Kirby
Prepare for a totally unexpected, never-seen-before opinion: Kirby is cute. Both in appearance and his sheer joyfulness.
Type Video game series When: Summer 2020 - winter 2020 | Winter 2021 How I got into it: AntDude's videos on the series. I had played Super Star Ultra when I was a kid, and at some point Youtube recommended me one of his videos on the Mario & Luigi games. I saw he had videos on Kirby too, and decided to give those a watch. I'd got myself a secondhand 3DS around that year too, so at some point after I modded it I downloaded Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot ROMs.
What I like about it: The games feel great to play, with all their various copy abilities, and the best games are not super hard but still provide some challenge if you want it.
Favorite game: It's hard to pick, but I tend to lean toward Kirby Triple Deluxe. Partially because it has my favorite character in the series (Taranza), but that's not all of it. It may seem generic in its looks at first, but I think it's got enough of a unique aesthetic and level locations to not completely be the standard set-up of "grassland-desert-water" etc. Especially toward the end it gets this fairy tale-like feeling, and I'm a sucker for that. The music is fantastic too! Go listen to Moonstruck Blossom! Finally, no matter how good Planet Robobot is (and it is really good), I'm tired of people going on and on about how it's the best Kirby game, so I can't help but want to be a bit of a contrarian.
Prepare for a totally unexpected, never-seen-before opinion: Kirby is cute. Both in appearance and his sheer joyfulness.
Adorable spider creature with a surprisingly tragic backstory!
He's always ever-so-slightly sketchy, even though funnily enough the stunt he pulled in his first appearance gets waved away by all the games after it. He's fun to dive into as a character if you feel like it too, and very fun to draw as well due to him being an egg with pointy ears, a cape and floating hands.
She's just really cool.