How do you celebrate a franchise's 30th anniversary? By delivering the best game in it's series so far.
Forgotten Land oozes imagination and wonder across each of it's perfectly crafted levels, designed with plenty of hidden collectibles to find to power up abilities and expand the hub world that is Waddle Dee town. Every level is accompanied by the perfect musical score, including a vocal opening song!!!!
Bringing Kirby into 3D allowed them to streamline Kirby's moveset. You no longer have to double tap to run allowing you to explore levels much more smoothly. Sucking up enemies and spitting them out is incredibly accurate for a 3D plane, and Kirby now has a dodge roll ability which allow boss fights to be dynamic, engaging, and a lot more challenging than in previous games.
Honestly it's so impressive just how tightly designed the whole game is. Levels are similar to Mario 3D World in that they're essentially "reach the goal" and don't offer much in the way of going off the main track but the levels are so much larger in scope, design, and imagination, along with near Tropical Freeze levels of attention to detail with the surrounding environment.
The only slight fault I personally have with the game is distant enemies and moving objects clearly skip frames of animation until you get closer and it's noticeable all the time which is kind of annoying but yeah, other than that, the game is perfect to me.
Really looking forward to seeing where HAL go from here with Kirby because topping this would be some achievement
Forgotten Land oozes imagination and wonder across each of it's perfectly crafted levels, designed with plenty of hidden collectibles to find to power up abilities and expand the hub world that is Waddle Dee town. Every level is accompanied by the perfect musical score, including a vocal opening song!!!!
Bringing Kirby into 3D allowed them to streamline Kirby's moveset. You no longer have to double tap to run allowing you to explore levels much more smoothly. Sucking up enemies and spitting them out is incredibly accurate for a 3D plane, and Kirby now has a dodge roll ability which allow boss fights to be dynamic, engaging, and a lot more challenging than in previous games.
Honestly it's so impressive just how tightly designed the whole game is. Levels are similar to Mario 3D World in that they're essentially "reach the goal" and don't offer much in the way of going off the main track but the levels are so much larger in scope, design, and imagination, along with near Tropical Freeze levels of attention to detail with the surrounding environment.
The only slight fault I personally have with the game is distant enemies and moving objects clearly skip frames of animation until you get closer and it's noticeable all the time which is kind of annoying but yeah, other than that, the game is perfect to me.
Really looking forward to seeing where HAL go from here with Kirby because topping this would be some achievement