One of my favorite games in the series, just because of the huge amount of secret areas and multiple abilities. Three mini-games, each different depending on the game. In KA, there's the Egg-Toss with King Dedede, the Crane Game (My favorite) and the Quick Draw with Guns (whee!) In K:NiD, there's the Bomb Rally, Kirby's Air Grind (Early concept of Air Ride?) and QUick Draw, Samurai Style! Actually, the Quick Draw in K:NiD, as most Kirby fans know, is the same thing as Kirby Super Star's Samurai Kirby. It even has the same opponents, one of them not even appearing in K:NiD! IF you can figure it out and tell me, you get a free frogurt*!

The main game is also very fun, but I don't like how short it is. Combined play time, along with finding every secret in the game, is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is the second shortest Kirby game, the shortest being Kirby's Dreamland. It doesn't have much of a plot, just King Dedede broke the Star Rod and the Dreamlanders can't sleep. Still, all the crazy levels and tons of enemies coming at you, its still an enjoyable experience.

The music is something different completely. I especially love the Butter Buildings and Rainbow Resort music. The Boss music lets you know that these guys mean business, and Meta Knight's army mini-boss music tells you that they shouldn't be that tough. Meta's Army music, however, is the mini-boss music in Kirby 64, and isn't very original. Still, the music is wonderful, and sometimes you just sit around in Butter Buildings just to hear the music.

The levels are almost the exact same thing in both games. If you have played Kirby's Adventure a bunch you'll see the differences. Something I really miss in K:NiD that was removed from KA is the side-scrolling part of three different Butter Buildings levels. I was shocked to see them replaced with one screen that, after about 10 seconds of waiting, opened up a door. A sad, sad thing, that is.

The bonus material in K:NiD is much better than the one in KA. In KA, you unlock Extra mode after beating Normal mode perfectly, of course, but in this mode you can't save!!! In K:NiD, upon beating Extra perfecly you receive Meta Knightmare, but in KA you only get the Sound Test. *Yawn* Both games, however, have the Boss Fight mode, which is in most Kirby games. It is one of my favorite unlockables because I get to go back and fight all the bosses over again. The only downside: If you die, you must start over!

All in all, the game itself gets a 8/10 from me. If HAL kept the side-scrolling Butter Buildings part, it may get a 9, but whatever. It ranks number three, behind number 2 (Kirby Air Ride) and Number 1 (Kirby Super Star). It's a fun game if you can get past the short-ness.

*NOTE: You will not get a frogurt for answering the question. In fact, forget I asked it.