{"id":193646,"date":"2025-09-02T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:27:09","slug":"what-review-score-would-you-give-kirby-the-forgotten-land-star-crossed-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/193646\/","title":{"rendered":"What Review Score Would You Give ‘Kirby & The Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

@sixrings<\/a> also Canadian, also paying the insane costs\u2026 that said, 95% of the games I buy I buy on STEEP discounts using Deku Deals (or actually, now that the Switch 2 is out and the eShop has gotten a bit of an upgrade, the actual eShop wishlist does what Deku Deals always did for me), so I\u2019m not overly upset by the one MAYBE two first party Nintendo games I have to buy at full price in a year – and even those I will sometimes wait for the 33% discount or w\/e it is.<\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is videogames just havn\u2019t gone up with inflation like everything else has, and they are worth more (atleast the VERY few that are actually complete and polished upon release, which atleast Nintendo first-party games tend to be) than we are paying for them – its as simple as that. Mobile gaming and the race-to-the-pricing-bottom completely devalued games for an entire generation of gamers, and so now we\u2019re left with an industry rife with unfinished, untested, messes of games on release that tout \u201croad maps\u201d for **CONTENT** (aka. Them finishing their game after you\u2019ve bought it) and microtransaction slop to extract every dime out of you they can after their initial \u201clow price\u201d to try to recoup costs\u2026 and yet even still dev teams are being closed constantly and games cancelled\u2026 its not sustainable.<\/p>\n

So again, I\u2019ll happily pay for 1 or 2 full price Nintendo games in a year – some of the only games that I can count on actually being finished and polished these days, because they actually know their worth and expect to get what they are worth for them – and then continue to get others on sales or just keep chipping away at a backlog that I\u2019ll never finish.<\/p>\n

Fwiw, my two kids got YEARS of entertainment out of Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Neither ever beat it till now, but they threw it on regularly to play a level or two with eachother or friends, and then when I was playing it after the update, both wanted to join in with me and help me beat some of the harder endgame and postgame bosses and play all the new levels with me. So I would say both myself and my kids have gotten our money\u2019s worth out of the base game and upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"@sixrings also Canadian, also paying the insane costs\u2026 that said, 95% of the games I buy I buy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":193647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3095,14954,394,395,9641,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-193646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-features","9":"tag-kirby","10":"tag-nintendo","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-polls","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115133759128709796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}