![]() ![]() You might have a fiery attack or a sword attack you can be a vacuum cleaner or a painter. Kirby can fight alongside up to four friends, and each one has a different ability. Kirby will meet friends along the way and be able to throw hearts at enemies, converting them to loyal friends who fight by his side. Any given level sees Kirby moving around in all axes, aiming to kill the baddies by way of various attacks determined by his moveset at that point in time, and his companions. 3 all those years ago, the game takes you through a few worlds with all kinds of levels - normal and secret - in each. A standard platform game leveraging the level and world setup made popular by Super Mario Bros. Kirby’s ability to make friends is the crux of the game. It’s a MacGuffin of sorts, there purely to give you some baddies and provide Kirby with his power. It’s a platform game and the story is totally throwaway. So begins a journey across the worlds to free everyone of the evil hearts and make the galaxy safe once more. In Kirby’s case, it gives him the aforementioned power to make friends. Most infect peaceful creatures turning them bad. There’s some story about how on the planet Jambastion some evil magician executes a ritual ensuring the fragmentation of some crystalline heart-like material, flinging dark hearts throughout the universe. Here is Kirby impersonating a vacuum cleaner Yes, the game allows you - nay, encourages you - to make friends. He’s joined on this adventure by a variety of friends, selected by the player dependent on which of the bad guys you want to make your friend. Kirby himself is a spherical ball with feet and eyes, blobby hands and no end of skills. A side-scrolling 2.5D platformer, it’s immediately notable for the insane levels of cuteness pervading every corner of the game. With Kirby’s Star Allies we have the series’ introduction to the Nintendo Switch. ![]() Kirby then, is synonymous with Nintendo and a part of the company’s success over the years in some way, similar to any other company mascot. and of course, Iwata-san, the chief architect of Nintendo’s current home run - the Switch. To me though, it makes me a little warm and fuzzy as HAL Laboratory is a big name in the history of Nintendo - bringing us all the Kirbies, Smash Bros. A name which to many will mean very little, to others will spark a chuckle as it’s very much one step ahead of IBM in every way. He is, in a way, given he’s only ever been on Nintendo platforms, but the creators and developers of the Kirby series of games is actually HAL Laboratory. People also think of him as very much a Nintendo character. ![]() For many of today’s gamers that is pretty much forever, coming only a few years after the hobby went totally mainstream in people’s homes as well as throughout the arcades. Kirby has been around for what seems like forever, although he only actually debuted in 1992 on the Nintendo Game Boy in Kirby’s Dream Land. ![]()
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