Got in a #Kirbymindset as of recent largely due to just thinking about the franchise and how much I love it, I don't really have a consistent video game grind anymore as I find it very easy to lose my commitment to them with other mediums but uh even still I had a MASSIVEE Kirby phase a few years back that's given the character a special place in my heart. They're all very simplistic games when it comes to how they're designed which fits with Sakurai's general montra of "Easy to learn hard to master", but that combined with the general innocence of the character makes them all very comforting games for me with ones like Planet Robobot Return to Dreamland or the very recent Forgotten Land becoming all time favourites for me. In fact this recent kick might get me to play some of those again, this statement could go either way and potentially be horribly outdated but I have a lot of ground to cover with him so we'll see! But uh anyway decided to fufill this recent urge and go back to this one due to it being a brisk 5 levels, and uh it being that short is both this game's biggest weakness and biggest strength at the same time. Biggest weakness in that because of it I couldn't really call it one I'd urge many to actively play much, in fact Super Star just remakes it all in one of its modes so it sometimes begs the question as to why it should even be playedjikefofe. It's SO simple that this is pre Kirby's iconic Copy Ability move, which in some aspects I appreciate as in later games I almost never use his ability to suck shit up and hurl em back at enemies but still it's kind of weird playing a Kirby game like that! However I'd also call its biggest strength as it's one that's very easy to pick up and play casually, the Gameboy has a lot of games like this that were built for simplicity but I think this is one of the best examples as you literally got those 5 levels that if you're good enough you can beat in just a little over half an hour. And yk for a game built in that vein I think Kirby's Dream Land is very fun! It's got some of the best music on the handheld, levels that while not overly complicated have a very nice vibe to them that makes it easy to relax to, and while I do think it's sort padding to make you fight all the bosses a second time when if you're doing this all in one go you'd have done them like right before I do reallllyyy like that last Dedede fight that ends the game on a very high note. Despite it kind of just being a game of waiting for him to jump so you can hit the stars at him the simplicity of it combined with the banger music makes it super effective, + on this playthrough I had to cut in real clutch with 1 health point left on last life so doing beating it then felt super awesome genuinelyefijkfeokfe. Plus in a morbid sense it's funny our first final boss with a King Penguin before it morphed into other worldy gods every other game, what a franchise this is really! But uh TLDR is Kirby's Dream Land is a LOT of fun, I haven't tried out that Extra Mode cuz I hear it's a pain in the ass but maybe I should considering how enjoyable this revisit was! Something something better then Mario Kart 64, goodbye everybody it's funny when I remember what a "Backloggd" is!

Genuinely do not see how Mario Kart as a franchise can get better then this, now that the Booster Course has doubled base 8 we got the widest selection of tracks we've ever had filled with mostly bangers (repetitive city courses aside!) and the most comfortable feeling controls in any Mario Kart entry. Was skeptical about the Booster Course going into it considering the copying of some Tour tracks and the general cheapness compared to the base 8 offerings, but I think the amount of bangers new and old combined with the quantity still made it worth the price overall and also they added back the two best things about this franchise (Wiggler and 3DS Rainbow Road) so yk I can't really complain at all! At this point I don't really know how things will go in the future, the inevitable Mario Kart 9 is gonna have to step back considering this whole package is like the peak peak amount of content in a Mario Kart game and at a certain point adding more is definitely gonna feel overwhelming. Or maybe Nintendo won't care and they'll do "8 Deluxe Deluxe" or some shit and it's like quadruple the course idfkjiefokofekfeok, this is like the highest selling Mario game ever now so it's not impossible! But uh idk I won't about that for now, was a blast down memory lane going through this one against and for a game I've been playing for nearly 10 years at this point it could be a lot worse! Once again thank you James Gunn for this and for making The Guardians of the Galaxy as we know them today.