![]() Working solely with the touch-screen, as in Power Paintbrush, players are tasked with moving a troop of Kirby characters throughout numerous stages filled with luscious, vibrant visuals, plenty of familiar enemies, and awhole host of differing hidden objects tucked away in the array of pathways available en-route to the final exit. As with quirky slants on assorted themes such as the racing antics of Air Ride (Game Cube), the crazy golf shenanigans in Dream Course (SNES), and even the addictive puzzler duo of Star Stacker (GBC) and Kirby’s Ghost Trap (SNES), the development team at HAL Laboratory has chosen a route that is somewhat akin to real-time strategy for Kirby Mass Attack. Rather than plumping for a standard platform jaunt, though, Nintendo has continued its tradition of using Kirby games as a breeding ground for recognisable genres with the integration of fresh ideas to create fairly unique experiences. Kirby Mass Attack, meanwhile, focuses on the eponymous hero and an unwarranted attack from a nefarious villain named Necrodeus, who tears Kirby into ten weaker versions of himself in the hope of eliminating the vivacious pink chap forever. ![]() The recently released console outing, Kirby’s Adventure Wii, focuses on a return to Dream Land, and Kirby’s attempt to help an alien that crash-landed on Planet Pop Star to go back from whence it came. Surprisingly, the result is Kirby Mass Attack, a stylus-controlled adventure that bears more than a passing resemblance to how Pikmin DS may have been envisaged. While Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda have no problems achieving a high level of market penetration, Masahiro Sakurai’s creation has sadly been largely overlooked on these shores.įollowing the supreme, and extremely surprising, success of Kirby’s Epic Yarn on Wii, all eyes were on Nintendo to see what delights could be cooked up next. What’s round, originally white and later pink, and sucks? It was seemingly only in 2011 that Europeans finally became truly aware of another of Nintendo’s significant platform personalities, Kirby.
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