Kirby Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a fun game that is the typical Kirby sidescroller.
This is the upgraded remaster of the original Return to Dreamland on Wii.
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The gist of the story is, a Wizard named Magalor crash lands on Planet Popstar on his ship. Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee, Meta Knight, and King Dedede are hanging out when they see Magalor's ship crash. Magalor gives a quick gist at what happened to him, the 4 headed Dragon Landia shot his ship down after a great battle. Magolor needs you to travel Popstar to different lands in order to collect the missing ship pieces that broke off.
Kirby and Co help Magalor get his ship pieces back in 5 different lands. After getting all main pieces of the ship, Magalor takes Kirby and the gang to Halcandra.
After going through Egg Engines land, and Dangerous Dinners they finally fight Landia the 4 headed Dragon with 1 head having 4 crowns, after Landia takes too much damage, it splits apart into 4 dragons.
Kirby finally learns the truth that Magolor wasn't randomly attacked by the 4 Landia dragons, he was trying to get the crown, after successfully putting on the crown Magolor travels to cosmos in order to destroy Popstar and rule the universe. Kirby and co are helped by the 4 Landia Dragons in order to defeat Magolor EX, after this the true aspect of the Crown is revealed when Magolor soul is corrupted by the crown, making Kirby destroy Magolor. The game ends with Kirby and co returning to dreamland seeing the Lor Starcutter (Magolor's ship) and the 4 Landia dragons fly off into the cosmos.
There is a bonus epilogue where Magolor redeems himself by going through the dark dimension in order to regain his powers and reconstruct a Gem apple. After he does so the Gem Apple is corrupted by the Crown turning into a the Master Crown, a giant demonic apple tree. After Magolor defeats it, the crown is destroyed... allowing a portal for Magolor to escape the dark dimension... allowing Magolor to complete his redemption arc. Taking the apple with him and planting it in Dream Kingdom allowing for more Gem apples to grow.
Magalor redeems himself, and decides to become a business tycoon, making him become a business owner of Magolor land, and also being the Manager for Super Kirby Clash, officially canonizing it and Galacta Knight.
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The game has 7 worlds with 4/5 levels within each, with boss stage. So for the most part for the main game you get 5 level (4 traversal + 1 Boss) for 3 of the worlds, for the next 5 worlds you get 6 levels (5 traversal levels + 1 Boss).
The power ups in the game are:
- Beam - Magic wand
- Bomb - BOOM!
- Crash (Insta-kill all enemies on screen when used - 1 time use when obtained)
- Cutter - Boomerang
- Fighter - Punches and kicks
- Fire - Fire breath
- Hammer - SMASH!
- Hi-Jump - Hi jump that causes a small quick flight
- Ice - Ice breath and skating
- Leaf - leaves...
- Mike - Microphone shout
- Needle - Spikes
- Ninja - Sword and throwing Kunais
- Parasol - Umbrella that helps you float down and attack within... generic and boring
- Sleep - Sleeps and restores health
- Spark - Electricity
- Spear - STAB AND THROW!
- Stone - Turn to stone/statutes
- Sword - SLASH!
- Tornado - Mini Tornado
- Water - Water breath
- Whip - WHIP!
- Wing - Fly like a bird
- Festival (Insta-kill all enemies on screen when used - 1 time use when obtained)
And there are 5 Super Abilites:
- Flare Beam - Giant energy ball that floats on screen via player control.
- Grand Hammer - Giant hammer that gets bigger depending on how you move the joystick
- Monster Flame - Kirby summons a fire dragon to fly across the screen quickly.
- Snow Bowl - Kirby becomes a giant rolling snowball
- Ultra Sword - Giant Sword Slash
In Magolor's Epilogue it mainly works as Magalor restoring his abilites after going through levels in the dark dimension.
Throughout said levels and combos, you can upgrade his energy spheres, and dash!
