So here’s the basic story of how Luca, my persona, became the hero of “World of Light”:
The game’s opening starts as normal, except Kirby gets vaporized seconds before he originally disappeared. Should have been a total downer ending, right? Except one of the stars that his Warp Star leaves behind suddenly disappears, and after Galeem destroys the universe and remakes it in its own image, a portal leading to another world suddenly opens up, and out tumbles a young man with three fox tails and a pair of fox ears, a half-kitsune.
Luca, the half-kitsune, crashes to the ground, and after picking himself up and realizing he’s not at home, he notices a figure approaching, which looks similar to Mario, only with green and brown palettes instead of the usual red and blue as well as constantly shifting between metal and back. The figure, or rather the puppet, becomes hostile to Luca, and Luca attempts to fight back with his own fire magic…only for nothing to happen. Realizing how screwed he is, Luca immediately flees and manages to find a place to hide as the puppet hunts him down. Seeing a sword embedded in the ground, Luca decides he’s got no other option but to adapt, even with a weapon he has no knowledge of using in the past.
Upon grabbing the sword’s hilt, a spirit suddenly flies into him; the spirit, known as Leon Kennedy, quickly grants him knowledge of swordfighting. Now with renewed confidence, as well as a change of clothes to better suit his newfound skills, Luca battles and defeats the puppet, releasing a spirit of Smoky Progg. Leon explains the situation to Luca, and that Galeem had destroyed everything; the fighters were captured and used to create puppets, while the other characters lost their bodies and remained as spirits, which were then used to fuel the puppets. With each spirit freed, Luca is given slight advantages in later battles.
After defeating the other two puppets, Luca finds the real Mario; defeating him instead breaks Galeem’s brainwashing over Mario, and Mario agrees to join Luca on the quest to free the rest of the spirits and fighters and set things right.