A Full-Scale Kirby Quest Successor Could Fill the Mario & Luigi RPG Void
The Kirby franchise entered a new era with Kirby and the Forgotten Land, its first true 3D platformer. While HAL Laboratory said 3D games might not be the series' future, its success means plenty more Kirby games are sure to come. The series has a long history of releasing not only mainline platformers, but also spin-offs — many of which are fleshed-out versions of other sub-games.
One such spin-off was Kirby's Blowout Blast in 2017, an expansion of the «Kirby 3D Rumble» puzzler sub-game from Planet Robobot. Many embody different genres, from the party-fighting game Kirby Fighters to the rhythm game Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe. A particularly basic concept with potential is «Kirby Quest,» a mock RPG sub-game from 2011's Kirby Mass Attack on DS. While it wasn't a true RPG, it shows how Kirby could thrive with a similar treatment to AlphaDream's Mario & Luigi franchise.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land's Tilt-and-Roll Handles Gyro Better Than Breath of the Wild
AlphaDream filed for bankruptcy in 2019, having become well-known for its RPG spin on Super Mario that carried forward the legacy of Square's Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. While Super Mario RPG gave players a cycling team of Mario, Peach, Bowser, Mallow, and Geno, AlphaDream's Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga cut things down to just the titular brothers. Yet it still used the action command system Square implemented to make combat more engaging than traditional turn-based RPGs.
The now-defunct studio also developed games including Tomato Adventure and Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue, but Mario & Luigi is its main legacy. Part of that comes from how it redefined elements of the original series to develop RPG elements. Superstar Saga, Partners in Time, Bowser's Inside Story,
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