![]() ![]() Most of them just walk around, they will attack you if you’re nearby, and some utilize ranged attacks. Like most Kirby games, the enemies don’t put up much of a resistance and act more like obstacles. Then there’s the Friend Train where the friends quickly charge around the level. It’s when all of them jump on a star and fly around and shoot at enemies. The Friend Star may just be the most fun friend action out of them all. You all form a bridge and need to guide an enemy with a key to a locked door. Friend Bridge is the least exciting action. Friend Circle is when they form a circle to break through areas of the level and destroy enemies. Now that Kirby can bring along friends, together they can perform friend actions. The puzzles aren’t very difficulty but they do usually require specific abilities which are almost always provided to you nearby. Levels do contain secret rooms, you’ll fire out of cannons, fight mini-bosses, and solve puzzles. You’ll be jumping, flying, beating up enemies, acquiring keys to open doors, and using abilities to progress. The main campaign plays out like a typical Kirby game. But if one of his friends is Chef Kawasaki, he’ll have his entire mini-boss move set. When Kirby has the cook ability, it works like it used to. Cleaning only included a sweeping attack in Dream Land 3 and now it has a whole new move set that utilizes the animal buddies Nago, Pitch, and ChuChu. There are two returning abilities that have seen some changes – cleaning and cook. ![]() You can use it to swing and jab and pole vault. The spider ability allows you to create webs, good for trapping enemies. The Festival ability allows Kirby and his friends to dance which kills all the enemies on screen. The art ability grants you the paint brush weapon which can be used to paint on canvases to reveal items and stars. ![]() Most of the abilities we’ve seen in previous games make a return and the new ones include art, festival, spider, and staff. After beating the main campaign, you unlock the Ability Planet which contains a room filled with all of the game’s abilities and an area to test them out. After recruiting from the Dream Palace, you can only enter it again after beating a level. With a roster of all dream friends, you can defeat a boss in a matter of seconds. ![]() These include characters like King DeDeDe, Meta Knight, Bandana Waddle Dee, Marx, and Magolor, among others and most of them were added as free DLC. These are iconic characters from the series, each representing a past Kirby game. Some levels have switches that unlock extra levels and Dream Palaces where you can recruit Dream Friends. Each level has puzzle pieces to collect and if you acquire all the puzzle pieces to complete a picture, you’ll unlock special artwork based on previous Kirby games. Each world has a map screen where you can travel to the different levels. The main campaign contains multiple words with their own set of levels. Combining abilities will be required to solve some puzzles. Some can combine together to create one-shot attacks. Each friend or character has their own move set and abilities and some abilities can be combined with elemental powers like fire, ice, water, electric, and air. Kirby can swap out friends if needed and unfriend certain ones if necessary. The game does support up to four players and anyone can jump in and take over a friend. Kirby can throw hearts on certain enemies and they will become friends or star allies who will follow Kirby and assist him on his journey. He can also obtain abilities from Copy Pedestals. As expected, he can copy abilities by sucking in foes and absorbing their powers. Kirby can walk, sprint, jump, slide, swim, fly, block, dodge, and air dodge. There is no voice acting, the story isn’t bad, and the gameplay is classic Kirby. Kirby is unaffected and he gathers friends, or star allies, to defeat the evil. The dark hearts possessed the inhabitants, turning them evil. The story goes that the Jambastions were trying to summon their lord and in the process, they released all the dark hearts on Popstar. The game has received numerous updates since it released and all the DLC is free. Developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo, Kirby Star Allies was released for Switch in March, 2018. I acquired it recently and I’m glad I did because I was able to enjoy all of the DLC at once. Jeremy got it day one and kept hounding me to get it but I was occupied with other games at the time. Our goal is to play and review most if not all Kirby games and I was really looking forward to playing Star Allies. ![]()
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