[answered on: 4/16/2022]

[Kirby and the Forgotten Land spoilers below]

I have recently played through the game, yus! And... I really did love the final boss-!! Your assessment is correct. I had high hopes for this Kirby game based on the trailers/previews, it looked so distinctly enchanting to me — and I wouldn't say I overall especially gravitate to the Kirby series...?

Despite everything, I guess, it's like, funny. The games have a perfectly palatable style and I even like that they are aimed for younger kids, it makes them feel rather accessible to me. (I'm a "gamer" in that I like to play games a lot, and it's a lifelong interest, and I like to be tapped into gaming happenings... but I wouldn't say I'm a "serious" one at all, and ah, by nature, I kind of need, gentle baby games.) But, for some reason, I've never really been drawn to many Kirby games. I believe I've only played some of Kirby 64 (some other kid owned it, I'd play it at their place) and Squeak Squad. Lol. Never have been tempted by the other Kirby switch games out currently... I know people who stan Kirby have a lot to say about the lore and the dark elements of the narratives, and I respect that as well. Mm but still-! Just missing some essential vitamin, I guess.

So! I was like. Really pleased that Forgotten Land immediately caught my eye. Me and Avvy were immediately in love with Elfilin-!! Such a lovely little design. Sooo cute. We were really holding out for loredrops about Elfilin — so, as you can imagine, we were like, incredibly stoked as all the stuff with Fecto Forgo happened. It was like screams. It's happening-!!!

Actually, as I was playing, my pulse more or less stopped cold once we got into the Lab Discovera elevator. Held my breath. I feel like the execution of the voice over explaining everything is really excellent, the 'tone' is exactly what I would want for such a thing. I was like O.O *utterly entranced* ... Actually ah, I feel uniquely pandered to, I have some... vague interest in like, bizarre research facilities, creatures being experiments/test subjects, etc. (I have a whole complicated Splatoon HC with this line of thinking...) — so, everything that happened to Fecto Elfilis had me highly intrigued. It's so fascinating... Oh, I should mention, I'm still doing the post-game story stuff with Leongar's soul and what-not. So, IDK if there are more details about Fecto Elfilis I am yet to learn about, but currently, afaik it was attacking the plant for no known reason, destructively wiping life out... and yet! I think what happens to it, in the end, is so pitiable.

Whatever tf humans did to it, I can't fathom, like what in the world technology or magic did they use to subdue it...? And then keep it contained, doing god knows what to it. As I played the game, I really liked this vibe that humanity was very frivolous and childish almost, like ah, obsessed with entertainment and spectacles. Wondaria really gives me the impression that at some point humanity got into really ostentatious uses of their tech, but like, for silly things like theme parks. I would like to imagine it a world more 'whimsical' than hours, more like, hm... A bright, dreamy place, where the technology was being utilized for entertainment mostly after a while. So as a result, you get the ghoulish presentation of Fecto Elfilis — Come one, come all~! See the creature we subdued and extracted all its knowledge and magic from~! Here in this test tube! ... like this is a place where school children take field trips to... A cheery announcer deploys all this glibly to spectators. And then people go ooooh and snap pics with their cameras. Quite miserable to think about-!

It's actually bananas that 30 years into its imprisonment is when Elfilin split off. Imo this was like, Fecto Elfilis being like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!! With the torment of being trapped and exploited endlessly, used as a resource, so it like. Ripped a part of its soul out and deployed it into the world. A kind of like, GO, BE FREE, A PART OF ME-!!! FFFFIND SOMETHING... HELP. And indeed Elfilin did proceed to go and become integrated with the wildlife of this world and experience like, joy, whimsy, love. While the remnants, Fecto Forgo, shut down completely. Perhaps this was spiteful towards humans as well, a way of fracturing the power it held, so that way the science all grinded to a halt? It seems that humanity simply chose to suspend Fecto Forgo in stasis afterwards like, oh well, now you're just a trophy for us. And then humanity capriciously peaces out and leaves their fucked up torture facility behind (I'm determined it was this.) so... that is that...

Eventually the power runs out or something, things become overgrown, the beasties take over. And Fecto Forgo. Who. Fsr I see as 'she' — she wakes up and is sick, has suffered so many years being experimented on, and then suspended in a forceful sleep, and perhaps is aching from being 'incomplete'... Truly a miserable being. At least, I like to think of her. And I like to think that the Fecto Elfilis we see later is sick and messed up, unable to think right.

Man all that being said, I just love the design, uahh... Fecto Forgo is like so my jam. Weird fetus... beautiful, intense eyes, so animal looking! Her weird melty, messed up, asymmetrical ear situation. The form she takes as she absorbs all the beasts into her is also REALLY COOL... Really interesting... She honestly reminds me of the charm of a FNAF animatronic? That's weird to say maybe, but, it's like, the crazy eyes, the hanging jaw, the teefers. She's wonderful. I REALLY enjoyed this phase of the fight. Some sorta 'same' feeling also, idk, tfw, foaming mass, it was a body I could vibe all of a sudden. Cool. Fecto Elfilis meanwhile is so interesting, like who are you. You really do feel like some omnipotent alien, like god-like, strange, bizarre, not-of-this-world. I love the big wing eors. The eyes have this intensity, reminds me of a hare's intense stare. "⊙" The weird tail, the smooth nub feet, long footed. I would draw it tbh, I have been thinking about it. Maybe sometime in my free time sorta thing.

Anyhoo the verdict is: fun game, amazing boss design! Very fun.