Perhaps such adaptability is to be expected from an individual who can transform at will and adopt the characteristics of literally anyone or anything he comes into contact with. Kirby is all-at-once video gaming’s blandest and most exciting character.

He’s a super approachable platforming protagonist ready to onboard novices and younger gamers with his sedately iterative adventures, but he is also (and perhaps fittingly seeing as he’s the product of a company named HAL Laboratory) the subject of numerous madcap gameplay experiments a guinea pig for new game mechanics and ideas. In fact, Kirby and his catalogue represent an odd dichotomy. boss Masahiro Sakurai, the pink one built up a very impressive library of games across a variety of genres since his 1992 Game Boy debut, Kirby’s Dream Land.

Kirby - one of the most famous faces (with little podgy arms and feet attached) in Nintendo’s stable of stars - has been wowing players with his impressive abilities and sheer versatility for nearly thirty years now. Simply click the star on the corresponding game and score it out of 10. Remember, you can influence the position of any and all entries below by giving each game you’ve played your own personal User Rating.

It may take a few days for this dynamic list - which is governed by each game’s User Rating on our database - to ‘settle down’. Many of you lovely readers will have had the opportunity to dive into Kirby’s latest adventure, so we’re republishing this list to see where the new game places on this reader-ranked list of the best Kirby games ever. Update: Kirby and the Forgotten Land has launched and, well, we absolutely love it.

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