Kirby and the Forgotten Land: A Horror Game in Disguise 

This game gets alarmingly dark and Kirby lore is terrifying. But we've worked hard regardless to condense my entire playthrough of the game into a single video! This took a huge amount of work from myself and my editor Cloé, and I hope yous enjoy it. You can watch more long playthroughs of games videos we've made here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O0o8_SE_U98.html

love how in Star Allies the final boss was killed with the power of friendship and here it was the power of vehicular manslaughter

I love how in the other Kirby games, the last power is like “Kirby becomes a black hole” or “Kirby uses the power of friendship and also the entire galaxy” but this one it’s just “Kirby becomes a fucking 18 wheeler lmao”

You need to understand that somehow "Kirby Overthows Dictator Monarch to Liberate Starving Population", the plot of the first game, is the tamest Kirby has ever been

1:46:02 You know it's his first reaction is "it's a butterfly" instead of pure despair

"You shouldn't have upset the Space-time Continuum, Kirby." No, Daniel, you have that backwards. _The Space-time Continuum shouldn't have upset Kirby._ "It's just a butterfly, right?" I AM CACKLING THIS IS SO MUCH FUN-

Kirby beating a cosmic entity with an eight-wheeler has the same energy as beating Cthulhu by breaking a folding chair over his head

The “RTGame plays a game that seems cute at first but actually has incredibly terrifying lore” trilogy consists of: -Turnip Boy: Commits Tax Evasion -Bugsnax -Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Friendly reminder that Fecto Elfilis is so ungodly strong that even when physically falling apart due to losing Elfilin, it had the strength to *wrest a massive planet from its orbit and hurl it towards another one, AFTER HAVING OPENED A PORTAL BIG ENOUGH FOR PLANET POPSTAR TO FIT THROUGH.* And the original inhabitants of the Forgotten Land *beat* this thing and *contained it.* Kirby lore is unhinged.

Kirby is literally "what if a cosmic horror likes sweets, naptime, and friendship" and I love that. Kirby sees some truly messed up stuff and is like "lol ok" and is only ever visibly upset when his snacks or his friends are taken away. It so cute.

My favorite genre of content is people unfamiliar with Kirby lore finding out what Kirby lore actually is

1:44:50 Not gunna lie, I *adore* that little bit of animation there. Seeing Leon just stare at him initially almost menacingly, then curiously following him, then that really subtle little blink as his head starts bobbing right before he joins in? They didn't *have* to add every little detail in those steps, they could've just shortcut him from skeptical to funny, but they really committed to the small things and made that five second sequence incredibly endearing. 🥺

I love that Kirby games have 2 kinds of players, people who know what a clusterfuck the lore is and people who don't. Like I think we were genuinely surprised when Elfilis *didn't* turn out to be an outright eldritch god with nefarious intent. Fair he was half of one but still

Dan: "That's a Lovecraftian horror in a Kirby game?!" Kirby Fans: "Yep. Nothing new."

This game teaches us a valuable lesson, which is, no matter how much of an ultimate life form unkillable God you are, you're never safe from vehicular manslaughter.

1:29:37 Fun Fact; this track is titled "Two planets approach the roche limit". the Roche Limit, is the proximity a mass can be in orbit of a larger mass before it is torn apart into a ring; for example, Saturn's rings are rings and nit a moon because they are within the roche limit of saturn, and so the gravity conflicting with the orbit tear any rocks too large apart, leaving the small rocks of saturn's rings. Two planets the size of earth in orbit of each other are DEFINITELY in each other's roche limit. Fecto Elfilis is RIPPING EARTH AND POPSTAR APART

"There was like lovecraft-esque horror in a kirby game!" Get ready boys *He's ready for initiation*

"You wake up, it's a Monday. Your friends have all been kidnapped by furries. God must be defeated. Welcome to another Kirby game." - Failboat

As an avid kirby fan who has extensive knowledge on the lore, hearing dan's disbelief on the kirby canon developed over the years is priceless

Jokes aside, this game has some really touching story moments. Like Dedede sacrificing himself for one of his Waddle Dees, showing he acts like a parent to them. Or Elf closing the vortex where Kirby almost feels like he won’t see Elf again before a light appears behind him. It’s touching, for a game about cake and nap time.

The fact that Dan is literally crying at the finale is my favorite part of this video

RT: Is that a butterfly? Kirby fans: *Nuclear sirens*

the butterfly is basically the meme of "those who don't know" "those who know" mr incredible meme

37:42 I love how it sounded like Dan legitimately needed to sit down at the idea of Kirby not being real.

