Kirby General Discussion Thread

@HighRollerHydra  

@igotnopicks  
American Kirby

Beat Return to Dream Land’s Normal Mode at 100% again. Still loads of fun, but it’s a little rough when you compare it to Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot, both of which took Return to Dream Land’s formula and improved on it further.

@Jarkes
 
Makes me wonder how they’ll even top Planet Robobot.

@Dirty Bit
 
Who knows?
 
Also, the 24th anniversary of the US release of Kirby’s Dream Land was last Monday. Maybe Nintendo will do something special for the series’s 25th anniversary…
 
Speaking of which, it still annoys me that we got such a watered down version of the art booklet for the 20th anniversary. Not only did the Japanese version of the booklet have a LOT more concept art and info about the development process of the games, it also gave us some pretty fascinating info about some of the lore of the franchise (including confirming that Gooey is made of the same stuff as Dark Matter, among other things).

@Jarkes
 
Very interesting. But yeah, Japan gets all the cool shit.

Considering that Japan made most of the games…yeah.

So I watched the “True Arena with Doctor Ability in 13 minutes” video on Youtube, and immediately tried it myself attempting to use the same strategies. …Yeah, it didn’t work. Half the time I ended up doing the “Bandage Spin” move instead of the Pharmacy move, and somehow the guy in the video kept managing to use the move while practically staying in place, which was almost impossible for me. I died to Stock Mecha Knight.
 
 
@HighRollerHydra
 
That’s no reason for NA players to get an extremely watered-down version of the anniversary artbook.

@Jarkes
 
No shame. I did the same thing, results and all. Emulation can be tough.

@Jarkes  
Maybe they didn’t think we were interested?

@HighRollerHydra
 
Dude, artbooks that also include behind-the-scenes stuff are HUGELY popular in the US.
 
At least Hyrule Historia was untouched…

@Jarkes  
Well, I wouldn’t know. I don’t collect art books.

Fear the almighty duck hat.
 

 
FEEEEEAR IIIIIT.

@Jarkes  
Cutter?

@Jarkes
 
Bitch, please…
 

 
This is a hat that demands respect!
 
They should’ve brought it back in Robobot…

@Dirty Bit
 
They need to bring the Yo-Yo ability back… I was so happy when I discovered they brought the Mirror ability back in Robobot… Jet, I never really cared for all that much in Super Star/Super Star Ultra, but it was cool to see that one come back too, especially its Robobot Mode.
 
But yeah, Magic would be cool to see again. Especially if they expanded it even further from how they expanded it in Squeak Squad…

You think ESP would’ve included a yo-yo.
 
I’ll let you Smashers figure out why.

@HighRollerHydra
 
It’s clearly inspired by Ness… And it even has the same backwards baseball cap that Ness had (which was also present with the Yo-Yo ability).
 
The Mother/Earthbound series was actually developed by HAL Labs.

For some reason, I find it amusing that the Fire Galboros mid-boss appears in Triple Deluxe and is based off the normal Galbo enemy like how the Water Galboros mid-boss from RtDL was based off the Water Galbo enemy from the same game… but normal Galbos don’t appear in Triple Deluxe at all.
 
And Misamoros, the Poison mid-boss in Robobot, doesn’t have its own Galbo counterpart… Instead, Poison is obtained from a different enemy.

@Jarkes
 
Ness’ cap is sideways
 
Also, yeah, I definitely get you XD

Also Yoyo is probably my favourite ability and I would live for it to retutn as well XD. Though ESP was a nice substitute for it.

@Marx
 
Don’t remind me…They freaking ganged up on me each time I played.

Must be a hal laboratory thing :S Never try to play Destruction Derby and Smash Bros free for all with high level CPUs they always target human players x_X

@Marx
 
I disagree with the latter.