Kirby 64

This one is probably gonna be short compared to the previous review. Kirby 64 is my favourite kirby game by a decent margin. It is not the best kirby game, far from it, but I just really like it.

I guess I'll start off by saying that this game has my favourite kirby soundtrack and overall vibe. Though the vibes are tied with dreamland 3 and I'd arguably say that 3 has a better vibe overall due to it's aesthetic but both games are sorta similar sounding in music if I remember correctly.

But anyway yeah, Kirby 64 has imppeccable chill cozy vibes because of the combination of its visuals, music and I guess the cast too. I like the little cutscenes that play inbetween worlds. I like just about every track in this game but my favourite is quiet forest. That stage in general is very cool, I've always been fond of it. Other tracks I like are that one song with the kickass drum solo, the cloud level song, all of the x-1 songs and not gonna lie as I'm typing this I just realised I was about to list all the stage themes, so you get the idea. I like the music of this game.

As for the gameplay, I love the mixing of abilities and it's my favourite iteration of copy abilities even if some of them are kinda useless. Even if they are useless, they are at the very least funny in one way or another. I'd say my favourites are lightsaber, firesword, mouth of an eldritch monster, the exploding shuriken, exploding snowman and the fridge. And i guess cuttercutter is funny because kirby turns just flings the majority of his body mass for that ability.



The level design though, I feel people tend to be more mixed about, from what I've seen. The levels themselves are fine, I like how the other characters show up to help up in some sections. The main issue comes from some levels requiring certain ability combinations to get some of the crystal shards and in most cases you will probably have to replay the lvel since you wouldn't know what ability to bring beforehand unless you search it up. Personally I am fine with it. I enjoy playing the game so I don't really mind replaying levels. Though I'd give them props for the level design on a visual level. The backgrounds have stuff going on in them which is cool. The giant spacecraft thing in world 2 appearing in the background comes to mind.

I think the bosses are cool, my memory of them if hazy to be honest but I remember them all somewhat fondly except for Miracle Matter because of how long it can be to fight it but maybe I was just playing poorly. Final boss is cool of course. 0^2 is pretty iconic among kirby bosses for bleeding and stuff Its theme is cool too, one of the few dire sounding songs in the game.

I think I've said all I want to say about this game. I like it despite some of it's problems. Yeah.