Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe
Kirby, until recently only loved by seventeen children and Stephen Totilo, is now truly having his day. With last year’s Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the amorphous pink blob drove his way back into everyone’s hearts by eating an entire car, and then our entire hearts. Now, everyone’s paying far more attention to this remake of the 2011 Wii game than they otherwise might.
Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a ground-up remake, with new graphics, a new “Mecha Ability,” and a bunch of new mini-game modes, along with four-player co-op, and it looks all sorts of cute.
It’s hard to know if this 39th Kirby release would have gotten such a high profile without last year’s surprise hit, but here’s hoping it’ll deserve it. The Wii version was reviewed very well at the time, albeit tempered by that perennial Kirby complaint of a lack of difficulty.
Release Date: February 24
