Mama Mia! It’s a holiday miracle. Last night, Nintendo surprised fans with the release of the entire Super Mario 64 soundtrack on Nintendo Music! 36 tracks from the Super Mario 64 soundtrack are now on Nintendo Music! Featuring beloved classics like: “It’s-a Me, Mario!” and “Stage Boss”https://t.co/t5QsdKKxbW pic.twitter.com/gnOdVLJITR —…
First 4 Figures, the premiere video game statue manufacturer, has announced a brand new “We <3 Kirby” statue for pre-order on its website. Featuring the pink puffball standing on a pedestal and holding a heart with the words We <3 Kirby, it’s a nice little figurine that would look great…
When looking at the Super Mario franchise from a modern lens, one of the most distinct aspects is the parallel existence of both traditional 2D entries alongside the more open 3D iterations. This side-by-side formula didn’t always exist, though; the jump to 3D would need a bit over a decade…
Welcome to the Character Column! Each week, I’ll be taking a look at a different character from Nintendo’s long and esteemed history, and I’ll analyze what makes them interesting, nuanced, or just plain memorable. Whether they’re heroes, villains or NPCs, I’ll explain why they deserve respect or love from the…
Kirby’s next console adventure began development in the year 2000, right after Crystal Shards wrapped up. Originally a GameCube project, the focus was always on a multiplayer feature that would allow up to four players to enjoy Dream Land together. Sadly, this project would be scrapped, refocused, discussed and shelved…
On a certain level, all game series are expected to conform to a certain gameplay style or genre. Fans would get upset if the next mainline Zelda title was an FPS, or if an upcoming Metroid entry was suddenly a puzzle game (though they’ve gotten away with pinball before…). Just…
After the diversion that was Kirby: Canvas Curse, HAL took the pink puffball back to his roots in 2006 with Kirby: Squeak Squad. The franchise hadn’t seen a classic, original, single-player only Kirby adventure since the N64 days, which put a lot of pressure on Squeak Squad to deliver some…
Most of us have that one, single game we can point to that eventually pushed us towards purchasing Nintendo’s latest and greatest hardware release. If you were lucky, that game was a launch title, but sometimes it came much later in a console generation’s lifespan. Back in 2004 with the…
Kirby’s second outing on the Game Boy Advance would be his first original game in the mainline Kirby series in four years. The gap between releases brought us the innovative gyro controls of Tilt ‘n’ Tumble, the stellar remake of Kirby’s Adventure known as Nightmare in Dream Land, and Air…
When the original Super Smash Bros. came out I felt like the coolest kid in school. Sure, everyone knew who Mario and Pikachu were, but I was able to tell anyone who’d listen (and several that wouldn’t) who Fox was, or why Kirby was so important. I knew the roster…
Welcome to the Character Column! Each week, I’ll be taking a look at a different character from Nintendo’s long and esteemed history, and I’ll analyze what makes them interesting, nuanced, or just plain memorable. Whether they’re heroes, villains or NPCs, I’ll explain why they deserve respect or love from the…
The Super Nintendo was approaching the end of its console life and the N64 was already finding its way into players hands; HAL Laboratory decided to give Kirby another starring role on the SNES. As the last Nintendo published game on the Super Nintendo, Kirby’s Dream Land 3 was a…
Here we are at last, to what I consider the pinnacle of the Kirby series, and my personal favorite. Kirby Super Star saw the return of Masahiro Sakurai as director, and in the time between Kirby’s Adventure and this he managed to find a way to make a larger, more…
Knowing me for any period of time will inevitably lead to the realization that I absolutely adore the Kirby series. Plenty of that will come to light in any of my other entries in this celebratory miniseries, but every love has a beginning. For me, that beginning was Kirby’s Dream…
The dragons are coming! The dragons are coming!!! This is the core concept of 7th Dragon III Code: VFD, a new 3DS dungeon-crawler JRPG from SEGA. VFD is the fourth game in the series, but it’s the first to make its way out of Japan. This newest title is a…
