Game Freak Remade Yoshi's Egg In Pokemon Black And White's Engine

Game Freak Remade Yoshi's Egg In Pokemon Black And White's Engine

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

For those unfamiliar with the long history of Mario's red-shelled dino friend, Yoshi originated in a 1991 game developed by Game Freak (in collaboration with Nintendo) simply called Yoshi. It's a falling block puzzle game people refer to as 'Yoshi's Egg' because you need to match two halves of an egg and hatch them to succeed.

Game Freak would go on to collaborate with Nintendo, Sega and others until striking gold in 1996 with a little-known pair of games called Pokémon Red and Blue. The studio occasionally collaborated on non-Pokémon titles over the next two decades, but no doubt catching them all became the priority for Game Freak, for obvious reasons.

The studio never forgot its roots, though, as evidenced by the discovery of an unreleased 2007 remake of Yoshi built in the engine that would eventually be used for Pokémon Black & White. This piece of software was found in the massive Game Freak, along with some troubling Pokémon lore, cut content from the Kalos region and much more. Those in possession of the stolen content have managed to get this new version of Yoshi's Egg working, and it's essentially a straightforward remake of the original...

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