History YMMV / KirbyTripleDeluxe

* EightPointEight: IGN gave this game a ''6''/10. Fans were NOT amused, claiming IGN is "biased against Nintendo" and "unreliable". The fact that the reviewer went on to say that no one over the age of twelve should get this game only made fans even ''angrier''. Weirdly, just a month before, the same writer posted a preview that made similar comments about how it's a kiddy game but said that that ''isn't'' and ''shouldn't'' be a problem for people.

** Paintra, who has quite a bit of fan art due to her cool and unique design.

* EndingFatigue: Royal Road is considered by many to be a weak final world for this reason. While [[VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand Dangerous Dinner]] from the previous game was a deliberately shorter world leading up to the finale, and [[VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot Access Ark]] from the next game keeps introducing new foes, puzzles, and environments, Royal Road is just ''long''. Three of its stages are some of the most expansive in the game (and two of them contain substantial Hypernova segments), while the other two consist of [[BossRush reused bosses]], and there's two long bonus levels as well. There's not quite enough variance in environments to counteract the length, but the levels are still enjoyable and the final boss sequence is considerably shorter than ''Return to Dream Land'''s.

* SidetrackedByTheGoldSaucer: "Kirby Fighters". Who can resist using an ability to fight other Kirbys with their own abilities? HAL even developed it as a standalone [=eShop=] version: ''Kirby Fighters Deluxe''.

** The final secret level's theme, a remix of the Fountain of Dreams. This specific arrangement was first heard in ''VideoGame/KirbyAirRide''.
** There is a remix of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sckPUdfis Ripple Star theme from 64]]. Fittingly, it is used for this game's mini-boss rush.

** The game features a good portion of ''Return to Dream Land'' 's soundtrack reused for the EX stages, most notably its remixes of Kine's theme, Grape Garden, the ''Super Star'' boss theme, and King Dedede's theme. It even features an all new remix of ''Return'' 's first stage, Cookie Country.
** And of course, the final boss themes are epic.

** Taranza ReallyGetsAround in {{Fanon}}. He's been shipped with [[HoYay Kirby]], [[AbductionIsLove Dedede]] (mostly due to [[spoiler:their team-up at the end of the game]]), [[BodyguardCrush the final boss]], his predecessor Magolor, and Paintra. After the release of ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', shipping him with [[BirdsOfAFeather Zan Partizanne]] has begun to pop up.

** It's generally agreed that [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia]] has one of the best first stage fights for a Kirby final boss, if only due to badass choreography and music.

** Taranza is popular, mostly from him having a cool design, being a [[spoiler:TragicMonster that lead to Queen Sectonia causing everything purely from just trying to give her a gift]], as well as [[spoiler:pulling a HeelFaceTurn to help out Kirby.]]

** The sound that plays when you get a Sun Stone -- it's a remix of the first 10 notes of the Green Greens theme.

** Pyribbit, once he TurnsRed, immediately jumps to the background and summons three waves of giant lava pillars. These are very difficult to dodge -- one variant has a tiny gap about Kirby's width, the second has a gap to the left and right sides, and the last one has no gaps but can be avoided by flying over. If one hits you, it'll drag you off the screen and drop you off, which will cause you to drop your ability. Pyribbit DX amps up the annoyance on these attacks. The first two waves sink down and disappear, while the last one has a gap in the wave but constantly moves back and forth.

** The game has 256 keychains to collect, which offer no purpose but are a nice throwback to previous games in the series. Unfortunately, the keychains obtained at the end of the level are random, and it' possible to obtain more than one copy of the same keychain, meaning 100% completion requires absurd grinding.

* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight, the Dragon]] from ''Amazing Mirror'', is the final boss of the extra mode and, if Word of God is anything to go by, the true villain of the game.

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Taranza's UndyingLoyalty for Queen Sectonia is "rewarded" with a blast to the face. Word of God further reveals that the entire game happened simply because he gave Sectonia a gift that he couldn't know was possessed by Dark Meta Knight]].
* WoobieSpecies: [[spoiler:The People Of The Sky were enslaved by Queen Sectonia for a long time and likely woud've never been saved had Kirby not been lead to them.]]

