Rating still holds. Something is special about this game and Squeak Squad for me. My childhood is built around the Flagship Kirby titles, and while not everyone is down with Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad, I am. It isn’t a perfect Metroidvania, your CPU allies are negligible and stupid when they hold weight, and it isn’t mapped particularly well, but it’s far less bad map wise than little me remembered. Finished it with 95% completion, and in 2 days. My little cousin got me the Switch Online expansion, and say what you will, but the GBA emulator, and filter are rather excellent with the OLED. It’s rare you see me hyping up a graphics filter, but this put CRT filters to shame. I’ll always love this game; it’s charming with its unique bestiary, its soundtrack, and its structure. I think it’s a really nice game, emblematic of the era in the early 2000s where Nintendo outsourced a lot of handheld titles, and they still tended to slap. This slapped.

Fantastic but still in early access in the simplest definition. If you can accept that there are placeholder models and portraits or unfinished portraits, and one route isn’t fully finished and the story isn’t done yet, hop on. This is excellent. It changes systems and feels fresh, yet so loving to the original. I’m not going to give a rating until 1.0, as that’s not really fair of me if I give something which is explicitly in early access a 4.5, yet openly diss games which release unfinished. It’d be disingenuous to the process too. I look forward to seeing what Supergiant creates here. I’ll re-review it and score it once we truly have an ending. For now, I think it’s best I put it down until its next major update to reduce any chance of burnout.