Kirby's Dream Collection (Wii)
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chuckroJust the thing for the Kirby completist. Or the Kirby fan who isn’t as old as me and hasn’t otherwise played the earlier titles.
This includes pretty much all of the 2D Kirby games (Dream Lands 1, 2 and 3, Super Star, Adventure and Crystal Shards) and also a small set of new “challenge stages,” each a time trial using a different copy ability. If you’ve played the games before (and except for Crystal Shards, I have) you’re getting maybe an hour of new material. But if not, this is a freakin’ treasure trove.
For the record, I think that Dream Land 2 and Kirby Super Star are the strongest games in the collection. The original Dream Land is fun, but can be beaten in fifteen minutes and is remade better in Super Star. Adventure is solid, but everything it does, Dream Land 2 does better. Dream Land 3 and Crystal Shards and both saddled with wonky art styles and weaker, somewhat sluggish controls. (Crystal Shards even limits Kirby’s flight!)
Which is not to say either of those are perfect—Dream Land 2 in this collection uses the original Game Boy monochrome, and playing the original cart in a Game Boy Player gave you a better color scheme. Super Star is great, but the Ultra version for the DS was better. And the games that came after this collection got the formula down pat, which means less in the way of wonky controls or hard-to-parse art styles.
Overall: I got this cheap in a pile of used Wii games, and despite it mostly being replay time for me, I enjoyed it.
This includes pretty much all of the 2D Kirby games (Dream Lands 1, 2 and 3, Super Star, Adventure and Crystal Shards) and also a small set of new “challenge stages,” each a time trial using a different copy ability. If you’ve played the games before (and except for Crystal Shards, I have) you’re getting maybe an hour of new material. But if not, this is a freakin’ treasure trove.
For the record, I think that Dream Land 2 and Kirby Super Star are the strongest games in the collection. The original Dream Land is fun, but can be beaten in fifteen minutes and is remade better in Super Star. Adventure is solid, but everything it does, Dream Land 2 does better. Dream Land 3 and Crystal Shards and both saddled with wonky art styles and weaker, somewhat sluggish controls. (Crystal Shards even limits Kirby’s flight!)
Which is not to say either of those are perfect—Dream Land 2 in this collection uses the original Game Boy monochrome, and playing the original cart in a Game Boy Player gave you a better color scheme. Super Star is great, but the Ultra version for the DS was better. And the games that came after this collection got the formula down pat, which means less in the way of wonky controls or hard-to-parse art styles.
Overall: I got this cheap in a pile of used Wii games, and despite it mostly being replay time for me, I enjoyed it.
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Date: 2019-05-01 02:44 pm (UTC)