Kirby and the Forgotten Land's Deeper Truths Are a Franchise Tradition
Kirby and the Forgotten Land surprised a few players when the game was revealed to be rated E10+ by the ESRB for potentially scaring younger audiences. As the ratings board wrote that Kirby's latest Switch adventure involved scenes that may strike fear into young players, fans were able to take away that the villain of the game would be rather monstrous as a result. However, Kirby loyalists would know that this is nothing new for the series.
After all, many Kirby fans have memories of being frightened by the imagery from previous series entries such as Kirby's Dream Land 3, and the games have dealt with grim concepts such as possession rather frequently as a number of the villains are mind controlled. Kirby and the Forgotten Land shares many similar themes with other Kirby games, and all of them seem rather interconnected.
Kirby and the Forgotten Land's Successor Could Do More with Present Codes
The environment in Kirby and the Forgotten Land is presented in a way that may lead players to believe that the world found in the game was victim to some sort of calamity like many similar games before it, but the world in this game truly was forgotten rather than destroyed. The story of the Wondaria theme park and its relevant figures tells players that the people who lived in the Forgotten Land before dreamed of interplanetary travel. The tour recording found in Lab Discovera states that once scientists captured ID-F86, the being in which Elfilin was born from, these people finally had the means to travel the stars through experimenting on them. The tour guide also says that this planet had used ID-F86's warp abilities for 30 years.
The recording also reveals that the people of this planet left this world behind entirely by
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