Something I want to point out is the recording in the lab is how it mentions “it laid the groundwork for the teleport tech we enjoy TODAY” meaning that recording is old meaning the 30 year time stamp it sates later is outdated (it only says it as a reference to being Kirby’s 30th anniversary) meaning that Fecto forgo/elffilis probably has been there for centuries this would support that the people who left to dreamland were the ancients and this is their original home world

The fact that Dan did't know that this is just how Kirby games *are* made this play though so much more entertaining.

I love how you can tell RT hasn't played much or any Kirby because of his abject horror reacting to Kirby inhaling enemies. Kirby fans have just grown to not question his vore-based powers.

1:32:40 Torrified. RT was so flabbergasted he couldn't pick between terrified and horrified lmao

1:33:40 that’s SUCH a perfect example of a “first-time look into Kirby lore” reaction

Kirby games: Absolutely adorable! Kirby lore: Fucking terrifying holy shit

Dan. You have to play the other games in the series. You need to see the death cult. The alien jester ripping himself in two. The bleeding eyes of the 90s.

"Why is he being torn in half?!" He's doing that to himself, my dear boy. And he's doing it to become a black hole. Welcome to Kirby lore

“You shouldn’t have upset the space time continuum Kirby.” Im pretty sure the space time continuum owes him a few.

Dan's reaction to Void terima is literally every person after realising that kirby isn't just a cute kids game about a pink puffball

I’m absolutely in TEARS that RT was surprised that Lovecraftian horrors were in a Kirby game. That’s the entire franchise, Dan!

if I had a nickel for every time a beloved youtuber named dan discussed if kirby would jaywalk I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

One of my favorite lore things about this game is that humanity didn't actually die out. They just left. They figured out how to go to other worlds and decided they all wanted to do that. After that, well... who can say for sure?

i remember getting the alert for this, saw "the kirby game where you kill a god" or something like that, and thought "do you have even the slightest idea how little that narrows it down"

"Oh, nevermind. They're too sad to move." What a fucking mood.

"To save two worlds, Kirby's final mouthful must be his biggest!" I can't explain it, but that line is strangely emotional.

I gotta say, reusing "Eternal Echo of the Thrilling Tour-our-our" for Chaos Elfilis- /Obligatory Ball Form/ (CE-OBF) was such a fantastic choice. Hearing "AND HERE WE ARE" right as CE-OBF uses one of the most iconic attacks in the series is just perfect.

I absolutely adore seeing people being introduced to the ever growing pantheon of eldritch deities that is the Kirby series

I presume this is RT's first Kirby game, judging by his sheer surprise at the escalation towards the end.

Idk why but I just love the way Dan plays this game. A lot of youtubers I watch play this game and doesn't seem to care much about the world or its characters, so it is so satisfying to see him pay attention to these little things I absolute love in this game

I love how he sees the actual Kirby boss from crystal shards and writes it off as some sort of creepypasta stuff

You know you’re deep in Kirby lore when you see a butterfly flutter in the window and you’re just like “You get out of here now! We don’t want your kind here!”

Dan: "Oh look a butterfly!" Me, who studies kirby lore: "Oh god a butterfly!"

1:53:00 - that sudden "And here we are!" was TERRIFYING in that context oh my god lmao Also Dan being scared of Elfilin..... Kirby is scarier, buddy. Not least since he's the one handily beating up all of these Gods/Satans/Eldritch Abominations

I love how the game progressed from "aww so cute!!" to WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

I have something that I would like to call “The duality of Dan”. On one hand you have Dan/RTGame who knows NOTHING about Kirby and is horrified by the realization that it is NOT just cute and pink. On the other hand you have Daniel/Failboat who knows Kirby lore and is on edge at every single supposedly cute thing. BOTH however, we’re absolutely terrified at the absolute lovecraftian horror of a final boss. Beautiful

I love how, only 5 minutes into this video, RT is IMMEDIATELY thrown down the rabbit hole that is Kirby lore; it really shows how much of an influence the Kirby Franchise's story has had Edit: Now that I've finished watching this video, I can say that I loved seeing RT's reactions to the stuff with Fecto Forgo; people love to joke about the horrors of the Kirby Franchise, but jokes aside, the dark aspects are incredibly captivating I'm also just glad that Daniel enjoyed the game throughout this entire video, I think that Forgotten Land is a MUST-play for Switch owners, honestly

"That veered so heavily Sci Fi and there was like, Lovecraft-esque horror. In a KIRBY GAME." Long time Kirby fans beside him: "First time?"

