Inhaling an 18 wheeler and piloting it up crumbling metropolitan edifices so I can crash it into a biogenetically engineered god at the center of a black hole is the most fun I’ve ever had on a Tuesday morning.

It’s kind of amazing this is the first fully 3D Kirby game, because it’s so incredibly polished that it feels like they’ve been making these forever. They do such interesting stuff with the level design and presentation, it feels like Nintendo flexing a muscle that will be implemented into Mario and more going forward. I was really impressed with the camera work: how it was tilt down at the beginning of a big level to illustrate the scope, or how it would pan around when backtracking through a level, revealing new viewpoints and items that were previously hidden. Even when the levels getting broader and more open-world-adjacent, the camera and user experience design is always there to guide and hint at new paths. Again, the whole this is diamond polished to make playing it feel like a breeze, and the Kirby charm may be at its all time peak.