Super Kirby Clash

A group of players fighting Ignite Edge, one of the enemies in the game.

Super Kirby Clash is an action role-playing game where players control Kirby and his team, who must fight an array of different bosses. There are four Kirbys in the game. The player is the pink Kirby, and the yellow, blue, and green Kirbys can be controlled by CPUs or other players.

The player can choose a role, as well as a weapon and suit of armor, and interact with the notice board to begin a fight. The role options allows the player to utilize a sword, hammer, offensive spells, or healing.[1] The game features microtransactions to purchase necessary Gem Apples to progress, but they can be acquired in other ways, and the game can be completed without purchasing anything.[2] Players can ring the adventurer bell to receive gifts from other players.[3]

At the start of the game, a large number of monsters threaten the realm, and Kirby must fight them. Kirby forms a group of fellow Kirbys, named Team Kirby, to stop the threat. They advance through the realm, slaying monsters, until they encounter Parallel Nightmare, the mastermind behind the threat. Team Kirby defeats him and he flees to the Empyrean.

Team Kirby advances towards the Empyrean while vanquishing more monsters, and they eventually arrive. As they do, they encounter what they think is Parallel Nightmare, and fight it. They realize that this is not Parallel Nightmare, but instead Taranza. They proceed to the Decisive Battlefield, where they encounter Parallel Nightmare again. As they prepare to fight him, he summons the dreaded King D-Mind to fight them. King D-Mind turns on Parallel Nightmare, and flings him away, before being defeated by Team Kirby.

The threat appears to be over, but the monsters return, stronger than before. Team Kirby kills more monsters, and discovers that Parallel Nightmare survived. They chase him to another realm called the Dreamscape and defeat him again. Parallel Nightmare summons a powerful warrior called Aeon Hero to fight them. Aeon Hero kills Parallel Nightmare and engages Team Kirby, but loses to them after a long battle. After the battle, peace is restored.

Super Kirby Clash is a sequel to Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, which is an expanded version of the Team Kirby Clash minigame from Kirby: Planet Robobot. The game was developed using the same engine as Kirby Star Allies.[4] Hal Laboratory co-developed the game with another company, Vanpool.[5]

Super Kirby Clash was released on September 4, 2019.[6] Later that month, Nintendo held a Tetris 99 Maximus Cup themed around the game. The rewards, obtained for getting more than 100 points, were a Kirby-based theme in Tetris 99 and ninety-nine Gem Apples in Super Kirby Clash.[7][8] In December 2019, the game reached four million downloads, prompting HAL Laboratory to host a temporary twenty-percent off sale on the game's Gem Apple currency.[9]

The game received a 74 on Metacritic.[10] Mitch Vogel of Nintendo Life praised the role-playing mechanics and roster of familiar characters and comparing the game to the Monster Hunter series, but they disliked the online functionality, citing input lag as a major flaw.[4] The game was listed by IGN as one of the fourteen best free-to-play games on the Nintendo Switch.[11] Nintendo World Report stated that it was a fun game, and easy to play for young children, but they also said to "just go play Kirby: Star Allies".[12] A Kotaku reviewer disliked the microtransactions, but enjoyed the game's cute visuals.[3]

• Super Kirby Clash on Nintendo.com