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Kirby’s back again for the NintendoDS, after his
first outing with
Kirby: Power Paintbrush we now have KirbyDS for all
the lovers of the pink blob. At the moment only in its Japanese
form, the title will undoubtedly come in English for those
not-too-hot on their Japanese reading. Kirby still retains all his
usual moves which are very easy to pick-up so as long as trying to
understand the storyline isn’t important; getting a copy on import
if you’re impatient shouldn’t be too hard.
If Kirby is completely new to anyone
out there, the basic jist of the character is he’s a pink,
gelatinous creature that can fly by sucking in air to turn into a
balloon and then float back down, and can eat enemies or items to
blow at them to destroy them. Kirby’s main trick, which has been in
every game he’s
 appeared in so far, is that when an enemy has been
eaten, he can absorb an ability from the enemy to help advance
further past a puzzle or another enemy.
The E3 Demo on display unfortunately
had only one playable Level, so gaining an accurate feel and idea of
this new version is a bit difficult, all the moves were there but
not a lot else, a couple of unchallenging foes but nothing to hinder
finishing the Level in under a minute - which won’t hold a great
attraction to many gamers, although Kirby has never really been
aimed at an older audience.
As we all know Nintendo like to keep
things close to their chest, and would never put on show any game
that doesn’t get past their ridiculously high development standards,
KirbyDS did play reasonably well, but judgement will be
reserved till the final game is released as, hopefully, it will
perform better than this simple Preview Code could ever show. |
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