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Kirby Fighters Deluxe

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Kirby Fighters Deluxe

Jul 23, 2014

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2.66 average rating based on 47 ratings

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Duke it out with your favorite pink puffball in a fierce 4-player battle action game! Team up or go solo as you battle in new and classic Kirby arenas. Choose from powerful copy abilities like Sword, Ninja, Hammer, and more as you take your fighting skills to the limit! Based on the wild battle mode introduced in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, this standalone game contains expanded gameplay features, the ability to play as a team, new arenas, and more. Join up with a buddy and fire the powerful new Team Cannon to blast opponents with mega-damage! Earn rare copy ability hats … More
Duke it out with your favorite pink puffball in a fierce 4-player battle action game! Team up or go solo as you battle in new and classic Kirby arenas. Choose from powerful copy abilities like Sword, Ninja, Hammer, and more as you take your fighting skills to the limit! Based on the wild battle mode introduced in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, this standalone game contains expanded gameplay features, the ability to play as a team, new arenas, and more. Join up with a buddy and fire the powerful new Team Cannon to blast opponents with mega-damage! Earn rare copy ability hats for defeating Kracko and the King Dedede army in the single-player gauntlet. Owners of Kirby: Triple Deluxe can also access two bonus copy abilities plus an exclusive arena - Waddle Dee Train Tracks! Less
Developers
HAL Laboratory
Publishers
Nintendo
Franchises
Kirby
Series
Kirby, Kirby Fighters
Platforms
Nintendo 3DS
Genres
Adventure, Fighting
Themes
Action
Release Dates
Jul 23, 2014 (Japan)
Nintendo 3DS
Aug 29, 2014 (North_America)
Nintendo 3DS
Feb 13, 2015 (Europe)
Nintendo 3DS
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User Stats
137
In Collection
23
Wish Listed
1
Playing
36
Backlogged
How Long Is Kirby Fighters Deluxe?
100% completion: 3.3 hours
Total completions: 1
TengoCalidad
TengoCalidad gave Jul 12, 2022
TengoCalidad gave Jul 12, 2022
Underwhelming Kirby spin-off
This review is for the Nintendo 3DS eShop version

In 2014 Hal Laboratory released Kirby Fighters Deluxe, an expansion of the subgame Kirby Fighters from Kirby: Triple Deluxe... Although it isn't that much of an expansion.

Title screen

Just like the original subgame, the objetive here is playing nine rounds using the same copy ability, fighting against other Kirbys and taking advantage of the random items dropped and the stage hazards. The problem is that it's the same experience than completing the subgame, and the few new items and scenarios don't change anything, as they lose their novelty after the third time you complete the game with a different ability.

Gameplay.

Another new element is the introduction of two bosses: Kracko and King Dedede. At first they are fun, and King Dedede in the hardest difficulty is challenging, but you quickly learn their patterns and they become as repetitive as the rest of the game. This could have been fixed if they had added more bosses that alternate between rounds to create variation and surprise factor, but it seems Hal Laboratory was too lazy to do that.

Bosses

Oh, and after defeating King Dedede with a copy ability you get an alternate costume. The "100% completion" is getting all the costumes, …

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In 2014 Hal Laboratory released Kirby Fighters Deluxe, an expansion of the subgame Kirby Fighters from Kirby: Triple Deluxe... Although it isn't that much of an expansion.

Title screen

Just like the original subgame, the objetive here is playing nine rounds using the same copy ability, fighting against other Kirbys and taking advantage of the random items dropped and the stage hazards. The problem is that it's the same experience than completing the subgame, and the few new items and scenarios don't change anything, as they lose their novelty after the third time you complete the game with a different ability.

Gameplay.

Another new element is the introduction of two bosses: Kracko and King Dedede. At first they are fun, and King Dedede in the hardest difficulty is challenging, but you quickly learn their patterns and they become as repetitive as the rest of the game. This could have been fixed if they had added more bosses that alternate between rounds to create variation and surprise factor, but it seems Hal Laboratory was too lazy to do that.

Bosses

Oh, and after defeating King Dedede with a copy ability you get an alternate costume. The "100% completion" is getting all the costumes, including a shadow color that you unlock after completing the game in the hardest difficulty at least once, feats that you can achieve after 3-6 hours, depending of the difficulty you choose. There is also a multiplayer mode (local only), although if you want to play a multiplayer fighting videogame developed by HAL Laboratory you should try Super Smash Bros. instead, which is better in every way.

Random screenshots

In conclusion, this "spin-off" is pretty lackluster even for its low price of $6.99, and it should have been a Kirby: Triple Deluxe DLC with a price tag no higher than $4.99.

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