Kirby And The Amazing Mirror Nintendo 3ds

2004 video game

Kirby & the Astonishing Mirror
North American box art
Developer(south)	HAL Laboratory Flagship Dimps
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(southward)	Tomoaki Fukui
Producer(southward)	Yasushi Adachi Masayoshi Tanimura Shigeru Miyamoto Kenji Miki
Composer(south)	Hironobu Inagaki Atsuyoshi Isemura
Series	Kirby
Platform(s)	Game Male child Accelerate
Release	JP: Apr 15, 2004 European union: July 2, 2004 NA: Oct 18, 2004 AU: December 23, 2004
Genre(due south)	Platformer Metroidvania
Way(s)	Single-player Multiplayer

Kirby & The Amazing Mirror ^[a] is a platform video game released in 2004 for the Game Boy Accelerate. The seventh mainline Kirby entry, the game is notable for being the only installment in the unabridged serial where Male monarch Dedede makes no appearance whatsoever, also every bit for its unique Metroidvania playstyle.

Plot [edit]

There is a Mirror World that exists in the skies of Dream State where any wish reflected in the mirror volition come true. However, one twenty-four hour period it copies the mind of a mysterious effigy and creates a reflected world of evil. Meta Knight notices this and flies upwardly to salve the Mirror Earth.

Meanwhile, Kirby is taking a walk when Night Meta Knight appears. Before Kirby can react, Dark Meta Knight slices Kirby in four and Kirby becomes four unlike colored Kirbys. They hunt after Nighttime Meta Knight on a Warp Star simultaneously and enter the Mirror World.

It is revealed that the 2 Meta Knights fought each other until the existent Meta Knight was defeated. He was then knocked into the mirror, which was in plough cut into eight fragments by Dark Meta Knight and scattered beyond the Mirror World, prompting the Kirbys to save Meta Knight and the Mirror World. Later collecting all eight mirror fragments, Kirby enters the Mirror World and battles Nighttime Meta Knight. Later defeating him, a vortex appears and sucks Kirby in, who is given Meta Knight's sword. Kirby so proceeds to fight Nighttime Mind, the true mastermind backside the Mirror World's corruption, multiple times. Upon defeat, the Mirror Earth is saved, and Shadow Kirby (the Mirror World counterpart of Kirby who is believed to be an enemy, only is now an ally) waves his goodbyes to the 4 Kirbys as they all exit the Mirror World one by one. Meta Knight likewise drops his Primary sword before leaving the Mirror Globe, marking it as a symbol for the Mirror World's protection.

Gameplay [edit]

Kirby and his different colored copies travel across the hub world.

Different the other Kirby games, Kirby & The Astonishing Mirror features a maze layout, and is traversed in a Metroidvania style. The game map branches out in several directions and, providing Kirby has the proper power at his disposal, he is able to go anywhere in almost any society, excluding the final sequence.

The player explores the worlds, solving puzzles, defeating enemies, and collecting items. Occasionally, a sub-boss will be encountered, at which signal the screen will lock into identify until the boss is defeated. Swallowing a sub-boss after defeat usually grants a rare or exclusive copy power. The thespian volition also occasionally see "rest areas" of sorts.

The player can collect various items to improve in-game performance, such equally extra wellness points and lives, food to replenish health, and batteries for the Cellphone. The game also features 2 other collectibles: music sheets, which human action equally a sound test fashion once the music player item is found, and spray paint, which can be used to recolor the player'south Kirby. At that place are also three minigames attainable from the carte, which support single player and multiplayer:

Speed Eaters- A game in which the iv Kirbys are seated effectually a covered platter. Once the lid is whisked away at a random time, the fastest person to printing the A push and suck in the nutrient on the platter is filled up more (measured past a gauge higher up each Kirby).
Crackity Hack- A game in which the four Kirbys are challenged to suspension a rock as much every bit they tin, in a similar style to a microgame from Kirby Super Star.
Kirby's Wave Ride- A game in which the Kirbys, atop Warp Stars, race over a h2o rail that varies in length and complexity depending on the difficulty setting.

The game also features multiplayer, and the histrion tin can phone call other players or CPU-controlled Kirbys to the location with an in-game cell telephone. At that place are several new powers in The Amazing Mirror, such equally Cupid (chosen Angel in the Japanese version), which allows Kirby to fly around with wings and a halo and fire arrows; Missile, which turns Kirby into a missile that tin can be guided in whatever management and volition explode on contact with a wall or an enemy or when the B push is hit; and Boom, which gives Kirby the abilities he had in Super Smash Bros. Melee.

