I rented this way back when and played through the immediately available games before returning it. I found it totally fine. I've since tried to go back to it, but there's something about it that never grabbed me.
This time around, I got to it by starting Kirby's Dream Land 3, but that was just really boring, so I moved on to this one, and this time, I played it all the way through.
It could be because I played that first game so much, but it feels like adding in all the additional powers and ways to use those powers made the game a little more of a slog. Half the time, I found the game more fun to play without powers at all, and making powers into a partner just ensured that the partner ended up in my way all the time (although we did make out a lot (baby bird? I'm not sure)).
I did really like all the different game styles here, and think HAL was very effective in taking the basic core gameplay and applying it to multiple different game styles.
In the end, after beating all five games and the arena, the game kind of... stops? Each game had a tiny ending, and then the game itself just had no more to offer.
This time around, I got to it by starting Kirby's Dream Land 3, but that was just really boring, so I moved on to this one, and this time, I played it all the way through.
It could be because I played that first game so much, but it feels like adding in all the additional powers and ways to use those powers made the game a little more of a slog. Half the time, I found the game more fun to play without powers at all, and making powers into a partner just ensured that the partner ended up in my way all the time (although we did make out a lot (baby bird? I'm not sure)).
I did really like all the different game styles here, and think HAL was very effective in taking the basic core gameplay and applying it to multiple different game styles.
In the end, after beating all five games and the arena, the game kind of... stops? Each game had a tiny ending, and then the game itself just had no more to offer.