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{{quote|It's Kirby's first full 3D action game! Use new powers like Mouthful Mode and Evolved Copy Abilities as you explore a mysterious world where civilization and nature have fused together. By sharing a Joy-Con controller, two people can even play together!|Past Adventures section in ''Kirby's Dream Buffet''}}

'''''Kirby and the Forgotten Land''''' is a [[Kirby (series)|main-series ''Kirby'' game]] for the [[Nintendo Switch]], which released on March 25th, 2022. In this installment, [[Kirby]] is sent through a dimensional vortex to a [[New World|new world]] full of the crumbling ruins of a long-lost civilization, where he has to free [[Waddle Dee]]s who have been trapped by a new villainous force called the [[Beast Pack]]. Accompanied by a flying mouse-like creature named [[Elfilin]], Kirby uses his familiar [[Copy Ability]] along with [[Evolved Copy Ability|evolved enhancements]] to said abilities and a new power to [[Mouthful Mode|wrap himself around large objects]] to gain their properties.  

''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' is the first main-series title to take place in a full 3D environment rather than a side-scrolling 2D space, though still maintaining the largely-linear level and stage format. The game was announced in a [[Nintendo Direct]] on September 23rd, 2021,{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|Kirby and the Forgotten Land|<ref name="RevealTrailer"> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3LAkr0ANgw Kirby and the Forgotten Land – Announcement Trailer – Nintendo Switch]</ref>}} with its proper release date being given in a separate video on January 12th, 2022. A playable demo for the game was released on March 3rd, 2022. Since its release, ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' has enjoyed the strongest launch of any game in the ''Kirby'' series in terms of sales, surpassing the original ''[[Kirby's Dream Land]]'' as the highest-selling game in the series by the end of September, 2022, with 6.12 million copies sold as of December 2022.<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2023/230207_4e.pdf#page=18 Financial Reports Explanatory Material PDF from Nintendo, page 18]</ref> On top of this, ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' won the award for "best family" game of the year at The Game Awards 2022.<ref>[https://thegameawards.com/nominees/best-family The Game Awards 2022 - "Best Family"]</ref>

== Story ==

The story of ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' begins with [[Kirby]] taking a stroll through [[Dream Land]], and then taking a ride on his [[Warp Star]]. His carefree ride is interrupted, however, by a huge storm containing rifts to a different dimension. Kirby and many other residents of Dream Land (mostly [[Waddle Dee]]s) are sucked into the rifts, and while Kirby is tossed about in the confusion, his body contorts in strange shapes. Kirby later wakes up in a [[New World|new world]], washed ashore on a tropical beach. After coming to his senses, he explores his surroundings and finds the ruins of an ancient civilization, now overgrown with grass and moss. Along the way, he discovers that traveling through the rift has given him a [[Mouthful Mode|new ability]] that allows him to take on the shape and properties of large objects he tries to swallow, and by taking the form of a [[Car Mouth|car]], he travels along the roads until he sees his fellow Dream Landers (the Waddle Dees) being kidnapped by [[Clocker|birds with cages]]. Moving toward the source of the commotion, he finds the ruins of a village where more Waddle Dees are being captured. He also sees a strange flying blue sprite with giant ears being hounded by the animals and caged. Kirby steps in and defeats these beasts to free the sprite, who reveals his name to be [[Elfilin]]. Elfilin pleads with Kirby to help him rescue the captured Waddle Dees, and Kirby agrees, forming a partnership between the two. [[Bandana Waddle Dee]] also joins the group, having found his way to the village as well.

After a lengthy struggle, Kirby weakens Fecto Elfilis enough to allow him to retrieve Elfilin from their body, causing the creature to start to grow unstable again. With the last of their strength, Fecto Elfilis tries to punish Kirby by [[wikipedia:Roche limit|dragging his homeworld of Popstar into the New World so both will be destroyed]]. When all seems lost, a [[Big-Rig Mouth|big-rig truck]] appears for Kirby to utilize, and Elfilin powers it to allow Kirby to fly through the sky using the truck's engine. After one great push of energy on both sides, Kirby and Elfilin overpower Fecto Elfilis and destroy them for good. From here, Kirby and Elfilin wind up on Popstar, but the crash is still in progress. Elfilin uses the last of his power to stop the crash from happening, and nearly dies in the process, only being saved by [[Clawroline]], a repentant Beast Pack member. In the end, the Beast Pack and the Waddle Dees make amends and a stable connection between Popstar and the New World is established, but Leongar seems to be lost for good.

A rift opens up in the [[Colosseum]], which allows Kirby to participate in The Ultimate Cup Z. Chaos Elfilis is fought here, and Kirby defeats this final threat. A lingering remnant of their soul approaches Elfilin, and he accepts it into his heart, allowing his two halves to finally become whole for good.

