This one's for Joel, who reacted to Yoshi Island 2's announcement at Nintendo's press conference with the sort of hysterical squealing usually employed only by prepubescent girls around Justin Timberlake or swishing effeminates backstage at a muscle man show.

It's rather hard to tell from the video (the one on the Nintendo press site is similarly low quality), but it looks like Yoshi won't simply be dragging Baby Mario around. The trailer seems to show a baby Toadstool whose polka-dot cap can double as a parachute umbrella, as well as what appears to be the physical incarnation of a crack habit riding monkey-like on on Yoshi's back. Possibly Donkey Kong. How old is Yoshi exactly, anyway? Apparently the octagenarian of the Mushroom World.

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