Kirby is a series I have never played a lot of bar the odd spin off title here and there.. I've always kind of wanted to play more of the series and it's not like I'm not presented with many many opportunities but I just never seemed to get into it. However, when this title was brought to my attention by my good friend Phil and fellow co-op game enthusiast as a new game for us to play through and already having seen videos of it's unique art style, I was quite intruiged so away we went.
Gameplay wise, it's quite similar to most traditional Kirby games in that it's easy-going family-friendly platforming action. Kirby's usual ability of eating enemies is replaced with capturing them in a yarn lasso and then throwing them at other enemies. The fact that you are made of yarn also affords you the ability to reshape easily into all kinds of cool things like cars, trains and ships for speed, umbrellas for floating, submarines and dolphins for swimming and many more contraptions. The fact that the entire world is made out of yarn also gives you the ability to manipulate it by stretching parts, peeling parts away , moving things and so on which adds more interesting touches to the environments. It was quite easy and short but I didn't mind that as it was quite soothing and peaceful to play which is a nice change of pace. The lullaby-like soundtrack also helped this quite a lot. The bosses were some of the best levels and although again, not terribly difficult each one was different and interesting and required tactical adjustment.
But by far and away the best and funniest parts were the narrated slide shows telling the story in between worlds where the narrator would rattle off what seemed like a trippy piss take of a childrens story.
Hilarious, ball-tripping and non-stressful fun platform action from start to finish. Maybe I should pick up some Kirby games after my backlog is finally cleared. They do seem fun.
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