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Levels play out like this:
Get from point A to Point B, fight a miniboss occasionally on levels. Along the way throughout the levels, collect gear spheres scattered throughout all levels (120 in total in the entire game). After doing that 4 or 5 times depending on the world you fight a boss with Kirby a special ability (if in co-op you play as BANDANA WADDLEDEE, META KNIGHT, KING DEDEDE with their unique playstyles)
If you collect all gear spheres you unlock challenge mode in Magolor's ship that has you use specific abilities pertaining to the door associated with said ability. Essentially you go through the challenges by defeating all enemies and collecting all coins for a high score of either Bronze, Silver, or Gold rank, and if you're a perfectionist speedrunner, PLATINUM!
The gear spheres also unlock multiplayer minigames for you and your friends to enjoy on either Magolor's ship or via Magolor Land! Here in Magolor land you can unlock a bunch of Masks for kirby to wear of different characters, both hero and villians like: Dark Meta Knight, Galacta Knight, Morpho Knight, Marx, etc.
There is also the Arena mode that essentially works like a boss rush mode having you fight different bosses depending on the difficulty chosen it features stronger versions of ingame bosses as well as special variation bosses. And a secret boss, GALACTA KNIGHT!
Overall I enjoyed my time with Kirby Return to Dreamland deluxe, it's a very fun game that works both single player, multiplayer when going through the main game. Magolor's Epilogue is a great addition adding more to the kirby lore and making Super Kirby Clash Canon. I'll be honest I didn't check out Magolor Land too much since I don't have friends who want to play the multiplayer mode... and certainly because they don't want to use the joycons for said minigames lol.
The arena is a fun boss rush.
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I think overall as a remaster, it's the definitive way to play Kirby's Return to Dreamland! However I'm giving it a 4 out of 5 stars because while the levels were distinct, they did get repetitive, and while storywise I liked Magolor's Epilogue and I love his gameplay and abilites... his levels needed more uniqueness, they all felt he same and felt like the development team didn't know what else to do to make his levels unique.
Still I recommend Kirby's Return to Land Deluxe to anyone looking for more Kirby! Thanks.
This is the upgraded remaster of the original Return to Dreamland on Wii.
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The gist of the story is, a Wizard named Magalor crash lands on Planet Popstar on his ship. Kirby, Bandana Waddle Dee, Meta Knight, and King Dedede are hanging out when they see Magalor's ship crash. Magalor gives a quick gist at what happened to him, the 4 headed Dragon Landia shot his ship down after a great battle. Magolor needs you to travel Popstar to different lands in order to collect the missing ship pieces that broke off.
Kirby and Co help Magalor get his ship pieces back in 5 different lands. After getting all main pieces of the ship, Magalor takes Kirby and the gang to Halcandra.
After going through Egg Engines land, and Dangerous Dinners they finally fight Landia the 4 headed Dragon with 1 head having 4 crowns, after Landia takes too much damage, it splits apart into 4 dragons.
Kirby finally learns the truth that Magolor wasn't randomly attacked by the 4 Landia dragons, he was trying to get the crown, after successfully putting on the crown Magolor travels to cosmos in order to destroy Popstar and rule the universe. Kirby and co are helped by the 4 Landia Dragons in order to defeat Magolor EX, after this the true aspect of the Crown is revealed when Magolor soul is corrupted by the crown, making Kirby destroy Magolor. The game ends with Kirby and co returning to dreamland seeing the Lor Starcutter (Magolor's ship) and the 4 Landia dragons fly off into the cosmos.
There is a bonus epilogue where Magolor redeems himself by going through the dark dimension in order to regain his powers and reconstruct a Gem apple. After he does so the Gem Apple is corrupted by the Crown turning into a the Master Crown, a giant demonic apple tree. After Magolor defeats it, the crown is destroyed... allowing a portal for Magolor to escape the dark dimension... allowing Magolor to complete his redemption arc. Taking the apple with him and planting it in Dream Kingdom allowing for more Gem apples to grow.
