"Yoshi's Story" from Yoshi's Story on the Nintendo 64 (1997)
Composer: Kazumi Totaka
Album: Yoshi's Story Game Soundtrack: Music to Ground Pound To, & Yoshi's Story Original Soundtrack
Label: Nintendo of America, & Nintendo Sound Series/Pony Canyon
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Over the last weekend, The Squire has really gotten into Yoshi's Story on the Switch Online N64 app. He's already known who Yoshi is for several years from Mario Kar 8 Deluxe, the Yoshi's Crafted World launch trailer, the Super Mario Bros. chess set I got him (it was cheaper than buying individual figures), the little Yellow Yoshi LEGO set, a Blue Yoshi that my in-laws got him, and a Green Yoshi that my parents got him a few years ago. So he knows Yoshi, but I don't think he's ever played a Yoshi game before. So this last weekend, he decided that he was tired of playing F-ZERO X and watching Conklederp and I bumble around in Super Mario 64 and decided to take up Yoshi's Story. Kind of.
Keep in mind that The Squire is still only four years old so he's missing some of the finer points in this semi-puzzle-laden platforming game. He'll either run through enemies or jump on them. He'll ignore most of the fruit in the game, and he still needs help doing the ground pound and maneuvering around Pak E. Derm. And will only play the first level, which is where this song is from. So Conklederp and I have been listening to this stage one song, "Yoshi's Story" for a couple of days at this point, occasionally singing the first couple of seconds out loud to each other at random times. I don't know what any of the other songs in the game sound like, because The Squire will get frustrated with the game, then exit out of the game/app and start up either Super Mario World or the demo for Yoshi's Crafted World.
On its own, this song is exactly what I would expect out of a game where you play a depiction of Yoshi as they jump their way through an arts and craft-riddled storybook. After a while, the squeaky-horn can get a little grating, but that's where the rest of the in-game sound effects come in to help soften some of that harshness. But you can't really get too upset about a melody that you envision is being played by a small trio of Yoshis.
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