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 Kirby: Star Allies It’s a Kirby game! Everyone loves Kirby! Kirby is one of Nintendo’s flagship franchises, featuring an adorable pink circle with shoes and a world-destroying appetite. By their nature, Kirby games are not designed to be particularly difficult – they’re all pretty chill, relaxing platformers that don’t ask the player for much. What challenge Kirby titles have is typically reserved for the postgame. Kirby: Star Allies innovates the Kirby formula by returning some of the most popular features from previous titles, including the input commands from Kirby: Super Star and the Power Combos from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Additionally, this game is all about being sociable and having friends to play with: up to four friends can play Kirby: Star Allies at once, each player having just a little bit less agency than whichever player is using Kirby. Also, any player that is not Kirby can play as some of Kirby’s most familiar faces! Hand the controller to a friend, and they can play classic characters like King Dedede, or Meta Knight, or even the villain Marx from Kirby: Super Star! This game’s main goal is to just have a good time, and if that means having a bit of fanservice, well, why not? The LP: My good friend Olive Branch was visiting me for the week in mid-August, and one of the things we did while he was visiting was sit down and blitz through this game, front to back. Which means that all these videos are pre-recorded, and it was all blind, so it’s not exactly a skilful run (as much as such a thing can exist for a Kirby game). On the downside, that means this isn’t going to be too much of a Let Us Play, considering we can’t exactly have a lot of community involvement in a series of videos that are already completed. But on the upside, since every video is already recorded and encoded, that means I won’t have a reason to slack off on an update schedule! I’m thinking a video every two days ought to be plenty. This is very much just meant to be a casual, laid-back, low-effort LP that you can turn on and listen to in the background while you do something else. Just chill and listen to two friends make bad jokes, and maybe tab back in to look at some pretty visuals once in a while. Episodes: Episode 1: A Little OP Episode 2: Your Buddy Episode 3: Call Me Crazy Episode 4: What The Gamers Want Episode 5: Tolerance Episode 6: Super Souper Episode 7: Ride Into Battle Episode 8: Consent to All Kisses Episode 9: Chuck A Guy Episode 10: Don't Touch This Switch Episode 11: The Kirby Show Episode 12: I'm The Best You Can Do? Episode 13: Thword Episode 14: Hurry It Up Episode 15: The Weak Must Feed The Strong Episode 16: Team Big Fat Guy Episode 17: This Is My House Episode 18: Conversation Over Episode 19: Optimus Prime Is Perfect Episode 20: Wait 'Til The Pink Episode 21: Death In The Family Episode 22: This Is What You Wanted Episode 23: Get Swole Episode 24: Oh No, He's Adorable Episode 25: Celebratory Body Slam Episode 26: A Swordid Affair Episode 27: A Game That We Did Need Episode 28: Unnecessary Episode 29: With The Power of Friendship Episode 30: Everything's Better With A Chef Episode 31: Wait For It Episode 32 - FINALE: One More Time Maple Leaf fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Fun side-story: Maple Leaf tested audio levels by having us play a bit of Fast RMX before each session. He won first every race, and only in one did I actually not end in tenth...
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Sep 21, 2018 19:10
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Can confirm, LP is good to have on in the background. The game looks fun! The co-op looks a bit limited, but it's a Kirby game, they aren't exactly complex. The puzzle thing reminds me a lot of a Streetpass game, where you assembled puzzles by getting pieces from people who connect with you. (Remember Streetpass? It's a bit dead if you don't live in Tokyo.)
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Sep 22, 2018 21:58
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 Update:Episode 2: Your Buddy
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Sep 24, 2018 01:36
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I know y'all have played already but for other folks, combos are generally weapon+element, and various powers are either weapons or elements. Some folks are exceptions (most of the special friends have some innate element skills even if you power them up, or the curling shown off here) but generally you're not going to be trying everything with everything for a special combo to use for a single key like in Kirby 64.
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Sep 24, 2018 02:26
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Well, this is looking to be chill and adorable.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:01
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If I am remembering my Kirby genesis correctly, the last Kirby game Sakurai worked on that was released was Air Ride, and he departed HAL Labs shortly after that. I wish I could find the media that announced it again, but the one thing I remember about it was that he might've had to relocate to find a place with cheaper rent. There are some leftover files in the Wii game which suggests that he was around near the very beginning of when the work was one on the current engine most Kirby games use. At the time when he was so close to being a director at HAL, having full orchestration for the background music was kind of his thing -- for both Smash Melee and in Air Ride. There are a few leftover music files that are properly orchestrated that the Wii game never uses. Those are believed to be the last traces of Sakurai's influence left in the current generation of Kirby games.