Development [edit]

The game is a collaboration between HAL Laboratory, Flagship, and Dimps.^[1] Capcom's subsidiary Flagship was responsible for the main planning.^[1] Dimps was in accuse of programming, design, and sound, while HAL Laboratory provided artwork and debugging services.^[one] The game features soundtrack by Hironobu Inagaki and Atsuyoshi Isemura, but some tracks were reserved from Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Country.

Virtual Console [edit]

On Baronial one, 2011, Nintendo announced that Kirby & The Astonishing Mirror would be available to limited Nintendo 3DS owners via Virtual Console, along with nine other Game Male child Advance games that were announced; it was released on December 16, 2011, to bring together the upcoming Nintendo 3DS price-cut and the Ambassador programme starting August xi, 2011. This offering is available in all territories and only to those who became eligible in the Administrator plan (by accessing the Nintendo eShop earlier the date of the price-cut). Nintendo has no plans to release this game, or any other Game Boy Advance games, to the general public in paid form on the 3DS.

The game was also released on the Wii U'southward Virtual Panel on Apr 3, 2014 in Japan and Apr 10, 2014 in N America, Europe, and Australia.

Reception [edit]

In the Us, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror sold 620,000 copies and earned $19 one thousand thousand by August 2006. During the period between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 43rd highest-selling game launched for the Game Male child Advance, Nintendo DS, or PlayStation Portable in that country.^[14]

The Amazing Mirror received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[2] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one nine, one ten, one nine, and one eight for a total of 36 out of 40. ^[4] Information technology received a runner-up position in GameSpot's 2004 "All-time Game Male child Advance Game" and "Best Platformer" honor categories, losing to Astro Boy: Omega Cistron and Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Armory, respectively.^[15]

IGN commented on the level design, stating that discovering the subconscious pathways that's the real challenge."^[8] GameSpot chosen the layout "daunting," only commented on the map feature. The graphics and sound were referred to equally cute, though non amazing.^[six]

Notes [edit]

^ Known in Japan equally Hoshi no Kirby: Kagami no Daimeikyū (Japanese: 星のカービィ鏡の大迷宮, Hepburn: Hoshi no Kābī Kagami no Daimeikyū , lit. Kirby of the Stars: The Not bad Mirror Labyrinth)

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Flagship Co., Ltd.; Dimps Corporation; HAL Laboratory, Inc. (xviii October 2004). Kirby & the Amazing Mirror . Nintendo of America, Inc. Scene: staff credits.
^ ^a ^b "Kirby & the Amazing Mirror for Game Male child Advance Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved October 6, 2016.
^ Parish, Jeremy (October 15, 2004). "Kirby & The Amazing Mirror". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Retrieved Oct 6, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "星のカービィ鏡の大迷宮". Famitsu. 798. April two, 2004.
^ Mason, Lisa (October 2004). "Kirby and the Astonishing Mirror [sic]". Game Informer. No. 138. p. 146.
^ ^a ^b Torres, Ricardo (October 18, 2004). "Kirby & the Amazing Mirror Review". GameSpot . Retrieved Oct 6, 2016.
^ Theobald, Phil (October 18, 2004). "GameSpy: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror". GameSpy. Archived from the original on November x, 2005. Retrieved Oct half-dozen, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Harris, Craig (October twenty, 2004). "Kirby & The Amazing Mirror". IGN . Retrieved October 6, 2016.
^ Reed, Philip J. (January v, 2012). "Review: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (3DS eShop / GBA)". Nintendo Life . Retrieved Oct 6, 2016.
^ "Kirby & the Amazing Mirror". Nintendo Power. 186: 142. December 2004.
^ Carvell, Stephen (December 23, 2004). "Kirby and the Astonishing Mirror [sic] Review". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved October half dozen, 2016.
^ Vassar, Darryl (November 23, 2004). "Kirby and the Amazing Mirror [sic] Review". Ten-Play. Archived from the original on November 25, 2004. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
^ Blackmore, Ben (August vii, 2004). "Kirby and the Astonishing Mirror [sic]". The Times. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Retrieved Oct six, 2016. (subscription required)
^ Keiser, Joe (August 2, 2006). "The Century's Summit fifty Handheld Games". Next Generation. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007.
^ The GameSpot Editors (Jan 5, 2005). "Best and Worst of 2004". GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 7, 2005.

External links [edit]

Official U.Southward. Kirby website
Kirby & the Astonishing Mirror at MobyGames