Keeping it short and sweet, the Switch 2 Edition is not worth the buy if you already have the game elsewhere, it is just giving you content they should have given AGES ago bc they DID for folks in Japan.

Oh, I see… I’ll admit to being a bit out of the loop regarding such, so it’s interesting to hear about that!

I mean Kirby is specifically referred to as ‘they’ in Japan iirc so them having any gender implication is solely a localization thing :v far as I’m concerned, it’s not that much of a headcanon and more just… canon

For the two people out there that care about this, here's a side-by-side comparison to see how much of a change/improvement there was between this 7-and-a-half month period.
(Ignore the text at the bottom, I typed it before properly thinking of the time difference)

I get this, especially considering I myself didn’t quite manage to outdo myself as compared to last year in the way I wanted to. There is always next year, though! Don’t feel obligated to do something if the motivation isn’t apparent! (Ironic, coming from me, but still…)

I think someday in the future, I may revisit this save to try the Challenge Node since I never finished the Gauntlet battles, but for now, I think I’ll change my focus to other things again, notably art since I have a few things to do atm

For those who read, thanks for reading! May post again soon!

All in all, still a very fun game, even if (and many may dislike me for saying this) I don’t think it’s the best game in the series. It’s definitely up there, but I wouldn’t call it the best. I’d put it about on-par with Brothership at best, if not slightly lower.

Extras
I curbstomped the final boss normally so I redid it with the Challenge Medal, and uh… I didn’t anticipate the damage it’d dish out would be so high. It was nerve-wrecking, but really fun! Did show me I may be OKAY at dodging things in these games…

The other minigames were pretty alright, though. And that theme for it slaps so hard, seriously. Music is great, as always. Name a game in this series where the music sucks, you can’t.

Brief tangent aside, the minigames were alright. I don’t mind them too much :v

That and some of Bowser’s Special/Brawl Attacks are just kinda hard to do with any consistency anyway, which only makes it worse. I’m sure I’d have figured SOMETHING out if I bashed my head on the wall hard enough, but it would’ve put me off the game for a while afterward. (3)

I didn’t even complete any of hers, because the finicky and sometimes confusing visuals made it hard to get a decent rhythm for some that should arguably be fine enough to understand. Hopefully others in the series past BiS (excluding Brothership ofc) don’t require the touch screen again. (2)

Minigames
I’ll just say it outright that this is fairly biased bc of a skill issue, but those special attack minigames weren’t very fun. They seem p nice at first, but get very tedious if not frustrating very quickly, ESPECIALLY the ones from Broque Madame. (1)

And the Dark Star… I wish it came a bit earlier and showed how much damage it could do on its own. I’ll admit this may be me being a bit unfair having played Brothership before this game and seeing how much of an effect the main villain did in that entry, but it really didn’t get to shine much.