Overall 8.8 Graphics 7.5 Sound 6 Addictive 8.5 Depth 3 Difficulty 3.5
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Kirby's Pinball Land review gamerforlifefor..
On November 30, 1993, HAL Laboratory released the first spinoff game in the Kirby series, called Kirby's Pinball Land. As the name suggests, it's a pinball game with Kirby as the ball. How does this compare to regular pinball? Was this a good way to kick off Kirby spinoffs? I'll tell you what I think by making this review.
Graphics: 7/10 Kirby's Pinball Land looks the way you'd expect a pinball game on the gameboy to look. The enemies each look great, the levels are well designed, and Kirby himself looks great as well. When it comes to visuals, Kirby's Pinball Land looks great, for pinball standards as well as for Kirby standards. There are better looking games though, such as Link's Awakening, Pokemon, and the Mario games. Still, the graphics in this game are worthy of a 7 in my eyes.
Sound: 8/10 Kirby's Pinball Land provides a good soundtrack for a gameboy game. It's not as memorable as Link's Awakening, the Pokemon games, or even Kirby's Dream Land, but it's still got a good soundtrack regardless. Overall, Kirby's Pinball Land's soundtrack is good enough to get an 8 from me.
Addictiveness: 8/10 This game offers good replay value for anyone who enjoys a good game of pinball and Kirby. There's 3 tables to play, and each table has multiple floors to climb. Eventually once you've made it up far enough, you'll reach a boss battle. The boss battles are easy to beat, but they're still fun to battle nevertheless. The only drawback here is that the game is pretty easy overall. If this game provided more of a challenge, I still, Kirby's Pinball Land is a fun version of Pinball that's more than fun enough to keep playing and try to beat your high score. I'm giving the addictiveness an 8.
Story: N/A Kirby's Pinball Land doesn't have a storyline, therefore I'm leaving this category blank.
Depth: 3/10 This is the category where this game falters. In all, there are just 3 tables to complete, along with a few boss battles. There isn't enough content here to keep people satisfied. It would've been nice to see a couple more tables at least, that way the game would've lasted longer. This is definitely one of the shorter games I've played on the gameboy. Overall, this isn't the shortest game I've played, but it's short enough for me to give the depth a 3.
Difficulty: 2/10 This game is one of the easier versions of pinball I've played. The boss battles are very simple to beat, and completing each table doesn't require a lot of skill. Overall, Kirby's Pinball Land isn't hard at all, therefore I'm giving the difficulty a 2.
Overall Score: 7/10 Kirby's Pinball Land was a good way to kick off Kirby having spinoff games. It has good graphics for it's time, a nice soundtrack, and addicting gameplay that will make you want to come back for more. If it weren't for the lack of tables and the lack of difficulty, then this would've been my favorite Kirby spinoff game on the gameboy. Despite these shortcomings, Kirby's Pinball Land is a good spinoff game that fans of Pinball and Kirby will enjoy. For these reasons, I'm giving Kirby's Pinball Land a 7 out of 10.
Graphics 7 Sound 8 Addictive 8 Depth 3 Difficulty 2
Review Rating: 4.3/5
Submitted: 10-15-15
Review Replies: 1
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Kirby Pinball, short game that is long to play Sir-metaknight2
Hi everyone, today I will review this game: Kirby's Pinball Land. Let's start shall we?
Graphics: 8
This game got really nice graphics, at the intro the graphics may look boring, but when you start the game it get better, each stage have a theme, take for example Kracko stage, while playing you will notice clouds, rain, even the sun and the moon. Just all that make you feel in the sky. It would have been nicer if this game was on GBC (Game Boy Color). All the sprites are clean and visible and its fun to see what faces the giant Kirby's make!
Sound: 4
Now for the sound, it was less good, Poppy and Kracko stage theme were just taken from Kirby Dreamland, only Whispy stage theme was new and all bosses had the same theme, expect Dedede, who is the final boss so he obviously get a new theme. The music was pretty boring and repetitive in my opinion and I hope that next time the creators make more efforts in it.
Addictiveness: 9 This is not just a normal pinball game, it have much more things that a normal pinball don't have, which make this game great in game, not only the graphics are awesome, but there is things in the game which make it easier, of course it may take forever to activate those things but it is worth it. Flying around in the boss room from left to right is fun and heck, sometime in some rooms you can have a star that take you to a secret room where you have to... oh wait, I cant tell you, or else it wont be a secret. Speaking of room, each room has a way to make you go up, when you are in the last room, there is something that you have to (Either hit 3 enemies on the screen, beat Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright or save three chickens) once this is done, you will be able to go to the boss. Like I said, there are things that you can activate to continue the game, and they are fun to mess with, who know? By touching them many time, you can get an item! You can get some points, a tomato (that prevent you from falling) or a star wrap! After beating this game, you may want to play it again to get a higher score and hit every object you have missed, when you finish a level, you get a ball with letters in it, if you hit the ball and get all letters, you get a extra try.
Story: None
There is no story to the game since pinball games don't have any story, so there is nothing to say about it.
Depth: 3
The game is not that deep, since most Kirby retro games are not deep, you just have three stage, each with one boss and then you fight the final boss and the game is already finished. This could have been longer with more levels but sadly, no.
Difficulty: 5
Some part of the game can be easy or hard, but there are things that will change the difficulty. I'm pretty sure that in each level there is a part that took them a long time to complete, just using the left and right flipper forever without accomplishing anything, but if you fall down, and press A at the right moment, you will just go to the last room, but the last room is the hardest, so you take an easy path to end up in the hard room but beating the hard room make you fight a easy boss, it is like a mix of easy and hard in almost each room you go in instead of having the whole game easy or hard. That is why I give the difficulty a 5. One half of the 5 for the easy things and another half for the hard things
After all this writing, I give this game my overall rating: 7,8. This game is not that bad but it seem like the creators screwed up the most important things in a game.
Graphics 8 Sound 4 Addictive 9 Depth 3 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 3.5/5
Submitted: 11-15-15
Review Replies: 2
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