Star-Crossed World (Nintendo Switch 2) bursts onto the scene with a meteor strike that reshapes Kirby’s familiar horizons into shimmering, alien dreamscapes. This isn’t just a new chapter, it’s a cosmic remix, blending the charm of classic 3D platforming with gravity-bending stages, dazzling new Mouthful Modes, and a quest to rescue the lost Starries from the clutches of interstellar chaos. Every inhale, glide, and spin feels like a step deeper into a living, breathing storybook where danger sparkles just as brightly as discovery.

Star-Crossed World (Nintendo Switch 2) Review Pros

• Gorgeous graphics. 
• 16.6GB download size. 
• You can play the DLC whenever you want, as they are new entries on the world map. 
• All new cutscenes and story. 
• New challenges and prizes. 
• Amiibo support. Random rewards, and you can do 5 after every stage clear.
• Action-platformer gameplay.
• Collectable little statues are akin to the statues in the Super Smash Bros game. The DLC ushers in a new set called Figure collection EX. 
• Local co-op with drop-in and drop-out.
• Two difficulties – wild and spring breeze.
• Earn more stars in wild difficulty.
• DLC levels feel bigger and deeper, with more hidden within them. 
• More health and easier enemies in the spring breeze difficulty.
• Can change the difficulty during play.
• The ice looks awesome in motion; all the new stages have ice within them in some way. 
• In all new big boss encounters, you can see your and their health bar. 
• 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 Collectables.
• 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.
• I really like how they have made the DLC seperate but still part of the main game. There’s no clear do this or do that; you can freely do the base game level, then a DLC one. 
• Every area of the map has a handful of stages along with a final boss fight.
• Waddle Dees are little creatures you rescue not just for 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 Collectables, 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. Even more so with the DLC, as some levels will start off familiar but then go into a whole new section. 
• Simple combat, suck up an enemy and take their ability to fish, so you could be swinging a sword one minute or throwing bombs the next. 
• Auto swallow on/off.
• The level design and style in the DLC levels is more over the top and spectacular. 
• Two control layouts.
• Destructible parts in the environment.
• Gorgeous bright locations.
• Easy to learn controls.
• Full 3D game world that is beautiful to look at, from the map to the levels themselves. 
• Fast loading times.

Star-Crossed World (Nintendo Switch 2) Review Cons

• You can find yourself forgetting what’s happening in the story in both the main and DLC stories. 
• Sometimes, when returning, finding the next DLC level can be tricky. 
• No touchscreen support.
• Basic tutorial.
• The gotcha machine is a pain to use as it won’t let 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 frustrating when in boss fights.
• Dropping abilities is not as quick as it needs to be.
• Platforming is not its strongest point.
• Platforming combined with sticking to the wall, plus the camera angles, means you can find yourself casually and quietly losing your absolute mind. 

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Star-Crossed World (Nintendo Switch 2)

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Developer: HAL Laboratory, Inc.

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