Kirby And The Forgotten Land Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
For our Kirby And The Forgotten Land Review, we explore a mysterious new world, discover cool new Copy Abilities, and do battle with a bevy of beasts new and old in Kirby Land.
Kirby And The Forgotten Land Review Pros:
- Beautiful graphics.
- 5.7GB download size.
- Amiibo support. Random rewards and you can do 5 after every stage clear.
- Action-platformer gameplay.
- Collectible little statues are akin to the statues in the Super Smash Bros game.
- Local co-op with drop-in and drop-out.
- Two difficulties – wild and spring breeze.
- Earn more stars in wild difficulty.
- More health and easier enemies in spring breeze difficulty.
- Can change the difficulty during play.
- Overall game progress percentage.
- Opening tutorial section.
- Suck up enemies and take their ability like get a sword, throw ice or use a flamethrower.
- Can replay levels.
- Stars are like coins and they drop from enemies, can be found in levels, and are earned.
- Gotcha machine to spend stars on random statue Collectibles.
- Giant Overworld where you can freely fly around and select levels and maybe even find secret rewards.
- Two-level types – main story stages and treasure stages are self-contained almost puzzle-like environments to get rare star pieces.
- Star pieces and scrolls can be used to upgrade abilities when you collect them.
- Every area of the map has a handful of stages along with a final boss fight.
- Waddle Dees are little creatures you rescue not for just game completion but also to build up your Waddle Dee Town.
- Waddle Dee Town is a hub where you can interact with characters, build shops to buy abilities, and upgrades, buy Collectibles, rewatch cutscenes and even get hints on rewards.
- Health bar system in play, eat fruit to replenish.
- Particular objects in the world can be sucked up and you become one, things like being a car or being a boat sailing, lockers, and more.
- Can skip the cutscenes.
- Each stage has a handful of optional objectives to earn more Waddle Dees and rewards. Sometimes the objective is unknown until triggered or at the end of the stage clear.
- The stages have a lot of wiggle room allowing secret areas and routes to be found.
- Simple combat.
- Auto swallow on/off.
- Two control layouts.
- Destructible parts in the environment.
- Gorgeous bright locations.
- Easy to learn controls.
- Full 3D.
- Fast loading times.
Kirby And The Forgotten Land Review Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- Basic tutorial.
- The gotcha machine is a pain to use as it won’t load you pump a load of coins in and instead, has you doing it one at a time.
- No camera control.
- The camera can sometimes cause issues with aiming.
- The stages do start to feel a bit samey, especially in their general layout.
- Every time you inhale an ability you have to watch the short animation, this is crap when in boss fights.
- Dropping abilities is not as quick as it needs to be.
- Platforming is not its strongest point.
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Kirby And The Forgotten Land:
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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