Kirby's Epic Yarn

Ehhh, I'm just bitter because I'm not artistic at all, so visuals don't affect me in the slightest, so while people are too busy going crazy over how beautiful a game is, I'm over here tapping my foot waiting to hear something about how the game actually plays.

Also don't let me stop the pun combat, I'm dying to see how long that can actually go on.

edited 15th Jun '10 7:39:13 PM by StarkMaximum

GIANT FLAMING YARN PHOENIX

Before we're done, we'll reach a fever pitch! We're the kine that can coo this forever. Na'go, chu-choose a seat, and watch the fun.

^^^^ Oh, I see. Well, it's good we agree about those two games. I'll bet you'll also agree that 64 had some serious problems. I mean, their power-up system was all kinds of mixed up.

edited 15th Jun '10 7:43:59 PM by Enlong

Before we're done, we'll reach a fever pitch! We're the kine that can coo this forever. Na'go, chu-choose a seat, and watch the fun.

Rick.

Seriously cannot believe you just said "Na'go".

You have a good point—and as a fan, I find that quite cutting. But it's no shock to me others think it bombed. Still, even if it leaves you cold—that game gets me all fired up! It rocks!

edited 15th Jun '10 7:48:47 PM by FreezairForALimitedTime

The firebird amuses me, considering how Ho-Oh looks like Dyna Blade.

I like that they're trying new things, and the fact Kirby uses a yarn whip, but I'm still perplexed at how this will play out. I guess we'll just have to find out. At least I can predict how the backstory will likely play out considering Canvas Curse.

And people say that Super Star was a great inspiration to the rest of the series, but if so, why are some of the best powers from that game never used again? Those are the kind of abilities that you think would just zip right back to the palm of your hand for future installments, but those ideas just took off like a shot and flew away, never to be seen again. It really reflects poorly on the rest of the series.

... And I lost interest in this thread at about the time Freezair broke out the Hurricane of Puns.

I suspect they've been yo-yoing on whether or not to include them again. Adventure had some good ones, too, but they took off like a whirlwind for parts unknown. If only they'd get on the ball once more.

If only they'd get on the ball once more.

They did in Canvas Curse.

edited 15th Jun '10 8:11:54 PM by CapedLuigisYoshi

I don't understand?

On one hand I like the innovation. On the other hand I can't help but wonder? If its that different why a Kirby game?

Oh yeah, that's right, because idiots like Cider will buy any platform game that has Kirby on it. And I will buy it, but this had better be the last "epic" game of the decade. That word needs to be deleted from the English language.

Amazing Mirror was kind of phoned in.

What's wrong with it?

Amazing Mirror was kind of phoned in.

I see what you did there.

I don't, but whatever.

This. Looks. Adorable. DO WANT DO WANT.

All of you need to be punished.

BTW, Yay! Kirby! ^^

edited 16th Jun '10 12:33:47 AM by GameGuruGG

This... this is beautiful. Not just in visuals, but gameplay too- they seem to be going back to the 'grab projectiles and throw them back' method of combat for bosses, which I loved in the first Dream Land.

And... is that a helper? Kirby might have co-op again!

@Cider: Yeah, no eating, no flying, no puffing? When I saw the trailer, as fun as it looks, a number of other franchises came to mind before Kirby.

Explaining The Joke: In Amazing Mirror, you use a cell phone to contact your other Kirby friends.

This thread's gotten a little wooly, but maybe it's better that way. It's difficult to knit a coherent conversation from a bunch of puns being thrown around. Maybe I should take my weave from the jokes and actually participate? Some great discussion is looming, and I do knot want to miss any of it!

...OK. I'm done now. Really.

I'm wondering how this fits into the continuity—Alternate Universe, or a curse that turns everyone into yarn? Or, come to think of it, does Kirby have any continuity at all? (I haven't played enough of the games to be sure.)

Kirby has no discernible continuity. Things just sort of seem to happen.

It's better for it, really.

Well, there is some semblance of continuity in places. Take, for example, the location of the no-longer-wrecked Halberd in Squeak Squad.

And I believe I can admit defeat on the field of pun combat. I used up a reference to every Kirby game I could think of, and now my source of jokes has been peeled back to reveal a threadbare formula. So I'm done.

Threadbare, eh.

@ Cider: Kirby is a big franchise?

Everyone now has diabetes.

I especially like how both the artstyle and game mechanics build upon one another.

edited 16th Jun '10 10:10:30 AM by Jotun of Boredom