Kirby's Avalanche

Kirby's Avalanche File:Kirby's Avalanche Coverart.png North American boxart for Kirby's Avalanche. Details Developer(s) HAL Laboratory Publisher(s) Nintendo Release date(s) Template:Release Platform(s) Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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Kirby's Avalanche (known as Kirby's Ghost Trap in the PAL region) is a puzzle game developed by HAL Laboratory that was released in 1995. The game is an adaption of the Japanese puzzle game Puyo Puyo with Kirby characters. It is also like Tetris. Not being made in Japan, the game was not called canon and therefore never released in Japan.

Gameplay

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Kirby competing against Lololo & Lalala.

In the game, like Puyo Puyo, certain groups of colored blobs fall from the top of the screen. The player must then rotate the blobs group(or formation) before they touch the bottom of the screen or the pile below, so that matching colored blobs touch from above, below, and the right and/or left. Once four more same-colored blobs touch each other, they will disappear, and any blobs above them will fall down to fill in the empty space. If a player manages to set off a chain reaction with these blobs, rocks will then fall onto the opponents screen. The number of rocks that fall depend on both the number of blobs destroyed and the number of how many consecutive chain reactions. These rocks will only disappear if a player manages to destroy(pop) a full group of blobs that are in direct contact with the rocks.

Notably, in the cut-scenes between every round, Kirby is shown trash-talking his opponents in full sentences. This a strange part of this game considering the rest of the Kirby series where Kirby is not rude, and doesn't say a word.

Stages

Easy:

- Stage 1: Waddle Dee (This is just a training stage)

- Stage 2: Bronto Burt

- Stage 3: Waddle Doo

Normal

- Stage 4: Poppy Bros. Sr.

- Stage 5: Whispy Woods

- Stage 6: Kabu

Normal & Hard

- Stage 7: Broom Hatter

- Stage 8: Squishy

- Stage 9: Lololo & Lalala

- Stage 10: Bugzzy

- Stage 11: Paint Roller

- Stage 12: Heavy Mole

- Stage 13: Mr.Shine & Mr.Bright

- Stage 14: Kracko

- Stage 15: Meta Knight

- Final stage: King Dedede

Trivia

• Whispy Woods is the 5th boss rather than the first as in most other games.
• Tetris is similar to this game in many ways.
• The rival of Nintendo, Sega, released a game similar to this and Puyo Puyo, two years before this.

Gallery

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  The title screen of the game.

• Ava2.gif

  In-game "Select a mode" screen.

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  Broom Hatter talking to Kirby.

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  Kirby going against Heavy Mole.