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Kirby And The Forgotten Land

Developer HAL Laboratory

Publisher Nintendo

Format Switch

Release Out now

HAL Laboratory’s mascot hits the big 3-0 this year, and to celebrate his maker has finally given him permission to enter the third dimension. Has any other established videogame protagonist had to wait quite so long? HAL gave Kirby his first glimpse of a 3D world in 2000’s , but he was locked to a single plane. And there he has remained ever since – tasting stereoscopic depth with two 3DS entries, but denied the freedom to roam. Discounting downloadable spinoff (an expanded version of a minigame from ), this is, to all

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