5:14 Once I heard this I knew this guy’s view of Kirby was going to drastically change.

"THERE WAS, LIKE, LOVECRAFT-ESQUE HORROR, IN A KIRBY GAME!" He has clearly not played the rest of the series.

Fun fact, the "Forgotten Land" isn't even Earth because there has ALREADY been a post-apocalyptic Earth that you visit in Kirby 64. It's the penultimate planet you visit, called Shiver Star. The whole thing is frozen over and devoid of human life, but machines still operate in our factories. I'm not even joking about it being Earth, by the way. You can literally see the continents on the planet's model. _This was a game released in 2000._

i think what i love most about kirby games is their willingness to put incredibly adorable kirby in whatever kind of eldritch chaos they can think of, while always having kirby, just the adorable little lad, winning through the power of love and friendship. like, you can see they had some kind of artistic integrity or a willingness to take themselves seriously that's so impressive. i suspect its because they also knew, no matter how physically cute kirby was, that it is god damn horrifying that he gets his power from eating living beings. how the fuck can you not grapple with that element at some point in writing your game series. they knew that was a topic they would have to broach at some point or incorporate into the narrative, and they just went all in on it, so to speak. like, its always nice to see how ridiculous these things can get and still be taken seriously, in a way. god bless em for it. kirby is such a wonderful fella its always great to see him conquer all by dashing around, vacuuming up tomatoes and candy, eating fellow adorable creatures, and just bein an overall loveable, spunky scamp fighting the universe devouring abomination.

I guess I know Kirby lore better than I thought because when Soul Forgo's cutscene got interrupted I immediately recognized Morpho Knight as the butterfly and said "Oh. Oh no..." ....Kirby lore truly is fucking insane if a butterfly can make me more scared then a psionic lab fetus.

Fun fact: this was the first game in the Kirby series rated for Fear by PEGI. This despite previous games including eldritch abominations, horrifying deities, and actual blood.

I love how you can hear his slow descent into insanity the moment he reaches the lab just to be met with "Oh yeah that's just how kirby games are" when he has to fight an eldritch horror as a pink marshmallow god

Seeing Nintendo really get into a darker game with Kirby again is awesome, love this clueless puffballs battling literal Gods.

1:53:55 if you pause at just the right time, for a fraction of a second the boss has a face... Kirby’s face

Kirby's lore is soooo fun because it's 95% cute fun for 4 year olds and above and 5% lovecraftian horror and existential dread. Like Kirby is the good incarnation of dark matter that is either good or bad depending on the dominant feelings of the universe and one of his best friend is the bad incarnation of the same god but he's too dumb to be evil.

as a hardcore kirby fan, it is SO funny seeing people react to the darker aspects of the series. forgotten land is such a fucking great game as it allows the genius of shinya kumazaki into full view with nothing left behind.

1:57:30 The son probably already knows that Kirby games have super fucking lovecraftian final bosses, since he asked for no spoilers. Hope that kid had fun with this game.

"There's a butterfly..." Oh, god no.

I love how the Waddle Dees have gone from enemies in the 90s, to “yeah, they’re kind of cute, but we’re just giving you Bandanna Dee” in the 2000’s/2010’s, to WE HAVE TO SAVE THE WADDLE DEES THEY’RE SO ADORABLE WE MUST PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS in the 2020’s.

Fun fact! In one Kirby game, the main villain connects his consciousness to a machine and as you fight the machine you can here him cry out in pain until the second phase in which you can only here silence! I love kids games!

Kirby heartbeat monitor bit starts at 58:38 for other people wanting that specific clip withoit having to search the entire video.

I’m so excited for the kids of this younger generation to grow up years later and make nostalgia posts on Kirby and the Forgotten land. Specifically how terrified they were from the final bosses when they were kids. Like, there would be forums going on and on about how Fecto Forgo gave them nightmares. It’s a funny thought, but it also is quite heartwarming thinking that this game could bring together a whole new fanbase into the future… Even if it’s being scarred as a young child. It still can’t replace my sadness for the death of the Ds and Wii era, but you enjoy what you can get. Rip, Wii Sports Resort. Rip…

I love that the Kirby games always show this darker world through Kirby's limited perspective. It's evident a lot of very dark stuff is happening out there, but Kirby is only seeing little bits and pieces of it every time. These eldritch horrors are having their very souls ripped out and purged by a little pink blorbo because they mildly inconvenienced them, and then there's no further investigation - Kirby simply goes back to bed while the dark machinations of dead empires and primordial beings continue to do their evil work.

