The Almighty Hamster
New Challenger
Why isn't this game talked about more? The visual style is adorable. It's the most wholesome and cozy game there is.
I like Kirby 64 and Kirby and The Forgotten Lands for 3D stuff.I really like what they went for with the pastel art style and relaxing music. Also despite not having dialogues, its one of the most charming takes on kirby's world, the cute interactions with the animal friends and all these unique characters that you help at the end of every stage (instead of the usual find *insert magical item here*) made me want I could just chill around interacting with the characters. It's a completely opposite take compared to Super Star, but that I've come to slowly appreciate more, even though SS is still my favorite kirby game.
Though I admit I am not a big kirby fan nowadays, its probably an unpopular opinion but I feel like they should have ended the series with RtDL (at least 2D titles) which was a nice homage to early titles, as after it they just kept releasing extremely similar games that could easily pass as DLC, not unlike what NSMB series was doing.
This. Its a slow-paced, relaxing and chill, 2D game that came out during a time where 3D was the new hotness, whether it was real-time or pre-rendered.The game came out in 1997, the same year as Final Fantasy 7, Star Fox 64, Tekken 3, Golden Eye etc. so no time to play the latest pink blob game when you are blasting your friends in golden eye.
Shout out to this track for setting the vibe early on
Oh reallyEmulating KDL3 back in the day was such a pain, because the game uses a ton of weird filters that block the playing field if your emulator didn't render them properly. Aside from that, excellent art style and music!
KDL2 is my favourite of the Dream Land trilogy, but 3 is good, too. Super Star Ultra is my favourite game in the series by a long shot, but I also enjoyed Amazing Mirror for what it was.