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Kirby's Dream Land(otherwise known as Kirby of the Stars in Japan) is the first installment of the Kirby Series. Here you could see the roots of the Kirby series.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) Pretty good soundtrack.
 * 2) Kirby's move set was cool, Kirby can inhale and spit out or swallow enemies, in later games he could copy abilities.
 * 3) Nice level design.
 * 4) There is an extra mode if you beat the game.
 * 5) The game doesn't punish you for not being pixel perfect and kinda allows you to be loose on the edge.
 * 6) Kirby can float which is nice for transversing platforms.
 * 7) The game was made to be short and sweet, something players can pick up and play.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) This may be the weakest Kirby game, due to it being the first Kirby game.
 * 2) There is no save feature, you have to do it all in one go, not much of a problem considering you can beat this game in less than 3 hours
 * 3) Once you beat the game for the first time, it can be too easy, this is where extra mode comes in.

Reception
Kirby's Dream Land was received generally well, It gets in 63% on GameRankings easily making it the 17th best Game Boy game, All Game gave it four stars, Ben Reeves called it the 14th best Game Boy game, At the time, this was Hal Laboratory's best selling game. Brett Elson did an article on the music, praising the boss theme. 1Up.com's Nadia Oxford praised it for its platforming mechanics, saying that it was the beginning of a gluttonous legend and so on, The Virtual Console releases were even praised

Trivia

 * Kirby's concept name was popopo, but was renamed to Kirby of the Stars in Japan.
 * Kirby was named after John Kirby, a lawyer who stood up for Nintendo when paramount pictures sued Nintendo for stealing the King Kong concept