Nuclear Muffin
Banned
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/kirby-dream-land/0/0
God! What a waste! And apparently they were all near completion (particularly the 3rd game which is described as "painfully close to completion"!)
It's the GCN/Wii's own Starfox 2! (Except multiplied by 3!) Why not release them as downloads on the Wii U?! Yes a lot of it made its way into this game, but still. Such a shame.
On the plus side though, confirmation of something I always suspected!
So they DO kiss when sharing health! I sure hope that you don't see anyone sharing with King DeDeDe...
Yes. Actually, there are three lost Kirby games. The first one is the one that pictures were shown of at E3. It was a Kirby game based on the concept of four-person simultaneous gameplay. That was when I learned how difficult it is to make a game that is both multi-player and single-player.
Iwata: If it had come out, it would have been soon after Kirby Air Ride.
Kawase: That's right. The second one was an experiment with extremely challenging gameplay that placed Kirby in 3D space and allowed players to freely move around. But unfortunately, we weren't able to achieve the quality we hoped for and it never reached completion.
The third one involved an animated Kirby sort of like a pop-up book. We renewed the Copy Abilities, and tried to power it up. We spent 11 years making and abandoning these three games.
Iwata: During that time, screen shots were shown and release dates went unannounced for a long time. Then the Nintendo GameCube system changed to the Wii console. Miyamoto-san says that video games are something you never really complete. It's hard when a game simply refuses to come together.
Kawase: We wanted to bring it out when the fans wanted, but the movement wouldn't feel right or we wanted to deliver more of a surprise to the fans, and we couldn't bring one out in final form. We experienced that difficulty for 11 years.
God! What a waste! And apparently they were all near completion (particularly the 3rd game which is described as "painfully close to completion"!)
It's the GCN/Wii's own Starfox 2! (Except multiplied by 3!) Why not release them as downloads on the Wii U?! Yes a lot of it made its way into this game, but still. Such a shame.
On the plus side though, confirmation of something I always suspected!
Yamagami: Okay. I'm incredibly pleased that we were able to achieve a Kirby game with four-person gameplay, but HAL Laboratory has really outdone themselves in a lot of details as well. For example, when your Kirby's hit points run low, the other players can help you, and the gesture for sharing HP is a kiss! That's so cute it's unbearable! I hope everyone will play with their friends and have their characters kiss each other. Everyone will immediately fall for the game the first time they see how cute that is! (laughs)
So they DO kiss when sharing health! I sure hope that you don't see anyone sharing with King DeDeDe...