* EightPointEight: IGN gave this game a ''6''/10. Fans were NOT amused, claiming IGN is "biased against Nintendo" and "unreliable". The fact that the reviewer went on to say that no one over the age of twelve should get this game only made fans even ''more'' angry. Weirdly, just a month before, the same writer posted a preview that made similar comments about how it's a kiddy game but said that that ''isn't'' and ''shouldn't'' be a problem for people.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[spoiler:Taranza/Queen Sectonia]], even though it ends really badly for the former. Still, the fanart is staggering for a series like Kirby. [[spoiler:It probably doesn't help that subsequent games [[ShipTease still have Taranza treating her as his own]] LostLenore, making this pairing at least one-sidedly canon on his part.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: [[spoiler:Taranza/Queen Sectonia]], [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness even if it ends really badly for the former]], yet the fanart is staggering. [[spoiler:It probably doesn't help that subsequent games [[ShipTease still have Taranza treating her as his own]] LostLenore, making this pairing at least one-sidedly canon on his part.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: [[spoiler:Taranza/Queen Sectonia]], [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness even if it ends really badly for the former.]], yet the fanart is staggering. [[spoiler:It probably doesn't help that subsequent games [[ShipTease still have Taranza treating her as his own]] LostLenore, making this pairing at least one-sidedly canon on his part.]]

* WoobieSpecies: [[spoiler:The People Of The Sky were enslaved by Queen Sectonia for a long time and likely woud've never been saved had Kirby not been lead to them.]]
* {{Woolseyism}}: [[spoiler:Sectonia Soul was translated as Soul of Sectonia, unlike the literal translations of Drawcia Soul, Marx Soul, and Magolor Soul.]]

* AnticlimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia's final form fought with Hypernova, which only has two laughably easy-to-dodge attacks. Justified as it's played as a resolution, not a climax (as Kirby has beaten her the normal way before this).]]

** [[spoiler:All of Queen Sectonia's themes.]]

** [[spoiler:The final secret level's theme, a remix of the Fountain of Dreams. This specific arrangement was first heard in ''VideoGame/KirbyAirRide''.]]

** Almost the entire soundtrack, really. Not only are there well done remixes of music from the other ''Kirby'' games (such as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMIovVoCIo EX Stage Mini-boss music]] being the boss music from ''Kirby Super Star'', Kirby Fighters using Coo and Rick's themes from ''Dream Land 2'' in a stage, [[spoiler:and Dark Meta Knight getting his theme from ''Amazing Mirror'' when he TurnsRed]]), but much of the original music is just as great, getting more catchy as you progress further into the game. It helps that ''Triple Deluxe''[='s=] soundtrack seems to have a bit more variety of music than ''Return to Dream Land'' did, which is saying something.
*** On that note, the game features a good portion of ''Return to Dream Land'' 's soundtrack reused for the EX stages, most notably its remixes of Kine's theme, Grape Garden, the ''Super Star'' boss theme, and King Dedede's theme. It even features an all new remix of ''Return'' 's first stage, Cookie Country.

* BestBossEver: The bosses are all very dynamic and elaborate even by Kirby standards. Unfortunately, this comes to the detriment of [[GoddamnedBoss Pyribbit]], whose dynamic traits amount to him ''staying in the background all the time''.

** Taranza is also popular, mostly from him having a cool design, being a [[spoiler:TragicMonster that lead to Queen Sectonia causing everything purely from just trying to give her a gift]], as well as [[spoiler:pulling a HeelFaceTurn to help out Kirby.]]
* EvenBetterSequel: To ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', for many. Although it ditches four-player co-op, it makes up for it by adding in a better LimitBreak in the form of Hypernova, which, unlike the Super Abilities of that game, actually requires more skill to solve puzzles with it, instead of the "Press 1 for OneHitKill" that those were. It brings back fan-favorite Wheel and adds some pretty creative Copy Abilities, too, like Bell. The bosses were also vastly improved, being much more detailed. Also, [[PlatformFighter Kirby Fighters]].

** The Beetle ability. It makes all other weapon-based abilities like Sword and Spear redundant as all of its attacks (even its rapid-fire combo attack) do a massive amount of damage coupled with generous invincibility frames. It can even smash in pegs like Stone and Hammer, cut ropes like Sword and Cutter, its flight damages enemies, and it can use powerful grappling moves like Suplex from earlier games, making it overshadow other abilities even more.

** Special mention goes to Archer, which makes a lot of boss battles a walk in the park. Its arrows, when charged to the maximum, rival the Hammer in terms of power, have excellent range, and if that weren't enough, the ability includes an evasive maneuver that makes Kirby immune to damage akin to Leaf's guard (by crouching). Its only disadvantage is that it makes for a poor close-range ability, but its potential to let you snipe enemies from a safe distance clearly outweighs its cons. Kirby Fighters noticeably tones it down, however, with the arrows taking far longer to charge and there being a slight delay on going into the invincibility camouflage.

