The mages are so funny when they die. They just "ahg" and gently fall on their backs as if falling onto a cushy mattress. I love how the crossbow can pierce through multiple enemies and killing multiple marshmallow mages with one arrow feels refreshing. As someone that has usually steered away from horror movies and video games this pushed that threshold for me. Guess I'm a little less sensitive to dark, creepy, jumpy themes now, which I think is a good thing. I appreciate the variety of enemies and levels, the crisp retro 3d look works really well with the fast paced movement. Upon completion, I have started playing the recently released HD update at a harder difficulty. Very cool that they've released a free update that changes up the look of the game.

Kirby games never fully clicked with me, so Nintendo took a truck, loaded it with just everything they got and unloaded it over my head.
There's no escape. You have to dig this if you're into platformers. I still wouldn't say its my favorite one EVER but theres just so much creative gamedesign, so many ideas to chuckle about, such a nice visual language, such an accessible gameplay, the whole game is playable in Coop, aaand so on, it turned out to be perfect for my kids and actually the first game they really enjoyed playing in coop.

I would even dare to say, this is to the Kirby series what BotW was to Zelda. Although with Zelda I could have understood if some disliked them abandoning so many learned paradigms. In Kirby's case I can't really understand how anyone would ever go back. And its so funny to me as Kirby always felt like such an 1980ies kind of franchise. Now seeing him sucking cars to 70% completion is just as stupidly funny as if this was what he always was meant to do.