I played this one a lot as a kid but I never got around to beating it until today.
It's really impressive what this game accomplishes on hardware like the Famicom. It's by far the best looking game on the system and it's not even close. I've always loved how expressive & colorful the game looks despite the limitations, and it's very charming. I've never been fond of the way Nightmare in Dream Land looked so I've always stuck to this one.
The copy abilities are a huge step up and add a ton of variety to the levels. I'm not super familiar with kirby games after 64 so idk if this is a recurring issue but I do feel like some levels do not mesh well with certain copy abilities, such as Wheelie. There's times you CAN get wheelie in a level but it usually does not end well in said level. The game also really likes to give you limited use copy abilities like Mic or Crash. Losing your copy abilities after a single hit is very annoying too. I got the most use out of Ice, Freeze, Cutter, and Sword, and the rest I kinda just used when I was able to get them. Some like Spark or Fire are situationally good, and some like Parasol and Sleep are just bad. I DO really love how each copy ability has their own little graphic on the hud and it's a shame kirby games after it omit this little detail, I think it's very cute.
Since this is a beefy game, that means it'll ask a lot more out of the system, and it can get ungodly slow at times. If you're playing the 3D Classics version on 3DS This is not an issue, and overclocking the game on Mesen made the game way more fast paced without harming anything about the game, but it's still a genuine issue either way.
The game is also pretty easy, but some technical mechanics add some sort of artificial difficulty in my opinion, like losing your copy ability after getting hit once, and also enemies stunlocking you sometimes can be really annoying, and probably MY biggest issue with the game is how sloppy Kirby feels to control sometimes. Sometimes it feels like I have to REALLY push the direction I want to go for Kirby to actually move, especially if I want him to run. The final boss was also kind of hard for me to figure out what you're actually supposed to do, and it took me a couple of tries to actually beat him. Other than that, bosses were pretty easy for the most part. Besides one or two instances, the game plays fairly.
I'm not super familiar with the entire kirby series, but Adventure was always one of my favorites and it still is. It holds up very well, and is probably one of the best games you could play on the system. It's a very fun game to play on the NES/Famicom, but the 3D Classics version (whether you bought it on the eShop or used alternative methods) or overclocking on an emulator like Mesen is 100% the way to go when playing this game.
It's really impressive what this game accomplishes on hardware like the Famicom. It's by far the best looking game on the system and it's not even close. I've always loved how expressive & colorful the game looks despite the limitations, and it's very charming. I've never been fond of the way Nightmare in Dream Land looked so I've always stuck to this one.
The copy abilities are a huge step up and add a ton of variety to the levels. I'm not super familiar with kirby games after 64 so idk if this is a recurring issue but I do feel like some levels do not mesh well with certain copy abilities, such as Wheelie. There's times you CAN get wheelie in a level but it usually does not end well in said level. The game also really likes to give you limited use copy abilities like Mic or Crash. Losing your copy abilities after a single hit is very annoying too. I got the most use out of Ice, Freeze, Cutter, and Sword, and the rest I kinda just used when I was able to get them. Some like Spark or Fire are situationally good, and some like Parasol and Sleep are just bad. I DO really love how each copy ability has their own little graphic on the hud and it's a shame kirby games after it omit this little detail, I think it's very cute.
Since this is a beefy game, that means it'll ask a lot more out of the system, and it can get ungodly slow at times. If you're playing the 3D Classics version on 3DS This is not an issue, and overclocking the game on Mesen made the game way more fast paced without harming anything about the game, but it's still a genuine issue either way.
The game is also pretty easy, but some technical mechanics add some sort of artificial difficulty in my opinion, like losing your copy ability after getting hit once, and also enemies stunlocking you sometimes can be really annoying, and probably MY biggest issue with the game is how sloppy Kirby feels to control sometimes. Sometimes it feels like I have to REALLY push the direction I want to go for Kirby to actually move, especially if I want him to run. The final boss was also kind of hard for me to figure out what you're actually supposed to do, and it took me a couple of tries to actually beat him. Other than that, bosses were pretty easy for the most part. Besides one or two instances, the game plays fairly.
I'm not super familiar with the entire kirby series, but Adventure was always one of my favorites and it still is. It holds up very well, and is probably one of the best games you could play on the system. It's a very fun game to play on the NES/Famicom, but the 3D Classics version (whether you bought it on the eShop or used alternative methods) or overclocking on an emulator like Mesen is 100% the way to go when playing this game.