What's the verdict on Yoshi's Island DS?

[Oblivion]

I started playing Yoshi's Island again recently, and got a hankering for some more. How's the DS version?

[Himu]

awesome

[recursivelyenumerable]

at the beginning it feels like a shitty attempt at cloning the original without understanding it, but there is some great (and challenging) level design in there (about half of the levels are good). basically, everything presentation-y that was great about the original game (boss fights, music, overall "flow") is lame here, but the actual meat of the game is (mostly) just as good.

[The Sceneman]

it's bad

[AdmiralViscen]

sucks

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The level design is most often pretty horrendous.

[Joe Molotov]

Terrible.

Edit: Nevermind, I was thinking of Yoshi's Touch and Go, I don't remember if I've ever played Yoshi's Island DS.

[The Sceneman]

The level design is most often pretty horrendous.

yeah, thats what was wrong with the game. I remember it sucked but I couldn't remember why.

[CajoleJuice]

I liked it a lot

Gave it to a little cousin who got addicted to it immediately

[SantaC]

it's really underrated. The later levels are harder then most other mario games.

[tiesto]

Really bland, bad level design, lots of cheap deaths, horrible music. Definitely a disappointment and not a patch on the original.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Man, I wish I could jump in here to defend the level design's honor, as I remember really liking about half of it, but too bad I don't remember enough detail to go into specifics.

[fistfulofmetal]

there was a time when i was going to buy a DS just to play this game.