The beach environment is also explored, as well as what looks like a funhouse interior, plus a snowy location. He encounters a few creatures as he runs and jumps through the environment, traversing broken-down roads, construction sites, and even a rusting amusement park. We see abandoned malls, streets, and buildings before finding Kirby waking up on a beach, apparently confused about his whereabouts before venturing into this abandoned metropolis. It opens on a ruined city that nature has begun to reclaim. The announcement trailer for Kirby and the Forgotten Land doesn’t exactly have the tone you might expect from a Kirby game. Kirby is just as closely tied to Nintendo as Mario and Zelda are at this point, so any fans of his games would already know they would need to pick up a Switch to play his latest game. This should come as no surprise, as Kirby has always been one of Nintendo’s exclusive series, despite developer HAL Laboratory technically not being owned by Nintendo. Kirby and the Forgotten Land is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch. We don’t suspect the date to slip, since it has been a few years already since Kirby’s last game. We expect it to be the next big game Nintendo releases after Pokemon Legends: Arceus in January.

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While we won’t know for sure how this installment will shake out until we get our hands on it, here’s everything we do know about Kirby and the Forgotten Land. At the same time, there’s a clear undercurrent of maturity in some games, and optional challenges that can push back on the player’s skills.

His primary mechanic of sucking up enemies to either launch as projectiles or steal their powers is addicting and makes his gameplay always evolving. He’s a cute character who stars in games where it’s either very difficult, or sometimes impossible, to actually die. Kirby has always been a lighthearted, more casual experience on the surface.

There was also the fighting game spinoff game Kirby Fighters 2, but now Kirby is making his triumphant return in his traditional platforming genre, although with a major twist.

Kirby’s last adventure also came to Switch in 2018 in the form of Kirby: Star Allies, which was an amazing package for casual and hardcore gamers alike.

Leaking just hours before the announcement at the Nintendo Direct in September 2021, Kirby and the Forgotten Land is officially the next installment in the long line of games starring this adorable round pink puffball.

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