>>719198587
This. It's no Yoko Taro hellscape of all these interconnecting elements and bleak worldbuilding, but the juxtaposition it has with these extremely cute characters and an art style that's something out of a sugary children's book make it just a little more interesting than usual. Most normies would be stunned if you told them that at some point the Kirby series features the story of a father desperately searching for his supposedly dead daughter only to lose his mind and have his soul become assimilated into a machine doing what it can to turn everything into technology. The reason is because when most people think of a plot like that, their mind goes to something more cyberpunk dystopian, not something like pic related.

If anything, I suppose I can admit that it is a bit of a cheap novelty. We've seen a lot of the whole "ohh, look at this, something cute is actually pretty dark and spooky!!!!1", but I think Kirby as a series makes a difference in the absolute sincerity of how goddamn adorable it still is. Even the scary world-ending abomination summoned by a death cult still has some sort of squishy soft element to it. The art direction is rarely (if ever) compromised by how serious the worldbuilding can get. But even this might get old one day, but for now, I'm still having fun with it. Props to Forgotten Land for doing something a little different instead of going the obvious direction of "space virus comes to this world and kills everything" and instead making it "space virus gets put in a jar and treated like a funny zoo attraction until the people who sealed it up got bored and left it for someone else to deal with lol"