So there's a demo of this available and my thoughts are these:
- Being in 30fps is really jarring. It seems that the game runs at 60fps when it comes to the camera, but Kirby and co animate at 30fps, which makes the game feel a bit chuggy when the scrolling is smooth but the animation is not. You get used to it mind you, but I see no reason it couldn't have been 60fps with a bit of optimisation. I mean if Mario Odyssey can do it, surely a 2D platformer isn't as demanding? Donkey Kong Country Returns had no problems with this?
- The game can be a bit too chaotic. Especially when you're doing a boss battle or something. With 4 players on screen at once, it's REALLY easy to lose yourself in the chaos. This is made worse by the aformentioned 30fps.
- It looks quite nice and it plays as you'd expect. If you've played Planet Robobot or Triple Deluxe you know what you're in for, because it feels exactly the same as those games do, for better or worse. It's still just a Kirby game.
- Ability mixing is fun but confusing, because not every ability can mix with another ability, and when you CAN do it, it's usually because a puzzle requires it. See a lot of fire enemies and sword enemies around, you'll probably need a fire sword to solve a puzzle and usually the game provides you with the enemies you need right next to the puzzle anyway.
- There are two levels in the demo, one labelled as "easy" and the other labelled as "hard". Honestly I never lost more than half my health on the hard one, and that was only because of the boss at the end of the level, I don't remember getting hit at all in the level itself. The game seems quite easy at the moment, especially with AI players being easy to obtain and soak up hits on enemies.