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Yoshi’s New Island (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

As of 26 September 2025, 16:22 (UTC), this page is active and open for discussion. An FAC coordinator will be responsible for closing the nomination.

Nominator(s): ★ The Green Star Collector ★ (talk) 21:26, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yoshi’s New Island is a 2014 platform game developed by Arzest and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS (but if you participated in any of this article’s prior FA nominations, you probably already knew that.)

After setting aside some time to work on other projects, contributing (and receiving) some miscellaneous quality-of-life improvements throughout the article, and checking in with various editors involved in this article’s past nominations, I’ve decided to be bold and give this another shot.

Notable changes include the following:

• The image in the gameplay section has been moved in accordance with MOS:SANDWICH.
• Kazumi Totaka has been added as a contributor to the game’s soundtrack, which appears to be supported by Eurogamer‘s review.
• The info about Nintendo Life‘s Yoshi game rankings has been removed, as many of these lists are apparently unfortunately based on user ratings 🙁

On this occasion, I offer courtesy pings to every editor who explicitly supported or opposed any of this article’s previous nominations (or seemed strongly inclined to either support or oppose): @SchroCat: @UpTheOctave!: @Hahnchen: @Vacant0: @Noleander: @Jo-Jo Eumerus: @Cukie Gherkin: (Please let me know if there’s anyone I missed!) Of course, if you participated in any (or none) of this article’s previous nominations, your feedback is still strongly encouraged, welcomed, and appreciated. ★ The Green Star Collector ★ (talk) 21:26, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve already given too much feedback on the talk page and in previous nominations so I won’t do another review because barely anything has changed since my previous comments. The article seems to be completely ready now and I don’t see anything that would stop this article from becoming a FA. Support from me. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:53, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing as I previously did a source review, I’ll provide a few comments on the main body this time.

• The paragraphing of the lead looks a bit off, with the discussion of gameplay split over two seperate paragraphs.
• Third paragraph of the lead has a clunky repetition of “The game… The game”, could we remove this?
• Should the link in the infobox be piped as Baby Mario or Baby Mario? I’ve often seen both words considered as part of the character’s name. This applies later as well to Baby Luigi/Baby Luigi and Baby Bowser/Baby Bowser
• Structurally, it would make sense to put “If all lives…five lives” at the end the paragraph.
• A more precise link could be “stork delivers“, but this is a matter of taste.
• I think a duplink is warranted for Nintendo 3DS in §Development and release.
• I don’t think “The Eggdozer concept…more experienced players” works as a list sentence and could benefit from some splittng.
• Last paragraph of that section falls into some repetitive “In [date]…In [date]” structures.

That’s all for now. UpTheOctave! • 8^va? 16:22, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]