HAL Laboratory·Released Mar 16, 2018·Single player
Kirby is back in this new title coming to the Nintendo Switch console in HD. Recruit enemies as helpers, use Kirby copy abilities such as Sword, Fire and Water, and join forces with up to three friends for a different kind of team-up action.
Kirby is better than ever thanks to his new ability-mixing pals.
With heaps of personality and invaluable extra content, Kirby Star Allies rises to greatness.
This warm-hearted yet unimaginative trek through the Kirby universe plays a lot better with friends
Perhaps the biggest marvel of Kirby Star Allies is that games like this still exist at all. This is an unashamedly old-…
Great games are interesting, as are terrible ones. Mediocrity’s a bore. Too bad Nintendo’s newest Kirby game is just that. Kirby Star Allies is the
Star Allies demands so little from the player that it sometimes feels like you're barely involved at all.
All in all, Kirby Star Allies is a fun, relaxing game that does a good job of showing off what makes the main Kirby series so great. The slow pace, diverse powers, beautiful environments, adorable enemy designs, and light difficulty ensure that this is an enjoyable ride from start to finish. But with that being said, there's a lingering sense that the developer was a little too keen to play this one safe, and the lack of new ideas may come as a disappointment to series veterans. This is not the Super Mario Odyssey or The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild of the Kirby series, but that doesn't mean that it's a bad game. If you've never played a Kirby game before, this is a fantastic place to jump in, but if you're a longtime fan, you may not be blown away.
