3DS Critic Reviews

Kirby Battle Royale is an extremely simple party game. It shouldn’t be full-priced, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad.

​A fun and unpretentious party game.​

A well done new Kirby game with a lot of good ideas, but with a lack of very important content.

Kirby: Battle Royale has potential to make you laugh and fun but, at the end, this adventure action game is not so good. With your friends, in multiplayer modes, will enjoy with its challenges but is not enough to reach the best Kirby's adventures.

Kirby Battle Royale relies a little too much on circumstances. If you want to get the most out of it, you will need a group of friends with Nintendo 3DS systems. The local multiplayer is the best time you will have with the game, so it’s important that you experience this. On your own, the campaign will be over before you know it and so you will come to rely on online battles. You can fight against others, but only in a Ranked Battle setting, which doesn't bring me the same joy. What doesn't help is that the game didn't ran smooth at all online. Kirby Battle Royale bums me out as an excellent multiplayer game that is buried under a poor direction.

Having only one save space is absurd, especially for families with multiple gamers, but at least there’s a decent download play option for local multiplayer.

Kirby Battle Royale has a great premise, but squanders almost all of its potential. There is simply too little content to justify its price point and everything can be completed in just a few hours. Online is lacking, as players are limited to only playing with strangers in ranked and can only play with friends if they do so locally. Despite being one of the only Kirby games without his famous inhale ability, Kirby Battle Royale kind of sucks.

Battle Royale is an interesting spin-off, and it's meant to be played with friends. The online community doesn't seem too active at the moment, so we can only recommend it if you have people to play it with.

A fun proposal in short bursts but it's too shallow to be interesting for long.

Download play in Kirby Battle Royale will give a group a burst of fun, but after that it’s unlikely you’ll return for more.