Kirby's Adventure

Kirby's Adventure (also known as Kirby of the Stars: The Story of the Fountain of Dreams in Japan) is the second installment in the Kirby series, and Kirby's first home console game, being a late NES title. It was released one year after the first game in the series, Kirby's Dream Land.

The game was later remade for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, where it was known as Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.

Why It's One Tuff Pink Puff

 * 1) The game has some of the best graphics for an NES title truly showing off the graphical capabilities of the system that had never seen before, featuring very colorful, detailed and elaborate backgrounds (for its time anyway). The graphics are only made better via the 3D classics port, which adds some extra effects to them (like added gradients) to make them pop out that much more.
 * 2) * The GBA remake is simply put, gorgeous, with the backgrounds being colorful, lush, elaborate worlds that are filled to the brim with detailed Scenery Porn. It's little wonder that the next two games kept this aesthetic.
 * 3) The Copy Ability is introduced, Kinda like the "Mega Man get weapon' concept but simplified.
 * 4) Meta Knight is introduced in this game, and he would become a staple in the Kirby series.
 * 5) The game is an expansion on what we had in Kirby's Dream Land.
 * 6) Great soundtrack.
 * 7) Kirby can even slide, which is quite convenient.
 * 8) There are even mini-games for side-entertainment.
 * 9) The boss rush is pretty cool.
 * 10) An early callback for the series, the last normal non-boss level from Rainbow Resort is a remake of some parts of some levels in Kirby's Dream Land.
 * 11) An early demotion of an antagonist from a true villain to an anti hero, King Dedede did his "nefarious deeds" to contain the Nightmare, and helps Kirby fight it in the end.
 * 12) Speaking of which, this is the first Kirby game to use the trope of the final boss being a giant scary foe that you fight with a weapon that can't be found in any other part of the game.
 * 13) There's a world map, which became a staple for the series that started in this game, and would later be used in every Kirby game, except Kirby Super Star 's Spring Breeze, The Great Cave Offensive, and Revenge of the Meta Knight and the DS remake's Revenge of the King.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some bad copy abilities or copy ability decisions.
 * 2) *The Ball ability's controls are hard to get used to. However, once you get used to them, you can absolutely destroy bosses.
 * 3) *The Sleep ability does nothing but make Kirby sleep, making him vulnerable to enemies.
 * 4) *The Light ability is also useless, as you only use it in one section, and it's not even useful in that section, as it only lights up the way.
 * 5) *There are two fire-type abilities and two ice-type abilities, which doesn't make sense. Thankfully, in Kirby Super Star, they were combined together.
 * 6) *Fire is outclassed by Ice and Spark is greatly outclassed by Freeze.
 * 7) *Spark lags the game, although it doesn't happen in Nightmare in Dream Land.
 * 8) Rolling Turtle and Bounder were replaced in the game's remake for unknown reasons, but thankfully Needlous replaced Spiny/Togezo to avoid regulations with the Super Mario universe.

Trivia

 * Meta Knight can either help or hurt you in this game.