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How do you feel on Kirby games? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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I dont know all of them, but for example the earlier ones like Kirbys dream land 2; were they supposed to be ridiculously easy games? Like I do enjoy them just as a chill game to play. But im wondering what their purpose was. I maybe do recall reading they were made for younger kids. I just have always thought of Kirby as WAY overpowered and as such the games almost become blah.

I think I played one of the newer ones on switch and while it was really cool how you could become a car, I think the gameplay was still a little hand holdy.

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[โ€“] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Kirby games are generally made for kids. At the time when they originated (on the original Gameboy and the NES) a lot of games were quite difficult, so a game that wasn't brutally difficult but still fun to play was somewhat of a novelty.

These days, Kirby also tends to be used when Nintendo wants to explore with a new type of game.

[โ€“] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

I loved them as a kid for exactly that reason. I was not good at video games in the NES era, and Kirby was the one game I could actually beat. It was cool not just replaying the same 2-3 levels over and over again for hours.