#Kirby star allies review dunkey series#

One heart, which is pink, falls onto a napping Kirby, which imbues him with the ability to cause his enemies to instantly become his friends.

#Kirby star allies review dunkey series#

Star Allies kicks off with a mysterious alien creature standing at an altar, performing a ritual which causes a series of creepy looking purple hearts to rain down across the universe. The latest release, Kirby Star Allies, stands as the most polished and enjoyable version of this ‘new’ Kirby yet, but it also shows that the main Kirby formula is starting to get a little tired. Starting off with Kirby’s Return To Dreamland, this new era of mainline Kirby games has taken on a character of its own almost standing apart as a distinct sub series. But the characters, world, and story are the same cute Kirby that Nintendo fans have come to love.The core Kirby series has seen something of a revival in recent years, after a long period of interesting yet different spin-off titles taking the main spotlight. The random mini-games seem just to take up space on your Switch. There isn't an easy way to select which components to combine with which weapons and that can alter your gameplay. The main feature of the game and new element is also the biggest annoyance. If the game took a little more skill and did a slightly less hand-holding, it may live up to the previous Kirby titles. But if you can get a good deal on it, it may be worth a little time. It probably won't take you very long to beat it with how simple the gameplay is with your gang of allies, and the mini-games just aren't exciting. If you're a hardcore Kirby fan or just love the cuteness and feel like you have to pick it up, I would at least recommend getting it on sale or used as it seems to be a bit much at the brand new price tag. In general, I'd have to say this is not one of the better Nintendo Switch titles. Although the mini-games offer a competitive way to play with your friends, I'm not sure that's something the game needed and may just take up memory space that's already limited on your Nintendo Switch. They don't really seem to have anything to do with the game or add anything to it. In Chop Champs, you stand at the base of a tree and try to be the player to get the most pieces of tree chopped in a certain amount of time, avoiding the obstacles on the tree as it comes down piece by piece. In Star Slam Heroes, you and three others, either computer players or other live players, are tasked with hitting a meteor so that it doesn't crash and destroy the world with a baseball bat, and whoever hits it the furthest wins. One is called Star Slam Heroes the other is called Chop Champs. If you're looking for a game that allows you to really use your skills and have been playing Kirby for years, you may be disappointed in Kirby Star Allies.Īs you go to select the story mode on the main menu of the game, you may notice a few other options. For example, if you swapped out a Driblee for a Burning Leo and wanted to have one fire and one water weapon on your team without having both elemental characters, you may lose your water weapon in Burning Leo's cycle.

This is especially irritating because you can't control how it cycles through, which makes you lose whatever pairing you previously had set up. To get the abilities to combine, you have to stop wherever you are and hold your joystick up until all the allies are standing at the ready and the elemental characters cycle through all the possible options until you get to the one you want. While being able to pair up your allies' abilities with each other and to yourself is a nice touch, I feel like it was done in a very annoying way. Kirby Star Allies Abilities (Image credit: iMore)