The Game Boy Advance continues to push the envelope for what can be expected of a portable game's visual appearance. The system has produced a number of games this year that, in their own right, were extremely impressive from a graphical standpoint, both technically and artistically. Here is the winner of Best Graphics on Game Boy Advance:
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo
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One look at Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, and there can be no denying the impressive graphical power of the Game Boy Advance or the sheer artistry of the game itself. Actually, the fact that Yoshi's Island for the GBA is essentially a straight port of a mid-'90s Super Nintendo Entertainment System game makes its visuals seem all the more impressive. Combining a seemingly unlimited assortment of cute, clever, and at times bizarre animated characters and a huge array of colorful, highly stylized background scenery, Yoshi's Island looks better than virtually any platformer to date. Furthermore, the game's use of special sprite scaling and rotation techniques allows for some truly massive and memorable boss encounters, as well as some unique gameplay twists that lend three-dimensional elements to some of the environments. Yoshi's Island is just an unbelievably good-looking game, and somehow it comes across as even more impressive today on the diminutive Game Boy Advance than when it was originally released for the SNES.
Other Nominees:
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Driver 2 Advance
Metroid Fusion
Tekken Advance
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