A look at Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe.
Now, though, I've met Kirby on his own territory, in the form of Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe, for the Switch. This is a fancy version of a Kirby game for the Wii, I gather. It comes to the Switch with a handful of new things - most excitingly new abilities based on sand and mechas. Reading around I gather that Return to Dreamland was not Kirby at his very best. A lot of reviewers thought it was boring.
What I mean is that it's similar enough in the basics to other platformers I have played to be constantly, jarringly different every few moments. And these sudden shockwaves of oddness are everywhere. Over the last few days they have become the things I have played for. Where is the next thing that will surprise me, that will feel wonderfully off?Return to Dreamland is a 2D platformer, and for players coming from elsewhere in the Nintendo Kingdom, it's full of semi-familiar stuff.
But then something will happen that surprises me. Kirby swallows enemies and can take on their powers. I was prepared for this. But the super versions of the powers are surprisingly wild. At one point I spouted lava floes that could destroy massive chunks of the environment. At another, I attacked an enemy with - legit - a chef's cleaver, a giant, screen-filling chef's cleaver.
I'm surprised in general, I think, about what a sharp edge Kirby has when it comes to violence. What a stupid thing to type. But honestly, the sense of feedback to his attacks is absolutely bloodthirsty, really brilliantly delivered stuff. Kirby smacks enemies into other enemies, swipes and upper-cuts and sends baddies rolling away, popping, crushing one another.
I feel bad about all of this. Not the violence. I feel bad that I've played Return to Dreamland for three days now and failed to really meet Kirby on his own terms. A lot of reviews I read talk about how he's always doomed to be Nintendo's other platformer - or even it's other other platformer, as Chris Schilling once put it so beautifully. As such, it's so much easier to see him clearly only at the points at which he diverges from Mario and Yoshi and all that gang.
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