A little too much explaining...

About halfway through Yoishi's story I got to this water world. Before you get to jump in to the water there is a very helpful hint box. It tells you “to control Yoshi under water use the control stick”. Thank you Nintendo I couldnt have figured that one out myself. Its not like I could have gotten through half of the game without realizing what the control stick does.

Talking about the control stick, this gives me a good reason to wine about something else. Why do I have to use the control stick in a game thats basically is a 2d platformer with some fancy 3d effects. Why cant I just use the D-pad, it makes these types of games so much easier to control. Maybe it has something to do with it being one of the first N64 games and Nintendo wanting to force gamers to learn to use the new control stick. Anyhow I never felt like I had full control over Yoshi, not until that underwater level I was talking about earlier, the one with the stupid hint box. There they had actually remade the whole swimming mechanism to allow Yoshi to swim in all 360 degrees. There it made a lot of sense to use the control stick but since the rest of the game is on land it almost ruins the game. Now if I had been allowed to use the D-pad the maybe the “use the control stick” box would have made some sense on the water level.