They really added Smash Kirby to this game! And by that I mean that Kirby has never felt as powerless and lame as he does here.
He always loses the copied ability when gets hit, 90% of the copy abilities are unrelliable or hit like a noodle, and enemies with much better range and positioning will make sure that traversing the world is going to be as annoying as possible. The 3 NPC Kirbys are also useless.
Only finished this one because I'm trying to complete all the Main Line kirby games.

People always talked about City Trial, but the Air Ride mode is also very interesting with it's very unique progression system.

The climbing mechanics are cool and the world is very charming, it gave me Scavengers Reign vibes. I have too much aphantasia for these textlog storytelling formats tho.