This review contains spoilers
For personal reference more than anything. Have done spoiler warning just in case.
First time playing and first playthrough. Only played the standard game, did not do the extra game (hard difficulty).
I haven't really played many Game Boy games so this was kind of new for me. I expected it to be really hard and to get bored after a couple of minutes but hearing that this game was only about half an hour kind of interested me, especially given how famous of a character Kirby is and that I've even tried a number of his games.
This was quite enjoyable, I initially wasn't sure as the game seemed painfully easy and simplistic to begin with but by the time I got to the first boss fight I was having a fair bit of fun with it. The stages genuinely surprised me as I didn't realise how much they would be able to do with this game but also how the game keeps introducing new elements and expecting the player to keep up with it.
The boss fights were probably my favourite part of the game though as the majority felt fun and seemed to each offer a different experience. The only two I wasn't as keen on was the double box mover fight in the second stage (although this just seemed to be because I wasn't quite aware of where I could and should move to after hitting one, by the time I got to the second version of this fight in the last stage I was enjoying it a lot more) and the cloud boss fight from the fourth stage as I just felt it was a bit too quick and big given how small the area you fight it is.
My biggest complaints don't really feel like they're this games fault. I didn't like the all green of the game but from what I get that's just how Game Boy games were. Making Kirby float up and moving him around was kind of annoying but I think that's just because I had to use one of the Switch's analog sticks. I would have liked there to be a bit more music so the same tracks wouldn't keep playing, but as this is the first game in the franchise and due to the overall power of the Game Boy I wouldn't be surprised if the developers just weren't able to add more to the game due to either financial or hardware reasons (and at the end of the day, I did like the music so its not that big a deal).
There's not much to say really so just a last couple of scattered thoughts, the story is there but its like a paragraph long and I literally had no opinion on it, I appreciated that the game would take you back to the start of the area you lost a life in as I expected it to take me back to the start of the stage.
Overall this was good, I don't think it was the most memorable experience nor do I think I'll come back to it but it was a fun way to kill half an hour and has made me a little more interested in playing more games from this franchise.
First time playing and first playthrough. Only played the standard game, did not do the extra game (hard difficulty).
I haven't really played many Game Boy games so this was kind of new for me. I expected it to be really hard and to get bored after a couple of minutes but hearing that this game was only about half an hour kind of interested me, especially given how famous of a character Kirby is and that I've even tried a number of his games.
This was quite enjoyable, I initially wasn't sure as the game seemed painfully easy and simplistic to begin with but by the time I got to the first boss fight I was having a fair bit of fun with it. The stages genuinely surprised me as I didn't realise how much they would be able to do with this game but also how the game keeps introducing new elements and expecting the player to keep up with it.
The boss fights were probably my favourite part of the game though as the majority felt fun and seemed to each offer a different experience. The only two I wasn't as keen on was the double box mover fight in the second stage (although this just seemed to be because I wasn't quite aware of where I could and should move to after hitting one, by the time I got to the second version of this fight in the last stage I was enjoying it a lot more) and the cloud boss fight from the fourth stage as I just felt it was a bit too quick and big given how small the area you fight it is.
My biggest complaints don't really feel like they're this games fault. I didn't like the all green of the game but from what I get that's just how Game Boy games were. Making Kirby float up and moving him around was kind of annoying but I think that's just because I had to use one of the Switch's analog sticks. I would have liked there to be a bit more music so the same tracks wouldn't keep playing, but as this is the first game in the franchise and due to the overall power of the Game Boy I wouldn't be surprised if the developers just weren't able to add more to the game due to either financial or hardware reasons (and at the end of the day, I did like the music so its not that big a deal).
There's not much to say really so just a last couple of scattered thoughts, the story is there but its like a paragraph long and I literally had no opinion on it, I appreciated that the game would take you back to the start of the area you lost a life in as I expected it to take me back to the start of the stage.
Overall this was good, I don't think it was the most memorable experience nor do I think I'll come back to it but it was a fun way to kill half an hour and has made me a little more interested in playing more games from this franchise.