Kirby Super Star 2?
 

So yeah, at that Nintendo Fall Conference thing some pictures magic'd themselves into being.

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Looks pretty much like Kirby Super Star. Looks almost like they're going for a Nightmare in Dreamland remake approach and while that isn't terrible when you just look at it that way it could be worse than you think.

Do you suppose they'll ever release Mario All Stars on the Virtual Console? Oh hell naw they won't that's lost revenue from Mario 1, 2, 3, and Lost World sales. Not gonna happen. So, they're coming out with what is pretty much a remake of Kirby Super Star. 7 bucks for the original on Virtual Console or a 30 dollar remake on DS. DS needs to print more money and so the original for Virtual Console bites the dust. That's only a possibility and one if it is a remake and if Nintendo decides to be a giant dick.

So let's pretend it's a sequel ala Yoshi's Island 2 and hopefully for the love of God not developed by Artoon. In that case WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY WASTING TIME ON ANOTHER KIRBY HANDHELD (although the blueprints it holds are quite amazing and hey more Kirby should be good) WHEN WE HAVEN'T HAD A CONSOLE KIRBY PLATFORMER SINCE KIRBY 64?!!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THAT GAMECUBE KIRBY GAME!?!?!<!>


So right, discuss this new game here and angst on why there hasn't been a console Kirby platformer IN YEARS.

Because, and I could be mistaken, but aside from KIRBY'S AWESOME AIR RIDE (which sane people would only play that map that would let you go all over the fucking place) is about the closest thing you will get to the last great Kirby game (hur hur) ever.

Reason why you ask?

Kirby is probably, to my knowledge, the only mascot that has NEVER had a 3D game. Mario, Sonic, DK, Castlevania, and numerous other ongoing series have all made the transition to 3D, except for Kirby.

I'd be all for it if it was fun like Super Mario 64. (Yeah, fuck you WATER PACK fucking totally worthless without you in Sunshine)

I'm always up for more multi player Kirby games. Especially if they're online. Only reason I didn't like Amazing Mirror very much was because nobody else I know had it, and it was sad playing by myself. I still think there hasn't been a really good multi player co-op game since Super Star.

Also I think Kirby works pretty well on the DS.

Grail, the Cube game was a 3d sidescroller akin to Kirby 64 but had player controlled buddies for up to 4 players co-op. It practically sold itself on that alone to folks who missed awesome co-op from Super Star.

Air Ride's 3D platforming was fine for what it was and I wouldn't say no to a 3D Kirby but the series does work best as a sidescroller. I'll be glad if HAL can prove me wrong one day.

I'm not denying that it'll be a good game, Xardion. I'm talking about the ramifications for the original Super Star and the fact that we haven't heard about the Kirby console platformer in years and that angers me. It looked so good.

If this is a remake they couldn't possibly mess it up, but I don't know if I want a sequel considering Nintendo's underwhelming track record for DS platformers (NSMB, Yoshi's Island 2, Wario something, Super Princess Peach). Not much to go on now though. Kirby Air Ride is terrible since it caused Sakurai to leave HAL.

There was a Gamecube Kirby title being developed but it was canceled, perhaps because the creator left? Seeing as how Nintendo never throws away their unfinished code and how an untitled Kirby game for the Wii has been announced I wouldn't be surprised if you'd get to see some awesome enemy stackan soon.

e: oh beaten

Kirby Air Ride didn't cause him to leave. He wanted to make new stuff and a sequel to Super Smash Bros. Melee and Nintendo/HAL wouldn't let him, so he simply left so he could do what he wanted. Kirby was in fairly capable hands at HAL and there was no news of a new Smash Bros so everything probably seemed in good order to him.

The Cube Kirby platformer was being worked on after he left and I don't think he had all that much involvement with it. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he didn't want to work on Kirby sequels that much anymore and left it to other folks at that point besides Air Ride which was something new for him as you can see all his wonderful touches all over it.