* ItsEasySoItSucks: Granted, ''Kirby'' games are supposed to be easier than some other Nintendo franchises, but the game still has been met with this criticism by some.

* {{Moe}}:
** Kirby, as usual, and Dedede, [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]. [[spoiler:Taranza gets in on the huggability after his HeelFaceTurn.]]
** [[spoiler:The People of the Sky, too.]] [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe You're gonna want to adopt one of them.]]

** Taranza ReallyGetsAround in {{Fanon}}. He's been shipped with [[HoYay Kir]][[FoeYayShipping by]], [[HoYay King]] [[AbductionIsLove Dedede]] [[spoiler:(mostly due to their team-up at the end of the game)]], [[spoiler:[[BodyguardCrush Queen Sectonia]] [[FoeYayShipping (and then Sectonia pulls a]] YouHaveFailedMe on [[FoeYayShipping him)]]]], [[HoYay Magolor]], and Paintra. [[CrackPairing Don't ask why for Paintra.]] After the release of ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', shipping him with [[BirdsOfAFeather Zan Partizanne]] has begun to pop up.
** [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia]] herself qualifies as well. [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Kirby and]] [[spoiler:[[FoeYayShipping Queen Sectonia]]]] is actually quite popular. [[BirdsOfAFeather King Dedede and]] [[spoiler:[[BirdsOfAFeather Queen Sectonia]]]] is also very prominent due to them both being royalty. This overlaps with StealthPun considering that King Dedede's a penguin and [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia's a bee]], which appropriately references [[spoiler:[[TheTalk the birds and the bees.]]]]

** [[spoiler:[[YouHaveFailedMe Blasting Taranza out of the tower as punishment for his failure to do away with Kirby]] and responding to his EtTuBrute line saying that she has no use for a "fool who cannot follow orders" really saw Queen Sectonia as crossing the line. It's even lampshaded by the pause-screen description for Soul of Sectonia, which states that "a voice once called out to her but it has since fallen silent".]]

** Also the sound that plays when you get a Sun Stone -- it's a remix of the first 10 notes of the Green Greens theme.

** Per Kirby tradition, the final boss. See EldritchAbomination on the main page.
** Paintra's inhuman giggling can be rather unsettling as well.
** A mild one, but: The look of [[OhCrap sheer horror]] on an enormous eel's face upon getting caught in a Hypernova gust, the frantic struggle that plainly says, "Oh God I'm gonna die no no help stop no STOP I DON'T WANNA ''GO INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT MOMMY '''HELP,"''''' then watching Kirby rapidly slurp up ''yard after yard of it'', imagining the poor thing screaming hysterically in its mind as it goes down, all ending in a simple ''poof'' as he swallows like it were only a noodle before happily tromping along again... While it's obviously supposed to be [[RuleOfFunny played for laughs]], there's something quite disturbing in that... [[FridgeHorror Hypernova Kirby is quite possibly the scariest thing in the entire series.]]

** This also isn't the first game where there's an [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards archery-based]] [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Copy Ability]].

* SpiritualLicensee: Dedede's Drum Dash is sometimes seen as one to ''VideoGame/HarmoKnight''. Likewise, Kirby Fighters to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. However, HAL ''does'' have a part in making those games as well.

