Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a delightful game. You can fish, you can swim, you can reunite ducklings with their mother. This is perfect gameplay. No notes. But by far the best feature is Mouthful Mode, which lets Kirby swallow items whole and gain their powers. Except “swallow” doesn’t do it justice — this makes it sound like he ingests the object and moves on. No, Kirby essentially stretches himself over huge items like cars and vending machines and uses them to his advantage. He can even turn himself into a giant water balloon to spray his enemies.
And now the pink hero can even use Mouthful mode on things in the real world, thanks to this Kirby backpack cover from NintendoSoup. The pastel pink cover is topped with Kirby’s wide eyes and rosy cheeks, and looks like it stretches over most sizes of backpack. That’s great news for kids and adults who take a backpack to work or the gym.
The cover was originally a preorder bonus for Kirby and the Forgotten Land in Hong Kong, but now it’s available to buy separately. And if you’re wondering how to buy the Kirby backpack cover in Australia, it’s thankfully very easy! NintendoSoup is offering free international shipping to Australia. So if you want to go Mouthful Mode IRL, you can buy the Kirby backpack cover here for $40 with free international shipping.
That’s not all the Kirby merch you can buy now, though. You can also pre-order some extremely cute plushies from Amazon Japan that celebrate the Nintendo character’s 30th anniversary. The plushies are modelled after his adventures from previous games, like getting a hole in one in Kirby’s Dream Course, piloting a mech in Kirby: Planet Robobot and collecting treasure in Kirby’s Dream Land 2. There’s also Kirby on a warp star, with Kine the fish and with his friends Tiff and Tuff. The Kirby plushies will be released on June 25 and each cost $21.
