Kirby developer HAL Laboratory’s first mobile game, Part Time UFO, was released yesterday in the West. It’s on iOS and Android. It’s $3.99. Everything about it is delightful. It is so full of HAL’s charm and polish that I felt a full $3.99's worth of fun in the tutorial level alone.
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I make videos for Kotaku. I make video games for myself and my friends. I like writing fiction. Someday I will publish a novel. Who knows!
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