{"id":710,"date":"2025-08-27T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:33:31","slug":"kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-switch-2-edition-review-a-sparkling-step-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-switch-2-edition-review-a-sparkling-step-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby and the Forgotten Land Switch 2 edition review &#8211; a sparkling step up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a certified Kirby enjoyer, I never got around to playing the pink puffball\u2019s post-apocalyptic platformer on the Switch, so I was delighted to get the chance to pick it up for this <strong>Kirby and the Forgotten Land &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World review<\/strong>. The upgrade for the latest handheld breathes new life into an already fantastic base game with improved graphics and frame rates, as well as a whole new DLC story.<\/p>\n<p>If you somehow don\u2019t know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land<\/a> is the first truly 3D game in the series, and sees the titular Kirby sucked through a wormhole out of Dream Land and onto an overgrown planet that looks like an abandoned version of Earth. Alongside an adorable mouse-fairy-creature called Elfilin, you help Kirby explore this wasteland and rescue all the Waddle Dees scattered around it. It\u2019s classic platforming and puzzling fun, and Tilly went into immense detail in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\/review\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land review<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch 2 edition, much like the upgrades for some of the other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/the-best-switch-games\">best Switch games<\/a>, includes graphical enhancements and frame rate improvements that utilize the Switch 2\u2019s beefed-up hardware, and it makes this game truly stunning. From the grass-covered buildings in the Natural Plains reminiscent of scenes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/games-like-last-of-us\">games like The Last of Us<\/a>, to the glittering oceans of Everbay Coast, this game is deliciously gorgeous and a treat for the eyes. In both handheld and docked mode, the experience is as smooth as a hot knife through butter, and the environments are so detailed that I could get lost in them for hours.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\/switch-2-review\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land Switch 2 edition review &#8211; a sparkling step up<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\/waddle-dees\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land Waddle Dee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\/review\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land\/rare-stones\">Kirby and the Forgotten Land rare stones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a certified Kirby enjoyer, I never got around to playing the pink puffball\u2019s post-apocalyptic platformer on the Switch, so I was delighted to get the chance to pick it up for this Kirby and the Forgotten Land &#8211; Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Star-Crossed World review. The upgrade for the latest handheld breathes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belindareedy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}