Title- Fire Sale (9/14/1991)
Worlds- Ice world
Well here we are at the end of an era. The final Nintendo Series to be made by DIC. This series is… ok… I mean it’s good to see Yoshi (especially in a form that’s not his perpetual baby form from Yoshi’s Story. This is good old Lanky Yoshi.) animated. The only appearance outside of the games. Anyway other than that, this series really isn’t that faithful to the games, but that didn’t make the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog series any worse. I guess the animation studio who did season 3 of Captain N did this series too as the quality makes SMB3 look like a work of art. Still as said the Mario style does fit this series, but we still get the constant animation slip-ups.
So without further ado. Yeah, we got the first episode apparently. I really can’t tell as there’s no real turning point, it doesn’t introduce us to the characters, we’re just, there…
Anyway, the episode mainly centres on Yoshi, which I think is really about the only thing that makes this have a ‘first episode’ vibe. Anyway, Yoshi is quite well introduced as a gluttonous coward, and later becomes the hero of the episode, saving everyone. Also Yoshi’s fear of water’s quite good. I’m guessing that’s since Yoshi’s movement is pretty hampered in water, so similar to Sonic he has a fear of water. I enjoyed the whole part on the platform in the sky, with various enemies flying overhead, and seeing Mario actually punch the Goomba’s out of the sky is pretty surprising really.
One thing quite weird is that Kootie Pie Koopa’s still in Ice Land, in the Mushroom World, so we don’t even spend much of the episode in Dinosaur Land. Is this really the first episode?
Anyway overall, a pretty boring episode, which doesn’t really do a good job of introducing us to the new series. Still they did have the Koopa Trooper’s only appearance in this series in this episode, so credit where it’s due.
