Location from Kirby by HAL Laboratory / Nintendo
A post-apocalyptic world of overgrown malls and rusting amusement parks — a lost civilization that looks eerily like our world, now ruled by beasts and hiding a secret in its deepest laboratory.
The Forgotten Land is the Kirby franchise's most atmospheric setting. It FEELS like a world that lost something. The wind carries the faint, imagined echo of traffic and voices. Neon signs flicker on buildings with no power source. The amusement parks still play distorted music from speakers caked in moss. Kirby and the Waddle Dees arrived here through a dimensional vortex, and the Beast Pack — led by the mind-controlled Leongar — had already claimed it. The Waddle Dees were captured and caged. The deeper you go, the more you realize: this world's original civilization discovered interdimensional travel, captured Fecto Elfilis for study, and were ultimately destroyed by the consequences. Lab Discovera, hidden in the deepest reaches, tells the whole sorry story. The Forgotten Land is a cautionary tale about what happens when a civilization reaches too far. And it's also where Kirby discovers Mouthful Mode, so there's that.
A world that looks like modern Earth if humans vanished centuries ago. Overgrown shopping malls with shattered skylights. Rusting roller coasters tangled in vines. Crumbling skyscrapers with trees growing through their floors. Cars sit abandoned on highways where grass has cracked the asphalt. It's beautiful and melancholy — a civilization's remains being slowly, gently reclaimed by nature. The architecture is unmistakably human-world, which raises deeply uncomfortable questions about where this place is and what happened to its people.
Also known as: The Forgotten Land, New World, The New World