I think the best thing I could say about this game is how playable it felt on 3DS. Triple Deluxe feels like it should have been a home console game just like Return to Dream Land. This is not a favorite Kirby game of mine but good games don't need to be favorites to everyone, they just need to show they have what it takes to be engaging, and that's exactly what Triple Deluxe feels like. It has its unique gimmicks that Kirby games have with a straightforward approach to side-scrollers with quite a provocative story-ending boss fight. Triple Deluxe is perennial as a main-line Kirby entry.

We saw Vinny from Vinesauce play a lategame level where Kirby slurps up an eel in a pipe whole and bought it later that day. We've yet to regret that purchase.

Look, maybe it's because we just haven't played Robobot yet, but we think this game goes MASSIVELY underappreciated and it's so sad it has Middle Child Syndrome between it and Return to Dream Land. This game is super fun! Hypernova is a fun Obligatory Game-Specific Superpower even if it's mostly just a puzzle solving tool later on, the 2.5D Level Design of going between planes VB Wario Land style is very fun, and the bosses are fun (EXCEPT FOR THE LAVA FROG FUCK THAT GUY). And of course, Taranza. If Pikmin 2 didn't make us love weird Nintendo bug guys long before him, he'd make a compelling follow-up.

We'd go as far as to say it's our favorite Kirby game... is that weird???