Idea for a new Kirby game
THIS IS A PRETTY HUGE POST SO BE PREPARED
Ok so I was just thinking while at work, and I cooked up an idea for a new Kirby game that honestly sounds really cool to me, so I typed up a basic rough draft of what it could look like story and gameplay wise
Let me know what you all think, especially if you think it could use tweaks to make more sense in some places. I did this in a rush so I didn't forget about it because it seems like a genuinely cool idea. The names I picked are also subject to change if someone comes up with something better.
Also keep in mind that I am aware that this is kinda similar to Return to dreamlands traitor plot
It starts in the forgotten land, maybe a year or so after the story of forgotten land takes place. The game opens with a storybook that tells a few page from a story about an ant named Pewpa. The first part of the story shows Pewpa struggling to fit into the hive mind of other ants because he's weaker and has a physical disability, that being that one of his legs didn't form properly. Because of this, he gets looked down on. The story ends there for the time, setting a somewhat sad mood for the start of the game, which will quickly get upheaved when it cuts to a cutscene of Kirby going about life in Waddle Dee town. After 20 or so seconds of some cute antics in town, Kirby spots an apple on the ground near the trees the enter into the forest, and as he goes to eat it, because of course he would do that, he spots an entire trail of fruits leading into the forest. Kirby being Kirby follows the trail gladly and gobbles up all of the food. Eventually, he's led deep into the forest where he finds an old looking computer of sorts that seems to have been reclaimed by nature. As we wanders closer to inspect it, the ant from the story book, Pewpa, appears sheepishly and begins to tell Kirby about why he lured him out here. Pewpa's reason is that he wants Kirby to help him get the computer back in working order so that he can figure out how to use it to help his colony with the knowledge it houses. This of course is a lie, however pewpa doesn't actually know that. Pewpa's goal is simply to help the computer get what it needs at any cost so that he can utilize it's power. I'll explain the reason for that soon. Anyways, once Kirby agrees to help, because of course he would. Pewpa starts to show him that they both need to be hooked up to the computer so they can go into it's digital landscape and fix the problems with it that are causing it to malfunction. Pewpa has to go in with him because he needs to explain things to Kirby that he doesn't know about being in the digital landscape. Since it's in a digital world, Kirby's abilities will act up. Each world will have a gimmick that is unique to that world, and the boss of the world will hinge entirely on you mastering the gimmick and using it in the boss fight. After each boss, you'll unlock more snippets of Pewpa's story. Once the full Story has been revealed and the computer has been fixed, Pewpa leaves the digital landscape before Kirby does, then traps Kirby's body while he's still in the digital landscape. Although he does this hesitantly at first since he IS just listening to Synth after all. When Kirby wakes up, he's tied up in front of the computer, which is now very clearly functioning at its full capacity, and also seems to be sentient. The computer introduces itself as Synth, then explains it's purpose it so gather as much information as it can so it can create blueprints for anything and everything. The reason it wants to do this is because Synth is capable of synthesizing anything from other matter, as long as it has the molecular blueprints for the thing it wants to create (Basically momo from mha). I'll explain this part more later, but it's revealed that there is a trace of dark matter that made it's way into the computer, which now seeks to replicated itself. The computer scanned its immediate area and found Kirby, which it proceeded to hunt down through the use of tricking Pewpa. Pewpa actually didn't know the computers goal the whole time, and was just a pawn that was manipulated by Synth due to his very vulnerable mental state (I'll explain this more later, I know I've said that a lot but trust me T-T) Pewpa was merely following the orders that Synth gave him because he didn't know what Kirby was capable of or how to deal with him, but during his time with Kirby in the digital landscape, he came to be fond of him and realizes that Kirby was genuinely really nice. Once Pewpa learns that Synth had ulterior motives, Synth immediately and forcefully hooks himself back up to Pewpa, then posseses Pewpa with the trace amounts of dark matter that are in it so that it can use Pewpa and battle Kirby, as well as using it's ablity to synthesize things. The final boss ensues, and Pewpa does his best to capture Kirby and force him back into the digital landscape. During critical junctures in the fight, Kirby will have to speedrun through parts of the boss that utilize the gimmicks you would have learned playing through the game up until this point. The fight instantly ends in failure if at any point you lose one of these. As the fight nears it's end, Pewpa starts to cry, even as he's being controlled, and all of his memories are shown to Kirby through Synth upon dealing the final hit. Pewpa was shunned by his colony for being weak, and one day, he ran off. He ran deep into the forest, crying all the way, running until he couldn't anymore before collapsing on the dirt and crying more. After getting it all out of his system, he made his way back to the colony, thinking at least someone must be worried that he went missing. When he got back, no one showed an ounce or care that he had suddenly disappeared. This utterly crushed him. He stormed back out as fast as he could, and eventually, he crawled his way to an area that was out in the open, a place with no tress or thick foliage to protect him from being eaten by birds or other predators. He lied and waited to be eaten, but as he lay there, a bright green streak shot down from the sky into the forest nearby. His curiosity got the better of him. When he finally made it to the crash site, it was a large technological capsule that contained Synth. When Synth booted up and saw Pewpa, he initially was somewhat blunt and hostile, but after realizing he could take advantage or Pewpas mental state, he shifted his tone to be very dotting and persuasive, making Pewpa think that Synth was his only friend so that he'd trust him and do anything for him
As for the thing about dark matter I said I'd come back to, here's what I meant. Simply put, the computer was an invention of the ancients that was cast away after becoming infected with dark matter. It happened to land on the forgotten land after all this time, and Pewpa happened to be the one to stumble upon it first
A few extra notes. Pewpa and Synth are loosely inspired by Taranza and Star Dream
The reason Pewpa wants to help Synth so bad is to A-Repay him for his "kindness" and B-Use his knowledge to become stronger and prove to his colony that he isn't useless
There's a good chance most of you already know this, but Kirby is very likely part of the dark matter family, which is the reason Synth needs Kirby so badly. Edit, it was brought to my attention by CreativestName69420 that the "Kirby is dark matter" theory was apparently debunked, so assuming that's true, we'll run with the new reason that Synth decided to hunt down Kirby is that Synth thinks Kirby has SOME kind of connection to dark matter, whether it be direct or indirect, for example, Kirby being friends with Gooey or having memories from fighting Void, as well as the other members of dark matter
Synth in his broken state is not very powerful, but he is more powerful than he lets on so that Pewpa is more inclined to help him
Thank you to Summertimeinthe509 for bringing this up in the comments, but this doesn't necessarily HAVE to take place in the forgotten land. It could just as easily be moved to dreamland with a few minor tweaks, the setting isn't super relevant, I just thought being in the forgotten land again would be cool