Nintendo is shaping up to have a pretty big year in 2022. It kicked things off at the end of January via Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and laid out some other big plans it has for Switch owners through its first Nintendo Direct of the year last month. As for what's next on the busy Nintendo agenda, Kirby and the Forgotten Land hits the Switch on March 25, and you can take the little pink puffball for a spin early.
In fact, you can try out The Forgotten Land for yourselves right now. Nintendo decided to make our Thursdays a little brighter by surprise-dropping a demo for Kirby's upcoming game. You can find it in the Nintendo eShop right now and downloading it will allow you to play through the game's first three levels as well as The Forgotten Land's first boss fight.
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The best news of all is Kirby fans will finally get the chance to try out the protagonist's newest ability for the very first time, mouthful mode. Other than the slew of new games shown off during the aforementioned Direct, perhaps the biggest talking point was the new trailer for The Forgotten Land showing Kirby eating a car. Okay, not eating it per se, just inhaling the vehicle and stretching his tiny but very rubbery body around it.
Kirby can use mouthful mode to become a car, a traffic cone, or just to ingest a bunch of water which he can then spray at enemies. The new ability will undoubtedly result in The Forgotten Land being the most creative Kirby game to date. Levels designed with the mode in mind as players are tasked with figuring out which inanimate objects can be inhaled and used to progress.
Kirby and The Forgotten Land's demo is available now and will presumably remain on the eShop until the full
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