Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe - Playthrough Part 1

After playing the demo, I decided to get the full game. The stages in the demo were taken from Cookie Country - the first level of the game. Defeating the boss - Wispy Woods - earns you the oars of Magolor's ship. I also managed to collect all the Energy Spheres in the first 5 levels. It turns out that the more you unlock, the more extra stages become accessible to you including subgames and challenges. I tried one of the latter and it does require you to be efficient if you aim for gold. I initially thought that you had to earn enough to unlock all the minigames in Merry Magoland, but it turns out that those were available from the get go. They are pretty varied, but they mostly focus on your reaction speed. Samurai Kirby in particular has awesome visuals and especially the 100 variant where you compete against 100 opponents.