They seriously went from Triple Deluxe to this in two years! Planet Robobot takes everything about Triple Deluxe and makes it ten times better. The foreground/background feature change is done better and more creatively in this game and the platforming is so fresh and original. The worlds are so imaginative and immersive that I was able to binge so many at once. There is so much detail in them and so much to do in each level. The code cubes are my favorite collectible in the series so far and I loved finding them. The robot idea was so cool and they executed it really well. It's so creative and I loved discovering what the robot would change into with the different abilities. This game gives you jet Kirby, car Kirby, cutter mech Kirby, and more all in one game and it's just so good! The three final bosses were all incredible and some of my favorite bosses in the series. What this game did the best of any other Kirby game though was the storytelling. It was able to tell a compelling story and give characters actual arcs through the platforming. It has so many redeeming qualities in the finale because of the intense final boss and the story finally coming together. Planet Robobot is the best Kirby game I've played so far and it just makes me even more excited to play Forgotten Land. There is nothing quite like this game and it is easily now in my top five of all time!

I was a little skeptical going into this game since it's an Uncharted game without Nathan Drake, but holy crap was I wrong! This game gave me everything I love about the Uncharted series, but in a smaller scale. I really liked getting more of Chloe's backstory and I thought she had good chemistry with Nadine. The action is amazing as always in the series and some of the sequences in this were so good like the train scene in the finale. The first act gave us great environments and the great things about this series. It was so much fun to play through and gave me a good time. The second act was a bit repetitive but still fun, but the third act was truly amazing. There was so much in there like great exploration and a nice variety of action whether it's in an off-road vehicle, stealth, and the classic shootouts from the series. It all ends with an incredible boss fight and a nice ending scene to wrap everything up. Lost Legacy is a really fun Uncharted adventure that I would easily play again!

Kirby Triple Deluxe brings back the format set up in Return to Dream Land, but doesn't quite have the charm and overall enjoyment from that game. Triple Deluxe did add the new feature where you could switch from the foreground to background. I thought that was executed well and gave us some interesting things in the levels. Outside of that feature, the game is pretty barebones. The levels and gameplay are a bit more on the generic side and doesn't have that investment factor that keeps bringing you back to the game. When I played it I had fun, but there would be a 3-4 day stretch where I had zero intention to pick the game up. The other Kirby games like Super Star and Return to Dream Land had me coming back for more, while this one just didn't. I did find a lot of cool details in this one like how the first letter of the world names would spell something related to the environment and the atmosphere was well done. I also liked the parts where you would tilt the 3DS for controlling the platforming. The game feels a bit slow to get through, but once you get to the finale, it all pays off. The story wasn't all that fleshed out, but those final cutscenes and boss were very memorable. Queen Sectonia was a very interesting boss with the variety of attacks you would use against her, and the attacks she'd use against you. It can run a little long, but all of the stages of this battle are great. It has a lot of tension and once you finally beat her, you get a huge sense of reward. The subgames were alright and they were fun for a little bit, but compared to other subgames they aren't as memorable with the exception of Drum Dash. Triple Deluxe is a good Kirby game, but it is unfortunately more on the generic side.

🏅92%

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga takes the already great first two games and makes them even better. My complaints about the first two weren't in this one because of how much thought went into the game. It added charm to the prequel levels, it made the lightsaber better in the original levels, and more. It added more to this game to make it stand out on it's own rather than just being a remaster/collection. The Complete Saga did everything I had hoped for it to do and more. This is one of the best remasters I've played and one I want to go back to again!

🏅90%

Kirby's Return to Dream Land delivered on something I never would've expected it to. It easily has the most compelling story in the series (of the ones I've played and this is the latest). It has an amazing plot twist that actually makes sense and the execution of it is phenomenal. I never would've thought a Kirby game would have this good of a story! The levels are designed so well and I really like the variety in them. They look great and they're fun to go through. The controls are for the most part great, except for something in world 8 which I won't spoil. I loved the concept of ultra abilities and thought they were used well. We got the right amount of them and they weren't underused or overused. My issue is that I couldn't really binge play the game like others in the series. After I beat a world, I didn't really want to play more. I had so much fun during the levels, but after a whole world I was done. Even with Squeak Squad I was able to binge five worlds in a row, but this one I couldn't. Regardless this is easily one of the best games in the Kirby series and one of the most memorable ones too!

Spanky's Quest is one of those games on Switch Online that's just there. It doesn't have much to make it standout and the game is average. The hero is charming which adds to the gameplay and the enemies are pretty fun. The whole world this takes place in is nice, although the levels look very similar. The platforming is average and doesn't really have any memorable levels. The final boss is fun and will stick, but the rest of the game is repetitive and the same. It doesn't really feel like you're progressing because it feels all too similar throughout, and the way it moves forward is unimaginative. The game supplies some fun and as I said before, has a refreshing sense of charm, but the game doesn't have enough to keep it up there with other platformers of it's era.

👍74%

Kirby Squeak Squad keeps the Kirby charm and what we love about the franchise, but it doesn't try to do anything different. This game has standard platforming that we've seen before and compared to past games, some things feel like a downgrade. You can't combine abilities and the levels aren't as imaginative. The game can also feel a little messy and repetitive. The Squeak Squad themselves also don't really have a menacing presence, and the fights are a little too easy to add any intensity to them.