His last real Kirby platformer more than likely was Super Star or Dreamland 3 (I can't remember which came out last - I'm thinking Dreamland 3).

Also, Air Ride was awesome if you delved deep enough into it. Quite a refined game that amazingly only used one button. Way ahead of his time. The game would be PERFECT for Wii (plus some online play would be freaking sweet).

Cool. But I'd rather have something fresh, like Canvas Curse 2.

I'd like to hope that it'd have some new content. I'd only just got around to enjoying Kirby Super Stars via roms and loved it. Kirby squeak squad was pretty fun if a bit too easy and straight foreward. I remember my days playing Dreamland 2 on my gameboy all the damn time trying to get all the rainbow drops to finally get to the final showdown and with the rainbow sword. While it was never impossibly hard it was relatively challenging. I'd like to see kirby get that nice balance again.

This would be fun if it could make use of wifi for the partners.

It generally looks like a port of the original game, but that's not bothering me one bit. If 2-player download play co-op is available for this, I am officially set on buying this. On top of that, Kirby Super Star is one of those games I always wanted to own, but was never graced with that opportunity.

They also need to re-incarnate the helpers in this game into other games... They were awesome in here.

I was telling Merv last night that even though I've beaten the original KSS roughly 9.001 x 103 times, I'd still buy a remake because (oh god) I'm such a whore.

Someone was telling me last night elsewhere that it's a sequel, but Jeux France has some pictures that confirms yeah pretty much remake:

http://www.quiteajolt.com/gff/613910...1642_3_big.jpg

http://www.quiteajolt.com/gff/613910...1643_6_big.jpg

http://www.quiteajolt.com/gff/613910...1645_9_big.jpg

Mainly I'm just excited to get Plasma back because it's my favorite power ever (f U.F.O.). <3

dying from irony suffocation

I'd actually like a new version of the Kirby golf from the SNES. I played that thing to death and would love to have either an online play or just a bunch more courses.

Nooo~
I'll be fine with purchasing KSS for replay on VC whenever they decide to rerelease it, but I don't think I need the same thing but on the go as well. However, I might be fooled easily if they (re)added one or two new powers like UFO (!) and Ball as an incentive.

A really neat but highly implausible idea would be wifi coop for the Great Cave Offensive. Maybe they could utilize a system where you search for players who have saved at the same spot as you, but the games will keep track of who has what treasure in their inventory. However if there is any wifi at all, I bet it would merely be delegated to Gourmet Race, Samurai Kirby, and Megaton Punch :/

The Wii needs a Kirby's Dreamland sequel, the Wiimote is perfect for pointing kirby towards his next gooey enemy to collide with.

...but this game looks fine too. I might pick it up at budget price a long time from now.

Oh ditto, I mean it's KSS - it'd be a sin if you didn't. Doesn't mean I'm happy about lack of news of the console Kirby platformer or the possibility of the original for VC being canned because it might reduce sales of this remake.

U.F.O. sucks because it's easy to lose and you don't keep it after the level. There were a ton of awesome original abilities in KSS that were just continually amazing as you learned more on how to use them.

lol'n so hard ='D

I'd love a new Kirby as original as Canvas Curse as well though.

Seriously, with Samurai Kirby, they HAVE to implement the touch screen with that. Drawing a slash across the screen in a speed competition, that would be fun. :3:

It's too bad there's a huge freaking map on the touch screen but they might have an interactive layer that allows for that blindly like Star Fox DS and Metroid Prime Hunters.

I wish this would come out on the Wii instead of the Ds. Kirby's Air Ride for Cube was good though.

I came in here with the intent of making this exact post. Multiple players on that game would be fantastic, and the flavor of course designs we'd see are perfectly suited to the DS minigame challenge environment (a custom course mode would be simple enough to introduce as well). A fully 3D version for Wii might work though I'd prefer a isometric viewpoint if they were to go that route, or something akin to the Crystal Shards hybrid approach.

