While minding his business one lovely day, Kirby gets sucked into a wormhole and transported into a post-apocalyptic realm known as the Forgotten Land. To figure out a way back, Kirby must traverse a series of levels while helping his long-time friends, the Waddle Dees, who are once more oppressed by the bad guys, or rather bad animals, because everyone in this game is some sort of non-human animal.
The most important thing about this latest Kirby title, once more developed by HAL Laboratory, is that it’s the first fully-3D Kirby game ever. All previous Kirby titles were essentially 2D, but in this one we have full freedom of movement across levels. It’s not an open world game, but more like open area. Kirby moves around freely and takes on a variety of enemies, puzzles, and platforming challenges. All while collecting loot, which can be used to upgrade Waddle Dee Town, the hub of the game world.
Kirby has a bunch of new powers, too. In addition to being able to eat anything and spit it back as a weapon, Kirby now inflates more like a balloon than ever before, and has a brand new power called Mouthful Mode, which is very appropriate. In this mode, Kirby swallows large objects like cars, staircases, and vending machines to help him get around more easily.
As you can probably imagine, all of this gets very amusing and looks best on a large screen.