I’m going to say it here and now. I was excited for this game when it was announced. Unfortunately, I missed Kirby’s Return to Dreamland which was meant to be a multiplayer game on the Wii, and foolishly I believed Team Kirby Clash Deluxe was going to be based on it. Sure I expected the game to require purchases, but I was thinking like they had done with Fatal Frame V where the first part was free and if you wanted to continue you would buy the rest as DLC (potentially as multiple episodes). And while the first expectation being smashed is not necessarily a bad thing (a different game can still be a good one), this game destroys the second one in horrific form, defining the very issue people have with Mobile F2P games.
In fact it does so enough my patients have been pushed beyond finishing it. I write this tonight as I put the game down for the final time having barely gotten through 3 hours of gametime (according to my 3DS) before the foul taste of pay-wall after pay-wall after pay-wall this game contains just ruined my will to keep going. For the first time since setting my standards, I have been driven by a game to break them, not by a game-ending bug, but by a microtransaction system I personally find too egregious to continue.