Waddle Knight (Kirby Fangame)

I'll say it right now.

Fatty Whale is by far my least favorite.

Too durable for what is a bosh rush boss, and especially with how this game is meant to play.

He takes too long to properly damage and has attacks that have very wonky hitboxes.

And as the third part of the Holo Defense battle, he just comes off as mean and unfair.

Trust me, I wouldn't be as hateful towards him if he was a standalone boss.

Still can't get past him.

:P im unable to replicate this, but i found a softlock

Note: Keep in mind that my opinion is heavily swayed by having to fight bosses 1-10 and 12 (through some sort of bug in the Boss Door Warp, I was able to fight boss 12 after beating boss 10) in update 1.0.0, before the various nerfs, changes and Easy Mode (bless Easy Mode, it's a life-saver)

This is a very cool fangame that deserves way more attention, I like it very much! The bosses are challenging, but are very much learnable (with an exception of a few attacks), though I think 5 HP is a bit too punishing especially given how healing is much more difficult to perform here compared to games like Hollow Knight. Probably one of my favorite Kirby fangames.

The platforming sections showcase the new abilities Bandana Dee gets pretty well, which I like, and the gimmicks are pretty cool too. The platforming sections do get rather tricky and I got a bit frustrated in a few places, especially the final gauntlet where during an indoor section where Bandee was being shot by red cannons and has to do some tricky dashes and walljumps, getting hit in certain places would result in Bandee being invisible (I think shade-dashing fixed the invisibility? Not sure, don't remember much about it, and it has probably been fixed). Now onto my thoughts on each on each boss:

Boss 1 is surprisingly difficult for being the first boss, especially given how strong its wind is (I think that the player should at least be able to slightly outrun the wind - if you're too close to it, it will inhale you towards itself, which is basically guaranteed damage), given how one doesn't have dash yet. I like that in Phase 2, it forces the player to parry the apple to reach it, though that gimmick may be a bit advanced for the first boss of the game.
Easily its most difficult attack (apart from the inwards inhale) is one of its Phase 2 air bullet patterns, where it fires in this pattern:
[up up up, down middle, down parry, down middle, down, down down parry down down]
It's not very clear that one is supposed to duck with the first three air bullets, and the "down middle, down" combo has a very narrow leeway for the player to squeeze between the gaps.

Boss 2 is probably my favorite of the lot. All of its attacks have a fair telegraph, and its pretty clear how to dodge them. The last-ditch phase is cool and flows well too. I've also noticed that Boss 2, Boss 3 and Boss 4 are able to be staggered - how do boss staggers work in this game, and which bosses are able to be staggered?

Boss 3 is pretty cool, if not a bit rough due to the Gordos that can spawn in Phae 2. I like how his single hammer, triple hammer and hammer jump have similar telegraphs, but have slight differences that can be spotted. It's worth noting that he makes you have to use your dash pretty frequently, which I like since the player just got dash, so the following boss should test the player's skill with dashing.

Boss 4 is still fun, though a bit annoying, due to its ground dash. Not the actual ground dash itself, but rather Kracko gliding to one corner of the screen to perform that dash. It can and will catch the player off-guard in some annoying ways, and a diagonally-moving Boss 4 is not easy to avoid. The triple lightning sparks in Phase 2 are also a bit tricky to avoid, though that attack is much more fair. I like that the boss tests one's wall jump skills in Phase 2, and most of its attacks are pretty fun to avoid.

Boss 5 is a major difficult spike compared to previous bosses, having the audacity to have 8 entire phases, each with its devious quirks. (Phase 6 and Phase 8 also used to last a millenium, but thankfully their HP has been nerfed, making Silver Medal an actually reasonable thing to go for) Phase 1, 3, 5 and 7 are nice cooldown phases, not much to say about them. Phase 2 highlights one of the biggests flaws of the bosses in this game, in my opinion. The flaw is that bosses tend to have one attack which is much more difficult that all its other attacks, making the boss feel a bit like RNG sometimes. That attack, in Phase 2, is the attack where the hologram ice-skates, spawning ice cubes everywhere. The player has to quickly notice the telegraph and scramble to the nearest wall to wall jump until the attack is over. Phase 4 is pretty fun, I like it. Not sure how I feel about the spawn position of the healing cherries being a bit inconsistent, though.

(Note that I have Silver and Gold Medals for Bosses 1-5. I also have Silver Medals for Boss 7 and Boss 8, and just barely got Silver Medal for Boss 6 - the timer is ridiculously cruel for Boss 6.)

Boss 6 is a bit ridiculous. Unlike in most Kirby games, in this game he is able to run into the player instead of trying to maintain a certain distance with the player. I'm a bit confused as to how the Mach Tornado works - what determines when he will change directions? It often caught me off-guard, and because of that I didn't really try to bother getting Gold Medal. The boss kind-of incentivizes the player to coward out Phase 1 and Phase 3 when he is grounded by occasionally firing Bronto Burt shots and avoiding direct combat, due to his attacks being more difficult to react to when close, which makes the fight drag out a bit.

At first I wasn't a fan of Boss 7, but now I kind of like it. The "twin boss" structure of Phase 1 forces the players to keep track of both of them (though its more beneficial to defeat the grounded one first, as their attacks are more annoying to deal with). However, there are some situations where there doesn't seem to be a way to dodge a particularly nasty combination (e.g. the aerial one doing the downwards laser while the grounded one does the rolling), which is a bit unfortunate, and incentivizes trying out Silver and Gold Medal after one has acquired the shade-dash. Phase 2 is pretty good when one finds out that the boss is vulnerable to Bronto Burt. There is one really problematic attack, though - that being the black hole. It stays onscreen for a long time, and the suction power is far too powerful to be able to fairly deal with the boss' other attacks. The other attacks are fine, though, and actually very fun to avoid.

