It’s still more challenging than the hand-holding borefest that is Kirby Star Allies though. Once you get used to the gameplay and master some of the more challenging platforming sections, Whipseey becomes a cakewalk that can be beaten quickly with little to no replayability. I am well aware this is a very cheap game being sold for way less than ten bucks, but you can beat it in an hour, maybe less if you’re skilled enough. If I had to point out one big flaw in Whipseey though, that would be its duration.
It walks a fine line between “homage” and “ripoff”, but I’d say it gets the job done pretty well. There’s even a victory animation really similar to the one Kirby does whenever you defeat a boss. Whipseey doesn’t shy away from its influcenes, with its enemies, levels, animations, and color palettes heavily resembling the ones featured in the SNES Kirby games. Honestly, the modern quadrilogy (Rtdl, Triple Deluxe, Planet Robobot, and Star Allies) are all what I considered the peak of 2D Kirby. I can’t say Whipseey isn’t a creative game.Įverything is backed up by decent visuals and a surprisingly catchy soundtrack for a game so cheap. This enemy with a sombrero throws a pepper-sauce molotov at you. This is especially nice since the combat is so damn straightforward. Nothing in this game is complex in any shape or form, but it does feature some occasionally tricky puzzle and platforming sections to spice things up a bit. You can use it to defeat enemies, as a helicopter, and a grappling hook. Luckily, it won’t bother you that much after a short while. This might sound disappointing, but the entire game is built around the whip. Imagine if you were playing an entire Kirby game with a whip power-up: that’s basically Whipseey in a nutshell. You do control an adorable pink ball with limbs that can hover in the air, but instead of feasting on your enemies and copying their abilities, you have a whip.
The main unique feature is that, well, you don’t play as Kirby or anything that remotely resembles it gameplay-wise. It’s obvious that Whipseey is clearly influenced by Kirby, although it has some unique features to distance itself from its main source of inspiration. Just look at the handful of pictures in this review. If you see one of those pink donuts, you can grapple onto them.
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