** ''Dededetour!'', this game's Extra, is this. Enemies seem to be more plentiful, quite a few of them are bigger and stronger than normal, and the bosses have been buffed with new, stronger attacks. Taking this mode easy ''will'' destroy you, especially the last few bosses.
** ''Dedede's Drum Dash'' can also be pretty difficult, especially since 100% completion requires Gold Medals on the regular three levels and the completion of a BrutalBonusLevel.
* TierInducedScrappy: Some Copy Abilities in ''Kirby Fighters'' are just ''bad''. Notoriously, Ninja and Archer, both of which are {{Game Breaker}}s in the game proper, were nerfed to the ground in ''Fighters''. They take roughly as much effort to master as Fighter, which having only a measly fraction of the possible DPS.
* ThatOneBoss:
** [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight. After he TurnsRed, he clones himself into Mirror shards and does a three-headed Monty shuffle. If you attack the wrong Meta Knight, it splits into even more Mirror shards that home in to you. He can randomly block any of your attacks, dealing no damage to him. [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking And, if you look closely when he does his spin animation, you can see traces of ]][[FridgeHorror blood!]] This guy takes everything you didn't like about the Meta/Galacta Knight fight and turns it up to eleven. Oh, and you still have the TrueFinalBoss if you're playing True Arena!]]
** [[spoiler:DDD 64 in ''Kirby Fighters Deluxe''. Prepare for long and hard invincibility frame abuse, because you need to knock down 61 Mini [=DDDs=] before you get to the real fight, and they can all deal a tenth of Kirby's maximum health in damage in one hit. This problem is amplified in the fact that every time you kill one, another one spawns, and if you wind up in the wrong spot at the wrong time, [[CollisionDamage you may end up sharing a spot with a Mini DDD's hitbox.]] Unlike earlier difficulties, there are no healing items, so if you're bad at handling your Copy Ability, you'll be in for a long haul at the homestretch. The fight itself can be rather punishing, since there's no downtime between, and being pestered by three Dededes at once can be difficult if you can't rid yourself of the Combo Dededes. Therein lies another problem, since killing the Combo Dededes first makes King Dedede [[TurnsRed turn red]], grows big (think the ratio between you and him in ''Nightmare in Dreamland'' and ''Squeak Squad'') and gain his amplified "Masked Dedede" moveset from the main game, and his Star Rod-powered Hammer will make your life difficult via boosted damage. In addition, this is ''Kirby Fighters'', which means ''every'' Copy Ability is nerfed, and Kirby loses indefinite flight. The only leeway the game gives is that if you lose, every successive continue will decrease the number of Mini [=DDDs=] you need to fight.]]

** Pyribbit, once he TurnsRed, immediately jumps to the background and summons three waves of giant lava pillars, much like the battle against Magman in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards''. However, with these, they are very difficult to dodge -- one variant has a tiny gap about Kirby's width, the second has a gap to the left and right sides, and the last one has no gaps but can be avoided by flying over. If one hits you, then it'll drag you off the screen and drop you off, which will cause you to drop your ability. Pyribbit DX amps up the annoyance on these attacks. The first two waves sink down and disappear, while the last one has a gap in the wave but constantly moves back and forth.
** The vines attack that [[spoiler:Sectonia (both normal and Soul)]] deploys. It aims at you for a few seconds, and then comes at you at a blink of an eye. Expect to get hurt a lot from this.

** Collecting all of the Sun Stones, especially in later levels.
** Defeating Dedede's Drum Dash, [[spoiler:especially the hidden fourth level activated by getting gold medals on the first three levels.]]
** Finding all of the keychains.
** Beating The True Arena.
* UncannyValley: ''Kirby Fighters Deluxe'' features [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Dyna Blade's Nest]] as a stage, with Dyna Blade herself as an obstacle. But it's just her ''Super Star Ultra'' sprite and not a 3D model. It looks... awkward.
* UnexpectedCharacter: [[spoiler:Dark Meta Knight, the Dragon]] from ''Amazing Mirror'', is the final boss of the extra mode and, if Word of God is anything to go by, possibly the true villain of the game.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Like [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword some]] [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam previous]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds Nintendo villains]], Taranza is often mistaken for female at first glance.

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Taranza, for having UndyingLoyalty for Queen Sectonia and being "rewarded" with a blast to the face. Word of God further reveals that the entire game happened simply because he gave Sectonia a gift that he couldn't know was possessed by Dark Meta Knight]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Taranza''': [[EtTuBrute Wh-Why...?]]]]
* WoobieSpecies: [[spoiler:The People Of The Sky, who were enslaved by Queen Sectonia for a long time and likely woud've never been saved had Kirby not been lead to them.]]

** [[spoiler:The final level in Royal Road, where Kirby is rescuing the People of the Sky.]] It sounds like something right out of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', and it works. [[spoiler:It also just happens to be Queen Sectonia's {{Leitmotif}}.]]
** [[spoiler:The final secret level's theme, a remix of the Fountain of Dreams. The theme was first heard in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.]]
** There is a remix of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sckPUdfis Ripple Star enemy rush theme from 64]]. Fittingly, it is used for this game's mini-boss rush.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR9HX3aOSfk music of the volcano levels]] includes ''dubstep.'' It works surprisingly well in conveying the theme of a hostile and dangerous volcanic landscape.

