Excellent, probably the most impressive NES game that I ever played, the definitive start of the kirby series since he got his COPY hability, it has the start of Dedede redemption too and the introduction of META KNIGHT!

The level design is creative, some levels has their own mechanics to explore the gameplay toolkit in a lot of ways, the only downside to me was slowdowns that happened a lot.

I honest had a lot of fun playing this NES game in 2024, and that's impressive, I didn't have this much fun in any of the NES Mario Bros games, I really like NES Castlevania but I think this game is better.

The first "half" of the game is heavily inspired by tokimeki memorial, almost the same mechanics but simplified (I don't know if it was made by the same team in Konami). The other "half" is a real-time dating sim with you girlfriend. The game is simple in its mechanics but the charm lies in the fact that the girls are really deep as characters, they are not some dere things that just goes by her archetypes, sometimes they seem like real humans, with complicated layers, a rare thing in dating sims (at least the ones that I played). The well written characters made the experience 100% more enjoyable to me, and the idea to make a real-time gameplay is brilliant, even if it could get better. Now this is my favorite dating sim.

PS: I would love to play the 3DS version but I don't understand japanese.

To me, this game is another Ubisoft title (I know that Sucker Punch made it) but with more care and a true combat, the game looks like a painting sometimes, really beautiful, especially if you change the hud options.

The combat is cool too, coming from fighting games and DMC, it's not very complicated but is fun to play, with good parry and dodge mechanics.

But what brings the game down to me is the campaign and the sidequests, aside from the mitical quests, everything is boring, the characters aren't that deep (except for Ishikawa, he is very well written), their relationships aren't developed very well and the missions aren't that interesting, always something like go there and fight, infiltrate that place or follow that guy, even when Jin has to face his changes nothing really have plot weight, it had so much potential but it was lost in safer, cheaper choices to be an acessible AAA game, to me it seems like the story and sidequests are there just to be a background, but that's just my opinion tho, feel free to disagree.