Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island: Difference between revisions

==Worlds and levels==

The setting of the game takes place on [[Yoshi's Island (location)|Yoshi's Island]], which is the first world setting of ''Super Mario World''. The island portrayed in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'', however, is much larger in scale and comes with a larger variety of biomes and characters endemic to the island as players progress through the game. The game contains six worlds with eight regular levels each, retaining the eight level per world structure first normalized by ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', having a consistent amount of levels per world, and every fourth and eighth level of the world features a boss fight against an enemy enlarged by Kamek. All worlds have particular themed biomes, such as [[World 1 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 1]] having a grasslands while [[World 6 (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|World 6]] has a stronger theme around caverns and lava as the player closer approaches [[King Bowser's Castle]]; this theming of levels has been carried in further entries of the ''Yoshi's Island'' series. Unlike ''Super Mario World'', ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' does not employ use of a world map and relies on a level select screen, which is represented by color-coded folders containing icons that preview the levels, and these levels are named after their features than rather than using generic numbered identifies, such as the third level of World 3 being called [[Nep-Enut's Domain]] rather simply being called World 3-3. One notable aspect of the level icons is that all Yoshis in their previews are Green Yoshis, despite Green Yoshis being used only in the first levels of each world, the Extra levels and King Bowser's Castle. While most levels have players moving on their own accord, a few levels are autoscrollers, with the first one being encountered in [[Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts]] in World 1.

Due to the light arts and crafts aesthetic of the game and usage of the Super FX2 graphics chip, levels and their backdrops are rendered reminiscent of drawings rather than the more organic approach that ''Super Mario World'' has done, and their backdrops are dynamically rendered with a more complex palette. For example, the primary backdrop for [[Watch Out Below!]] from World 1 uses a soft palette and hills having an emulated colored pencils aesthetic, clouds and hills contain visible shading streaks to communicate their shadows, environment features such as waterfalls and crystals in cave levels such as [[The Cave Of Chomp Rock]] and [[The Cave Of The Mystery Maze]] are animated, [[Goonie Rides!]] renders a shimmering ocean with a large flock of the [[Goonie]] species and variants flying in the background, while the general aesthetic of World 6 primarily uses warm color palettes to communicate players that the world is lava-themed and the final world of the game.

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The Yoshi species are the primary playable characters of the game and this appearance is their first starring appearance in a platformer title. All Yoshis play identically to each other, and ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' introduces even more color variations to the Yoshi species: in addition to the Green, Red, Blue and Yellow Yoshis that are present in ''Super Mario World'', Pink, Light Blue, Purple, and Brown Yoshis are introduced. While Pink, Light Blue, and Purple Yoshis become mainstay colors in future installments of the overall ''Super Mario'' franchise, Brown Yoshis remain exclusive to this title, being replaced by Orange Yoshis. The Yoshis in this game retain their long tongues and their abilities to eat most objects from ''Super Mario World'', though the game introduces [[Flutter Jump|Hovering Jump]]s, turning enemies and objects into eggs that can be used as projectiles, and [[Ground Pound|pounding the ground]].

===Supporting characters===

Two supporting characters are introduced in ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' and make recurring appearances throughout the ''Yoshi'' franchise. The [[stork]], designed after the {{wp|white stork}} representing an animal of folklore known to deliver babies to parents, gets ambushed and kidnapped alongside baby Luigi at the start of the game. The latter character [[Poochy]] is a dog-like creature that follows Yoshi around and Yoshi can ride on who can run on dangerous terrain such as lava and spikes.

===Enemies===

===Bosses===

[[File:RaphaelTheRavensCastle2.png|thumb|200px|Yoshi fighting the boss of World 5, Raphael the Raven.]]

==Transformations==

===Metamorphosis bubble===

Entering a [[morph bubble|metamorphosis bubble]] causes Yoshi to be transformed into one of several different types of vehicles, each with their own unique capabilities. While in this state, Yoshi is allowed to move around as the vehicle without baby Mario for a limited time before being pulled back to the metamorphosis bubble and being turned back to normal. If the player is able to hit a [[Yoshi Block]] while transformed, the transformation is automatically reversed at that location.

===Other transformations===

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==Items==

==Objects==