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Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Switch)
Played through in co-op with my fiancee where I handled Kirby for the first ~half and then she took over for the latter half. Definitely a lovely game to play with someone who's somewhat familiar with video games but wouldn't consider them among their primary hobbies. It's just such a pleasant series.

For its first real foray into 3D, I'd call it a huge success. There's a good selection of copy abilities and all of the different side objectives in the levels are fun to hunt down. I enjoy the progression of building Waddle Dee Town up, too - that sort of thing always goes over well with me. Bosses are kind of whatever but that's true of almost every 3D platformer ever.

We'll probably make our way through the post-game stuff at some point too because we definitely didn't tire of the game yet. Upper-tier entry in a consistently good franchise.

Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
Had this one on my radar for a long time but, like most of the world, I never owned a Vita. And by the time I got ahold of a PSTV, the price had already risen to a point that I didn't really care to pick it up for. Enter the remaster!

This game has a lot of cool stuff going for it. The gravity mechanics that make up the main draw of the game work pretty well, generally speaking, and the world you get to explore with them is right up my alley conceptually, beautifully built in an art style I quite enjoy. The comic-booky bits of storytelling are done well, too. Kat is an extremely likable protagonist, though certainly not the deepest.

The connective tissue is where things falter. Gravity Rush is at its most charming in the beginning where you're mostly guiding Kat along some low-stakes adventures that would almost qualify as slice of life were it not for most of them going horribly awry in some way for the sake of getting combat into the mix. Things get pretty repetitive pretty quickly, with said combat not being nearly deep enough to justify the amount that you have to do it. And the story ends up having waaaay too much going on for such a short game, to the point that it kind of just devolves into nonsense by the end. You go on several distinct adventures throughout 21 bite-sized chapters, and they're only tangentially related. Most of them are pretty interesting, really, but they get such little focus that they all end up feeling like wastes.

Overall, I liked the game well enough that I'll likely play the sequel one day but not enough that I'm going to make that a big priority.