Kirby star allies review 20197/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The presentation is quite superb, as the first mainline title in HD, the makeover from the 3DS games is quite noticeable, there is a lot of really good lightning and detail to the world and models, some really breathtaking sunsets in Castle Dedede or the fact that you can see the knits in materials like Dedede’s clothes, Sword Kirby’s hat, the costumes of the Jambastion Mages, just a lot of really good amount of care put into the game’s visuals, unfortunately the framerate can take a hit due to that at times, the game mostly runs at 30 fps, with some noticeable lag in the more intense scenes like the sunset of Dedede’s Castle and a particular fight in one of the game modes, the lag doesn’t happen often, very few places where it does, but the places where it does lag, it lags consistently, there is really no evading that. ![]() What makes the story of Star Allies stand out the most is its pacing and structure, for the first time in a while, the level flow is not restricted to the planet Popstar in which Kirby lives, but it takes them across ever increasing scopes of scenery, from Dreamland all the way to outer space, giving a more epic feel to the adventure and keeping the level tropes and design consistently fresh. Star Allies story without spoiling too much, takes Kirby to stop the menace of dark hearts that infect their friends or enemies due to the failed chanting of a cult of mages trying to bring back their lord. Let’s start with the story, which as is tradition with the series, is deceptively simple, ever since Kirby’s Adventure on the NES, the mainline titles are all about betraying players expectations, either to newcomers or veterans of the series, ever refining the surprise factor of its stories, like going from dark villains to tragic villains and even comebacks of dormant antagonists or subversions of recurrent characters, all of this building a continuous lore that has only gotten even more presence as of the latest games with recurrent plot elements in the case of items of importance in past games and flavor text in the pause menu of the multiple boss fights. Nevertheless I firmly believe, even without all this nostalgia, what HAL Laboratories presents us in Star Allies, is without a doubt the finest entry in over 25 years of games of the pink puff warrior. As a big fan of the franchise and one that I have grown up with for most of my life, is probably a safe thing for me to say that I could be quite biased towards certain qualities of the latest entry in the Kirby series. I’ll preface this review by saying that is quite challenging to write one of a title like Kirby Star Allies, in part due to the big amounts of nostalgia injected in a classy, elegant and respectful way that is known of the series, only in this case, presented in higher quantities than previous games. It’s cute though Kirby makes everything so.Value - 10 Review based on version 4.0.0 of the game. There’s still a sense of comical cruelty – one peace-loving creature sucks in a screen’s worth of enemies, boils them alive in a sprouted cauldron, then feeds the cooked carcasses to the heroes. The pace, the challenge (or lack thereof), the general ambiance Star Allies beams a story of a pink puffball on another run against benign evil. In this case, that’s saving a gentle, candy-colored world from certain doom. Show empathy for others and good things happen. There’s a #walkup movement about, and Star Allies perpetuates that idea. The tricks here lie entirely on the positive message of teamwork, even bringing rivals into Kirby’s stock. It’s gorgeous though, with deep backgrounds and softened depth of field adding to the scale. ![]() Recent Kirby outings focused on art aesthetics not so much here. That’s what the series continues to do well and why it mixes so effortlessly against Mario and Sonic. No one comes to a Kirby expecting intellectual challenge. Creative sparks bind the team together in wacky ways, creating variety if not gameplay weight. So it is here, adding the right bit of mania with up to four protagonists at once marching forward, rubbery and uncoiled, toward their goal. Comic book movies inundate their scripts with team-based morals and animated films bunch characters together to take down a big bad. Star Allies fits into the media rush of stories about coming together and working as a team. This is the same series that traveled to softened yarn worlds and set its conflict in squishy clay realms. Of course a Kirby adventure allows players to throw shimmering hearts at enemies to make them friends. ![]()
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