Mediocrity’s a bore. Too bad Nintendo’s newest Kirby game is just that. Kirby Star Allies is the Nintendo Switch debut for a franchise that was on a hot streak in recent years on 3DS.

There's a reason "Allies" is in the title: you'll want to play with friends and that is, frankly, the best way to play. Kirby games aren't known for their long, complicated narratives but Star ...

GameSpot critic Peter Brown called the mechanic "a welcome change that keeps the otherwise traditional gameplay fresh" in our Kirby Star Allies review and praised the game as "just relentlessly ...

Enter Kirby. The Nintendo Switch’s latest big-name title, Kirby Star Allies is built for local, collaborative, co-op play. The very mechanics of a good co-op game are what set it apart.

Series developer HAL Laboratories and Nintendo brought the pink puff back the following year for the free-to-play Super Kirby Clash. Like Star Allies, Clash is played with a team of four that can ...

Kirby Star Allies gives him a lot to work with. You can mix, match, and combine abilities to reach greater heights than a Kirby game ever has before. Whether it’s working together to solve ...

Star Allies is yet another Kirby game, but it's up there with some of the best. It's an artistic showcase, and a great opportunity for co-op platforming. The one real complaint you can levy at it ...

But more than any other game in the series, Kirby Star Allies made me appreciate what Kirby games are all about. They're not about showing off sharp reflexes or struggling against insurmountable odds.

This is far from the first Kirby game to include such a mechanic and while it’s a nice feature to have, Kirby Star Allies doesn’t do much to try new things with the idea. If anything ...