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6...1432600sd1.gif

*sigh*

Acer, your signature lights a fire of hope in my cold dead heart that I am not the only one that thinks Kirby is female and HAL pulled a Samus on us http://xs114.xs.to/xs114/07150/emo-colbert.gif

I LOVED Kirby Super Star. Especially the treasure hunt game. Omg... wifi treasure hunt ftw XD

I'm actually pretty sure that Kirby does not have an actual sex much like most Pokemon. However Kirby is referred to as male. He just loves everyone, but whatever you do, do not take his cake. American Kirby does not forgive.

A Wifi treasure hunt would be incredible. Especially if you can trigger traps and keep the others from treasure... oh wow

Ok, I'll agree with that. But Most pokemon do actually have genders :)

Huh, they do? I thought it was the opposite with only a few actually have male and female versions. Odd. At least I'm positive it was that way for the first set used in red, blue, and green.

In red, blue and green they didn't have genders. I can't remember for Gold, Silver or Crystal, but Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Pearl, Diamond, Fire Red and Leaf Green they have genders. Only most of the legendary pokemon don't have a gender, infact only two of them do have a gender, Latias and Latios.

Latias is pretty much my favorite legendary :)

Otherwise

I would love to see a new Kirby's Air Ride. If they sped it up a bit into F-Zero it would be awesome.

I dunno, the game was speedy enough as is and had an amazing 60 fps and was drop-dead gorgeous. I still stand by that it would be superb as a Wii game. I'd totally buy it again.

I can't believe no one seems to have this now that it's out! Although Backloggery seems to indicate otherwise...

I managed to get 98% on the day that I bought it, but the last 2% is quite hard to attain, preventing it from being "completed". The True Arena (particularly because of Masked Dedede and Galacta Knight) is kicking my ass. Five non-Maxim Tomatoes, only 1 ability in between fights and jacked up bosses surprisingly ramp up the difficulty. I've only ever managed to get to Marx Soul once, then got upset since I foolishly got sucked into a black hole, which wiped out 50% health upon contact :/


I was bit disappointed to see that "Revenge of the King" is pretty much a creepier modified version of Spring Breeze. Helper Arena is pretty cool though, since I've never been on the 2p end of things back in the day.

I've been recording my progress on my Backloggery for a while.

Currently 94% done, still need to beat the Arena and Helper Into Hero (or whatever it's called). I'm loving everything about this except the somewhat decreased power of Suplex. :mad:

Zero percent through. Damned ROM "save file" bullcrap on startup. :( I'll nab a copy to borrow at work once we get a few in.

Lukage, we don't use no$gba to play ds games. We use it to test the roms for rickrolls.

Also, that save file error thing can be fixed if you'd just go into emulation options and tinker about.

I'm really enjoying this game so far. Revenge of the King is hilariously creepy. BEERCOWS ARE NOW TIGERCOWS. ENJOY NOT HAVING A FACE, KIRBY! OM NOM NOM

I'll have to go pick up this game the next time I'm out shopping.

Yeah, for some odd reason, most of the shit in Revenge of the King slightly creeped me out. I'm playing saying to myself, "What the hell? These aren't cute and cuddly. :mad:"

But I do like how they added in some of the mid-bosses from the more recent Kirby games into here as well.

Ah so some of those bosses are from the GBA iterations then. from other games then. I only remember the clock boss being the very first one. The elephant is really really cute though.

I finally beat the True Arena 15 minutes ago, despite trying for hours last night. My tactic involved Jet's invincibility frames and dashing through to take no damage from Masked Dedede and take a lot less from Galacta Knight, then getting lucky with the hammer ability popping up before Marx Soul. Throw in some helper spawn and respawn and the agony has finally ended. The reward for the task of 100% is also very cute and funny too!

Now I think I'll sell this game while it's still almost brand-new, since I'll never need to replay it.

Dear Nintendo,

Your CG replacement scenes look like ass. Next time please include the ability to watch the original sprite based versions since they didn't look like crap.

Thanks!
<3 Miles