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Game Reviewed	Yoshi RPG: Secret Legends, by DJ Yoshiman
Review Author	Lemmy Koppa
Created	Nov 15 2006, 2:54 AM

General Commentary and Game Overview

I downloaded this game for the heck of it, wondering what kind of game Yoshiman had made. Well, basically, it's an RPG (not made with RPG Maker, oddly), and it involves Yoshi, as well as a family that warped into the past via time machine (?). How good is it? Read on.

Pros	It has Yoshis in it, and the isometric graphics are fairly nice... that's about all I can think of.
Cons	Basically everything else.

Impressions

Gameplay 5 / 10	Well, since it's scrapped, I'm trying to be as lenient as possible here. You start off in an open field, and you can walk around and jump. Once done playing around in the field, you must travel to the top of the screen, where there's a mailbox. You have to open it with Z (which is something the game doesn't tell you, as Yoshiman apparently deleted it on accident), at which point a letter appears on screen. Then the screen switches to a dark village, at which point the screen pans down to a Yoshi that looks nothing like the Yoshi you're playing as. After a very, very long and boring pause, a family of 5 teleports in and the Yoshi gets a VERY FUNNY expression on his face. Then you get warped to the entrance of the village in the daytime, and after you walk down to the Yoshi who saw the family, he'll say they "just... appeared!". Then the family converse with themselves so fast their voices end up getting cut off by the rest of them. Then they introduce themselves with a ton of graphics glitches, and when you can control your Yoshi again, the screen scrolling locks in place preventing you from going any further. (You can also try to get to Goomba Fields by not talking to the Yoshi and going inbetween the rose bushes in the lower-right hand corner of Yoshi Village, but the game will crash if you do.)
Graphics 3 / 10	Well, for the first part of the game (and by that I mean the intro sequence), the graphics are completely custom. The title screen is pretty thrown together - I'll refrain from describing it. Once you get into the main game, though, the Yoshi you're playing as, the hills, the houses in Yoshi Village, and the trees in Yoshi Village are the only other custom things you'll see in the game. The adult Yoshis are from SMRPG, and the baby Yoshis are from SMW. (Yoshiman tried to give the Baby Yoshis top-down poses, but it just makes them look like fish, and if I didn't look at them from the side I wouldn't know what they were supposed to be.)
Sound 7 / 10	Mostly badly-sequenced MIDIs, but there is a saving grace - a WAV file of the entire Yoshi's Island theme from Paper Mario. Unfortunately, this bogs down the download time immensely... however, Yoshiman does do what little lines the Yoshi has to say, and the entire family, which ends up pretty hilarious.
Replay 1 / 10	This is a scrapped game. There is no replay.

Final Words

Not the best RPG out there. I've seen better fangames starring Yoshi, but unfortunately, I have seen worse.

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