It's strange. I don't really think Kirby's Star Stacker is a particularly good game.
It doesn't really have the thoughtful kind of design that better puzzle games like Puyo and Tetris have; Star Stacker relies on a weird mix of pre-scripted levels (in Round Clear) and RNG, as well as excessive game speed and janky movement and rotation controls to be difficult, mostly for the sake of being difficult.
But seeing a combo I thought would be pretty simple turn into 5 or 6-chain combos and basically wiping my entire screen as the 1-UP and then Kirby Dance jingles play in celebration is... it's nice, I won't lie.
I still don't think it's particularly good. Maybe the SFC game will change my mind. I'm pretty curious about getting to play it on hardware one day, so... we'll see.
But it's like Squeak Squad: the fact that this is one of the franchise's lower points speaks volumes as to how consistently good the series has been throughout its runtime.
It doesn't really have the thoughtful kind of design that better puzzle games like Puyo and Tetris have; Star Stacker relies on a weird mix of pre-scripted levels (in Round Clear) and RNG, as well as excessive game speed and janky movement and rotation controls to be difficult, mostly for the sake of being difficult.
But seeing a combo I thought would be pretty simple turn into 5 or 6-chain combos and basically wiping my entire screen as the 1-UP and then Kirby Dance jingles play in celebration is... it's nice, I won't lie.
I still don't think it's particularly good. Maybe the SFC game will change my mind. I'm pretty curious about getting to play it on hardware one day, so... we'll see.
But it's like Squeak Squad: the fact that this is one of the franchise's lower points speaks volumes as to how consistently good the series has been throughout its runtime.