#katfl dlc

Sooooo...Star-Crossed World, huh?

I was thinking about some of the new figures and bits of lore we got, and some funny thoughts occurred to me lol:

The ruined spaceship figure we got looks near-identical to the Lor Starcutter (just without the rest of the ship's body)

We know that there's a significant time difference between Popstar and the Forgotten Land, space-time shenanigans aren't too outlandish

Magolor making an actual theme park for Kirby after RTDL wouldn't have been so difficult or strange for him to do if he had prior experience doing it

Magolor also being able to repair and command the Lor can be explained by him having prior experience with the tech (probably was an engineer)

Magolor confessed to not actually being from Halcandra

Neichel's new songs and the lore associated with them point to a LOT of connections

Magolor could've easily been one of the engineers involved in the project that left the planet abandoned (if space-time shenanigans are allowed to be taken into account haha), but he was more involved with the push to get people to trust the project and make them comfortable with taking the journey at all (experienced liar)

I am genuinely baffled. This isn’t a situation of the fandom just kind of wishy-washily hoping for something to come up—it was entirely reasonable for people to assume Galacta Knight was involved given the absolute myriad of references, from the crystals themselves, to the star motifs, to even the shapes used resembling Galacta’s mask. But I think what I find the most confusing is that those references ARE there, so why not full-send it? It makes no sense to me. I’ve openly admitted previously Galacta knight doesn’t interest me that much too, and even I’m disappointed! Having what is essentially a Fecto Elfilis clone is such a bummer. (Also I do not get the name Genwel at all—if someone does get the name, please tell me if there’s a reference I’m genuinely missing!)

I do enjoy the idea that Elfilin might have somehow, someway been one of the four heroes of yore alongside (presumably) Galacta Knight. That is very cool, and the suggestion that Elfilin feels he was “involved in something ancient” kind of bumps that. So points for that, that’s something I’ll be chewing on. I also have a lot of my own thoughts about the Ancients as I call them in k:dft, where they originated from and how they got to where they are now—so, neat. I like.

Lore disappointments aside though… holy shit, this isn’t worth thirty dollars at all. Like okay, as I said earlier, your money, your life—but as someone who has very little disposable income, if I’d gotten the Switch 2 just for this, I would have been pissed. The game looks like it plays great! It’s gorgeous! I love the level design! But where are the new bosses? Where are the rest of the damn stages? Why the hell does it seemingly only take two-ish hours to complete the DLC, albeit not 100% it? That’s not remotely enough content for something with that price tag, I’m sorry.