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Kirby Star Allies is a disappointing follow-up to the excellent Planet Robobot, being a less complex, creative, and engaging game in almost every aspect. It banks on nostalgia, recycling old ideas, characters, and music, in the hopes that they will be sufficient to appease fans.
Star Allies is much less narrative-driven than its predecessor. Here, a dark, mysterious wizard makes a spell that corrupts the hearts of the people of planet Popstar. Kirby, then, must help his old friends and enlist their help to defeat the wizard.
The main gimmick of Star Allies is the ability to have three allies accompanying Kirby in his adventure: Kirby can throw a heart at an enemy to [...]
Kirby: Planet Robobot is not just the best Kirby game on the 3DS, but one of the best entries in the whole series, telling a surprisingly thoughtful story about rampant capitalist greed, the dangers of technological progress, and imperialism. Its level design is also both complex and varied, never letting the new gimmick interrupt the flow of the action.
The opening cutscene shows Planet Popstar in peace – King Dedede is playing chess, Kirby is sleeping, Meta Knight is looking cool – when suddenly the shadow of a huge alien spacecraft is cast on them. The Access Ark, as it is called, arrives unannounced on Popstar and installs drills on the ground, dropping machines from the [...]