Excellent story, but the gameplay is just okay.

Second-best Kirby game, with the best soundtrack in the series IMO. If you like Kirby or 3D platformers, play this. Please.

This game gave me repetitive strain injury

The best Kirby game, released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the second best Kirby game. If you get a chance and you like 2d platformers, definitely pick it up.

The game is kinda generic compared to the games that came afterwards, but when it came out it was a very welcome return to form for the franchise. And it has the second-best antagonist in any of the games.

This and Black/White are the standards Pokemon games should be held to. The story's engaging without being too in-your-face, the Sinnoh region is the best designed region in the whole franchise, a lot of my favorite Pokemon are from this game, and it's super easy to just pick up and play.
The only reason this is 4.5 instead of 5 is because of technical issues slowing down the game in-battle and while saving.

The added story was eh, but the extra classes, units, and boosting items for the main game made it so much more worth it.
(This review is for the whole DLC pass)

It was fun a long time ago, but it's completely p2w nowadays. The Flash version is pretty good, though.

Really fun for a few dozen hours, but after that it got extremely repetitive and frustrating.

why

Game was too ambitious for the devs, but I still love this game. I have over 130 hours into it and finished all 4 routes + the DLC. If you're interested in the series this is a great starting point because it has decent tutorials and a ton of quality of life stuff that previous games lack.

Best Smash game casually and almost as good as Melee competitively.

Dumb and frustrating but super fun