The art style looks amazing with pleasing colors and 3D models that make the platforming levels vibrant and cheerful. All the pinks, blues, and yellows brighten up the environments. The round shapes of the cutesy characters and the world are and interesting with a lot of pop, like 3D illustrations in a book. Everything is great to look at, keeping the game plenty of fun to play with the amazing visuals.

Kirby Star Allies is simple but entertaining enough for anyone to enjoy, especially kids. The family-friendly gameplay, kid-friendly art style, and Kirby's cute design are pretty enticing for younger ages. With the couch co-op mode, parents can also play this game with their kids for game nights. The controls are easy and straight-forward, so if you're looking to get your kids or even older family members into gaming for the first time, this is a solid stepping stone. It's an accessible game that people of all ages can pick up and enjoy.

Playing Kirby Star Allies through the co-op mode with up to four players helps to give the game more life. Working together to solve platforming challenges and take out enemies makes everything unpredictable in a good way, since your friends might suddenly figure out a helpful trick or find a path forward that you hadn't spotted before. Coordinating to make sure no one eats the enemy you have your eye on can be funny if one of your friends eats the monster anyway and you have to improvise. Playing with friends makes things more dynamic and fun than playing alone.

You can make Kirby eat enemies and then use their skills as his own, constantly changing up how you play. Whenever you see a monster whose skills you want to use for yourself, you have to jump along the level and avoid any obstacles in your way to get close enough and eat it. Eating a monster with a sword and hat gives Kirby the sword to use and the hat to wear, while eating a fire monster lets Kirby hold a fireball in his hand to shoot out like magic. It's a neat way to change your playstyle on-the-fly, keeping things fresh and new.

The platforming gameplay in Kirby Star Allies is great with some neat puzzle-like strategy in each level. You progress through each colorful map from left to right while battling enemies and figuring out the little environmental puzzles in your way, like chunks of ice cubes that you have to melt through, or dodging projectiles that shoot at you as you jump from place to place. You can also team up with your AI allies or co-op friends to pull off friend abilities where you merge your powers together to take out a bunch of enemies and obstacles in your way all at once. The strategy and teamwork aspects help you stay engaged as you figure out the mini-puzzles in each level.