Kirby's Epic Yarn Knit-All
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 - 4:45pm
Kirby's Epic Yarn was on the show floor at PAX and impressions have been very favorable. It has an absolutely adorable visual style that has me interested despite not being familiar with Kirby at all. I'm especially impressed that the yarn motif is carried through into the game design, as well, with Kirby using a yarn whip to swing off buttons and open zippers in the landscape. As an added bonus, it's apparently completely playable, beginning to end, in a two-player co-op mode with one player controlling Kirby and the other controlling someone named Prince Fluff.
Is this on anyone else's radar?
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Heck yeah, love the art style and generally dig Kirby games. Plus the poor Wii could use some loving, don't think I remember the last time I fired it up.
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I'm digging how Kirby has been turned into Nintendo's experimental gameplay guy. Leave it to Nintendo to take a recognizable, but pretty unexciting character/world (in my opinion) and turn it into a worthwhile franchise. I watch Kirby games just to see what they plan to do with them.
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Clockwork, did you not play Canvas Curse on the DS? That was a fantastic game. Still one of my favorites for that system.
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I don't own a DS. It's something I'd like to get when the price drops, and Canvas Curse is on my list of games to play.
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Man, this is so cool. I love this concept, and can't wait to see how it turns out.
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I really dug the Kirby stuff I've played on Virtual Console. Not sure if that $8 fun translates to $50 fun, though.
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I already wrote down my impressions on the game for this very website a few weeks ago - it was undoubtedly one of the best games I got to try out at gamescom 2010. Looks brilliant, plays brilliantly, and features a two-player mode. I'm so pissed that they moved the PAL release to Q1/2011.
I'm very interested in this. If it released sometime in the past month or two, it would likely have been a day one purchase for me. However, it releases the same week as New Vegas. Fable 3 releases a week later, and Epic Mickey is scheduled for the week after that so it will likely get pushed off and held until Christmas to be used as a Christmas gift from Santa for my kids.
It is great to hear that it has 2-player coop. Has anyone heard if it will also have some sort of "girlfriend/kid" mode? My daughter really enjoyed playing through Galaxy 1 & 2 as daddy's helper and absolutely loves playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii where she can simply press "A" to enter into a safety bubble that floats behind me when the going gets too tough for her.
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I really want this game. My only concern is that it might not provide a challenge for the adult players.
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Such a great game! It's definitely the main reason I'm excited to see Yarn.
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My fiancee is only interested in two things in gaming: Kirby and Puzzle Quest.
I might just have to grab this.
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Same here. If it's not turnbased, my wife won't touch it. She took one look at this and squeeled at how cute it was. Now I won't have to call a friend over if I wanna play co-op.
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The only announcement that rivaled this at E3 was an episodic Rayman: Origins. Canvas Curse was amazing, and this looks amazing, but I have some concerns over how long the campaign will be, co-op or no. Good Feel made Wario Land: Shake It!, the consensus being that it was a solid, but short, game.
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This game is going to sell like water in the desert.
1) It is on the Wii, which has huge market share
2) Everything I've heard says the gameplay is great
3) The art style is not only awesome, but looks so kid friendly that parents will want to buy this for their kids.
4) The Kirby IP is well loved, but not so over-used that people won't forgive a huge gameplay shift from previous games.
5) Graphically, it will probably knock anything else on the Wii out of the water.
6) It probably appeals to the female gaming demographic.
The only question that I'd have is if the co-op play is set up so that one person doesn't have to be as good as the other (a la Mario Kart double dash). If it has that, then it will be one of those "gateway" games that Nintendo is talking about.
I'm looking forward to it merely because I love games with style.
I only tried Canvas Curse and it just didn't click for me. Also, the more recent "Ivy the Kiwi?" (there's a DS demo on the Nintendo Channel if anyone wants to check it out) game feels the same. I love the other main Kirby games, and Dream Course, though.
As for the Yarn game, for some reason I just haven't gotten into it despite really wanting to. I don't know what it will take to get me to come around either. It might just be one of those games that just doesn't get my game playing time, unfortunately. But I will continue to follow loosely.
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Y'think? I don't, really. I'm on its side, but I don't see massive sales. Kirby is well loved by old crusty Nintendo gamers, but we're not the owners of most of the Wiis out there. To the general buyer, I don't think he carries any more cachet than, say, Spyro. I think this game'll sell maybe 250k its first month if it's lucky. It'll get destroyed by the new Donkey Kong Country game.
Then again, my last lower-than-expected sales prediction didn't go so well (RDR).
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I fully expect this game to be a cake-walk, but I can't see that hampering my enjoyment. It's just too damn cute!
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Real yarn or GTFO!
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This has been on my radar for a while. Our Wii doesn't get the use that it could, in spite of great games like the A Boy And His Blob remake, and having something new to play with my daughter is greatly appealing.
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LOVED the e3 trailer so I'm definitely on for this.
@Minarchist: Canvas curse was so awesome.
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Joystiq review just popped up in my RSS reader. Sounds great. 9/10 (effectively). I like the idea that they see this as one of those games that "doesn't have to be hard to be fun."
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Giant Bomb's quick look is up. They seem very pleased with the game, at one point saying that they felt pain because the game was teaching their black hearts how to love again. Ryan ends it by calling it a "God-damn delight."
I think I may put my $20 K-mart coupon from Vanquish toward Kirby.
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That's funny, 'cause I saw it and couldn't figure out if they were being sarcastic or not.
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They definitely weren't being sarcastic. That quick look totally sold me on the game. It looks great.
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Yeah, I've been listening to Ryan and the rest of the GB guys for almost three years now and I can tell when he's genuinely excited about something. If he were reviewing Kirby, I'd bet on five stars. Don't think I've seen him that pleased with a game since Pac-man CE.
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