I think it's a genuinely really well designed Kirby with the exception of some late game levels that are literally "choose a path! Oops, wrong one, you're dead!". Fortunately levels are pretty short so those moments don't sting quite as bad when they happen, but they still probably should have not done that! Despite that, I do have a soft spot for this one as it's the first Kirby game I ever played. I love the animal buddies, the various twists on abilities that they have are lots of fun to experiment with and they're just really pleasant guys to have around, I'm glad modern day Kirby has been embracing them more and more. I'd love to see some of the unique enemies from here pop up again, some of the minibosses are a lot of fun and unfortunately have been entirely lost to time.