TheShampion
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I wasn't sure if I should post this in the community Kirby thread, but I figure with the hour long preview, I will just put my impressions here.
I just got the Kirby collection yesterday and put about 3 hours into it, and maaaaaan, it is a great collection. Completely blows the Mario collection out of the water. The intro and UI stuff is just great. Getting into the history was a ton of fun. There is videos EVERY SINGLE KIRBY GAME ever released! I spend at least 30 minutes just digging through the videos and manga. Though, the manga is disappointing because they have only one chapter from three different books rather than the whole books. Also, when you look at a game in the history, it actually plays a track from the game, such amazing polish. It also lists actual historical events in the history timeline (now you can associate when Ichiro became the MVP with Kirby) which is odd, but funny in a way.
The games themselves work pretty much like VC games, except that you have to press special button combination to get rid of the border and/or reset the game (which you have to do for Kirby 1 GB since when you beat the game, it is stuck on the "How to access the extra mode" screen). They save both progress, and makes a temporary save state when you leave the game. Unfortunately, you have to reset the game through the home menu in order to go back to the game selection screen, but it skips the intro when you do that, so it functions pretty much fine.
Also, I may be crazy, but I feel like Kirby 3 actually looks better than the VC release, that might just be my enthusiasm for this collection bleeding through though.
The special challenges are also pretty fun, it makes me want to check out that Wii kirby game, which I never did before, so that's good.
The music CD is AMAZING! I don't know if the tracks are out there yet, but it has 43 tracks from all the Kirby games! It is such a pleasure to listen to this. Though my only complaint would be that it has that gourmet race theme like three times (could've been replaced by others tracks!) but other than that, utterly fantastic. I never realized how good the Kirby Canvas Curse OST was! The book is cool too, especially with all the old sketches of kirby characters and old ads and such. Doesn't give the stranger games the attention I think they deserve, but it is great, especially compared to the Mario collection one (which was okay, but not nearly what I thought Mario deserved)
Overall, a complete must buy for a Kirby fan. I would even go as far as a good purchase for those people who haven't played 2-3 of the games. Such a fun, polished love letter to Kirby.
I just got the Kirby collection yesterday and put about 3 hours into it, and maaaaaan, it is a great collection. Completely blows the Mario collection out of the water. The intro and UI stuff is just great. Getting into the history was a ton of fun. There is videos EVERY SINGLE KIRBY GAME ever released! I spend at least 30 minutes just digging through the videos and manga. Though, the manga is disappointing because they have only one chapter from three different books rather than the whole books. Also, when you look at a game in the history, it actually plays a track from the game, such amazing polish. It also lists actual historical events in the history timeline (now you can associate when Ichiro became the MVP with Kirby) which is odd, but funny in a way.
The games themselves work pretty much like VC games, except that you have to press special button combination to get rid of the border and/or reset the game (which you have to do for Kirby 1 GB since when you beat the game, it is stuck on the "How to access the extra mode" screen). They save both progress, and makes a temporary save state when you leave the game. Unfortunately, you have to reset the game through the home menu in order to go back to the game selection screen, but it skips the intro when you do that, so it functions pretty much fine.
Also, I may be crazy, but I feel like Kirby 3 actually looks better than the VC release, that might just be my enthusiasm for this collection bleeding through though.
The special challenges are also pretty fun, it makes me want to check out that Wii kirby game, which I never did before, so that's good.
The music CD is AMAZING! I don't know if the tracks are out there yet, but it has 43 tracks from all the Kirby games! It is such a pleasure to listen to this. Though my only complaint would be that it has that gourmet race theme like three times (could've been replaced by others tracks!) but other than that, utterly fantastic. I never realized how good the Kirby Canvas Curse OST was! The book is cool too, especially with all the old sketches of kirby characters and old ads and such. Doesn't give the stranger games the attention I think they deserve, but it is great, especially compared to the Mario collection one (which was okay, but not nearly what I thought Mario deserved)
Overall, a complete must buy for a Kirby fan. I would even go as far as a good purchase for those people who haven't played 2-3 of the games. Such a fun, polished love letter to Kirby.
