A sequel to Kirby's Dream Land but with the gameplay of Kirby's Adventure with the new animal gimmick... It's not that weird but naming it after the most successful version would've made a bit more sense I think, though Kirby's Adventure 2 is a pretty boring name.

Like before, this Kirby game feels like a technical marvel for the Gameboy with the nice graphics and smooth gameplay, it's really weird to think of it like that but Kirby games were the most visually impressive game of the NES and Gameboy generation, it even had great gameplay that still stands the test of time.
This game takes a queue from Kirby's adventure where you go from world to world, do X amount of stages, beat the boss. The main issue with this is that in this game you have this new ability where Kirby has pets he can ride, these are overpowered as all hell! In my opinion, this is the easiest Kirby game you cannot lose if you are riding an animal.
The stage also tends to be on the easy side where they are all really short and your biggest enemy might as well just be the instant death fall pits.

Overall it's a very fine game on the Gameboy but nowadays it does get a bit boring when you play it with how each stage really feel the same, the monochrome art style of the Gameboy really doesn't play in the favor of the game.
This game also has a true ending once you get all of the thingamajigs in each world to beat Nightmare I suppose but I wouldn't bother with it.

Should you play it? Sure it's a really competent Gameboy game but also a pretty boring Kirby game and it's shorter than Kirby's Adventure.

Reviewed on May 30, 2023


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