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Cortico, pero para pasar el rato.

My first foray into the Kirby Series, decided to start with the little guys first adventure, Kirby's Dream Land on the Game Boy.

I had no idea what to expect when going in, all I knew is that Kirby could inhale enemies and steal their powers. My only experience with the greedy little marshmallow was through the Super Smash Bros franchise.

I am delighted to say that I am pleasantly surprised with how good this little game is, and I now understand why this series is so popular. I will definitely be coming back to this series in the future to check out what else is on offer.

So, it's a 2D platformer on the Game Boy, but it offers a unique and easy to understand control scheme and level layout. Theres only 5 levels with a boss at the end of each, so it should only take 45 to 60 minutes to complete, even completely blind. It's also extremely easy with very little challenge, but that doesn't seem to matter because what's on offer here is so delightfully charming, that you'll spent that hour or so smiling and humming away.

Kirby controls better than Mario on the Game Boy which shocked me. He can inhale enemies, fire them back at other enemies and float infinitely with a press of the up button. It's very intuitive after playing for a couple on minutes. That's really all their is to it. The stages are all very short and easy to follow with a some-what limited variety of enemies, all of which are charming, cute and easy to deal with. There is a little challenge (and I do mean a little) with one or two of the bosses, but it's nothing a 6 year old shouldn't be able to handle.

Actually, this would make a superb game to get kids into gaming. Yes it's old, but Kirby is such a lovable little dude that kids will love him right away and with the lack of challenge, younger players will get immense satisfaction with beating baddies and completing stages. I'd imagine that it's very engaging. As an adult, you could probably skip over it but it's great if you have an hour or so to kill and haven't played it before.

The music is all brilliant. The little chip-tune melodies are real ear worms and should be instantly recognisable to any Smash Bros players, including some of the enemies, items and the big bad guy, King Dedede.

For Game Boy platformers, I'd actually chose this over Mario Land 1, 2 and maybe even Super Mario bros Deluxe on the Game Boy Color. Top stuff by HAL!

They gave the blimp a gender!

the first game in the series and it SHOWS. it's alright but there's no harm in skipping this

edit: finished extra mode. whoever designed the kubula fight in extra mode is going to answer to god for their sins


Beat it on a whim on NSO.
Its okay.

Such a fun game, Kirby is just so good at everything and makes for a forgiving but progressively more challenging game. Soundtrack kicks arse

Por mais que, em comparação com o seu irmão de NES, esse pareça ser uma tech demo do que estava por vir, ele é um jogo muito gostoso de jogar e muito competente para o que se propõe a fazer, sendo uma adição extremamente sólida para a biblioteca do Game Boy. Bem curtinho e fácil de zerar, perfeito para um daqueles dias que você não quer se estressar com joguinho nenhum.

Why is Kirby white on the cover of this game? Was that what his color was originally supposed to be?

Anyways it's fine, pretty average start for this series but it introduced king dedede who is the greatest character in fiction

Not 5 stars because he's not pink yet >:C

Got in a #Kirbymindset as of recent largely due to just thinking about the franchise and how much I love it, I don't really have a consistent video game grind anymore as I find it very easy to lose my commitment to them with other mediums but uh even still I had a MASSIVEE Kirby phase a few years back that's given the character a special place in my heart. They're all very simplistic games when it comes to how they're designed which fits with Sakurai's general montra of "Easy to learn hard to master", but that combined with the general innocence of the character makes them all very comforting games for me with ones like Planet Robobot Return to Dreamland or the very recent Forgotten Land becoming all time favourites for me. In fact this recent kick might get me to play some of those again, this statement could go either way and potentially be horribly outdated but I have a lot of ground to cover with him so we'll see! But uh anyway decided to fufill this recent urge and go back to this one due to it being a brisk 5 levels, and uh it being that short is both this game's biggest weakness and biggest strength at the same time. Biggest weakness in that because of it I couldn't really call it one I'd urge many to actively play much, in fact Super Star just remakes it all in one of its modes so it sometimes begs the question as to why it should even be playedjikefofe. It's SO simple that this is pre Kirby's iconic Copy Ability move, which in some aspects I appreciate as in later games I almost never use his ability to suck shit up and hurl em back at enemies but still it's kind of weird playing a Kirby game like that! However I'd also call its biggest strength as it's one that's very easy to pick up and play casually, the Gameboy has a lot of games like this that were built for simplicity but I think this is one of the best examples as you literally got those 5 levels that if you're good enough you can beat in just a little over half an hour. And yk for a game built in that vein I think Kirby's Dream Land is very fun! It's got some of the best music on the handheld, levels that while not overly complicated have a very nice vibe to them that makes it easy to relax to, and while I do think it's sort padding to make you fight all the bosses a second time when if you're doing this all in one go you'd have done them like right before I do reallllyyy like that last Dedede fight that ends the game on a very high note. Despite it kind of just being a game of waiting for him to jump so you can hit the stars at him the simplicity of it combined with the banger music makes it super effective, + on this playthrough I had to cut in real clutch with 1 health point left on last life so doing beating it then felt super awesome genuinelyefijkfeokfe. Plus in a morbid sense it's funny our first final boss with a King Penguin before it morphed into other worldy gods every other game, what a franchise this is really! But uh TLDR is Kirby's Dream Land is a LOT of fun, I haven't tried out that Extra Mode cuz I hear it's a pain in the ass but maybe I should considering how enjoyable this revisit was! Something something better then Mario Kart 64, goodbye everybody it's funny when I remember what a "Backloggd" is!