Magalor redeems himself, and decides to become a business tycoon, making him become a business owner of Magolor land, and also being the Manager for Super Kirby Clash, officially canonizing it and Galacta Knight.
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The game has 7 worlds with 4/5 levels within each, with boss stage. So for the most part for the main game you get 5 level (4 traversal + 1 Boss) for 3 of the worlds, for the next 5 worlds you get 6 levels (5 traversal levels + 1 Boss).
The power ups in the game are:
- Beam - Magic wand
- Bomb - BOOM!
- Crash (Insta-kill all enemies on screen when used - 1 time use when obtained)
- Cutter - Boomerang
- Fighter - Punches and kicks
- Fire - Fire breath
- Hammer - SMASH!
- Hi-Jump - Hi jump that causes a small quick flight
- Ice - Ice breath and skating
- Leaf - leaves...
- Mike - Microphone shout
- Needle - Spikes
- Ninja - Sword and throwing Kunais
- Parasol - Umbrella that helps you float down and attack within... generic and boring
- Sleep - Sleeps and restores health
- Spark - Electricity
- Spear - STAB AND THROW!
- Stone - Turn to stone/statutes
- Sword - SLASH!
- Tornado - Mini Tornado
- Water - Water breath
- Whip - WHIP!
- Wing - Fly like a bird
- Festival (Insta-kill all enemies on screen when used - 1 time use when obtained)
And there are 5 Super Abilites:
- Flare Beam - Giant energy ball that floats on screen via player control.
- Grand Hammer - Giant hammer that gets bigger depending on how you move the joystick
- Monster Flame - Kirby summons a fire dragon to fly across the screen quickly.
- Snow Bowl - Kirby becomes a giant rolling snowball
- Ultra Sword - Giant Sword Slash
In Magolor's Epilogue it mainly works as Magalor restoring his abilites after going through levels in the dark dimension.
Throughout said levels and combos, you can upgrade his energy spheres, and dash!
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Levels play out like this:
Get from point A to Point B, fight a miniboss occasionally on levels. Along the way throughout the levels, collect gear spheres scattered throughout all levels (120 in total in the entire game). After doing that 4 or 5 times depending on the world you fight a boss with Kirby a special ability (if in co-op you play as BANDANA WADDLEDEE, META KNIGHT, KING DEDEDE with their unique playstyles)
If you collect all gear spheres you unlock challenge mode in Magolor's ship that has you use specific abilities pertaining to the door associated with said ability. Essentially you go through the challenges by defeating all enemies and collecting all coins for a high score of either Bronze, Silver, or Gold rank, and if you're a perfectionist speedrunner, PLATINUM!
The gear spheres also unlock multiplayer minigames for you and your friends to enjoy on either Magolor's ship or via Magolor Land! Here in Magolor land you can unlock a bunch of Masks for kirby to wear of different characters, both hero and villians like: Dark Meta Knight, Galacta Knight, Morpho Knight, Marx, etc.
There is also the Arena mode that essentially works like a boss rush mode having you fight different bosses depending on the difficulty chosen it features stronger versions of ingame bosses as well as special variation bosses. And a secret boss, GALACTA KNIGHT!
Overall I enjoyed my time with Kirby Return to Dreamland deluxe, it's a very fun game that works both single player, multiplayer when going through the main game. Magolor's Epilogue is a great addition adding more to the kirby lore and making Super Kirby Clash Canon. I'll be honest I didn't check out Magolor Land too much since I don't have friends who want to play the multiplayer mode... and certainly because they don't want to use the joycons for said minigames lol.
The arena is a fun boss rush.
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I think overall as a remaster, it's the definitive way to play Kirby's Return to Dreamland! However I'm giving it a 4 out of 5 stars because while the levels were distinct, they did get repetitive, and while storywise I liked Magolor's Epilogue and I love his gameplay and abilites... his levels needed more uniqueness, they all felt he same and felt like the development team didn't know what else to do to make his levels unique.
Still I recommend Kirby's Return to Land Deluxe to anyone looking for more Kirby! Thanks.