Wednesday, 12 January 2011

• Kirby's Epic Yarn Is...Odd

  

  
  

  Last night I finally settled down to play Kirby's Epic Yarn for the Nintendo Wii. A long time Kirby fan, I definitely had some ideas of how the game would be. But this game doesn't quite stick to the same mold as previous Kirby games.
  
  The premise is that Kirby is walking along in Dreamland when he spots a Metamato, his favorite food to eat. In case you didn't know, Kirby loves to eat everything. However, this specific Metamato belongs to a wizard made of yarn. Pissed off, this wizard's sock necklace sucks Kirby into Patchland where he meets Prince Fluff, a blue looking Kirby with a crown. Apparently this wizard made of yarn has stolen the magic yarn that sews Patchland together and now it is up to Kirby to put the world back together again.
  
  Several things are different when it comes to this Kirby game. First off, with Kirby being made of yarn he can no longer suck things up. Air simply goes right through his body. Instead he uses his new yarn body to unravel other yarn baddies.

  
  
  

   
  
  

  Kirby can also magically contort his yarn body into several different shapes. He can automatically become a car, a parachute and rock. Kirby no longer can puff up and fly like previous games. Each level also has a specific part where Kirby will become something rather large such as a U.F.O, a big race car, and surfing Penguin.
  
  

  
  
  

  Throughout each level Kirby must collect gems that can easily be lost if he gets hit by a bad guy. Aside from that I have not actually seen how Kirby can die. There is no actual life meter and I will confess to falling off a cliff twice. All that happened was Kirby got moved to the cliff and lost some gems. I'm actually almost positive that this game may not have a game over screen. My only guess is that Kirby cannot lose all the gems or something of that sort.
  
  Overall I cannot really decide whether I like the game or not. It is quite frankly a bizarre game, and a tad bit trippy. I was not expecting this in a Kirby game whatsoever. I won't deny that the game was fairly fun, but I feel like the game itself is far from challenging. Kirby was never meant to be a ridiculously hard game, but I will say that some levels that I've played in other Kirby games did have their challenging points, and you could definitely die if you ran out of life.
  
  Have you played Kirby's Epic Yarn?

  
  

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