History YMMV / YoshisStory

** At the time, Nintendo was widely ridiculed for making this a TwoAndAHalfD platformer, with most critics claiming that games like SuperMario64 and the then-upcoming BanjoKazooie 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 on in the [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] series).

** At the time, Nintendo was widely ridiculed for making this a TwoAndAHalfD platformer, with most critics claiming that games like SuperMario64 and the then-upcoming BanjoKazooie 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.

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time, Nintendo was widely ridiculed for making this a TwoAndAHalfD platformer, with most critics claiming that games like SuperMario64 and the then-upcoming BanjoKazooie 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.

%%* TastesLikeDiabetes

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time, Nintendo was widely ridiculed for making this a TwoAndAHalfD platformer, with most critics claiming that games like SuperMario64 and the then-upcoming BanjoKazooie 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.

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time Nintendo were widely ridiculed for making this a TwoAndAHalfD platformer, with most critics claiming that games like SuperMario64 and the then-upcoming BanjoKazooie 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.

* GameBreaker: 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 [[ExtremeOmnivore 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.

* TastesLikeDiabetes

** I dare you to try and lose the battle with Cloud N. Candy. Believe me, [[SpringtimeforHitler you are going to fail]]!

* ItsEasySoItSucks: The game was designed to bring in younger kids and get them interested in video games, so the game is substantially easier than usual.
* ItsShortSoItSucks

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The pipe stages with rap in the background. So incongruous.
** Similarly incongrouous is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxZs95vhS2Y&feature=watch_response_rev this song]] from the jungle levels.

* AnticlimaxBoss: Baby Bowser, made even easier by the abundance of health power-ups and even invincibility from the Super Happy Tree.

** I dare you to try and lose the battle with Cloud N. Candy. Believe me, [[SpringtimeforHitler you are going to fail!]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The pipe stages with rap in the background. So incongruous.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[AwesomeMusic/YoshisStory Enough to have a page of its own]].

* {{Mondegreen}}: The song the Yoshis sing throughout the game, spoken in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The melody to "Baby Bowser's Lullaby" has some similarities to Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from The Nutcracker.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Totaka's Song, composer Kazumi Totaka's CreatorThumbprint, is a bit more... unnerving... than usual in ''Yoshi's Story''. It's the same 8-bit tune heard in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', ''VideoGame/MarioPaint'', and others, but in ''Yoshi's Story'', it is heard after staying on the Trial Mode screen for 2:07. Imagine listening to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESWMR7k1po this song]], so happy and cheery that it practically TastesLikeDiabetes, in an endless loop for more than two minutes... and then it suddenly drops to [[NothingIsScarier complete, dead silence]] before a somewhat-creepy 8-bit tune plays unexpectedly, then dead silence once again... and then it resumes the happy, cheery music like nothing happened.

* TearJerker: The ending, especially the final moments when the book closes and the last notes.
** Hell, just seeing a yoshi being carried off into the tower upon player miss. It'll be shedding tears as its taken away.

** [[NightmareFuel It's probably something else that causes that...]]

* NightmareFuel: The death screens, featuring a crying Yoshi being carried away into the depths of a dark castle... ''very'' dark for a game like this.
** The death screens alone are bad, but the music that plays on the GameOver screen is even worse!
** Blargg's Boiler features an invincible minion in the form of some sort of fire ghost that jumps in and out of the lava while letting out a VERY creepy moan.
*** There's also the Blarggs themselves, which are very UncannyValley, unlike the cartoonish ones in ''Yoshi's Island''.
** How about the Bone Dragons themselves? And the music the plays on P.2 - Cavern itself...
** Level 4-2, "Jungle Puddle," is all good and fine for the first part. Then you get to the second part, with giant, invincible Blurps that eat you up, instantly causing you to lose that yoshi. Those things caused nightmares in many a gamer back in the day, especially the younger ones.
** Level 4-3, Piranha Grove. An entire forest of Piranha Plants, with you in the middle.
** The insta-death machinery in Mecha Castle.
*** The castle itself no matter what course you're on.

** [[ItGotWorse The death screens alone are bad, but the music that plays]] on the GameOver screen is even worse!

* ItsEasySoItSucks: The game was designed to bring in younger kids and get them interested in video games, so the game is substantially easier than usual.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[AwesomeMusic/YoshisStory A whole page of its own]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The music played in The Tall Tower.
** The ending music.
** The opening theme is quite something as well.
** [[OminousMusicBoxTune Baby Bowser's Lullaby]], anyone?
** The whole damn soundtrack.
*** If you listen real closely to the BGM as you progress from one stage to the next, you'll realize that most of the songs are actually different mixes of the same riff. Awesomeness on the part of the composer.

** [[NightmareFuel It's probably something else that causes that...]]

*** The castle itself no matter what course you're one.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The death screens, featuring a crying Yoshi being carried away into the depths of a dark castle... ''very'' dark for a game like this.
** Blargg's Boiler features an invincible minion in the form of some sort of fire ghost that jumps in and out of the lava while letting out a VERY creepy moan.
*** There's also the Blarggs themselves, which are very UncannyValley, unlike the cartoonish ones in ''Yoshi's Island''.
** Level 4-2, "Jungle Puddle," is all good and fine for the first part. Then you get to the second part, with giant, invincible Blurps that eat you up, instantly causing you to lose that yoshi. Those things caused nightmares in many a gamer back in the day, especially the younger ones.
** Level 4-3, Piranha Grove. An entire forest of Piranha Plants, with you in the middle.
** The insta-death machinery in Mecha Castle.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The death screens, featuring a crying Yoshi being carried away into the depths of a dark castle... ''very'' dark for a game like this.
** Blargg's Boiler features an invincible minion in the form of some sort of fire ghost that jumps in and out of the lava while letting out a VERY creepy moan.

** Level 4-2, "Jungle Puddle," is all good and fine for the first part. Then you get to the second part, with giant, invincible Blurps that eat you up, instantly causing you to lose that yoshi. Those things caused nightmares in many a gamer back in the day, especially the younger ones.
** Level 4-3, Piranha Grove. An entire forest of Piranha Plants, with you in the middle.
** The insta-death machinery in Mecha Castle.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The pipe stages with rap in the background. So incongruous.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The music played in The Tall Tower.
** The ending music.
** The opening theme is quite something as well.
** [[OminousMusicBoxTune Baby Bowser's Lullaby]], anyone?
** The whole damn soundtrack.
*** If you listen real closely to the BGM as you progress from one stage to the next, you'll realize that most of the songs are actually different mixes of the same riff. Awesomeness on the part of the composer.
* GameBreaker: 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 [[ExtremeOmnivore 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.
* ItsEasySoItSucks - The game was designed to bring in younger kids and get them interested in videogames. So the game is substantially easier than usual.
* ItsShortSoItSucks
* {{Mondegreen}} - The song, spoken in [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish]], the Yoshis sing throughout the game.

* TastesLikeDiabetes
* TearJerker: The ending (especially the final moments when the book closes and the last notes) made this troper choke up a little bit the first time.
** [[NightmareFuel I don't think they're crying at this because they like it...]]