Kirby’s Adventure for the NES is now available on the Wii U Virtual Console at a special price, only 30 cents for a limited time. I already had some money in my eShop account, so I went ahead and bought it. I have never actually played a traditional Kirby game before. I’ve played Kirby’s Avalanche, which is a puyo puyo puzzle game (much like Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine on Sega Genesis), and I’ve also played Kirby’s Epic Yarn. The latter is a platformer, but it’s not your usual Kirby game because it doesn’t feature Kirby’s typical attack of inhaling and swallowing enemies to gain their abilities.
Above is a video of the first level, Vegetable Valley. Although a “level” is really like a world, since it contains four stages and a boss. After Kirby inhales an enemy, he can spit the enemy back out at another enemy or swallow the bad guy to inherit his ability. That is a particularly cool concept. You can use it to acquire a beam attack, a fire attack, a parasol to use as a weapon, and so on. The controls are a bit floaty, but I guess that’s to be expected considering Kirby can float (and fly). I haven’t played much beyond that first world yet, but the game seems fairly good from what I’ve played. It didn’t blow me away, but I did enjoy it. I’ll be playing more of Kirby’s Adventure in the coming weeks.
