The level design of the original game is definitely very dated, the new content added like the Magalor Epilogue is leagues better in terms of level design and has greater original bosses which I won’t spoil. this game showcases HAL laboratory’s improvement in the past 12 years. I completed the game 100% and got around 27 hours worth of gameplay from it. A pretty good purchase of a remake of one of my childhood games. Unfortunately though I can definitely see a lot of the flaws of the original game shining through on this one.

Pop-Up Kirby is officially...found media! I enjoy Return to Dream Land back on the Wii, even finished it when I rented it from Blockbuster with my brother. Those were fun days as a kid... This truly was Kirby's return after a decade of Super Star's style left to sit there other than the DS remake. I plan to try the epilogue mode soon, but the minigame mode is a real treat of fanservice!
It's fascinating just how far the Kirby GCN iceberg goes. Once a late GameCube title canned and moved onto the Wii for a 3D action game. Then restarted development and shifted to a 2D pop-up book style game, which eventually became the game we know today. Assets reused for Smash Bros Brawl, Subspace possibly being inspired by Kirby GCN, and beta songs from all 3 iterations of Return to Dream Land. You can hear a specific motif that was truly made for Pop-Up Kirby and GCN, like yeah this totally would fit a storybook Kirby game. All of those assets were in the Wii game and still in this Switch remake, it's kinda crazy! This is just my space to ramble about Kirby GCN cuz it looked so damn cool...

(Edit: 2/13/24) Magalor Epilogue is a fun mode that adds some extra challenge to the mix. I like the moveset, upgrades and action focused level design a lot. I wish I could have tried it in co-op, but it’s a good, short experience in single player.

A very good update to one of the better Kirby games. Return to Dream Land, or RTDL, kicked off a new era of Kirby platformers that lasted through the 3DS all the way to Star Allies on the Switch. But being released way late in the Wii's life, I don't think it got the attention it should have until now.

The game is just so freaking pretty. Its art style is simplistic, but the world is stitched together so well that it looks as good as games on platformers that are far more powerful than the Switch. The updates extend to the UI and graphic design as well, bringing it solidly into the HD era, being stuck at 480p before.

The two new abilities are fine but forgettable. It's unfortunate that the game took away two of the challenge stages from the original to give them to the new abilities. Something that would have made this game even more "deluxe" would have been to incorporate all of the extra challenge stages that were included in Kirby's Dream Collection.

The additional Magolor Epilogue content is good and is a nice change of pace from what is a bit of a wrung-out formula. The final boss of that mode is particularly challenging, and in Kirby's EX mode, some of the bosses have been given new attacks and different behavior to be more challenging than the original game.

I rank this four stars, or a "B" in my book, only because there are still games that do this formula a little better, like Planet Robobot for the 3DS. I played through the main mode, Magolor Epilogue, and Extra mode. If you ever were to be asked, "which Kirby game should I play to get hooked on the series", this game will surely make newcomers fall in love with Kirby's world.

Besonders zu viert macht Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe richtig viel Spaß, bietet mit den diversen Mini-Spielen und Challenges auch abseits der Hautpstory reichlich zu tun und hat mit dem Epilog und anderen kleinen Extras noch mal wesentlich mehr zu bieten als das Original. Egal ob man das Spiel alleine oder zusammen mit Freund*innen spielt - es erwartet einen hier nicht das schwerste Spiel der Welt, dafür aber richtig viel Spaß und wie immer, wenn es um Kirby geht - einfach eine zuckersüße Welt, durch die man einfach gerne läuft und sich danach richtig gut fühlt.

SO MUCH CONTENT. This game has so much to do it's baffling how much they added. Every time I think back to a new aspect I realize there's so much more.

New Copy Abilities:
Mecha (9/10)
Sand (10/10)

This is the only Kirby game in this entire Kirbython that I went into completely blind, and I'm ecstatic to say that not only is this a really good remake, but it completely outclasses the original and is the definitive way to play Kirby's Return To Dream Land. Unfortunately, they didn't correct my biggest issue with the original (that being the fact that you essentially have to beat the game TWICE in order to unlock everything and get 100%) but all of the new stuff this Deluxe package adds are so goddamn fun and worth it that I just don't even care. Let's rapid-fire all of the new things shall we?: The game looks absolutely GORGEOUS now, they added 2 extremely badass new copy abilities as well as corresponding copy ability challenge rooms, an entirely new story where Magolor is the main character, ANOTHER new mode dedicated to returning mini games from previous Kirby games, a STUPID amount of new cosmetic options, The True Arena was completely reworked to include the bosses from the Magolor Epilogue mode as well as a new secret final boss, and ofc all of this means an entire army of new bangers in the soundtrack.

Yeah this is the definitive version of this game, no questions asked

Kirby games never fail to make me happy. Great soundtrack too. And the gimmick of this game, the Super abilities, are flashy and fun to use.

The levels are very easy as is par for the course with Kirby games. Because of that I thought world 1-4 were a bit too easy but I enjoyed them nonetheless. World 5, 6 and 7 weren't much harder but I loved playing through them. And the final fights with Landia and Magolor fights were awesome. Actually most of the bosses in this game are well-designed and fun to fight with the different powers.

The Doomer sections are nice little speedrun sections. The Doomer boss isn't too bad either since you get variations of the boss depending on what world you're in and you probably have a different power everytime you fight him anyway so that keeps things fresh. But after playing through all these sections on both normal and extra modes they started to get a bit samey.
On the topic of Extra mode, I thought it wasn't different enough. It’s Basically just a hard mode with very few changes and it’s still very easy. Just like in the normal mode I ended up with 99 lives at the end of Extra mode.

