A little on the easy side, I think I beat this in 3 days during my Christmas break as a child (I didn't collect all the medals back then). The real thing that kept me coming back was the ability to decorate Kirby's room. This game is so cute and the perfect thing to kick back and play for a bit if you need something light and fluffy to raise your mood.
Very, very cozy li'l game. Between the narrator, the music, and the graphics, I almost always find myself relaxed after playing this. It's not entirely mindless - if you want to play all the levels, you have to be good enough to match a certain bead threshold on each level - but a casual playthrough is certainly very casual. But that's also clearly what the game is going for, so I don't really hold that against it. This is more of a comfy spectacle game than a strict technical challenge, and the game does quite a bit with that - levels like 'Splash Beach', 'Melody Town', 'Evergreen Lift', and 'Outer Rings' make for standout set pieces in a game chock full of 'em.
You can sort of tell this is a non-Kirby game concept retrofitted with the li'l guy. He doesn't feel too out of place - helps that he's a shapeshifter anyway, and the vehicular transformations aren't too out of the norm for him. But I do feel a little bad for Prince Fluff and Yin-Yarn, who are shockingly irrelevant for a series that places so much reverence on its own history. Kirby's Avalanche gets the same treatment, but I at least get why THAT doesn't show up. Give Fluff his due!
You can sort of tell this is a non-Kirby game concept retrofitted with the li'l guy. He doesn't feel too out of place - helps that he's a shapeshifter anyway, and the vehicular transformations aren't too out of the norm for him. But I do feel a little bad for Prince Fluff and Yin-Yarn, who are shockingly irrelevant for a series that places so much reverence on its own history. Kirby's Avalanche gets the same treatment, but I at least get why THAT doesn't show up. Give Fluff his due!
i really love this game. i feel like it's one of the more unique takes on kirby too, since he doesn't have copy abilities in this one, and the whole artstyle is changed to yarn (as the title suggests). i have a lot of nostalgia for this game, i always used to mess around with that house creation feature too. it's nice!