This game has not aged well...

This game is really unpolished and it shows. The game put the speedy hedgehog on the map. However, the level design goes against his speedy nature. It starts off with an amazing opening zone and straight after a really terrible pace breaker - Marble Zone, that makes you traverse a sluggish maze instead of being a 'speedrun' course. The obstacles you will be facing are very closely aligned with the arcade era, which prolongs replayability by making you hit a game over. The soundtrack is amazing and the boss fights are fun. However, I recommend you only play this game once to experience it, or more in particular - Greenhill Zone and Starlight Zone.

A fantastic sequel to the first game, that puts a huge focus on its momentum and speed.
The platforming is much better, where mastering the pathing is satisfying, and the boss fights are fun as obstacles with gimmicks that just work.
The entry for super-sonic works really well, as mastery of the special stages comes with early game rewards as you can overpower stages obstacles as an immense force.
I would give this game a much higher rating in metropolis zone never existed, as it makes the game fall quite a lot with unfair obstacle placements that challenge momentum in an obnoxious way, with enemies on the roof, etc, and corkscrews that just go against the speedy nature of the game by wasting minutes spinning it.

The first Kirby game and honestly a great first entry to the series, which not only is very accessible for all ages but is great to navigate. The boss fights are charming however some feel quite repetitive from how slow they are later on in the game. It also feels like the fly ability, which allows Kirby to skip over platforming sections is very overpowered in this title because you can just fly over the entire level and hit one or two enemies that may cross your path without taking damage in most areas. I also find it interesting that the Mike ability has found itself in this title way before copy abilities which shows the potential was known from the very beginning

Puyo Puyo with Kirby. The game takes Super Puyo Puyo and modifies it to change the characters and music into a Kirby theme. It's a really weird one that this game exists solely because they found Super Puyo Puyo not to be marketable for international consumers, so they reskinned it for the sole purpose of release in the West.

The issue I have with this game is the difficulty curve, you finish one level then the next one feels incomparably more difficult, which can become quite frustrating. But still, it's very vibrant and it's funny to see the Kirby characters trash-talk each other.