I totally knew that! ;>.>
10:40 is "this southerner" kid rock
did kid rock harass the black yoshi
Okay, but when are we getting Yoshi's origami kawaii?
I wish to see dark aspects for every Yoshi game.
I love the music from yoshi's story.
The gameplay not so.
My favourite is still yoshi's woolie world.
The big cheep cheep fish from 4-2 jungle level is the scariest for me thanks to those cheep cheeps that will eat u whole even if you're invincible!! Then the blue ones too always shooting water at u to annoy you finish the melon challenge by pushing the boxes!! That's more scary than the lvl 6 mecha & boo castle!
I remember reading those comics way back when.