They make a return here, some refreshed from the original release, but again most of them you’ll play maybe once or twice with your team of four and move on. There are also a decent amount of challenge rooms you’ll unlock over time, smaller levels with specific requirements to complete that have just the right amount of clever design and difficulty.Īnother traditional Kirby element is the decent but largely forgetful mini-game collection. It won’t strain the old brain muscles too much to figure it out, but there are a few clever ways in which the game points you in the right direction to solve them, for instance by simply having an enemy a few rooms prior with the right ability you could have sucked up but ignored. Every level holds a handful of energy spheres to collect, and while the vast majority are easy to obtain, some of them require a little cunning and the correct ability in order to reach them. Collect enough stars and banking lives shouldn’t be a problem either, but it’s worth noting.Īs for those challenge-starved adult fans such as myself, there’s some decent meat to chew off the bones (not that Kirby has any teeth…I think). Most boss fights can be washed out quickly when you have four players spamming their ability (actual skill be damned), though be mindful that if you do die it’s a shared health pool. I say that since, when all four are working together, the majority of the story mode is far easier to complete than trying to master it solo. For those looking for an added challenge, that’s there too, but the target audience has been and always will be kids, and to that end this adventure nails its most important objective.Īs it does cooperatively, where four players can jump into the action across every level and absolutely trash the enemy. So unlike Mario, Kirby can survive plenty of encounters and food items to restore health drop rather regularly (there are options to make it even easier for those little ones who need it). Okay, maybe that’s pushing it a little, but the whole point of Kirby is to make it as easy as possible to allow just about anyone, young or old, to jump and float their way through each level to the goal without too much trouble. From sucking up just about anything comprised of physical matter (enemies and obstacles included), to copying the numerous abilities of your foes to use for your own gain, Kirby remains an unbeatable legend of video game lore. In what is now Kirby tradition, everything you would expect of the pink puffball is here. Each mission brings with it new enemies to retrieve powers from, which you will use to guide Kirby through obstacles, some minor puzzles and a healthy dose of platforming to the goal. The plot, however, remains the same as the original release, which sees a strange alien vessel crashing through a worm hole onto planet Popstar and a subsequent quest to retrieve its parts with the aid of new friend Magolor. Having adventured into the 3D platformer space in the very well received Kirby and the Forgotten Land, we now venture back to more familiar 2D territory in Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, and thankfully the magic hasn’t been lost in the process.Īs a repackaged edition of the 2011 Wii original, this aptly titled deluxe package not only polishes things up for the far superior Switch console visually and audibly, but also introduces a handful of new additions to spice things up. The pink puffball’s track record tells a story of easy to play adventures, plenty of cooperative shenanigans and more food than anyone, creature or otherwise, would ever be able to eat in a lifetime. There’s nothing more colourful and enjoyable than a good Kirby platformer.
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