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Kirby's awesome. But maybe the fact that Kirby's Dream Land was one of the two Game Boy games I got when I got my first Game Boy (and thus first videogame console) has something to do with that... :)

We are mature. We play in a hope filled dream land of candy and rainbows and adorable puff balls.

:)

Dark Jaguar Wrote:We are mature. We play in a hope filled dream land of candy and rainbows and adorable puff balls.

Adorable puff balls that <i>devour</i> their very enemies and use their own skills to <i>massacre</i> more of their kind.

Yeah yeah, not exactly NEW in the "cute magical land" front though. Defeated enemies aren't really "massacred" so much as puffed away into stars or something. Just the modern equivilant of the wizard dying by just sorta leaving behind an empty cloak.

Sure, but what EM said is still true... :)

Yeah I suppose. Still seems like a desperate plea to somehow make Kirby seem less "childish". :D

The Kirby games are so relentlessly saccharine that I don't think any efforts to pretend that they aren't "childish" could actually work, though. Not that that makes the good ones any worse games. :)

Agreed!

I keep wondering what his skeleton looks like.

I'm not sure he has one. He seems to be made of solid cotten candy magically brought to life or something. He doesn't even seem to have internal organs. He has torn off his own face and thrown it as a weapon, and he STILL looked like a cute little flat pink thing wandering around.

Really the only thing that could make Kirby even more adorable than it already is would be if that star he rode around on could talk.

Cotton candy? Nah, he's pure marshmallow. There could be pink marshmallows, right? :)

Why I think so, in fact I've seen them! Usually around Easter...

Maybe he's taffy?

You know what gets me is that the major difference between the Japanese and US artwork for the Kirby games is they replace the Japanese happy face with a USA brand "serious scowl". I mean really, what's up with that? As ABF said, any attempt at trying to make Kirby seem "hardcore" is pretty much doomed to failure. Just let him keep that happy face and give up already. He looks better that way anyway, and he's sort of a simple guy that's all smiles most of the time anyway. He just doesn't scowl.

What I really want to know is why they keep removing the " 's "es from Kirby game names in the US... I mean, "Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble"? "Kirby Air Ride"? Compare that to "Kirby's Dream Land" or "Kirby's Pinball Land"... it works in some cases, like Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, but not in ones like those first two. There it just looks like they don't know how to write English grammar.

As for the attitude thing, that's just marketing... obviously someone in marketing thinks that Americans want things "tougher". And so we get 'tough Kirby', as silly as it is.