I'm sorry, really really sorry. But after a full playthrough of this I can't help to be sincere about it: I hated this game. A goddamn Kirby game, of all things. How could it happen?

Well, let's start immediately with the positive things: this still has its Kirby charm all over it thanks to the fanservice (Escargoon and N.M.E. Sales guy cameos were gold), especially in the form of minigames, which was the only part where I remotely had fun.
So to recap: graphics and the minigames are so much enjoyable to see (play for the latter obv).

The main game? A torture.
The core mechanic this time doesn't go around the ability to inhale copy abilities or fly. Which on paper sounds good since variety and a little level of more difficulty is good once in a while (also the reason why I liked Tilt'n Tumble, no name one).

The game goes around the Kirby clones mechanic that forces you to have a minimal number of them always with you to keep up with the levels.
If you screwed up during one of those because of how much easy is to lose them: 2/3 hits and they're gone, unless sure you don't pull...but let's talk about that when the environment is cramped and you can't help to lose some if not all of them. Very fun, huh?

I finished this against my will since I had this game borrowed for more than a year from my gf and I wanted to be done with since it's still a Kirby game and this cute pinkball means a lot to us. I won't ever touch this one ever again.

Yep, the Skeleton did indeed appear

I certainly was not expecting this, but I did not like Kirby Mass Attack very much. Now let's not get ahead of ourselves here, this game doesn't belong in the pits of HELL. Like every Kirby game, it has redeeming qualities up the ass. Good music, good bosses, surprisingly good side content, blah blah blah this is standard stuff for the series. My reasoning for rating this one so low is a very simple (and possibly even kind of boring) reason: I just don't find it fun. Canvas Curse and Rainbow Curse I feel executed the idea of a touchscreen controlled Kirby game in the best possible way they could without feeling too intrusive or overbearing. Mass Attack, contrary to most other Kirby games I've played, feels exhausting to play and I physically couldn't play more than a few levels at a time. Out of every Kirby game this one took me the most amount of sessions to complete, mainly because I was just dreading playing it. The main gimmick got old after a while and I was really ready for the game to be over by the 2nd world. I feel like this is definitely more of a "me" thing though, Kirby Mass Attack is just not my thing and that's okay!

what if you

wanted to give this game a 4.5

but god said

no-damage medals

Average Kirby game be like:

One day our lovable cream puff hero Kirby and his friends frolicked along their dream world Popstar, laughing and eating strawberry shortcake all the while. All of a sudden, thunder cracked in the sky and who appeared before them but Dark Galgoreus, the evil Laughing God of the Nothing Realm. Here I will build my outpost, growled the wicked ram-horned being, where I and my kin will rend the flesh of all dreams with our teeth, where up will be down and color will be black and white, until even this stretch of the universe will be a dark haven for the terrible might of my VoidEther power.

Who else can stop the awful might of the Dark God of the Nothing itself but the greatest defender of Popstar, Kirby the dream puff, with his friends bandana Waddle Dee, who has a spear, King DeDeDe, who has a big hammer, Meta Knight, who hopefully will feel like helping them this time, and uh, I think someone who can paint really good or something?