3.5/5 ★ – TNGLiam's review of Kirby's Super Star Stacker.

Platform: SNES (played on Analogue Pocket, English patch) Time Played: 9.7 hours Status: Completed Kirby's Super Star Stacker has been on my radar for a long time, along with its Game Boy predecessor, but it wasn't until I got my Analog Pocket this past Christmas that I decided to play through both of them every now and then in my free time, and what can I say, this game is just a really fun and addicting puzzle game with a cutesy Kirby flair, and like how the Game Boy version was based on Kirby's Dream Land 2, this 16-bit version is based on Kirby's Dream Land 3. Essentially, this game is just an upgraded and spruced-up version of what we had before with nicer updated 16-bit graphics, a better soundtrack, smoother gameplay, updated game modes, the works. Round Clear has been tweaked to have 10 levels at the starting difficulty, and adding 10 more to each of the following three difficulties, creating a much more balanced level progression mode that really helps you hone your skills. Time Attack and Challenge mode are relatively the same here, with the 100% completion goals even remaining the same I believe. Two really nice additions to this game are Story Mode and Versus Mode. Of course on a Super Famicom, multiplayer modes are a lot easier to set up compared to getting two Game Boys, a link cable, and two copies of the same game, so having an easy-to-access multiplayer versus mode acts as a great time-waster and a great way to keep players coming back for some general puzzle game fun. The Story Mode on the other hand is fairly typical for a Kirby spin-off, but still welcome nonetheless. King Dedede sees Mr. Star floating along in the sky and decides it's time to be a little asshole by shooting him out of the sky with a cannon. After Mr. Star falls next to Kirby, he asks for his help retrieving little star pieces that have scattered across Dream Land. That's really it. If you manage to complete each level one go (not in succession thankfully) then after the credits you're greeting to a secret final boss, Gryll, a more obscure Kirby character as they rarely reference him outside of a Stone cameo in Star Allies and a Spirit in Smash Ultimate. He's not even really a villain, just someone who challenges Kirby to a Star Stacker match and that's that. Overall, Kirby's Super Star Stacker is a fairly fun puzzle game and a great improvement over the original. It's a game that I'd recommend to any fan of puzzle games or any fan of Kirby to at least try out, as the original Japanese version is available via the Switch Online service, being a great way to access the game, especially for multiplayer sessions.