An awful thing has happened! The stork that was meant to deliver baby twins Mario and Luigi to their parents has accidentally dropped the babies from the sky! Thankfully, Yoshi, the helpful little dinosaur who has helped Baby Mario with all of his misadventures for years, witnessed this catastrophe, and has picked up the fallen Baby Mario in a quest to get him back to the stork. Carrying Baby Mario on his back, Yoshi must traverse through lush wilderness, collect coins, eat fruit, and fight off bad guys, to catch up with the stork and give Baby Mario back. What a job!

Luckily for Yoshi, he has help in fighting off those bad guys from you, because he's going to need it! The game begins when the stork drops the babies, and Mario falls through a coin and enemy-filled sky down to the ground. As he falls, it is up to you to draw circles around the enemies to protect Mario from them. Sometimes, the circles that you draw will simply enclose the enemy in a ring of clouds that Mario can then bounce off of, but many times, your circles will actually turn into bubbles, and the enemy will turn into a coin that Mario can collect. The goal here is to change as many enemies into coins as possible and then make sure that Mario collects them. During his fall, Mario gets stuck in a tree that Yoshi just happens to be walking under, and since he is such a good guy, Yoshi runs to catch Baby Mario before he hits the ground. Upon catching him, Yoshi sees the stork flying overhead calling Mario's name, and so he rushes to meet up with the stork to return the baby to him.

The rest of the game involves guiding Yoshi to the coins in the game by drawing cloud pathways, and encircling enemies, turning them into coins, and delivering them to Yoshi. There are a few different modes of play in the game, and the object in each mode is different. In Score Attack Mode, you must get the highest score by the end of the board. In Marathon, you must bring Yoshi and Baby Mario over as many yards as you can before getting caught by an enemy. Time Attack Mode involves rescuing Baby Luigi (Mario's brother) in the shortest amount of time possible, and Challenge Mode requires you to get as far as you can within a specified time limit. The game also features a Vs Mode, so you can challenge your friends, and best of all, playing the Vs Mode only requires one DS game.

Yoshi Touch & Go is a very cute game, but is a bit hard to learn. It is necessary for you to use the stylus, which can be a bit tricky, especially because you often have to think on your feet and make decisions quickly. Once you've mastered the basic controls, however, the game gets easier to handle. The controls are, in fact, very basic, as all you really have to do is be able to draw circles and lines, and drag what you've drawn to the characters on the screen. Achieving a high enough score to move on is a bit tricky though, and if you get easily frustrated, you may want to hold off on playing the game until you have a lot of time to restart and retry.

The music in the game is cute, and the voices are true to the usual Mario standards. When Yoshi catches Baby Mario at the beginning of the game, he declares "I caught you!" and Baby Mario responds with an enthusiastic "Thank you very much!" It's a cute response, and you can't help but smile when you hear it. The enemies in the game are familiar if you've played other Mario games, and the animation is very colorful and cute.

In all, Yoshi Touch & Go is a challenging game, so it will easily suit both older and younger gamers. Despite the challenge level, the game is a lot of fun to play, and involves quick thinking and acting. Yoshi Touch & Go