People always told me that Spring Breeze in Kirby Super Star Ultra was just a slightly shortened version of the original Kirby's Dream Land 1 but I didn't think they meant it THAT literally. I played this on a whim on the NSO and had a nice short time.

For a Gameboy game the controls are very tight (a staple of Masahiro Sakurai's work) and it's all the classic Kirby formula of manuevering around opponents and firing their attacks back at them when they leave themselves open. Not a whole lot to say, standard decent level design and challenge, and I thought it was pretty fun overall. Was cool to see Kirby's beginnings for myself. That said, it really showed me how much most of the fun in Kirby comes from the copy abilities, it does feel really lacking not having them sadly.

Reviewed on Jul 10, 2023


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