When I was younger I used to love Kirby games, after growing up they started to bore me cause it was "too easy" and inside my ignorant head if a game can't challenge me, it's not fun.

This game reminded me of why Kirby is so good as a game even if it's doesn't necessarily challenge you, it's just filled with creativeness and love. Just exploring the levels is always fun cause it's so filled with little secrets, details and also what every new entry on the Kirby series brings to the table, new creative stuff.

On this game there is a ton of new stuff KIRBY IS NOW A 3D PLATFORMER THAT'S ALREADY SHOCKING but not only that, the mouthful mode is such a weird idea that could be gone so wrong but it's executed so well that it's just makes you smile every time you use it, the segments are so carefully designed to showcase the capabilities of each ability (including the copy abilities we are accustomed) that in a matter of a minute they introduce, evolve and subvert a ability, it's just a masterful design.

The game encourages you to explore every inch of the level to get every item, the exploration is so rewarding since just walking through the level is fun but not only that, they give you upgrades to your abilities and also to your own little hub where you can relax with mini-games and side stuff, upgrading your copy abilities just make every ability matters more, in older games I kinda always had the favorites ones but in this game you just want to use every ability since they are always evolving in the craziest ways, goddammit they even made the Sleep ability appealing and useful.

In other aspects the game also shines, the environments looks so good and contrasts so well with Kirby. The thematic is a post apocalyptic world but every level feels so alive, this game is kinda how a kid imagine a empty world "I would hangout at the mall, eat every food I want and enjoy the amusement park all by myself" and your mind when you are playing looks exactly like that, you just immerse yourself in the scenarios and chill even in the most chaotic ones, there are little details that helps bringing life to each scene. You see a sun umbrella and a ice enemy is below it protecting themselves from the sun, you walk through a snow storm and enter a cave to find dog like creatures sleeping close to each other keeping their bodies warm, this game is filled with that attention.

For the last the music and the story, the music is just phenomenal if this game was only the soundtrack it would already be a masterpiece (but you have a entire game by bonus!) and the story holy shit, it's just a simple story that tells itself by the environments, props and enemies with barely any dialogue but man... the ending changes everything, when you reach the ending you are like "well this game was fun, i think it couldn't get any better" and them it hits you with a fucking boulder (not literally), absolute cinema.

Conclusion, it's a masterpiece and you should play it if you don't play it I'm killing you.

Bounced off of this at launch because the co-op felt clunky and having someone permanently stuck as a single ability in Spear was disappointing. Finally came back to it and while it's still a bummer that you can't have two players as Kirby, this time we loved it (and it certainly helps that Spear is exclusive to Bandana Waddle Dee). There's some really fun level design here and Mouthful Mode is a great way to introduce both new abilities and a successful take on the gimmicky game specific shake-up that Kirby's been doing each entry since Return to Dreamland. Far more of a Robobot than a Hypernova, that's for sure! Also loved the level specific objectives, that's a fun way to replay levels and make sure that I've explored them to their fullest. The transition to 3D in a Mario 3D World style really paid off and I'm excited to eventually see the Kirby team use what they've learned here to give us another take on this formula. Plus, big props to the finale for having a very funny way to ultimately defeat the final boss - of all of the things Kirby has done to defeat an eldritch abomination, that's both the funniest and one of the most exciting ones yet.