Kirby: Planet Robobot and Yo-kai Watch Hang On in UK Top 40

Tokyo Mirage Sessions is certainly a niche title that could either sell really well the first week and drop out of the charts quicker than a Christmas Song in the first week of January or just flop. Either way it'll be interesting how it does and I may get it depending on the reviews.

They probably bought TPHD to sell the game and keep the amiibo.

@Grumblevolcano I thought of doing the same thing, buying TP for the amiibo only but I heard they are going to reprint the Wolf Link amiibo again before BotW comes out so I think I'll wait.

More Nintendo Selects need to come to North America, darn it! I want Lego City Undercover, and I'm not paying $40 for it.

Now I feel guilty for not having bought Robobot yet, but what can I do? I'm broke!

@Grumblevolcano But doesnt it save your remaining hearts from the Trial Cave thingy for something in Breath of the Wild? Not to mention the game would kill some time during the wait for BOTW.

Either way, good to see many folks wanna have pet Wolf Link by their side... XD

@Angelic_Lapras_King Yes but if you haven't played it you have a default of 3 hearts as shown by the Treehouse footage.

I can't get over how amazing Kirby Robobot is. I'm in shock- I never imagined a Kirby game, a KIRBY GAME, could offer the same level of brilliance as the almighty Mario.

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I NEED to have wolf Link at my side in Zelda BotW. Which means I need to beat the game to get my hearts up so I can beat the den of shadows or whatever it's called.

I beat it long ago on the Wii but now my time is hard pressed between work and all the platforms with games to play.

Kirby Planet Robobot is an excellent game. Amazing soundtrack, awesome new abilities, better gimmick than Super Abilities or Hypernova and it has some surprisingly deep lore.

Good for Kirby & nice for Yo-Kai Watch to still be holding on after quite a few weeks. Was going to pick up Kirby in my local GAME store but they only had the Amiibo bundle so I'll order online.

@JaxonH Honestly it isn't that surprising to me. Kirby has always been better than mario since the ds imo. I feel nintendo doesn't try anymore with the main mario games. Meanwhile Planet Robobot has one of the most bombastic ending sequences I have seen in a nintendo game in a whle

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Ya know, I actually really loved New Super Mario Bros U. That game hit the spot in all the right places. I think it gets unfairly lumped in with the rest of the New series. But tbh, I really liked the DS and Wii NSMB aslo. Not nearly as much as U, but good games nonetheless. Even the black sheep- NSMB2, was a solid game imo.

That's the thing about Mario though- they're always at worst, still solid games.

But Kirby, I always liked but never really got in to. I liked Return to Dreamland on Wii, and Triple Deluxe was ok. But then I played Robobot and WOW! This game is excellent!

Think I was thirsty for change too. And Kirby just has a very unique formula. I think the biggest draw though is that they seem to have added a little difficulty. It's still an easy game, but it's a little more engaging in Robobot.

@JaxonH I completely agree! For me what has drawn me to the Kirby series over the mario series is its inventiveness. Also I'm probably being biased since Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland is the first platformer I ever played. I played Super Mario Bros on an nes emulator (one of the cheapo ones you used to be able to find at malls) and while I liked the game, I enjoyed the variety and charm of the kirby series.

I didn't love Return to Dreamland as much as I thought because I felt it was trying too hard to be Kirby's Adventure but with Ultra Abilities (Heck it's even called Kirby's Adventure Wii everywhere else but the US!)

For me in recent years I've appreciated HAL Lab's ability to shake up the kirby formula with new ideas/gimmicks while still keeping the standard core gameplay fresh and exciting. For me it has to do with the fact that the Kirby series has yet to settle into a predictable rhythm for the world themes and bosses for the most part.

While the NSMB games are at worst solid, what frustrates me is the lack of risks that the series takes. The world themes are functionally the same throughout each game along with the power ups (The squirrel suit isn't that much different that the tanooki suit). The games themselves look visually too similar to each other with similar music and the same bosses used in each entry. While the way you fight them might differ, honestly speaking, after seeing the same bosses in one series in the same order, it gets fairly tiring to play.

I like how even with returning bosses, the kirby series still manages to shake things up. They add on average 4 new abilities with each game, guaranteeing that the gameplay will feel different. They add in a core gimmick in each game that makes the puzzles feel different than prior games. The boss fights tend to be different in each game, especially the final boss. That leads to a sense of freshness in each game because you're not fighting the same final boss each entry.

Planet Robobot is great and I think the Mario series could learn a great deal from the Kirby Series