Kirby Games That Didn't Make It

In the newest Iwata Asks, Kirby producer Shigefumi Kawase revealed three Kirby games that never saw the light of day.



The first one is one that most of us know about. This was going to be a four-player coop adventure. It was originally planned for a GameCube release shortly after Kirby's Air Ride in 2003, but ended up being tossed away because of "how difficult it is to make a game that is both multi-player and single-player".



The next one was going to be a 3D open-world game that was going to have "extremely challenging gameplay". According to Kawase, it was scrapped because "we weren't able to achieve the quality we hoped for and it never reached completion".



The third games was a side-scrolling platformer made to look "sort of like a pop-up book", and was going to feature Copy Abilities, just like previous Kirby games.

All of these games were developed over the past eleven years, but were abandoned in the end in favor of Kirby's Return to Dreamland.

See the full interview here: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/kirby-dream-land/0/0

I would have bought the open world 3D one in a heartbeat.

Tetris wrote:

I would have bought the open world 3D one in a heartbeat.

I thought the same thing when I found out about it. Maybe HAL Laboratory will go back to that idea someday.

I hope so. I've only played Kirby's Mirror thing quest whatever it is but I'd love to play a game like that.

Would have bough all but the last one maybe.

MaxMatsu wrote:

Would have bough all but the last one maybe.

The last one reminds me of Yoshi's Story. =D

reminds me of kirby. Loololol