NEW! SMW2 Yoshi's Island is "difficult"

[EiresWind]

Learned a thing today: Stars do not update if your morphed. I wonder what happens if you do manage to collect stars while morphed though.

Physics trivia: I believe snowman are the only enemy where jumping on them does not reward you with a Super Flutter Jump.

And I dislike those penguins.

Midles too. And sluggies. Although you can actually do another, completely normal jump off a sluggy before it fully explodes. It acts like physical ground. Yes, scarily enough, I am mentioning this for a reason.

[ano0maly]

12:02 Remember that 5th flower gives you an extra life.

A good strategy is to try to accomplish the hard parts before getting the middle ring, so that you won't have to repeat them. But leave lives, last flowers, and extra stars (that you can go back to easily) alone, so you can get them again each time you restart from the ring.

[EiresWind]

12:02 Remember that 5th flower gives you an extra life.

A good strategy is to try to accomplish the hard parts before getting the middle ring, so that you won't have to repeat them. But leave lives, last flowers, and extra stars (that you can go back to easily) alone, so you can get them again each time you restart from the ring.

This is good advice if you want to keep letting things flow 'naturally' until you absolutely can't anymore. This isn't always viable, but many times Yoshis Fan will put an extra life that's relatively near a particularly difficult section, even if it's a little bit before. This can keep you even, and, depending on the circumstances, even give you a decent net gain if you find yourself dying a lot in that section.

[Sebby19]

I find it really disruptive when Rao keeps going into the pause screen all the time. It ruins any flow the gameplay has.

[raocow]

I guess I never said why I do this, huh?

It,s so I have a mental image of the numbers. So when I die (not if), I have something to compare. So like, if the numbers are different I'll be like 'oh no I missed something I should know about'.

That's why I pause from time to time.

[EiresWind]

I guess I never said why I do this, huh?

It,s so I have a mental image of the numbers. So when I die (not if), I have something to compare. So like, if the numbers are different I'll be like 'oh no I missed something I should know about'.

That's why I pause from time to time.

I did this all the time playing through this hack, and not just as a reminder in case I redid sections. In longer levels it's an excellent way to get your bearings. Especially since, as you've noticed so far, this hack is generally good about keeping a consistent item pacing, so even though it varies, you can kind of tell when you've obviously missed a flower or group of red coins somewhere along the line. I don't see how it disrupts the flow of video significantly to see five or six two second pauses.

[Slit08]

Oh well, yeah as you mentioned in your video the framrate dropped during todays video due to the snow effect. The problem is that due to the low movement and all the movement in the vid I really felt sick. That is really weird I know, but somehow my eyes or my brain just cannot stand certain pictures or videos. :(
I really hope that there is snowing effect in tomorrows video.

[Dyanne]

Oh well, yeah as you mentioned in your video the framrate dropped during todays video due to the snow effect. The problem is that due to the low movement and all the movement in the vid I really felt sick. That is really weird I know, but somehow my eyes or my brain just cannot stand certain pictures or videos. :(
I really hope that there is snowing effect in tomorrows video.

Masochist.

[Slit08]

Err why Dyanne? I would have finished watching todays video, but due to the way I felt I had to stop. :(

[Slit08]

Err no, I totally did not want to express that... oh sometimes it is hard to understand the meaning of a text. oh well...

[Bwarch]

I find this little bit of history slightly amusing. Sure hope this guy stuck around!

[Bean]

I think the issue is that YT downgrades videos to 30 FPS, and that means it's skipping every other frame no matter what. Now if you're producing in 30 to begin with, then I'm not sure what the issue is. Anyway, that means I'm all caught up now on this one... until you post another video four hours from now.

[ano0maly]

Why did JoshJepson stop attaching video responses?

[EiresWind]

If you get sick of bandit houses don't feel paranoid about skipping future ones that are more troublesome to find the keys to. Yoshis Fan probably just wanted to check off that trick, because it doesn't show up again.

I am not ashamed to admit that he somehow led me to die on what used to be the most harmless boss in the game, so I'm curious to see how you do with him.

EDIT: Unless you didn't die, then I'm mildly ashamed I suppose.

[Sebby19]

At 8:55:

Check my stats, to injure Sebby

Hey!

[ano0maly]

At 8:55:

Check my stats, to injure Sebby

Hey!

Good times

[Jesuiscontent]

At 8:55:

Check my stats, to injure Sebby

Hey!

Haha it took me a while to make the connexion.

[Sebby19]

I don't even know whether he referenced me on purpose, or he stumbled and garbled gibberish that just happened to be my nickname.

Explain raocow, explaaaaainnnn!

[raocow]

Tomorrow will be your answer.

[Rameau's Nephew]

Salvo was always my favorite character in Yoshi's Island, too. Nintendo really needs to bring him back in a future game some day. He's certainly a better candidate for a reappearance than some of the silly people they do seem to be trying to make recurring foes in more recent years.

That said, I suppose that precisely for this reason, I was hoping that he might be made a little more dangerous in this hack. Sure, you have thorn ceiling, but that was pretty easily thwarted by the cunning tactic of not jumping, which wasn't particularly necessary to do anyway. At the very least I was expecting a pool of lava on both sides of the arena, without any sort of covering over either one, but perhaps that might have been difficult to implement while still having Yoshi's entrance work properly. And I suppose we also saw what sort of inelegances the lesser degree of floor can make for with bug-eyed mini-Salvo's amazing levitation act at the end there...

[Sebby19]

Tomorrow will be your answer.

-_-

(this forum needs a better selection of smileys)

That was so quick it was possible that could have been PPR saying that.


Anyways, hardy har har...

[EiresWind]

Ode to Salvo

See, if you're an idiot and just shoot willy-nilly and have an egg ricochet the ground out from under you... look, shut up, okay?

[Rameau's Nephew]

I used to think of the O-cactus as being Captain Obvious. I still regard this as a reasonable hypothesis.

[Ometeotl]

Teal Yoshi this time. I guess every world gets its own Yoshi color for the two bonus stages.

[Marcaek]

Lots of neat ideas in this level actually. I hope the replacement uses them in some way.

The biggest problem besides the lack of difficulty is the need to run around for huge eggs, they should be more accessible considering the level's theme.