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Yoshi's Cookie (1992)

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And here we have the last major component of Yoshi's Cookie on Nintendo Puzzle Collection, the four-player versus mode.

This mode itself is nothing new, but I do believe it's the first time it's been playable on one screen. I could be entirely mistaken, but I believe the original Yoshi's Cookie had a selling point through which it could be connected to the four-player Game Link Cable adapter to play a game much like what you see here. You could also have computer opponents fill the other slots, even allowing you to play it by yourself against three computer players. I'm not entirely sure how well it works, especially with Slave condition which is doubtlessly more powerful when you can see the field you're manipulating, though.

Speaking of Slave, if you pay attention, you'll get to see the interesting case of what happens when a Slaver becomes Slaved by another player as well as what that means for the original victim of the Slave condition.

I didn't realize until after the matches were over that the character select screen actually lists the characters according to four different types. I'm not a scholar of Japanese by any means, and even if I was the font looks a bit small and squished, so I'm not entirely sure what the effects are, but Mario, Yoshi, Peach, and Bowser are "Average Type," "Defense Type," "Speed Type," and "Attack Type" respectively. I figure that Mario is the standard by which the others are set and that Yoshi and Bowser have something to do with how long status conditions afflict the players: Yoshi is under their negative effects for shorter periods of time and Bowser inflicts them for longer periods, I figure...but I have no clue what a "Speed Type" is supposed to be.

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