~Kirby's Epic Yarn~
15 years ago
When the moon hits your eyes, like a big pizza pie...
I have to say, this has become one of my favorite Kirby games. And I've played 'em all, baby.
I was a little worried at first, seeing as some of the people who made Wario Land: Shake it! were contributing majorly on this, but the resulting game was breathtaking.
It's worth noting that it's a slow-paced game. The music reflects this. There's also a narrator, who's really grown on me. They introduce a small batch of new characters, not counting the main villain "Yin-Yarn". Prince Fluff is the most notable, and player two will play as him in the co-op mode.
Oh yes, all of the levels are co-op. Quite wonderful, though Kirby games have been pretty good about that as is, so it's nothing really new.
The game is artistically breathtaking, I can't get enough of it, and the music is charming and new. There are a few remixes thrown in, but it's all played on real instruments, so no uber-techno stuff. It feels a bit like Little Big Planet.
There was a bit of adjusting to make, since it's not a typical Kirby game. He cannot inhale enemies, and instead can make most of them into a ball of yarn above his head, to be thrown at something. Somewhat like Klonoa, minus the double-jump ability. There are different forms he can assume, such as a weight (think ground pound), and a car, for dashing. I won't spoil any more, but it's rather easy to get the hang of, and adds a lot of new style to the series.
One thing I might complain about is the lack of replay value. I've completely beaten this game, yesterday as a matter of fact, and I'd say beating it 100% only took eighteen hours. That's not to say I didn't love playing it, which I did, I just wish I could re-live and experience it some more. There are mini games, and some hidden goodies on the levels, but still... Ah well, nobody's perfect.
I cannot stress how much I adore this game for the art and music. That's probably the reason I keep watching the cutscenes and listening to the music. Hope there's an OST avaliable...
Sadly, I haven't played co-op, but would like to, some day in the future. I understand that apparantly the mega-transormations (major forms only avaliable in select locations of levels) have added abilities with it. I give it 4.5 out of 5. If not more than that. The only reason I don't give it a perfect 5 is because I'd feel biased as a huge Kirby fan, as well as the lack of replay ability.
Thanks for reading.
"That Yin-Yarn's one mean piece of string."
-Meta Knight
I was a little worried at first, seeing as some of the people who made Wario Land: Shake it! were contributing majorly on this, but the resulting game was breathtaking.
It's worth noting that it's a slow-paced game. The music reflects this. There's also a narrator, who's really grown on me. They introduce a small batch of new characters, not counting the main villain "Yin-Yarn". Prince Fluff is the most notable, and player two will play as him in the co-op mode.
Oh yes, all of the levels are co-op. Quite wonderful, though Kirby games have been pretty good about that as is, so it's nothing really new.
The game is artistically breathtaking, I can't get enough of it, and the music is charming and new. There are a few remixes thrown in, but it's all played on real instruments, so no uber-techno stuff. It feels a bit like Little Big Planet.
There was a bit of adjusting to make, since it's not a typical Kirby game. He cannot inhale enemies, and instead can make most of them into a ball of yarn above his head, to be thrown at something. Somewhat like Klonoa, minus the double-jump ability. There are different forms he can assume, such as a weight (think ground pound), and a car, for dashing. I won't spoil any more, but it's rather easy to get the hang of, and adds a lot of new style to the series.
One thing I might complain about is the lack of replay value. I've completely beaten this game, yesterday as a matter of fact, and I'd say beating it 100% only took eighteen hours. That's not to say I didn't love playing it, which I did, I just wish I could re-live and experience it some more. There are mini games, and some hidden goodies on the levels, but still... Ah well, nobody's perfect.
I cannot stress how much I adore this game for the art and music. That's probably the reason I keep watching the cutscenes and listening to the music. Hope there's an OST avaliable...
Sadly, I haven't played co-op, but would like to, some day in the future. I understand that apparantly the mega-transormations (major forms only avaliable in select locations of levels) have added abilities with it. I give it 4.5 out of 5. If not more than that. The only reason I don't give it a perfect 5 is because I'd feel biased as a huge Kirby fan, as well as the lack of replay ability.
Thanks for reading.
"That Yin-Yarn's one mean piece of string."
-Meta Knight
Im taking the low replayability as a good thing though. You are around scarcely as it is. If the game was just endlessly entertaining, well, you might just fall off the face of the planet l3
First off, this game was made by Good Feel! Same people who did Warioland: Shake It! Which my brother absolutely loved and is bugging me to play it after finishing Epic Yarn.
I don't know about the WarioWare thing, pretty sure it's a different company for that entirely.
But yeah, Good Feel does AMAZING work with their art style as you yourself were able to see~
Secondly, I agree that the game was rather slow, but I'm glad it actually picked up pace and difficulty rather quickly, even though you couldn't really die. The difficulty was in actually beating the stage with a good enough score and not getting upset every time you get smacked and drop a huge amount of beads, only to lose them because they fell off the stage or some enemies were blocking your path or something.
The music being different was kind of strange for me... but I had actually done some research on this game and found out that at first, it wasn't to be a Kirby game at all, but mid-production it was decided to make it one, which explains all the differences from the rest of the Kirby games. Not that it wasn't welcome, the game was really fun. =3
I only got to play the first few stages with my brother for co-op, so I can't say how fun it really would have been since the first three stages are rather slow-paced, though I did have fun with the rest of the stages afterward. Wish I could've played with my brother though.
The game also was indeed unfortunately short, but... if you look back on pretty much every Kirby game, the same can be said for those. They're still very much fun to play though. <3
Also: yarn puns. Everywhere. XD Anyway, sorry for this hooge reply. ^^;
I shall edit. And I found Crystal Shards to take a while. As did Super Star and Super Star Ultra. Could just be me, though.
Well chalk another game on my long list of need to play games, a good portion being most, if not all the kirby games save for the smash series and kirby 64 x3