I had to pause the video to make sure that it really was a Maxim Tomato, because I was wondering how an obvious big Kirby fan would call it an apple.

@@jerryjaboodyjohnson7393 More than that; HAL knows how not to confuse one thing with another, and apples are Whispy Woods' ammo that can't heal

Reminds me of those Crash Bandicoot fans that call Wumpa fruit "apples" or "peaches"

I just assumed that was an inside joke or a meme of some kind

Just paused the video to find this comment. It's really not a big deal, it doesn't even look like a tomato TBH :D

Ikr he's so cute!!!

Absolutely. DF Retro is one of my favourite KZfaq shows. Can't wait for Kirby. I have it pre-loaded and will be playing the moment it unlocks at midnight.

Yes, he's not a hype fiend and he's not just here to make content. Its clear that he only reviews games that he is genuinely interested in.

He’s a great content creator and has a good voice

John Linneman is a being of pure love and wholesome snuggliness

Seriously that statement needed to be said. Games are in a weird state, unfinished, or unplayable till patched. Kirby & the Forgotten Land. As soon as you press A or +. You're off. Nothing holding you back

Yep. Four months later and it's still on version 1.0. You can really tell they took absolutely as much time as they needed to polish the hell out of every aspect of this game. If it gets an update, it'll probably only be to add new content, which is how it *should* be. The game crashed *once* in my entire experience, and that was just a completely random, once-in-a-million error that probably wasn't anything to do with the game itself, since I couldn't recreate the crash.

@@alfo2804 I wonder if there's any other recent examples of complete games not needing a patch like Kirby?

Perhaps a bespoke, “John” filter. Available in the here and now.

By and large

Kudos

@@Rockapotamus91 Ooh, that's another one I hear often hah.

"to behold"

If only it ran at 60. Then I could use black frame insertion.

Because it doesnt look very good? + Its 30fps

@@henkken it looks dayumm good

@@helloguy8934 Why would you wanna use black frame insertion and why on a game that runs at 60 fps?

@@henkken It looks terrific, gorgeous even. Not Horizon Forbidden West gorgeous or whatever current game you may think of but the art direction is spot on. Realism or more near realistic graphics doesn’t always mean better. Comic style graphics are awesome and I’m glad that Nintendo is keeping that style and the platformer genre alive.

Lol

you wouldn'd say that if you 100% the Game after the Main Story. There are seriously impressive boss battles in this Game. Especially in the Arena.

It's great. And then you have companies with 20x the money like IGN whose video reviews look like 360p.

I think their mic quality lacks some bass to the voice. sounds flat - also many videos lack 4k I think ?

Except for this video, which does not.

Their video quality is great, but they rarely upload HDR videos.

Video rendering on youtube is decided by google and by what codec you video gets converted too. For example channels with avc encoding have lower quality compared to vp9 and AV1 ones.

Same here. I mean, I've been collecting a some Kirby games over the years when they got cheap, but the only one I've played for more than a couple of levels was Epic Yarn, and even then never got nowhere close to finishing it. But this? Look at what I've been playing the past few weeks: Elden Ring, Fallout New Vegas, Stranger of Paradise and Bloodborne of all things. Even the games I've chosen to revisit are gritty or edgy (if comically so - CHAOS!). I've also started Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on PC, but while it isn't gritty at all, it's still a fighting game, so it's not exactly relaxing either. All in all I can't stress how ready I am for Kirby in 3D once I (re-)finish at least some of these.

I played the demo didn’t think much of it the games to easy

Kirby games are never a hit. They allways mid.

My body is ready!!!

We all need more Kirby in our lives

Yeah, noticed the same immediately. Such a great game. Just recently played through it again.

Demo is on nintendo eshop

@@abynaxdbr2510 he's gonna lose it when he sees this

@Miles Doyle can you not?

@@abynaxdbr2510 and you can emulate it up to 4k making it look way better then nintendo intended.

If you're 5 years old, yea.

@@JFinns bruh

@@JFinns You're so mature bruh

@@JFinns it looks so good

@@JFinns you're so cool, go be cool somewhere else

I wish it was 60

It’s not stable. It has some noticeable slow down and occasional hitching.

@@ReGo001 it’s stable enough

@@mariodelrio2387 The Switch can't handle this game at 60. Maybe it could with a far lower resolution.

No kidding, this is one of my favorite games of all time. It was the first game I played with my son.

The soundtrack is superb. Lava Landing is one of my favourite tracks in any Kirby game.

@@ramonandrajo6348 No one said anything about that

@@Doughty321 Lava Landing is so good. The 'chorus' bit in that track is stunning.

I fell asleep playing it.

@@ramonandrajo6348 I want to buy this game so they make more like it

@@ramonandrajo6348 who the fuck is asking about you pirating the game then?

@@ramonandrajo6348 Go give your opinion elsewhere mate.

@@ramonandrajo6348 And you’re annoying with all the spam in the comments section.

Games have been more varied than ever since 8th gen came out but 3D platforming is dying. I was filled with joy when A Hat in Time released. Some 3D platforming released last year are great like Sack Boy and Psychonauts 2.

