As soon as I started playing Kirby: Planet Robobot, I immediately knew what to do. Jump, swallow, absorb, pound, spit, repeat -- the Kirby formula hasn’t changed much over the years, and it’s on full display here without much of a learning curve.
But while it would be easy to complain about that or call it formulaic, it’s actually refreshing to see a Nintendo franchise sticking to its roots, especially when it comes to control.
When Nintendo games shake things up successfully, they’re unrivaled in terms of rewarding gameplay. Without changing the original formulas, we would never have gotten Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, or any number of other Nintendo classics. But today, just days after the release of Star Fox Zero and its controversial control scheme, it’s nice to sit down with a Nintendo game that embraces what makes a franchise great without trying to fix what isn’t broken.
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But while it would be easy to complain about that or call it formulaic, it’s actually refreshing to see a Nintendo franchise sticking to its roots, especially when it comes to control.
When Nintendo games shake things up successfully, they’re unrivaled in terms of rewarding gameplay. Without changing the original formulas, we would never have gotten Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, or any number of other Nintendo classics. But today, just days after the release of Star Fox Zero and its controversial control scheme, it’s nice to sit down with a Nintendo game that embraces what makes a franchise great without trying to fix what isn’t broken.
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