#happy 17th anniversary to Squeak Squad

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I learned that today is the 17th anniversary of Squeak Squad’s release, and I didn’t have time to draw anything to commemorate it but I still wanted to post about it since it was the first Kirby game that I ever played and I have a lot of fondness for it.

I know that most people think that this is one of the weaker games in the series, and it’s true that other games have a stronger story and tougher final boss, but I still really like the game a lot for what it is. I think I was around nine years old when I got it for my DS and I always had fun playing it, it’s probably one of my most played games from my childhood and I enjoyed revisiting it as an adult when I played through it again last year. It felt a lot easier to play as an adult lol, I remember being kind of bad at it when I was younger even though it’s not a hard game. As a kid it took me a while to get all of the treasure chests and beat all of the bosses since I had favorite copy abilities that I’d always play as because I thought that they were fun or looked cool and I didn’t consider which ones were the strongest against specific bosses or which abilities I needed to get specific treasure chests. I really loved using Cupid, Bubble, and Animal because I thought that they were cute, and I liked possessing different enemies with the Ghost ability just to see what I could make them do.

Something else that I remember about playing through this game when I was a kid is that the ending cutscene used to make me sad lol… I remember thinking that Kirby looked lonely flying back to Popstar all by himself on his warp star, and for whatever reason that made me feel really sad. There’s nothing sad about this cutscene at all, but little nine year old me just really didn’t like that he was all alone in outer space.

I think that I would’ve really enjoyed playing Star Allies as a kid if it has been released back then since Kirby flies back with all of his friends in the ending cutscene. It always makes me smile a bit whenever I finish the game and see everybody flying back together, it’s just a very wholesome thing lol

#Kirby #text post #happy 17th anniversary to Squeak Squad #I didn’t actually get into the Kirby series as a whole until last year but I always loved playing Squeak Squad as a kid #so I’m glad I decided to check out the rest of the games in the series I’ve really enjoyed all of them #I know that most people don’t really like Squeak Squad that much but I enjoy it #and not just for the nostalgia of it being my first Kirby game I do genuinely find it fun to play lol #I almost can’t believe that the game is so old now it makes me feel kind of old myself lol