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Sep 24, 2018 06:27
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Update: Episode 3: Call Me Crazy
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Sep 25, 2018 22:57
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Morroque posted:If I am remembering my Kirby genesis correctly, the last Kirby game Sakurai worked on that was released was Air Ride, and he departed HAL Labs shortly after that. I wish I could find the media that announced it again, but the one thing I remember about it was that he might've had to relocate to find a place with cheaper rent. Aside from the sakurai as hell Menu design. E:(some research tells me his wife actually does the menu and UI design.) Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Sep 26, 2018 |
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Sep 26, 2018 11:31
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Update: Episode 4: What The Gamers Want
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Sep 28, 2018 03:28
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Update: Episode 5: Tolerance
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Sep 29, 2018 19:12
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The clean power actually did appear before, in Kirby's Dream Land 3! That's also where the friends that show up with the power come from.
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Sep 29, 2018 19:27
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Zanzibar Ham posted:The clean power actually did appear before, in Kirby's Dream Land 3! That's also where the friends that show up with the power come from.
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Sep 30, 2018 01:33
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She's a weirdo in Dream Land 3 too, so they were true to the source!
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Sep 30, 2018 02:36
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I do like the animal friend cameos from 3. They were fun to combo with.
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Oct 1, 2018 05:03
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Update: Episode 6: Super Souper
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Oct 1, 2018 23:12
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Man this game is as cute as heck and all, but I'm disappointed in the ability combos. It seems like they're all just "Attack Up!" which is not really useful in a Kirby game.
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Oct 3, 2018 03:55
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Update: Episode 7: Ride Into Battle
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Oct 4, 2018 01:17
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Adeline has some adorable rideables. A good dream friend.
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Oct 4, 2018 02:12
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Update: Episode 8: Consent to All Kisses
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Oct 5, 2018 20:48
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Update: Episode 9: Chuck A Guy
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Oct 7, 2018 21:43
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I get a little sad every time you pass up the Bounce/Ball ability. At least, that's what I think the little UFO guy is.
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Oct 8, 2018 05:51
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Solumin posted:I get a little sad every time you pass up the Bounce/Ball ability. No, it's just a normal enemy. Can't be copied or befriended.
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Oct 8, 2018 07:04
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Driblee: Star Allies is looking pretty good so far.
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Oct 8, 2018 14:36
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a cartoon duck posted:Driblee: Star Allies is looking pretty good so far.
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Oct 8, 2018 17:21
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Update: Episode 10: Don't Touch This Switch
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Oct 10, 2018 01:43
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The haunted masks are from Mario Bros. 2/DDP, but they also showed up in the original Kirby's Dream Land on the GB! IIRC they appeared in the bonus extra mode of the 2nd level, which itself was a reference to a previous series of games called Adventures of Lolo.
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Oct 10, 2018 08:20
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Update: Episode 11: The Kirby Show I was tempted to name this episode "Harry Potter Sucks" for the clickbait but decided I had better standards than that.
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Oct 11, 2018 21:29
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Update: Episode 12: I'm The Best You Can Do?
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Oct 13, 2018 18:28
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wait, does the Mirror ability not show up in this game? That was one of my favorites in the SNES/DS Super Star games
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Oct 14, 2018 00:17
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Update: Episode 13: Thword SatansOnion posted:wait, does the Mirror ability not show up in this game? That was one of my favorites in the SNES/DS Super Star games Dark Meta Knight plays somewhat similarly to the Mirror ability, but other than him, no, unfortunately, it doesn't.
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Oct 15, 2018 22:57
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Update: Episode 14: Hurry It Up
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Oct 17, 2018 21:00
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Update: Episode 15: The Weak Must Feed The Strong
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Oct 20, 2018 04:50
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1) Bulbasaur is really great.  2) New Vegas is the best Fallout. 3) Yggy Woods is probably a reference to Yggdrasil.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:46
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Update: Episode 16: Team Big Fat Guy
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Oct 22, 2018 01:21
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Update: Episode 17: This Is My House
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Oct 23, 2018 20:21
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Huh. The Friend Star looks like it could make some neat puzzles. Or some frustrating ones.
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Oct 24, 2018 13:42
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Update: Episode 18: Conversation Over
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Oct 25, 2018 20:37
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City of Heroes was the poo poo back in the day, rip in peace.
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a cartoon duck posted:City of Heroes was the poo poo back in the day, rip in peace.
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