* FanPreferredCouple:
** Taranza ReallyGetsAround in {{Fanon}}. He's been shipped with [[HoYay Kir]][[FoeYayShipping by]], [[HoYay King]] [[AbductionIsLove Dedede]] [[spoiler:(mostly due to their team-up at the end of the game)]], [[spoiler:[[BodyguardCrush Queen Sectonia]] [[FoeYayShipping (and then Sectonia pulls a]] YouHaveFailedMe on [[FoeYayShipping him)]]]], [[HoYay Magolor]], and Paintra. [[CrackPairing Don't ask why for Paintra.]]
** [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia]] herself qualifies as well. [[TinyGuyHugeGirl Kirby and]] [[spoiler:[[FoeYayShipping Queen Sectonia]]]] is actually quite popular. [[BirdsOfAFeather King Dedede and]] [[spoiler:[[BirdsOfAFeather Queen Sectonia]]]] is also very prominent due to them both being royalty. This overlaps with StealthPun considering that King Dedede's a penguin and [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia's a bee]], which appropriately references [[spoiler:[[TheTalk the birds and the bees.]]]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia sees right through the People of the Sky sending a seed belonging to the Dreamstalk to bring the hero of Dreamland to their rescue and sends Taranza to kidnap said hero, whom he believes to be Dedede, in order to prevent him from interfering with her gambit to become the ruling goddess of Popstar. Of course, she didn't count on the fact that Taranza ended up kidnapping the wrong character, and even then, had it not been for Dedede, especially when teaming up with Taranza in the end as well, she would've been the one who won anyway.]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: Despite otherwise being an awesome track, the Hypernova music can be this from time to time, due to it [[BackgroundMusicOverride replacing the background music for the rest of the level, even during mini-bosses]]. Since Hypernova levels tend to give the ability around the halfway point, it starts getting repetitive pretty fast, and can potentially ruin the mood of certain levels(namely [[BigBoosHaunt 4-3]]).

* HilariousInHindsight:
** A few years back, the Newgrounds flash animation ''Smash Kingdom Melee'' had Dedede threaten to cut Ness and Lucas with his hammer, despite it seemingly being impossible. Skip a few years later and [[spoiler:Dedede can now actually cut things with his hammer in Dedede Tour, albeit by firing a beam from it.]]
--> King Dedede: "So remember kids, you better give this movie a 5, or else I will come over to your house and cut you. I will cut you with my ''hammer''. And hammers don't usually cut, so try to imagine how much a ''long, painful'' process this will be. And it is wood too, [[CrossesTheLineTwice so be expecting some splinters in that crevice wound]]. That would not be too fun now, would it?"
** Another one involving [[spoiler:Dededetour!]]. In the second episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'', after Blocky sinks into the ocean, King Dedede cries. He was just being a ManChild in the original Japanese version, but the dub portrays this in a slightly more sympathetic light, with Dedede mournfully saying he'll miss Blocky and Escargoon saying that Dedede shouldn't take his monsters for granted. This all becomes amazingly ironic since [[spoiler:Dedede can now fight Blocky DX himself, and shows no visible signs of similar sorrow]].
** An episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' shows Waddle Dees able to stack themselves on top of each other, which they can also do in this game.
** The first stage in Old Odyssey has you using the Hypernova ability to suck up giant turnips and spit them back at giant birds called Gigant Chicks. Then came ''VideoGame/CaptainToadTreasureTracker'', where battles with a giant bird named Wingo involved throwing giant turnips at it.

** Anything with a guard that makes you NoSell all damage, such as Leaf and Bell.

** Beetle ability has been added to Kirby Fighters Deluxe (though you have to have played Kirby Triple Deluxe to unlock it). Like Archer, it's been toned down in Kirby Fighters so many of the moves have a slight delay. It's still extremely powerful though.

* DracoInLeatherPants: [[spoiler:Queen Sectonia may have shown herself as a despicable monster, but that doesn't change the fact that she]] has gotten this treatment. [[spoiler:It helps that she's genuinely a TragicMonster [[AllThereInTheManual according to the backstory]].]]

* CriticalDissonance: Among fans, this is one of the better platformers for 3DS ([[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros2 the]] [[VideoGame/SonicLostWorld previous]] [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland three]] were highly controversial). Among critics, ItsEasySoItSucks.

* HolyShitQuotient:
** The things Hypernova Kirby inhales only get bigger and crazier, all accumulating to Kirby [[spoiler:sucking up Sectonia's giant laser, the platforms in front of him, the gigantic flower petals on Sectonia, and [[PaintingTheMedium her health bar]], all at the same time.]]
** The WhamShot upon defeating [[spoiler:Sectonia DX]]: [[spoiler:The Dimension Mirror, quickly followed by it spitting out Shadow Dedede]]. Soon after that, [[spoiler:the return of Dark Meta Knight after ten years]].