More than a decade ago, on the occasion of the launch of Kirby’s Adventure for Wii, the development team at HAL Laboratory and Satoru Iwata unveiled three sets of Kirby that were never released. One of them, a platform adventure for the Nintendo GameCube that would arrive shortly after the racing title Kirby Air Ride (2003), never had a title or release date, but it did taught at E3 2005 and a YouTube user has rescued a couple of clips where the game is seen in motion, they report from NintendoLife.
The first of the videos, published in January of this year, shows the scenario Warp Star, Kirby accompanied by another character and a brief cinematic scene of King Dedede. The second clip, published this Monday, May 30, shows playable sections with different perspectives, zenithal and lateral, and with various powers of the pink ball that we have seen in other games. Both clips have been extracted by the user Folowe59 of this video of the Nintendo area at E3 2005.
The three lost games of Kirby
back to that old interview with HAL Laboratory and Iwata: Which of the three canceled games is the one we can see in these videos? Shigefumi Kawaseproducer of Kirby’s Adventure Wiiexplains in that conversation why they spent 11 years between deliveries of Kirby for desktop consoles (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shardswhat recently arrived on Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack; and the Wii title).
“[…] just after Kirby 64: The Crystal Shardswe immediately started working on a new title from Kirby. That was during the time of the Nintendo GameCube, and footage was even shown during E3,” explains Kawase. The producer later says, “I’m sure a lot of you are wondering what happened to that game. Perhaps for some it has become a kind of mystery “. And it is at this moment that he reveals that there is “Kirby’s Three Lost Games”.
“The first is the footage shown at E3. It was a Kirby title intended to offer a simultaneous multiplayer mode for four. That’s when I realized how difficult it is to create a game that is both single player and multiplayer”. I mean, this is the title you can see in the videos inserted above.
“The second was an experiment with an extremely complicated game form in which Kirby appeared in a 3D space where players could move freely. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the quality we were aiming for, so we never finished it,” explains Kawase. “And the third one was about an animated Kirby. He was kind of book whose images jumped when opening the page. We refresh the skills and try to give them more power. We have spent eleven years picking up and dropping these three games again.”
That little convulsive for the saga Kirby As far as games for desktop consoles are concerned, it ended as soon as the Wii arrived, where games of the stature of Kirby’s Epic Yarn. With the 30th anniversary of the character, Nintendo has launched the first three-dimensional adventure of the pink ball, Kirby and the Forgotten Landa great platform game for Nintendo Switch whose You can read the analysis at this link (and if you are already playing do not hesitate to take a look at our guide).