One of the other things the new star allowed the Nintendo EAD team to do was make an adjustment to the difficulty of the game. It was the trickiest of YoshiвЂ™s skills to get to grips with as a player, but it gave the game a unique feeling amongst platform games. Hitting the A button again would cause Yoshi to throw an egg in the direction he was currently aiming for. By hitting the A button, the player would reveal an aiming reticule that moved back and forth along an arc in front of Yoshi вЂ“ while still allowing him to run and jump freely. The development team managed to hit upon an elegant solution that managed to squeeze the whole process into two button presses. While the egg-throwing mechanic would be easy to implement in modern games thanks to the prevalence of dual analogue sticks, achieving it in YoshiвЂ™s Island required some ingenuity. 'Unlike the Mario series, we tried to give the gameplay a more gentle and relaxed pacing' Takashi Tezuka, Nintendo вЂњIt was a real boon for ideas for the game!вЂќ

вЂњHaving said that, though, fusing this egg-throwing mechanic into a platformer helped us invent ideas that hadnвЂ™t been possible until that point,вЂќ Hino points out. вЂњHaving said that, though, giving users the ability to simultaneously control both YoshiвЂ™s movement and the direction they throw eggs in proved challenging and gave us quite the headache!вЂќ However, it proved to be a crucial element of the game. вЂњWe wanted to include egg-throwing as throwing actions werenвЂ™t something that had appeared much in Mario games,вЂќ Tezuka tells us. Instead of containing items or more Yoshis, as theyДid in the likes of Super Mario World, eggs could be thrown, rebounding off walls, breaking through barriers, collecting objects and smashing enemies. However, by pushing the down button with an enemy in YoshiвЂ™s mouth, the playerД¬ould have Yoshi lay an egg. As in Super Mario World, Yoshi could use his tongue to eat enemies and then spit them back out at other enemies as an attack. However, the ability that most closely tied into YoshiвЂ™s existing skillset was his unique capability to create eggs. Super Mario World (1990) on SNES is considered as one of the greatest games of all time. вЂњYoshi turned into quite the cute character, and we were very interested in creating some kind of spin-off with him thatвЂ™s where it all began.вЂќ We thought it would be better to have a new character rather than a horse, so Mr Hino and I went about creating one,вЂќ Tezuka tells us. вЂњThe idea for Yoshi came about because Mr Miyamoto wanted to have Mario ride a horse. What made Yoshi the character of choice over the likes of Wario, Luigi or Peach? This goes back to the creation of the character for Super Mario World, as we discover. That makes sense вЂ“ but the Mushroom Kingdom is home to many interesting characters, many of whom have also starred in spin-offs. We felt that changing the lead character would give us a different perspective and different gameplay possibilities, and so we started thinking up a game with Yoshi as the lead.вЂќ 'Before Yoshi's Island, weвЂ™d only created games with Mario as the lead character. вЂњWe felt weвЂ™d done everything we wanted to for side-scrolling with Super Mario World, and so wanted to try creating a platformer with a different angle to it,вЂќ the developers explain. Working together at Nintendo EAD, this team wanted to take a different approach instead. They were two of the directors of YoshiвЂ™s Island, alongside fellow directors Toshihiko Nakago and Hideki Konno, with Shigeru Miyamoto acting as producer. It turns out that Takashi Tezuka and Shigefumi Hino didnвЂ™t think so. Love retro gaming? From SNES to Mega Drive, PSOne to Xbox, and Spectrum to C64, Retro Gamer magazine delivers amazing features and developer interviews about history's best games every month, and you can save up to 57% on a print and digital subscription right now.

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