An incredibly well crafted platformer that feels like it still has a ton of leftover potential for an improved version (somehow) in the future.
Kirby has always been something I enjoyed playing but missing something. Forgotten Land feels like it's tapping into that missing something ever so slightly but the results are still quite good, even if it feels like its leaving a lot of untapped potential. The level design, the controls, the mouthful mode, it's all so well done and tight.
There are some nitpicks I have with all of these things and the story is okay and fairly forgettable but really, the biggest fault that the game may have for me is that it just is missing that wow factor.
It's well made and designed but comparing it to something like Mario Odyssey, it still feels lacking when going up against the best of the best platformers.
The Waddle Dee Village feels largely unimportant, the challenges get tiresome by the end (they are still a lot of fun to grind out for the majority of the time, though I wish the reward was a bit greater for completing these), and the music is nothing all that special to me. It also feels a little small in scope ever so slightly.
That being said, it's still an easy to pick up, weird, fun, well designed game. A slight step below some of the other S-tier platformers we've seen but the untapped potential could easily lead to an even better version of an already impressive game, so long as Nintendo keeps going with more 3D Kirby and we get even more creative ideas with the groundwork laid out.
Kirby has always been something I enjoyed playing but missing something. Forgotten Land feels like it's tapping into that missing something ever so slightly but the results are still quite good, even if it feels like its leaving a lot of untapped potential. The level design, the controls, the mouthful mode, it's all so well done and tight.
There are some nitpicks I have with all of these things and the story is okay and fairly forgettable but really, the biggest fault that the game may have for me is that it just is missing that wow factor.
It's well made and designed but comparing it to something like Mario Odyssey, it still feels lacking when going up against the best of the best platformers.
The Waddle Dee Village feels largely unimportant, the challenges get tiresome by the end (they are still a lot of fun to grind out for the majority of the time, though I wish the reward was a bit greater for completing these), and the music is nothing all that special to me. It also feels a little small in scope ever so slightly.
That being said, it's still an easy to pick up, weird, fun, well designed game. A slight step below some of the other S-tier platformers we've seen but the untapped potential could easily lead to an even better version of an already impressive game, so long as Nintendo keeps going with more 3D Kirby and we get even more creative ideas with the groundwork laid out.