I love the powers in this game. There’s a lot of them and all of them have their own unique movesets with lots of different attacks.
And you get to use these different movesets in the challenges. I thought they were fun and getting the platinum medals added some much needed difficulty.

Now for the Deluxe-exclusive content we have the Magolor Epilogue and Merry Magoland.
Magolor Epilogue was pretty fun. He has a nice moveset and the fully upgraded dash is crazy good. I thought the beginning was a bit rough though when he is very limited in his moves. And all the levels do look samey. I would have liked some more variety in that department.
Secondly, there is Merry Magoland. It’s okay but I’m just not that into minigames. Most of the missions were pretty easy though and I didn’t mind doing them.
Except for that one Samurai Kirby mission. Fuck that shit. Getting 2x5 in a row was some bullshit.

What do you get when you combine one of my childhood games and an excellent remake?

good that's what duh

not a full 5 stars since it's not perfect but who cares

EU AMO KIRBY

Sinceramente, me diverti muito com o jogo. Os puzzles, embora simples, são divertidos. Pegar os segredos gamers do jogo, embora simples, deixa a gameplay ligeiramente mais desafiadora. O co-op dele é extremamente funcional, o player 2 pode trocar a hora que quiser entre os 4, fora outras versões do próprio Kirby. Isso deixa extremamente dinâmico, já que não existe aquele problema de você estar limitado por não ter as mesmas habilidades do protagonista. Sobre as habilidades evoluídas, achei meio monótono. É só um showzinho visual que diminui um pouco o dinamismo, tanto para o player 1 e principalmente para o player 2, que apenas olha. Mas isso é detalhe, o jogo continua sendo extremamente divertido.

Deixo uma dedicatória para o Magolor. Eu gostei mais do epílogo dele do que a mainline do Kirby. A evolução do Magolor é extremamente divertida, liberando habilidades completamente diferentes em relação ao jogo do Kirby, e, inclusive, o epilogo dele é bem mais dificil que o jogo normal. Eu te perdoo, meu mano Magolor.



HI!

NOTA: 8,0

Sendo uma espécie de remaster, foi merecida a chegada do melhor game da franquia Kirby do Nintendo Wii para o Switch.

Com a introdução de Magolor, um interessante personagem para o game, Kirby's returning to Dreamland Deluxe oferece a experiência que estamos acostumados a ver na franquia, com destaque nas texturas, sombras e a direção de arte sensacionais e uma trilha sonora bem fiel ao original.

Sinto que das aventuras de Kirby, esse é um dos mais divertidos no coop, oferecendo outros personagens além do protagonista, com fases curtas e em ritmo bom, com alguns chefes resgatados e remodelados de outros games e outros novos chefes.

Embora a experiência tenha sido divertida, sem dúvidas a campanha principal é extremamente curta e linear (solo é mais ainda já que as interações do jogo como os minigames são feitos para coop), o jogo poderia ter mais variedade de chefes e ser mais criativo de maneira geral (mesmo com a adição dos modos ultra, os chefes de fenda são quase sempre os mesmos também) talvez na maneira que o jogo esconde seus segredos e itens no meio da fase por exemplo.

Eu diria que o que dá uma salvada no game em questão de conteúdo e custo benefício é seu pós game, com a adição da arena e a campanha alternativa, além de no caso dessa versão em especial, a campanha do Magolor mudando um pouco a gameplay original do jogo ( destaque para o boss final, bem interessante, kirby não costuma errar nesse quesito).

Sem dúvidas uma experiência especial, porém reviver um jogo 2d da franquia me fez admirar ainda mais o Forgotten Lands de Switch com a gameplay em 3d, mostrando que de fato era necessária essa transição, ainda sim, recomendo o game para fãs da bolota rosa.

Not even the most optimistic Kirby fan (me!) could’ve imagined we’d get a remake of Return to Dream Land, especially right after we had just gotten the fantastic Kirby and the Forgotten Land (my GOTY of 2022) and the spin-off Kirby’s Dream Buffet, but we surely didn’t complain about it, and as expected of HAL Laboratory, the remake is fantastic.

Given it’s a Wii game, you’d imagine they’d just upscale everything and call it a day, but no, this is a remake from the ground up, with all models, assets and backgrounds completely remade, and HOLY DAMN if this game isn’t gorgeous! It’s even prettier than the previous 2D Kirby game on the Switch, Star Allies. Just that alone would justify the existence of this remake, but HAL is never content with the bare minimum, so they added some substantial new modes.

The one heavily featured on marketing material was Merry Magoland, a multiplayer-focused side mode featuring many subgames returning from previous games in the series and two brand new ones. Usually the subgames are just meant for a quick diversion in Kirby games, but this mode is surprisingly in-depth, featuring a bunch of missions for each subgame (that are fun to do even in single player!) and collectibles in the form of masks that you can get by playing them. Some will even alter Kirby’s sound effects when worn, which can be funny as heck (loved used the Drawcia and Haltmann masks).

But even better than Merry Magoland was the new campaign, Magolor Epilogue. You get to play as Magolor, the game’s “villain”, who starts incredibly weak, but as you progress through the campaign (which lasts around 3-4 hours, a solid amount for an extra mode) you unlock new abilities that make him overpowered af. The central mechanic of this mode is chaining combos on enemies with your attacks to get more Magic Points (that you use to get the aforementioned abilities), and it’s incredibly satisfying to chain massive combos. Undoubtedly one of the best extra modes in the entire Kirby series.

However, with all that said, Return to Dream Land is the game that started what Kirby fans like to refer to as the “modern era”. As such, it’s a solid yet pretty standard Kirby game, with simple level themes, bosses and gimmicks, aspects that would get much expanded on in the next games. If Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot get remakes as phenomenal as this one I’ll be the happiest Kirby fan in the world.