Aside from my own personal love of the presentation of Kirby’s Epic Yarn, Star Allies is incredibly polished to a sheen. Kirby Star Allies is certainly one of the best looking Kirby games to date. This plot is delivered in some pretty great, wordless storytelling, complete with fake out credits to pretend that the game is finished long, long before you even scratch the full contingency of the gameplay. Determined to free up the hearts of everyone possessed and generally stop this nonsense, Kirby hops between multiple worlds, making new friends, discovering new abilities and learning that he doesn’t have to go at it alone to make things bright and wonderful again. There was a giant explosion on a far away planet, and these dark hearts are the scattered remnants of said explosion. Naturally, Kirby susses out the classic antagonists (King Dedede, Meta Knight) to see if they’re the reason everything is going wonky, and finds out no, that’s not the case. Kirby, inexplicably, absorbs one of these hearts and gains the ability to win over the baddies he encounters and gets them to join his team. Some kind of dark force has invaded the hearts and minds of the creatures on Kirby’s home turf, turning them into bad guys or, at least, badder guys. Firstly, the plot line is actually pretty interesting and clever. Right out the gate, Kirby Star Allies does a lot that the previous games have not. So, please don’t hate me when I say that I wasn’t totally blown away by Kirby Star Allies. Unfortunately, for one pink legacy character, the Switch is definitely a tough place to achieve the same level of success as before. Some indie games have delivered on the hype, some have far succeeded since they were unknown. But the Switch is definitely the harder high school, and it was easier to reinvent yourself if you came in without a reputation. Is it your fault? Probably not, but no one’s going to listen to you if they remember when you brought home 100% completions. So you try harder, and work harder, and you still…pull a B. Now you’re pulling Cs instead of As, your mom thinks you’re lazy, your sister thinks it’s hilarious and you just want to go back to getting praised for being good. It’s hard to have things come easily to you in mathematics when the largest concept you grapple with is imaginary numbers, and then suddenly it’s all tangents and cosines and you don’t know what the hell happened. ![]() Sometimes it comes from an undeserving place, such as your family had money and no one cares here, but sometimes it’s genuine shock from a genuine shift. Anyone who used to be a top dog in Junior High School and then went into a much, much bigger High School can understand this mentality. It can sometimes be daunting when you move between schools.
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