Monday, November 7, 2022

Switch Game Review: Kirby Star Allies

 Kirby is a long-standing game series dating back to the earliest days of Nintendo on the NES and Game Boy.  The game has grown since then through all formats and even a sport game (Kirby's Dream Course, which I reviewed and will be below) but has focused on its main thing of platforming and Kirby's multiple forms through the game.  Kirby Star Allies is no different from the others, but does feature some new twists and areas.  With what Nintendo did right on Kirby Star Allies and what they struggled with, let's see below!

Positives: 

1. Platforming- Something Star Allies does well is the ability to be good with platforming so Nintendo hit this absolutely great.  It's something that warrants credit and makes it good for the gamer to just game as much as possible.

2. Music/Graphics- Yeah this is easy for both for Nintendo, however the classic Kirby Music is here and sounding great, and the newer Kirby music is great sounding too.  Either way, you won't go wrong with it.

3. New World- I actually quite liked the new worlds that Star Allies brought to Nintendo and I thought it was well done for a new twist to Kirby.  they were well designed and well made.  It made for a bit of a challenge to go through and wasn't a guarantee to get done without a challenge.  So I commend Nintendo on that ability to do well with.

4. Kirby- Still great and ability to change forms and be able to have friends is always a good thing.  This has been a staple for a while but it is something that is sorely needed in many parts of the game so I also like that this works out best. 

Negatives:

1. Easy difficulty- This game was far too easy to be honest.  Minus one part that I will elude to in a bit, the game was easy to get lives, easy to progress, easy to survive and I honestly was like.. where is the challenge to this? It probably has been a lot of the same for other Kirby games but I felt a bit let down by how easy it was.

2. Next to Last Boss Difficulty Spike- So I mentioned that the game was super easy but the next to last boss of the game seemed to take that difficulty and smash it times an infinite amount.  I don't quite understand how a game is that easy but then goes to a bizarre massive difference in difficulty with one boss but then back to honestly pretty normal again.  That was the other major downside to this game.

Neutral:

1. Ability to 100 percent this game- It seems relatively easy to 100 percent this game if you wanted.  I didn't have a significant reason to want to or not, but if you are one of those people that need to do this sort of thing it's honestly relatively easy to do.

Overall Rating:

In all honesty, despite the game being easy and that one boss' difficulty spike, I still can recommend the game Kirby Star Allies to the normal gamer.  There is still a lot of nostalgic Kirby stuff to work for the retro person but for the new gamer, it works as well.  Overall it's a good, but not great game.  The easy difficulty and the random high spike on one boss does downgrade it.  However, it does grade as an 8 out of 10.


Kirby's Dream Course Review: https://mywideworldofblogging.blogspot.com/2018/06/snes-game-review-kirbys-dream-course.html 

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