Kirby and the Forgotten Land Screenshots Highlight Four Distinct Areas
The debut of Kirby and the Forgotten Land in September 2021 surprised fans of the wholesome franchise in several ways. The largest change is, obviously, Kirby and the Forgotten Land's shift from a 2D platformer to a 3D platformer. It's more akin to Super Mario Odyssey than previous Kirby titles. But perhaps just as shocking was Kirby and the Forgotten Land's setting, which appeared to be a post-apocalyptic Earth. Now, Nintendo has shared several new screenshots offering a deeper look at Kirby and the Forgotten Land's setting.
Four screenshots were shared by Nintendo, each of a different explorable area from Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The 3D platformer's debut trailer focused on an overgrown cityscape, but also desert, frozen, island, and theme park regions. A second, more recent gameplay trailer focused on the same regions, but didn't necessarily delve further into them. The four regions shown in today's new screenshots appear to be pulled from this second trailer, each focusing on one Kirby and the Forgotten Land's known explorable regions.
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The four regions shown in the new screenshots are Kirby and the Forgotten Land's ocean/island region, its theme park area, a snowy castle area, and a desert region featuring a city overwhelmed by sand dunes. The one region not included is the green cityscape, though that's been featured prominently in both of Kirby and the Forgotten Land's trailers so far.
If there's a takeaway from the four screenshots, it's that Kirby and the Forgotten Land features a diverse range of styles and scale. For example, the island region seems of a similar style and scale to Kirby, which is to say it's small,
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