I can still remember reading all the articles about Kirby's Dream Land 2 in Nintendo Power back in the mid-90s. I had never played the first Kirby's Dream Land because it was very hard to find where I lived, and I sure didn't want to miss out on this installment, which had 3 animal friends to help Kirby. Everything about the game looked great- it had some of the best graphics on the GameBoy, Kirby had a ton of powers, the animal friends all had their own versions of powers, and the game had a secret ending that could only be seen if you collected all the Rainbow Drops. Yeah, I couldn't wait to play this game, and I ended up getting it with some of my birthday money the year it came out. No other game had my attention until I beat Dream Land 2. This really was the best platformer that'd come out in years, and I'm happy to say that it still holds up 16 years later.