Boss 8 is absolute hell, having 4 phases, each with its unique take on the red dots, blue platformer-shocker, yellow laser and green spread-shot, and having to keep track of pillars that occasionally appear (and can screw you up if the blue electricity lands on an inconvenient platform). It was fun to learn the boss, but very exhausting - easily one of the most difficult bosses in the entire game. I don't have much problems with Phase 1, there are no overtly unfair attacks unless a pillar and the blue attack happen to coincide in a bad place. Phase 2 is actually pretty fun, I like pogoing on the boss and it doesn't coincide with the pillars in a nasty wat. It would be the easiest phase, if not for the red attack. Phase 3 is not too bad - the yellow attack is really easy, the red attack is a bit challenging but manageable, and the blue attack can sometimes straight-up miss a platform (it would be cool if one could position oneself to trick the boss into missing a platform instead of it happening sometimes when lucky). The real demon here is the green attack, which due to the wideness of the spread-shot, is nigh-undodgeable most of the time. Phase 4 is probably the most "I-could-do-well-or-do-very-badly" phase of them all. The red, blue and green attacks are fine, but the yellow attack can sometimes be undodgeable if the boss decides it to do it in certain places. It's a fun boss, but extremely difficult, even with improved movement options.

Boss 9 is... weirdly easy for being so late in the game (especially compared to the absolute hell that was Boss 8)? None of his attacks are too difficult, even in Phase 2, and he gives plenty of time to recover the Holo-shield-thing-that-I-forgot-the-name-of. (Fitting, really, since in his debut game, he also felt somewhat easy compared to some other bosses in that game) For reference, Boss 8 took several days and countless attempts of pain and suffering, and Boss 9 only took 2 attempts to beat (the first attempt I died to the black hole which, for some reason, OHKOs the player). Boss 9 is the first boss where I do not have the Silver Medal - I got very close a few times, but I always ran out of time. The problem is that he is just so random - his teleports are random, and what attack he chooses is random, which is problematic since he has some attacks where he cannot be damaged for a long time. I think that potential fixes to this could be:
a. Give him a fixed attack pattern, much like how he was in his debut game
b. Increase the timer
c. Make him vulnerable to Bronto Burt (this would make sense, since Boss 4 and the second form of Boss 7 are also vulnerable to Bronto Burt, as compensation for them being aerial and difficult to hit)
d. Speed up the boss - this both kind-of fixes the problem of being too easy and makes it less punishing when he chooses to do an attack where he can't be damaged

Boss 10 is Boss 6 but harder. Not much to mention here. He might actually be easier than Boss 6 at that point of the game, due to the player having better movement options by then.

Boss 11 first form is, unsurprisingly, very fun, given that it's a slightly harder rendition of Boss 2, an already-fun boss. I haven't proprely experienced (or beaten) Form 2 (due to the aforementioned Boss Door Warp bug allowing me to skip straight to Boss 12), though it seems rather difficult due to certain telegraphs for different attacks being very similar. I did get to the phase where it spams tons of different attacks all at once, and honestly I'm not sure what to do with that.

I really like Boss 12, its Phase 1 especially reminds me of NKG from Hollow Knight - its attacks look scary but are all very learnable and consistent. Phase 2 isn't too scary either, with the added attacks (with the exception of the Ice attack) not being too difficult and being very learnable and fun. Phase 3 is the true menace, introducing a slew of scary new attacks, most notably Hypernova, which is probably the boss' most difficult attack. The Star Rod attack is a bit scary, though also learnable. It took me ages to learn how to dodge the Ninja attack, and the Beam attack is usually not too bad but depending on how the beam pillars spin, shade-dash has to be used carefully. I really like this boss, it's fun yet very challenging (though I had to use Easy Mode to beat it) - a worthy final boss and a potential contender to take the trophy of "Best Kirby fangame final boss" from Maid-Bot-666 (the final boss of Pik's Epic Kirby Sprite Comics Teh Game 2). My only issues with it are a few bugs relating to the boss - after I collected the bronze coin, the game went completely dark and I had to reset the game (though thankfully, it saved that I beat the boss).

I hope that I don't sound too harsh - I really do like fighting and re-fighting these bosses, that the flaws that I mentioned are only minor flaws. This is a phenomenal fangame and I can see all the effort put into it. I haven't even mentioned the subgames and the Extras! (one funny thing I will mention is that for Quest 5, Whispy's canopy didn't disappear after Whispy was defeated, and stayed there for all the remaining Quest 5 bosses - it was pretty amusing)

I would say my ranking for favorite to least favorite bosses would be:

Boss 2
Boss 12
Boss 7
Boss 5 (post-nerf - pre-nerf would be much further down due to Phase 6)
Boss 8
Boss 3
Boss 1
Boss 4
Boss 10
Boss 6
Boss 9

(can't rank Boss 11 - I haven't fully experienced it)

Where is the save data to this game stored.

I have progressed to the point of defeating Dedede.

I think this is a very well made game, but let me send one request.

This game needs a key config.

With the default settings it is difficult to attack with a spear while shooting.