Robobot's opening sequence is probably the best in the history of the series: it shows Pop Star as it always has been, and all of its character living a normal live... and then Haltman's ship appears. In seconds, Dedede and Meta Knight, two of the most prominent and strong charcters in all of star shaped planet, are completely defeated with no chance of retaliating, with Dedede's castle and Meta Knight's airship reduced to ruble or incapable or fighting back, and later down the game, both of the characters will be weponaized by the company as unnatural constructs. Haltman's army destructive and quick, and they terraform the planet into a mechanical mess into a matter of minutes: the game just started and they just basically won, and as soon as Kirby finall wakes up from its dream, the quest to undo this disaster begins; it's a fantasic opening that sets everyhting that has yet come, and what has yet to come, it's probably the best 2D Kirby game ever.

The fact this is running in the 3DS feel unreal, not so much because it's visually that impressive, but becasue of the amount of set pieces and things the game does. The level design, both in a gameplay in visual sense, it's just otherworldy, every level feels special and distinct, each world doing something completely different with its mechanical themes, and even if there are some level themes that repeat across worlds, like the towers, everytime they put a new spin on it. Its the cohesion that makes the difference, past games limited themselves with only a theme with each world (in some cases) and even Triple Deluxe, that had a pretty cool nature theme, it felt jarring when the level design felt artificial or when something mechanical appeared. In Robobot however, the artificiality in some of the design not only makes sense given the context, but adds to the experience and story; it shows how much Haltman has ruined this planet, and it can keep doing show, and for that it must be stoped... but the music can stay, this shit fucking SLAPS.

The boss fights are an absolute show stopper, super fun and creative; tho almost all are characters returning from past games, but from Whispy Woods to Dedede, all of them have a terryifiying and perversed twist, they are completely changed from what they were once were, it horryfiying, but characters like Susie or Haltman rebel in this, celebrate it, and it's even scarier. Here, the true colors of this tyranical company shine, and its represented with the music masterfully.

...oh don't tell me you thought I forgot about the Robobt? Not only it makes thematical sense, but holy shit is it BY FAR the best 'mechanical (heh, get it?...I'm so sorry) novelty implemented in any of the series, but it almost makes me sad that it doesn't seem to be returning any time soon, 'cause this shit slaps. Everytime it appears is not an ''oh, this thing,ok'' moment, it's an ''OH HECK YEAH'' one: the puzzles, the boss fights and the set pieces are all espectacular, and the way the copy abilites adapt to it are incredible, Bomb is one of my least favourite copy-abilities, but the Robobot version is just... chef kiss.

When the credits started rolling, I just felt so happy, the finale wass amazing and an incredible send off to the story, but more than anything, I was happy that this game existed, it represents the culmination of the saga in so many ways: it's the most creative one, it's the one that has more things to tell, the brand new charachters are really charismatic and I'm glad they stayed in the saga's mythos, the lore is really sad and tragic, but doesn't make the villain less evil... I just can't belive this is real Kirby game. I don't know if its my favourite one (Forfotten Land is just too fucking amazing man) but this is just so special, a love letter in some many ways, and I belive its earned to call it the best 2D Kirby game, and one of the best 2D platformers ever made, what a fucking treat!