One of the most boring and mind-numbingly easy platformers I have ever played. The level design is flat and uninspired, the bosses all feel more or less the same, and the game isn't long enough to impress you with more ideas. The last level is literally just fighting the four bosses again with no changes, or at least not any I noticed. Kirby's suck mechanic is an interesting idea, but it wouldn't reach it's full potential until Kirby's Adventure, and here it just feels slow. Everything in this game feels slow. Kirby moves slow, he flies slow, and defeating an enemy means sucking them up and spitting them out or swallowing them, a process that becomes incredibly tedious, even over the course of a game that takes an hour to beat. This game would be a 4/10 if not for the pretty good soundtrack and some charm, especially on the character designs for Kirby and Dedede that just barely pushes it up to the 5/10 range. This is the first Kirby game I've played and if this is what they are all like, I am not looking forward to playing the rest of the series.

Reviewed on Jul 04, 2023


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