Kirby’s Dream Buffet, Return to Dream Land Deluxe Might Put a Fork in DLC for Forgotten Land

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It’s a common practice these days for video game companies to release a game and continuously support it with updates. Whether this means consistent, seasonal updates of new content or one last hurrah in the form of DLC depends on the game, but Nintendo in particular seems to adore the concept of keeping its games alive with free updates and expansion packs. This is why many fans thought Kirby and the Forgotten Land would get the same treatment, but now it looks like that won’t be the case.

The last Kirby game, Kirby Star Allies, had frequent updates that added Dream Friends and new features regularly throughout 2018. With this in mind, it’s not completely off the table that Kirby and the Forgotten Land would have followed the same update scheme in some way, but HAL Laboratory’s recent actions have all but confirmed outright that it's leaving Forgotten Land where it is.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a Good Blueprint for Future Kirby Multiplayer

Kirby’s Dream Buffet released on August 17, roughly five months after Kirby and the Forgotten Land released onto the Switch. The scope of Dream Buffet is nowhere near as large as Forgotten Land, and instead, it uses its small scope to it's advantage to be a short party game. This is by no means a bad thing, as the gameplay remains true to Kirby while also being chaotic as Mario Party. The game has gone over well with plenty of fans following its launch, even though some didn't know how to feel about its price tag at first.

While the reveal for Kirby’s Dream Buffet may have blindsided fans, since Forgotten Land had just come out a few months prior, it isn’t too surprising. Dream Buffet was most likely a project on the side that HAL Laboratory worked on while Forgotten Land was