Kirby Battle Royale

Kirby Battle Royale is a multiplayer fighting game developed by HAL Laboratory and released for the Nintendo 3DS on January 19, 2018. This game is meant as a celebration to the 25th anniversary of the Kirby series.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) There are 13 copy abilities to choose from, and a few of the abilities such as Tornado make a return.
 * 2) You can also customize Kirby with hats and you can even change colors.
 * 3) Great soundtrack as usual, which shows that the Kirby series never abandons it’s musical charm.
 * 4) The games are fun to play such as Battle Arena, Apple Scramble, Rocket Rumble, and Robo Bonkers.
 * 5) This is the first Kirby game to allow playing against other players in the world.
 * 6) The Dededestroyer Z is a cool final boss that resembles the Mecha Dedede from Kirby Dream Course and the Dedede Clones & D3 boss from Kirby: Planet Robobot.
 * 7) The game received DLC in Europe (while not as big as Kirby Star Allies), which are two additional copy abilities - Mirror and Sleep. They were added as a result of a poll where people could vote for their favorite copy ability to get into the game. However, the US version did not receive any DLC as both abilities were shipped by the time of the US release.
 * 8) * Speaking of DLC abilities, it's nice to see Sleep as a usable ability for the very first time, whereas it was considered a useless one-time ability in every other Kirby game except for Squeak Squad as it gave a very small heal.
 * 9) Nice and colorful graphics especially for 3DS standards.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game cannot be played with stereoscopic 3D.
 * 2) The game suffers from long loading times.
 * 3) Cake Royale (the game's story mode) is too short and only takes 4-6 hours to 100% complete, even for Kirby standards.
 * 4) Very little content for a $40 full priced game, especially when in comparison to the other Kirby games for the Nintendo 3DS.
 * 5) King Dedede's characterization was handled poorly in this game.