pierrot wrote:Yeah, I'm Komaki Shutaro's protege, and dodging his baseballs was a real PITA. (The park is Sai no Kawara, by the way.)
Of the very few times I died in that game, more than one of those times was to those god damned baseballs
. It's worth persevering through though. Some of his later moves are craaaazy good (or very very silly). Especially the counter and fall-recovery moves he teaches you. They allow for a lot more depth in the combat, and you'll really freakin' need 'em if you wanna do crazy stuff like beating all of the Colosseum challenges.
Xeogred wrote:
I still can't get over how jacked up Kirby & the Amazing Mirror was, it was like a Metroidvania gone horrible, utterly, completely wrong. Somehow... when the genre had clearly been very defined by that point too. I guess they probably want players to spend dozens of hours with it, which is good for a handheld game. But yeah I couldn't finish that one.
The reason it feels so weird is because it's not so much a Metroidvania as an exploration game. The whole point of the game was get join up with a bunch of friends, fan out, and find treasure in a Kirby-tastic fashion. Now, how successfully they actually did that is up for debate, but it's an interesting concept certainly. This does mean that it makes for a fairly frustrating and strange single-player experience, though.
Now on the topic of Kirby games I am very well versed. Out of the 25 Exhumy Senpai listed, I've extensively played or beaten 20 of them (haven't played Rainbow Curse, Dream Course, Tilt N' Tumble, Star Stacker, or Triple Deluxe, but RC and TD are on my want list). I've always been a huge Kirby fan, so it's not the easiest thing in the world to rank them as they tend to differ fairly significantly, so I'll just list my favorites.
Main Series (ones that play like a Kirby game):
It's a tie between Kirby Super Star and Kirby 64. 64 has such very fun bosses and combo-power ups, but Super Star has such great freakin' co-op. I adore the bite-sized bits of content as well in Super Star. If you're just having a friend over for the day, you can rush through one of the shorter ones together, or you can tackle a bigger one if you have someone more reliable to play with. Super Star probably narrowly beats out 64, tbh.
Spin-offs (including puzzle games):
A tie between Canvas Curse and Kirby Mass Attack. Both are very quality games with interesting playstyles and tons of replayability for getting better ranks. I've played both of them to death and recommend them both very highly
As one last note, I was always under the impression Dream Course was a crazy golf game. Is that not the case? O.o
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), but it's really slow and the same moves are best moves. The sequel improves a lot on the combat, and also makes the adventure stuff usually give you better stats or new moves too occasionally. In Yakuza 1 is almost all just doing quests just to do them to get money. I had WAY too much money all the time though, so buying health drinks and weapons was never something I got into too much. I'd try one of the other games before you give up on it forever. If you still really wanna do the first game first though, I'd try out the remake they did. 
