Latest posts with tag: "kirby"

  • The Kirby's 20th Anniversary 3DS StreetPass puzzle is all kinds of glorious retro spritework and pizazz

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    Living in Japan has its drawbacks. In the age of total region-lock, I'm forced to turn to costly American 3DS cartridge imports, overpay on shipping, and wait forever for my games to arrive. I'm stuck paying exorbitant Japanese prices for PS3 games, the oh-so-beautiful Ghibli Blu-rays, and pizza (also the pizza has mayonnaise on it). And I also live in a little box the size of a deck of playing cards.

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    But there are benefits too! One of them is I can eat sushi all the time, just completely stuff my head with it. The second and final benefit is that I get a lot of StreetPass tags! That means that whenever a new StreetPass puzzle comes out, I usually have it finished up within a week or so. Imagine my delight when Nintendo recently released their new Kirby's 20th Anniversary puzzle in the Mii Plaza! I always love looking at the little dioramas once they're finished, though for the most part they're never anything that amazing—usually just a slightly animated version of the puzzle picture itself, but in THREE DIMENSIONS. That's why I was so pleased with the new Kirby puzzle, which I just finished today. It's totally great and awesomecool! I think it is the best of all the puzzles so far. In fact, I was so pleased with it that I might have even recorded it and put it on YouTube! So for those of you who will never collect all the pinks and can't bear not seeing it before the 4DS comes out, come along with me on this journey...
  • Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Adventure: separated at birth!!!!

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    Probably all of you have played Kirby's Adventure for your Nintendo-brand Entertainment System, which means you've seen the cute introduction that plays the moment you power it on! First you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes. Add a great big smile, and presto, it's Kirby! Or, for our Japanese readers, まるかいて おまめがふたつ おむすびひとつ あっというまに. (Draw a circle, two beans, and a rice ball. Just like that!) Yes, Kirby's Adventure makes it easy for anyone to draw Kirby.

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    But did you know that this forbidden knowledge was actually known to the public a full year before the release of Kirby's Adventure?! Yes, the secret was originally let out of the bag in the first television commercial for the game's predecessor, Kirby's Dream Land. What's harder to say is if the song was written for the commercial then added to Adventure, or if the song was originally written for the game but then made into a commercial because they couldn't originally use it in the game. At any rate, it's certainly weird seeing it in all its copied-from-an-old-video-tape glory...