Had to comment, I’m also 30 and your comment resonated like crazy with me I couldn’t agree more!

30? What part of the spectrum are you?

@@MyDecade insinuating what? Once you hit a certain age you can’t game anymore? I bust my ass working 50 hours a week. And I game in my downtime. Is that a problem for you?

Polished doesn't really pair well with a game that can't hold 30fps or 1080p when docked when we have games like Mario Odyssey that achieved it years ago.

@@larkan511 odyssey doesn't run at 1080p tough.. in many stages the resolution is 720p. And the overall graphics of this game is more detailed than mario odyssey

@@larkan511 First, Mario Odyssey doesn't hold 1080p at all. John even mentioned that it often ran at lower resolutions compared to Kirby. Were you listening? Second, Mario Odyssey had the same "objects in background animate at slower framerates" thing that Kirby has. It was super distracting to me in New Donk City. Third, yeah I'll agree that it is a little disappointing to see 30fps compared to Mario being mostly 60fps (let's not lie, there were some occasional drops), it does hold. John found a couple spaces where it went to 29 for an incredibly short amount of time? You're not going to notice that. Unless there's more intense parts later in the game that weren't in this video, it appears like it's holding just fine. Compared to other Switch games that were absolute disasters with their framerates, like Link's Awakening, No More Heroes 3, and Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity? Kirby is absolutely polished. Go play one of those three if you want to see what unpolished looks like.

Yeah people will say "it's 2022 it should be 60 frames Nintendo should of made a switch pro"

Lucky you

@@sausage5488 i said this in my head lmao

stop the cap. it's street dated so the register wont allow the sale, so you either stole it or had someone steal a copy for you.

@@ramonandrajo6348 🤡

@@halo3boy1 Tell that to Target then because I’m playing as I type this.

It does have that type of energy, and atmosphere. From unique colors, to the dystopia, plant life, and creatures that inhabit each area. It is beautiful, and heartfelt. The world is alive, changing as you explore

*HAL Laboratory

Yes, makes games like New Horizons and Arceus feel amateurish.

Star Allies is more important as a stepping stone to this game than most people realize; the final boss in that game being in full 3D could have provided the groundwork and experience to turn it into a full game

Oled is so worth it. I just upgraded!

cant wait to buy it so i can play it in 4k 120fps in my mid range pc. why do i even still have this godamn console

Or you can play it on 65 inch oled. As John said.

The OLED is just quality

@@StarmenRock I don’t know sell it if you don’t want it

On one end of the japanese dev specturm we have Nintendo first party studios then on the other end we have FromSoft who should honestly stick to game design

@@alolanstarboy Slightly confused on what you mean by this

@@alolanstarboy The fuck am i reading

@@alolanstarboy wtf you talk about?what fromsoftware to do with this game?

@@noahdavis7406 lmao I’m talking about how on one end of the Japanese game Dev spectrum we have very skilled developers who know how the optimise their games, I.e. Nintendo first parties like HAL. Then on the other hand we have FromSoft who has been fumbling their way through optimising their games for years now

just get a steam deck

@@Youraveragegamer_97 Uh.. a Steam Deck doesn't play Switch games, which, you know.. is sort of the point of having a Switch.

@@GameplayandTalk ive seen videos saying otherwise, botw, mario kart 8, mario odyssey run fine on yuzu emulator on steam deck

This is one of those games that does 30fps well. I cannot believe I'm saying that but some games and devs somehow make 30fps playable.

@@GameplayandTalk yes it does if you have more than 1 brain cell

Robobot is awesome.

agreed, Robobot is a top 3 Kirby game IMO

Yeah 2d shouldve been 60, but ehhhh maybe ill let th is one have a pass but i hope the next game is 60

If you have around 100 dollars you can something called Mclassic by Marseille which not only upscales games up to 1440p (if your display supports receiving a 1440p signal and allows upscaling said signal) but applies anti-aliasing which makes everything smoother. I used it while playing this game's demo and it looked superb

@@ramonandrajo6348 Broke boy

@@ramonandrajo6348 do you even know a tear of social interaction and the things people give a fuck about

@@ramonandrajo6348 I'm not a fanboy I'm just a person

@@ramonandrajo6348 that was a loud i

@@ramonandrajo6348 you REALLY can't tell the difference between emulation and piracy

People on pc are running it at 60 FPS

@@ramonandrajo6348 that had nothing to do with the comment, so shut up. Pirating every game is morally correct

unlike gamefreak

Just shows how " 4K" "120fps" "RT" etc aren't needed to enjoy fun and good looking games

it's cause it's 30 fps, also nintendo devs are wizards. Mario Odyssey is gorgeous and that's 60 fps

@@NonsensicalSpudz Game Freak is not under Nintendo’s supervision, but that of The Pokémon Company.

That's art design, baby Games running on more powerful hardware can look like ass because their artstyle sucks ass

Because this games graphics are better than odyssey's by a little bit and this runs at a higher average resolution

This - it seems like most of the other prominent presenters are more into dissecting the minutia of image quality (that if we're being honest, especially when it comes to things like AO subtleties, 99% of people aren't going to notice in action anyway) then gameplay/actually playing games. John clearly enjoys/relishes games.