ere’s the gist: It’s Kirby, and as you would expect, it’s fun. There’s more to get into, but the series has basically boiled down to an expected level of consistently solid entries with a few upgrades to differentiate one from another. The Amazing Mirror falls squarely into this pattern.

The new game’s big selling point is its four-player mode. In the beginning of the adventure, Kirby is quartered by Meta Knight and four differently-colored marshmallows set off on their journey to (shock!) save the world. When playing solo, gamers can call the other Kirby colors (on a cell phone, natch) to come help out – usually they’ll have been off exploring and will have absorbed different copy abilities that could be useful. You have a limited number of times to get in touch with the peeps, so I used mine mostly for boss fights and the occasional puzzle where I needed a different skill. What this plot device does facilitate though, is a built-in way to do four-player gameplay.

Each player who wants in on the story mode needs a cartridge, but it isn’t that way with all of the game’s multiplayer options. Three four-player minigames, which are bizarre at best, are available with just one cart. A good time for sure, but nothing to rock the average person’s socks right off their stinky little feet.