I am slowpoking a bit here, but I just finished Yoshi’s Island DS and I must say it is the sorriest excuse for a sequel I have ever had the misfortune of playing. I borrowed it from a friend thinking it would be a good way to pass the time, but it just proved to be be way to tedious.
It looks like it should be fun, right? WRONG!
I don’t want to go into to much detail because this isn’t a review but, the whole game just seemed lazy. The level designs were so bland really out stayed their welcome. The switching riders feature feels a bit pointless. The music is bland, uninspired, and is nothing like the classic Yoshi Island music. Honestly, a port of the SNES version would have been better, but I think they did that already on GBA
Then I started playing Katamari Forever. This game was fun, but it makes it painfully obvious that they are running out of ideas for the series. A large chunk of the levels are rehashes of old levels or the exact same level from a previous game. There doesn’t seem to be much new music either since most is just remixed versions of old songs from Katamari Damacy. 
I did enjoy playing the game, but it just felt so unnecessary. I really believe the Katamari games should have ended after the second one, because that one was perfect.
I like sequels as much as the next guy, but some games really do not need sequels. Sequels have chance to take a game and improve upon it while keeping everything that was great about it, but these are just lazy copies of the first with some new graphics or gimmicks. I really wish some developers would realize when a franchise is getting stale and how to fix them or just let them die. I would mention the Sonic games, but that would be way to easy.
Speaking of sequels…