"it's just a butterfly, right?" Oh my sweet summer child, that butterfly has caused more damage than some of the gods in this game

Enough sadness for one day. Time to watch RT play Kirby for the third time. That never gets old

1:26:45 A shoggoth, I’d have to say. But since this is a kid’s game they had to color it bright blue-green, because if it was flesh colored kids would be scarred for life.

I love how RT, despite normally being absolutely evil, is still vulnerable to cute things. He's also the only gamer I've seen who actually tries to get 100% completion and lore, whereas most others just ignore or talk over it.

27:14 “i wouldn’t describe this game as wild in any capacity”… if only poor daniel knew what was headed his way

I can NOT believe I cried at that "Thanks for everything" bit. Maaaan I'm not even emotionally invested. I didnt even care about kirby before this. I didnt even know what the games were about. And still, tears welled in my eyes during that moment. What the hell

"Oops, I don't have enough money. I guess I'll just go SPEND MORE MONEY." How the hell do you pay your bills, Dan?

Welcome to Kirby, every final boss is an elder god, every character's backstory is tragically horrifying, and a penguin with a hammer is the most developed character in the series.

I love that king dededee actually made the most of the fact that the characters just randomly stand still for the end victory cutscene

Looking back at this, it's really nice how half of it is Dan making dark jokes about all the cute things, and the other half is him genuinely going "Aww look at da widdle owoofies going on a date nyaww...." It's a very pleasent experience.

When he told Elfilin to stay away from him I said “Dan, don’t sins of the father the chinchilla.” What is this game?

Kirby as a series is about having the darkest, edgiest, horrifying Villians and concepts with some surprisingly deep lore and connections get beat up by a pink marshmallow orb of happiness.

10:26 I would like to argue that his heart is steering the car as at the beginning, in the song, she said, "let your heart take the wheel". In this essay, I will-

why is it that kirby games have the most FANTASTICALLY crafted difficulty curves?

RT : "That spooked her a little" [40:21] I mean, to be fair to Clawroline, who wouldn't be spooked if you saw a tiny marshmallow somehow turn a ranger's blunderbuss into a fucking automatic, burst shotgun while you're lunging towards him in an acrobatic act.

2:48 "I'm gonna feel so bad killing anything." That's one of the best parts of Kirby, at first it seems like you don't wanna hurt anything, but by the end everybody is mowing down any enemy they see without a second thought. ...Man, this really is a psychological horror game.

“Kirby has awoken in a new world with only his smart phone.” Oh. You mean Amazing Mirror.

The funniest thing is that this is, like, pretty typical for a Kirby game. We've been fighting eldritch horror spheres since the NES and GameBoy.

It's not even the fandom that views Kirby as a godlike entity either, it's actually cannon that Kirby is a god who kills other gods. *Kirby is my favorite franchise for a reason, that's all I'm saying.*

I can feel every Kirby lore knower feel with absolute awe and fear as the fucking butterfly appear. Also yes, the butterfly is the manifestation of the screams of the dead, im not making this shit up.

I like how you joked about Kirby getting isekai'd yet you kill the final boss by hitting him with a truck

All I’ve learned through this video is that Dan would claw his way through every level of hell if there was a figure at the end of it.

22:35 You joke, but the i.r.s. actually DOES have a plan for collecting taxes if the u.s. falls to anarchy after a nuclear attack. It involves a 20% sales tax _to begin with._

“Just close the window and that butterfly wouldn’t have gotten in” The window: 1:45:55

The fact that the reoccurring butterfly still is a godlike being amazes me every time

Kirby's one of the only Nintendo series that can casually have an eldritch horror in it.

1:30:08 Breaking news! Pink marshmallow pillow being consumes Optimus Prime during end of times event started by a Final Fantasy VII deity being

I think I can safely say "Ramming a semitruck into god" was NOT on the list of things I would expect from a Kirby game. But now that we have it, I can also safely say that is now the best climax in any game ever.

"Is there a Kirby meta?" Yes, it's called *Masked Hammer +★* and it does this neat little trick where your enemies are *completely and utterly shredded*

37:13 Actually Rt that's tragic for a similar but different reason. Sharks kill around 8 people a year, humans kill around 10... 10,000,000. Sharks are a keystone species that have been around for hundreds of millions of years. They have survived four mass extinctions, including the Permian extinction, the largest extinction event in the history of our planet. 95% of all species alive at the time were wiped from existence. Sharks survived that. Since 1980, the population of *all* know shark species have dropped by nearly 90%. These amazing, and extremely important animals have survived millions of years. Only for humans to nearly wipe them out in only 4 decades. That's pretty tragic don't you think?