To try and find all of these abilities, which is harder than it looks. Kirby can thus use sevenĭifferent base forms (Fire, Rock, Ice, Needle, Bomb, Spark and Cutter), andĬombine them to form twenty-eight different combination forms! I’m covering a few of them Inhale two enemies with special abilities at once. To gulp the result down to gain a combined ability! For the same result, he can It back down (I swear, this is much better than it sounds when I say it), or heĬan toss it to another enemy who has an ability that enemy will be destroyedĪnd its ability will combine with the one you threw. However, you can make him “regurgitate” thatĪbility, and Kirby will hold it over his head. Here’s how Kirby’s copy ability works here: As usual, Kirby can inhale an enemyĪnd gain its ability when you press Down. Yarn, where Kirby visits a land of fabric where he can’t inhale enemies…Īnd while I’m covering all the important parts, Move through the levels and avoid enemy attacks) and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse KirbyĪnd the Amazing Mirror, where Kirby ends up with four clones… and Kirby MassĪttack, where Kirby is split in 10 smaller versions of himself Kirby’s Epic (in which Kirby is controlled by the stylus, and you draw lines to make him
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#KIRBY AND THE CRYSTAL SHARD SERIES#
The game that cemented the creativity of the Kirby series when it comes to forms New appearance and a new attack that goes with it. That’s theĬore point of the series, so it’s just logical that the programmers would put a lot of effort on that aspect and how it impacts the gameplay. Anyway, the teams behind the Kirby gamesĪlways have a lot of fun giving him new abilities at every turn. Unless it’s a simple coincidence and notīlatant, obvious creator preference. Clearly, Sakurai loves his Kirby series, going as far as to pretty much giving King Dedede the role of "Almighty Savior Of All That Exists" in the Humble beginnings didn’t even include the ability to inhale other enemies’Ĭapabilities, something that became his trademark starting with the second Kirby, with a beard and adult mannerisms, and it’s just wrong. That would make Kirby about just as old as me and now I’m picturing a 22yo Masahiro Sakurai, and the little pink puffball’s first game came out in 1992. For those who don’t know, Kirby was created by