Kirby And The Forgotten Land is the best game on Nintendo Switch – Reader’s Feature

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A reader explains why Kirby And The Forgotten Land is his favourite game on the Nintendo Switch and it all has to do with the co-op option.

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that I’m exaggerating and that there’s no way I actually think a Kirby game is better than classics like Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and Super Mario Odyssey. But let’s think about what the word best means in this context. It means the highest quality of something, but’s that very subjective, as anyone that has ever argued about a review score knows.

Breath Of The Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are great, and so is Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8, Astral Chain, and a whole bunch of Switch games – it’s a great console in lots of different ways and one of my favourites ever. But if I’m judging the best as the one that I had the most fun with it’s easily Kirby And The Forgotten Land.

There are lots of reasons it’s a good game but the reason it’s gone straight to the top of my list is very simple: it’s very easy and the co-op is great.

I’m someone that feels very lucky to have an understanding girlfriend who doesn’t mind me playing games and allows me generous use of the TV. I’m very grateful for this but I’ve also always been disappointed that she’d never really shown any interest in any of the games, either on the Switch or PlayStation 4.

They’ll attract her attention for 10 minutes or so – she was impressed by how the open world looked in Elden Ring – but she’s no interest in watching and certainly not in playing. I can get her to play Mario Party at Christmas, with friends, if she’s had a bit to drink, but she’ll never ask to put it on herself.

Kirby And The Forgotten Land though, we polished off in three nights and then she dived straight into all the