Im a bit late to the party but I’m fashionably late~! Happy to the first anniversary of Kirby and the forgotten land! Ever sense the game came out I never been so enthralled with it, even more so sense we’ve gained this spirit of chaos! I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I! I feel such a sense of pride that I felt ever so confident of results that I’m pleased with.
The more I learn about the Kirby franchise... The more times I am convinced that Nintendo wanted to develop a Lovecraftian horror game but couldn't because they had a family-friendly status quo.
I was chatting with my buddy @minnesotamedic186 earlier ago about Smash and she was telling me how the boss fight with Marx scared her.
Marx... is this little dude.
And this is that little dude.
...
What even is this franchise?
Like, no seriously, what the actual shit???
Oh, and that's not all, apparently Kirby and the Forgotten Land has a moTHERFUCKING FEAR RATING.
You mean to tell me... that this cute little game about a cute little ball of sunshine that gobbles up everything in sight...
...has a fear rating?
You know what, I know I sound so flabbergasted that I must be really pissed, but in actuality, I'm in love with this franchise!
There is so much potential for Kirby to be a goddamn horror game and I want to capsulate that potential through art.
i LOVE the idea that since meta knight is waddle dee town's guardian mainly while kirby is away rescuing waddle dees, when kirby is in town and competing in a tournament meta knight feels like the town is safe enough to take a break and compete himself, because who would dare attack the town while both he AND kirby are at the ready??
We pretty much knew Kirby and the Forgotten Land wasn't going to be properly post-apocalyptic, because while Kirby does routinely fight elder gods, they never actually get to succeed in eradicating all life, but I feel like Nintendo's workaround of "everything is deserted because a high-tech human civilisation captured an alien god, tortured its secrets from it, achieved some sort of post-human singularity and ascended en masse to a higher plane of existence, abandoning their uplifted animal servants to inherit the empty world they left behind" is kind of more fucked up than if everything had just gotten blown up.
please help,, i can't. stop watching the fucjing cutscene where dedede has to make that quick decision to sacrifice himself to save one (1) waddle dee from a horde of enemies and start tearing up a lil asgxvxbdbd send post