Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirby and his friends are back in an adventure designed to satisfy longtime Kirby fans and beginners alike. When an alien spaceship crashes in the otherwise peaceful realm of Pop Star, its pieces are scattered…
Kirby's Return to Dream Land is an adventure developed by HAL Laboratory, released 24 October 2011 on Wii U and Wii.
What Kirby's Return to Dream Land is
Kirby's Return to Dream Land is an adventure game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2011. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Wii.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kirby's Return to Dream Land is a 2011 platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the ninth mainline installment and the twenty-second game in the Kirby series. The plot follows Kirby, King Dedede, Meta Knight and Bandana Waddle Dee as they help an alien named Magolor repair his damaged spaceship so he can return home. While Kirby's Epic Yarn was released in 2010, Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the first traditional Kirby platforming home console game since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, which was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64. The title was released in North America on October 24, 2011, in Japan on October 27, 2011, in Europe on November…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It supports multiplayer and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Kirby series
Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the 61st of 94 entries we hold in the Kirby series. The next entry was 3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure in 2011. Its critic score of 87 is 9 points above the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Kirby's Return to Dream Land holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 77 votes.
What it launched against
Kirby's Return to Dream Land launched on 24 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Battlefield 3. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Kirby's Return to Dream Land yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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