The concept is surely interesting, but after playing a few levels, and realising that this is the entirety of the gameplay that Dedede’s Drum Dash Deluxe has to offer, it stops making sense as a independent release. Dedede offers none of this, and merely involves guiding Dedede as he jumps from drum to drum, clapping to the beat (always at the highest point of a jump) while also avoiding various Kirby-related foes. It’s all about how the gameplay interacts with the music that create the variety and depth of experience to ensure that people keep playing on. While rhythm based titles like Rhythm Heaven Fever, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, and Hatsune Miku, are simple in design, they offer creative remixes of that base structure. The problem here is, unlike Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, which takes a small mini-game and expands on its concept to push it as far as it can be pushed, Dedede remains the same mini-game it once was, albeit with a couple of new levels of the same rhythmic gameplay (with some of these levels actually being the first levels, except made more difficult), without adding any real new elements or challenges, which is disappointing to say the least.ĭedede’s Drum Dash Deluxe sadly is not very entertaining on its own either. As Matt has argued recently, whether a game is short or not should not hinder a game if it is done right, and if the developers have done what they have set out to do both creatively and artistically. In fact, the game was that short that I had completed everything it had to offer within an hour of firing it up. Aside from some small expansion to the mini-game itself, it is pretty much the same title. You see, Dedede’s Drum Dash Deluxe was included as a mini-game in Kirby: Triple Deluxe. Related reading: Nintendo also released another Kirby minigame recently in Fighters Deluxe. Dedede’s Drum Dash Deluxe, sadly, is not of the same calibre. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a great example of a small section of a game being spun into something that could be sold as a product in itself. What can someone say about a standalone downloadable release based upon a mini-game available in a pre-existing retail title? Things I tend to look for in these cases are how much the developer has added to the original experience in order to make a worthwhile title.
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