The game is structured like most ''Kirby'' platformers, with levels divided into stages. These stages are much more open-ended than in previous installments, however, and [[door]]s are fewer in number. In each regular stage, Kirby rescues Waddle Dees by finding them trapped in cages, and by fulfilling certain [[Mission (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)|missions]] specific to each stage. In addition to regular stages, special challenge stages can be found through dimensional rifts, as part of a series called [[Treasure Road]]. In these stages, Kirby has a limited time to clear a set of areas similar in look to stages from ''[[Kirby's Blowout Blast]]'' using a specific Copy Ability. These stages are reminiscent of the [[Challenge Stage]]s from ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]''.

|Kirby dodges by performing a handstand bounce in the direction indicated. The bounce distance is determined by how far the stick is tilted. When an enemy attack is dodged successfully within 10 frames (about 0.16 second), the game will momentarily slow down for 100 frames (about 1.66 seconds).

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|Kirby wraps himself around a large truck, which he uses to stop [[Fecto Elfilis]] from causing [[Popstar]] and the [[New World]] to collide. Elfilin lends his power to propel Big-Rig-Mouth Kirby through the air for this [[Last Battle Ability|final encounter]].

|Kirby serves as the main protagonist of this game, when he is sucked through the vortex into the [[New World]] and subsequently gets involved saving Elfilin and the Waddle Dees from the Beast Pack's cages using his new [[Mouthful Mode]] ability along with his usual powers. In the process of doing this, Kirby eventually encounters and defeats the main villain of the story, saving both Popstar and the New World from destruction as well as making peace with the Beast Pack.

|A cyan fuzzy rodent-like creature with mystical powers who serves as Kirby's companion. Midway through the story, Elfilin is kidnapped by King Dedede and taken to Lab Discovera, where it is revealed that he is half of the "ultimate life-form" [[Fecto Elfilis]]. When the two halves merge again, Kirby has to battle this creature to free Elfilin from them, and then obliterate the evil half with Elfilin's help.

|A fractured cosmic life-form which was captured and kept as a test subject by the New World civilization after it had attempted to invade their world. Using its superb psychic power, it took control of Leongar and King Dedede and used them to try and gather labor and power to itself, as well as capture and recover its missing half: Elfilin. Near the end of the game, it succeeds at this task after a few setbacks, becoming its whole self again, but is shortly thereafter bested by Kirby and Elfilin freed. Later, Kirby and Elfilin venture into Forgo Dreams to prevent the soul of ID-F86 from possessing Leon's body, and the creature is absorbed into [[Morpho Knight]], who is later defeated.

== Enemies ==

|This game was the first to give the localized name for this enemy. Previously, "Totenga" was simply its Romanized Japanese name.

== Bosses ==

!colspan=4|Bosses in ''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' &nbsp;

|The return of Leongar who first appears as the first boss of [[Forgo Land]], now fully possessed after having his soul pieces returned to him, making him more versatile and powerful by having every attack from the original battle fleshed out, such as raining meteors when spewing a beam, and striking beams out much faster and in new variants. In addition, he is now assisted with attacking by [[Fecto Forgo#Psychic Beast: Soul Forgo|Soul Forgo]].

Once this entity is defeated, the true spherical entity is removed from the physical body and faced. It attacks primarily by creating a black hole, quickly firing beams and globs of itself, and increasing its size to slam down and create shockwaves, in addition to using [[Deadly Sun]], [[Bound Pound]], and [[Shooter Cutter]].

''Kirby and the Forgotten Land'' is compatible with [[amiibo]]. Scanning in a ''Kirby'' series amiibo (or a [[Qbby]] amiibo) while playing in the main mode will grant Kirby with a number of items, including a [[Stock Item]] and [[Star Coin]]s. Scanning in any other amiibo figurine will also grant items, but not as many. The player can't use more than five amiibo in a row, and the count will reset after clearing a stage.

|Kenichi Sakuma<br>HItoshi Kikkawa<br>Tsukasa Kirinoe<br>Mamiko Sato<br>Kenta Miyamoto<br>Kaijiro Kojima<br>Fumiyasu Kato<br>Fumiaki Miyauchi<br>Ami Ishikawa<br>Yukiko Tagawa<br>Sayaka Yanaga

|colspan=2|HAL Laboratory, Inc.<br>Nintendo<br><br>HAL Laboratory, Inc. and Nintendo are the authors of this software for the purpose of copyright. All rights reserved.<br>© HAL Laboratory, Inc. / Nintendo

== Trivia ==

== Gallery ==

KatFL Waddle Dees in gold cage artwork.png|Artwork of Waddle Dees caged by the Beast Pack