A solid first attempt at the Kirby formula, still fun all these years later despite its short length and low difficulty.

i mean, it's kirby before kirby. not awful, but the controls are loose, the game is rather short, and it's incredibly easy. it's kirby 0.5

Only just found out this game had an "Extra Game" mode, and that it is evil.

Decent game

i got this from the now defunct Club Nintendo website and man for a Game Boy this was great!

I found this game to be my favorite Game Boy game out of all the ones I’ve played. The soundtrack is good, the gameplay is simple but fun and not flawed. The only issue with this game is that you can’t have abilities like later Kirby games. But as the first Kirby game on the Game Boy, it plays pretty good.

Played on my original Game Boy and Kirby's Dream Collection, and beat King Dedede on both Normal and Extra Mode. Kirby's Dream Land is a short-and-sweet game that I'll always come back to for more replays. It may not have the depth of its follow-ups, but despite its simplicity, it is a fun time that every Kirby fan should give a shot.

Maybe my most replayed Gameboy game as a kid, in part because of how brisk it is. King DeDeDe drove me crazy the first time I got to him, but after umpteen-jillion playthroughs he was a pushover. So fun, such memorable bosses, glad they went on to make him pink instead the plain white from this box art though

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.”

And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.”

And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.

O primeiro joguin do balãozinho rosa

Sabe quando você ta cansado de desafios e quer jogar algo tranquilo pra relaxar? Então, Kirby é o jogo perfeito pra isso e até mesmo o primeiro da franquia tem essa pegada casual, fácil e simples pra você só sentar e se divertir, mas ó calma ai calabreso não ache que porque eu falei que o jogo é fácil, que você não vai falhar em nenhuma parte, se tu for meia boca em plataforma que nem eu tenho certeza que algum boss ai vai te prender por uns 5 minutinho KKKKK

Mas enfim, Kirby's Dream land é divertido a beça achei genial a trilha sonora e o estilo de gameplay dele pra época, de fato um jogo pra todo mundo tanto pros antigos em plataforma, quanto pra quem também é novo

Joguei esse aqui pela coleção la de Nintendo Wii, mas não deu pra marcar no site, se tu tiver essa coleção ai e quiser jogar essa versão, pode ir que é muito boa e os controles tão funcionando muito bem

I feel insane for putting this over Adventure but genuinely I think this is a lot more fun because it's more tightly packed and I can replay it over and over again without getting worn out

This game was fun! It holds up a lot better than I expected it to, and at only like 30 minutes I don't see why not to play.

This review contains spoilers

For personal reference more than anything. Have done spoiler warning just in case.

First time playing and first playthrough. Only played the standard game, did not do the extra game (hard difficulty).

I haven't really played many Game Boy games so this was kind of new for me. I expected it to be really hard and to get bored after a couple of minutes but hearing that this game was only about half an hour kind of interested me, especially given how famous of a character Kirby is and that I've even tried a number of his games.

This was quite enjoyable, I initially wasn't sure as the game seemed painfully easy and simplistic to begin with but by the time I got to the first boss fight I was having a fair bit of fun with it. The stages genuinely surprised me as I didn't realise how much they would be able to do with this game but also how the game keeps introducing new elements and expecting the player to keep up with it.

The boss fights were probably my favourite part of the game though as the majority felt fun and seemed to each offer a different experience. The only two I wasn't as keen on was the double box mover fight in the second stage (although this just seemed to be because I wasn't quite aware of where I could and should move to after hitting one, by the time I got to the second version of this fight in the last stage I was enjoying it a lot more) and the cloud boss fight from the fourth stage as I just felt it was a bit too quick and big given how small the area you fight it is.

My biggest complaints don't really feel like they're this games fault. I didn't like the all green of the game but from what I get that's just how Game Boy games were. Making Kirby float up and moving him around was kind of annoying but I think that's just because I had to use one of the Switch's analog sticks. I would have liked there to be a bit more music so the same tracks wouldn't keep playing, but as this is the first game in the franchise and due to the overall power of the Game Boy I wouldn't be surprised if the developers just weren't able to add more to the game due to either financial or hardware reasons (and at the end of the day, I did like the music so its not that big a deal).

There's not much to say really so just a last couple of scattered thoughts, the story is there but its like a paragraph long and I literally had no opinion on it, I appreciated that the game would take you back to the start of the area you lost a life in as I expected it to take me back to the start of the stage.

Overall this was good, I don't think it was the most memorable experience nor do I think I'll come back to it but it was a fun way to kill half an hour and has made me a little more interested in playing more games from this franchise.

The first Kirby game! Not bad, very basic.

Jogo curto mas bem legal
Ele é simples em quase tudo mas faz muito bem o que se propõe

Vou dar 3 estrelas e meia por ser curto, mas é muito divertido e entrete muito bem


A very cute and alright start. Always considered this Super Mario Land's cousin by how short (both beatable in single sessions) and approachable are.
Sure, compared to all the others it doesn't offer that much (beside a very nice post-game for anyone wanting a challange) and Kirby's Adventure pull out much more potential, but this is the first game and for all I care it did an awesome job for presenting the series.

Não tão bom quanto Kirby's Adventures de NES, mas igualmente divertido. É entendível pelas limitações de console e mesmo conhecendo e experimentando após a versão de NES, foi uma boa experiência.

Kinda unbelievable how well this has aged for what it is.
So many games later, so much stuff missing added later on.
And yet its really fun to revisit for the hour or so it lasts.