As a fan of Rhythm Heaven, I was not a huge fan of this game. While I loved the art style, as well as the music and blending of rhythm mechanics with platforming, the game can just be a drag at times. The cutscenes for bosses are just too long at times, making retries more insufferable as you can’t skip them due to being a rhythm game. If you die at the end of a long boss or stage, you gotta make it all the way back to that point to have a chance to try again. It gets really annoying. Also, I would have liked an indication on knowing whether I was late or early when hitting an object or enemy, to help show what I did wrong and better myself, like in Rhythm Heaven MegaMix. And lastly, it kinda gets repetitive overall, I feel, with only a few short gameplay mechanics to mix it up for a small bit.

A better game than The Missing Heir. While there are some points where you can get easily lost between the dialogue choices, with one choice buried among many choices, it's a far better game as it features more visual elements that help enhance the story, as well as just having a more interesting story overall, one that focuses less on surprises and repetition, but focuses on more twists and a darker tone. While I was still able to predict the killer long before they were set up, I still enjoyed my time more with this game than The Missing Heir.

As someone who hasn't been a huge fan of text based adventure games, I really did like this, and thought it had a great story with a lot of interesting twists and turns, along with having some amazing art and great characters. However, I feel like there isn't too much that changes the game enough. Outside one puzzle, there isn't a lot of unique puzzles, and most of the puzzles are finding out how to progress to the next story beat among you choices of what to say, go, do, which leads to some really weird ways how the game progresses. There are times where you have to do one very small and specific interaction or choice that seems minor, but makes you progress for some reason. One instance is where you have are at a cliff, and you go this apartment complex where you see if someone you know is there, but they aren't, so you go back outside, and then you notice an object in the ground that has been there since the start of the game. The game just feels a bit too obscure on how to progress. Outside that one huge issue I had throughout the game, I liked it.

A top tier DLC add on for a game. While there may seem to be not many new bosses at first, with only 5 main and the final boss, these bosses are amazing, diverse, challenging, fun, and the most well animated bosses, more than the base game. Not only that, but you also have this King Challenge to help give you coins instead of generic levels, and it is more challenging but more fun. The music is also top tier for the series as well. This DLC is basically ESSENTIAL for anyone that liked the base game.

A huge improvement over the original game's campaign that didn't do much to differentiate itself from the first game's campaign. The gameplay, world, characters, setting, vibe, and charm are off the hook. The levels are insanely better, as they are more creative, diverse, and actually make the player do stuff outside of getting to the end of a goal, like don't get shot, recreate an object, push this ball throughout the are, losing your main weapons, and even going full stealth. I had a lot of fun with this game, and I definitely think it's the best single-player content for the series this far. Hoping Splatoon 3 takes notes.

A huge improvement over Dreamland 3. While the collectibles are still a bit annoying, with some requiring specific abilities to obtain, and some of those require abilities not found in the same level, it's still way better than the stupid mini games or vague menu hints from Dreamland 3. The game has the best copy ability system, with being able to combine abilities for fun combinations, and so many that you won't see them all when you finished playing. Not only that but the soundtrack is an absolute banger, the cutscenes are super charming, and the difficulty is very fair. Definitely one of my favorite Kirby games.