Kirby Gets The Fall Guys Treatment In Surprise New Switch Game

While the whole “knock your opponents off a giant obstacle course suspended in mid-air” is pure Fall Guys, Kirby’s Dream Buffet takes a distinctively Nintendo approach to multiplayer. While the game has an online mode, stages are limited to four human players. The rest appear to be AI-controlled Waddle Dees. That’s a far cry from the 60-player frenzies that made Fall Guys a hit when it debuted back in 2020 (it recently came to Switch and is now also free-to-play).

The influence of Mediatonic’s jelly bean royale is hard to shake, but of course multiplayer is nothing new for Kirby. In addition to co-op modes in mainline entries, spin-offs Kirby’s Dream Course for the SNES and Kirby Air Ride for the GameCube were multiplayer-centric.

Interestingly, Nintendo hasn’t yet listed a price for Kirby’s Dream Buffet, so it’s hard to know just how full-fledged the experience is supposed to be. Time will tell if it will finally end up being Kirby’s big esports break, but what’s already clear is that 2022 is treating Kirby fans right.