YMMV / Yoshi's Island DS

• Contested Sequel: DS is generally regarded as a great game in its own right due to its various additions to the gameplay (in the way of new characters/abilities, enemies, level features and additional minigames and Time Trial modes) that make it feel like a worthy successor to the original game even if it doesn't reach its greatness, but some fans (particularly some fans of the original), dislike its huge Sequel Difficulty Spike and certain unintuitive changes.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Out of all of the babies, only Mario gives Yoshi the ability to run faster by holding down the B button. If you want to use the other babies' abilities, prepare for the game's pace to go down a notch.
• Sequel Difficulty Spike: This game is widely considered to be a much tougher game (unto even Platform Hell levels) than the original, with many dangerous traps that will execute you simply for the crime of not expecting them. The lack of an inventory system to fall back on also contributes to its severe difficulty. It's not an exaggeration to call it one of the hardest Mario games, and even 2D Platformer Games, at least when referring to its latter levels and secret/extra levels.
• That One Level: Has its own section for it, and for a very good reason.
• That One Sidequest: Getting full completion in each stage not only requires knowing the stage front to back due to the obscure secrets and countless points of no return but damn near perfect play due to the lack of items and absurd level lengths making reaching the end of stages with full health a nightmare (though mercifully the checkpoints save your health so you can just intentionally die each time you take damage, unless the level has no checkpoints).
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Bowser's standard model◊. It's very much just his 3D Yoshi's Universal Gravitation sprite◊ with rotoscoping applied. Artistically, he ends up looking oddly detailed compared to the more stylized look of the rest of the game, and thus completely out of place as a result. Bowser's slower and noticeably jankier animation — especially alongside the more fluid movement of his younger self — makes his appearance even more jarring.

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