Squeak Squad is still a lot of fun though. The Kirby charm is still there and our protagonist doesn't lose any of his likability. The backgrounds in the levels look pretty cool even if the platforming is a little generic. The bubble idea is actually a pretty good idea to give the game a little more strategy to it to see when you should use abilities and health boosts. The graphics are great and the soundtrack is solid. While it's not as good as some of the other Kirby games, Squeak Squad is still a fun experience that I would go through again!

👍73%

That moment the ending cutscene is roughly the same length as the game itself...

The game is fairly simple where all you need to do his hold down LMB and move the mouse up without letting go of the sword. It's oddly relaxing and moves fast enough where I would definitely play it again if I have 5 minutes to spare. For a free game this is actually pretty fun and I'd recommend playing it!

🏅86%

The score seems unusually high for this game, and it could lower after I play Complete Saga since I heard that can happen, but at the moment this game was so much fun to play! It definitely isn't a perfect game or anything, but the game succeeds at everything it is going for and more. It stayed true to the prequel trilogy with the levels and didn't try to change anything and I liked that. I like the prequels just as much as Anakin likes sand, but in this they kept it entertaining and the story told was fun. There were a lot of standout levels in this like the podracing level and the Darth Maul fight, but I didn't find any levels that sucked. The controls could feel a little clunky, especially with Yoda, but overall they worked well. The game was truly a lot of fun to play and the best Lego game I've ever played. It will most likely become Complete Saga or Skywalker Saga when I play those but this game was still a lot of fun and I will not forget it!

😃82%

I only played Kirby 64 and the challenge stages but I briefly checked the other ports. The history "museum" was really cool looking and I liked seeing everything in it. The challenge stages were more fun than I expected them to be and I binged all of them. Those made me excited for Return to Dream Land, but I am playing Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad first. This is an amazing collection that has six Kirby games that are either good or great (with the exception of Dream Land 3) and adds amazing challenge stages that make this bundle worth it! This is highly recommended for Kirby fans!

😃82%

Kirby 64 is exactly what you could've wanted from a N64 Kirby game. The 64-bit graphics go so well with this universe that it creates some really cool designs in the bosses and levels. It can feel restricted at times as it creates these gigantic worlds yet you can only go in a straight line, but this game isn't going for a grand epic scope, so it isn't that big of a problem. The levels are very creative with the constant background changes and worlds you go to. It makes the game more interesting to play and keeps you in the game. It also keeps the charm that has been established in other Kirby games and it never gets old. I can always go for the charm the Kirby games have and this is one is no different from the others in that aspect. It keeps the things that were great about other classic Kirby games and ditches stuff that made me dislike some things in the games.

What really screamed "this is THE N64 Kirby game" were the copy abilities. They were so unique and something we haven't seen in a Kirby game before as you can combine abilities. I loved being able to combine fire and cutter to get a fire sword and get other awesome abilities. I hope you can do that in other Kirby games in the future since I really love that idea. The story itself is good enough as it's a platformer separated in the levels, so it doesn't have the most fleshed out story. That doesn't really matter though since we have a lot of fun in the levels though and a fun game you can easily binge. Kirby 64 is the breath of fresh air the Kirby franchise needed and one that I will remember from this franchise.

👍68%

You could definitely tell that this game was made by a different studio. You shouldn't hold that against any game with a studio change, but when the style changes a bit and the overall tone doesn't quite feel like the past two, it can create problems. The problem with this was it felt like it was released as a first draft. It's good, but it doesn't reach where Asylum and City were. The story needed polishing to it and the overall execution could've been better. It also started getting repetitive unlike the last two games. My biggest complaint was there was too much back and forth and the travel just wasn't fun. In Spider-Man PS4, swinging was fun so I didn't mind long distances to missions. In this game though, gliding became a chore and it made the game less enjoyable.

Graphically the game is better with more detail in the city of Gotham and the characters look less choppy. The combat system isn't as good as the other two games, but it is still suitable. I also thought it did a good job foreshadowing things from Asylum and City without making any of it feel forced. The boss fights are also some of the best in the series. The boss fights are the highlight of the game, and if they weren't as good my score would be way lower. It is an exposition dump to introduce them all at the beginning, but when you fight them it's a lot of fun. Deathstroke and the last Bane fight were the best ones. Overall Arkham Origins is a fun game, but it doesn't live up to the past two. As a prequel it does it's job, but the execution of the story could've been a bit better.

🏆95%

My game disc skipped halfway through the game so I had to wait a bit before getting back. Arkham City somehow improved on the already great Arkham Asylum. The only complaint I have is that the Catwoman story feels like a distraction to the Batman story. It does tie in, but it's lazily tied in. Other than that, it's a perfect Batman game. It cleverly continues on what was set up in Arkham Asylum and delivers on another fantastic story. You get a phenomenal redemption arc for Batman and the ending was absolutely shocking. The game builds up to it without you realizing it because you are so invested in everything else going on. The performances by Conroy and Hamill were great just like they were in the first game. Arkham City is a fantastic Batman game and one of the best PS3 games.