Kirby And The Forgotten Land Walkthrough + Star-Crossed World Guide

Updated with Star-Crossed World on Switch 2

by PJ O'Reilly Thu 28th Aug 2025

Hello and welcome to Nintendo Life's Kirby and the Forgotten Land full walkthrough guide - including the Star-Crossed World content in the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition!

Here we'll be taking you by the squishy pink hand and helping you through each and every level of each and every world in HAL Laboratory's superlative 3D platformer. We'll show you how to get your hands on every Waddle Dee and every Copy Ability Blueprint, as well as having a look at boss strategies, post-game tips, secret codes, and more - including all the secrets in the Star-Crossed World expansion.

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So, are you ready to crack on with Kirby's latest adventure? Let's get stuck in.

SPOILER WARNING! Below you'll see the names of worlds and bosses, so obviously take care scrolling if you want to experience every single surprise the game has for yourself. To help, we've put the post-game levels and bosses at the bottom of the page.

Kirby And The Forgotten Land + Star-Crossed World Full Game Walkthrough

Below you'll find all our guides for the game split into categories, from complete step-by-step walkthroughs of every world to full lists of every collectible.

World Walkthroughs — All Missions And Collectibles

Here is each world in the game split up with a step-by-step guide for each.

We've split them across two columns, with the original base game on the left, and the expanded Switch 2-only remixes on the right.

Original Game (Switch 1 & 2)	Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Only
World One - Natural Plains	Natural Plains (Star-Crossed World)
World Two - Everbay Coast	Everbay Coast (Star-Crossed World)
World Three - Wondaria Remains	Wondaria Remains (Star-Crossed World)
World Four - Winter Horns	Winter Horns (Star-Crossed World)
World Five - Originull Wasteland	Oringinull Wasteland (Star-Crossed World)
World Six - Redgar Forbidden Lands	Redgar Forbidden Lands (Star-Crossed World)

Item Lists & Locations

Here we list collectibles — like Waddle Dees and Blueprints — in a handy list format, and answer a couple of common questions:

Present Codes For Free In-Game Items

Input these published Kirby Present Codes for free in-game goodies from Waddle Dee-liveries. This also includes any Star-Crossed World-specific codes:

Kirby And The Forgotten Land Present Codes: Full List (+ Star-Crossed World Codes)

Boss Guides

Here we show you how to take down each of the game's bosses:

Post-Game Levels & Boss Guides - SPOILERS!

In this section you'll find our post-game walkthrough, plus our boss guides for the last leg:

Post-Game Worlds

Once you've wrapped up the levels above, it's onto the post-game...

Post-Game Bosses

Let us know below if you've got any other questions about the game and we'll do our best to answer them for you. Otherwise, enjoy exploring the Forgotten Land and the Switch 2 expansion!

PJ is a staff writer across Hookshot Media. He's been playing video games pretty much nonstop since the early 1980s, which is ages ago. Favourite genres include RPGs, puzzle games and lovely big single player adventures of all kinds. The weirder the better.

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MostHandsieBoy
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@NinChocolate almost 100% of people are not interested in 100%ing the game.

Kirby defenders don't need to defend it's game from it being about very little children. Anyone can tell it was designed as a platformer for little kids who were too young for Mario. That's okay.

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MostHandsieBoy
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@NinChocolate No doubt. I'm getting the game because I have little kids and I greatly enjoyed the demo as well. It's one of the rare games that is for everyone. But it is very easy compared to most of my library.

For me, that is a huge selling point. Sometimes I don't want to stress over Cuphead. I want something my old hands, face and bones can easily do.

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MostHandsieBoy
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@Reyren I wish the game had one more super-hard mode or whatever.

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WolfyTn
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@MostHandsieBoy Shrimp..

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MostHandsieBoy
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@WolfyTn White wine...

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Rykdrew
Fri 25th Mar 2022

Too easy for me. No way i´ll buy this one.

It's all cute, creative in the look, but when you play it, it looks like an "on rail" game. You have to do the exact same things, in the same order, with no room for creativity on the player's part. It´s not a problem if the game is difficult....but here....This is because the game is so easy, it doesn't require the player to do anything different. It's all very gimmick. You walk away, follow the flow and end the game. I don't like the postgame (or 100% boring thing)...I like the main game mode. And the main mode of this game is unplayable for me. makes me sleepy. It's too boring for me.

I don't play games to get rid of stress. I have no stress in life. My life is pretty easy, so I need more challenge!

Thanks to my neighbor for lending me. He himself didn't like it.

My wife didn't like the game either.

So I pass!

Beaultiful game, but empty.

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WolfyTn
Fri 25th Mar 2022

@MostHandsieBoy lmao tim and Eric are comedic gods.. love the name and pic.. ur an Awesome Show! Brother 🤘🏻

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Kalteas
Sat 26th Mar 2022

This game is extremely easy, even on the harder difficulty. It's also incredibly charming and a great deal of fun.

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Giancarlothomaz
Fri 1st Apr 2022

thanks this walktrough/guide will be useful for me, ounce i have the game in my birthday in april.

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RubyCarbuncle
Sat 23rd Apr 2022

Thanks for this but the no damage missions for rescuing certain Waddle Dees is just absolutely ruining my enjoyment of this otherwise charming 3D Platformer. I think I'll play Ratchet and Clank on PS5 instead.

I will go back to Kirby but atm I'm just too frustrated and I don't like to play a game when I'm in this state of mind. In fact I don't think going for 100% is even worth it tbh as you don't even get anything at all except a lame picture saying thanks for playing and statues in Waddle Dee Town that do nothing, like really?

Edit: nvm I managed to do it but I still hate the no damage missions though.

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RubyCarbuncle
Sat 23rd Apr 2022

@NinChocolate Going for 100% is actually the hardest part of this game. I find the no damage missions needlessly annoying to say the least and don't get me started on the tilt and tumble mini games where you have to guide ball Kirby through a maze. I remember playing the original tilt n tumble and they weren't as awkward as this.

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RubyCarbuncle
Sat 23rd Apr 2022

@Rykdrew Empty? Banjo Kazooie was extremely easy too, boring and basically featured doing the same thing in an empty world that didn't really have many features that made it stand out yet it was still very popular, just like Kirby. You don't play Kirby for the difficulty it's the sort of game you play to relax.

This is just my opinion though so don't look too much into it, I didn't like Banjo Kazooie just like the way you don't like Kirby. We all have different tastes after all.

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N8tiveT3ch
Thu 28th Aug 2025

@Rykdrew congratulations on your stressless life. You must live outside of the US.

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PJOReilly
Thu 28th Aug 2025

@Giancarlothomaz Ypu are welcome 🙏

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