There are waffle-ridged bridges, fork platforms, and pancake stacks to traverse.

Out the gate, Dream Buffet’s dessert theming is absolutely adorable. My life is now complete Image: HAL Laboratory/Nintendo It’s also incredibly appealing to me, a person who really enjoys watching streams of Fall Guys or Mario Kart more than actually playing them. It’s ultimately a kinder approach to the chaotic racing party game. You can play alone against CPUs, online against friends or strangers, or in-person via couch co-op or local Switch communication. The objective is to collect the most strawberries by winning a series of challenges - which include races, along with minigames like a battle royale or collecting strawberries as they appear in large teacups. In Dream Buffet, you play as the iconic puffball rolling around levels made of delectable desserts. Around me, several other Kirbys in a range of colors - some wearing Carby as a hat, which I hope to unlock soon - are waving and saying “hey.” These other players and I are in the waiting lobby for Kirby’s Dream Buffet, and we’ll soon go head to head in a series of challenges. Chilli peppers, for example, allow you to trigger a burning pepper attack that can be used to knock rivals off course or bash through obstacles.I’m rolling around on jelly cubes, wearing an adorable dollop of whipped cream on my head. You also sometimes come across different types of food whose properties you can adopt in order to unleash attacks on your rivals. If you fall off a stage, you have a limited amount of time to hover him back onto it, via manic button-bashing, although while you’re doing that, your rivals will be making good progress towards the finishing line. As you run over the cholesterol-packed treats and fruit that stud each stage, your Kirby grows in size and as he does so, his speed increases.

You have to race to the end of each stage, propelling Kirby like a ball, in the style of Marble Madness or Super Monkey Ball.

It features a number of courses constructed from the most sugary of desserts, studded with fruit, but mainly composed of whipped cream, biscuits, and cake icing. The universe in which the game takes place is beautifully rendered, in typical Nintendo fashion, but merely witnessing it could lead to a hardening of the arteries.

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