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 Designer(s) Kazunori Ikeda Release date(s) SNES Template:Release Wii Virtual Console Template:Release Platform(s) SNES, Wii Virtual Console

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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.

Bosses/Stages

During the Competition mode of the game, Kirby may face a total of 16 Bosses in the order presented. These bosses do not possess any special skills (apart from King Dedede, whose blobs make the ground shake, resulting in a purely optical effect), but their playing styles vary slightly, generally becoming faster and more aggressive as Kirby advances through the game.

It should be noted that Waddle Dee, Bronto Burt and Waddle Doo are exclusive to the game's Easy mode (and are the only opponents fought in that mode), while Poppy Bros. Sr., Whispy Woods and Kabu are exclusive to Normal mode. Individual battles are referred to as Lessons (in Easy mode) or Stages.

bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Enemy: "Of what?" bgcolor=#FFD0FF|Kirby: "Of Kaguya!"

Stage	Name	Appearance	Abbr.	Pre-Battle Exchange	Notes
Lesson 1	Waddle Dee	File:KAvWaddleDee.png	WADE	Kirby: Hi, Waddle Dee! Are you ready?!?	Waddle Dee never speeds up or turns any of its blobs while they are falling and appears to place them at random.
				Enemy: Umm, can we just walk together? The forest scares me...
				Kirby: Sorry, rules are rules! But, why does the forest scare you?
Enemy: "Tabula rasa!! *shudders*"
Lesson 2	Bronto Burt	File:KAvBrontoBurt.png	BRON	Enemy: Ah HA!! I have found my next victim!!	-
				Kirby: Bronto Burt you bully, the pleasure will be all mine.
				Enemy: Shut up and play!
Lesson 3	Waddle Doo	File:KAvWaddleDoo.png	WADO	bgcolor=#	Enemy: You did not treat Waddle Dee with respect... Now I, Waddle Doo will repay you in kind!	rowspan=2
				Kirby: I don't think so!! Write what you did wrong and draw a picture of it!!
Enemy: "*writes down* It's not good...
Kirby: *writes down* I will not pick on Waddle Dee...the forest does scare him...
Stage 1	Poppy Bros. Sr.	File:KAvPoppyBrosSr.png	PBSR	Enemy: Hi, Kirby! Want a bomb sandwich?	rowspan=3
				Kirby: I'll breathe in your pathetic bombs and send them right back at you!
				Enemy: Stalemate... Okay, let's compete in a quick game of Avalanche!
Stage 2	Whispy Woods	File:KAvWhispyWoods.png	WHIS	Enemy: Please don't tread on my roots, it would not be a wise decision.
				Kirby: I feel like an apple pie.
Kirby: "...Kaguya-flavored!"	Stage 3	Kabu	File:KAvKabu.png	KABU	Kirby: Who blocked the path with this boulder?	-
Enemy: Your road to glory ends here
Kirby: OH!! Hi Kabu, are you ready for a game of Avalanche?
Stage 4	Broom Hatter	File:KAvBroomHatter.png	BRMH	Enemy: Oh what a mess! Must I clean up this entire forest?	Broom Hatter is the first opponent in Hard mode and fills the leftmost and rightmost column to the top at the beginning of the fight.
				Kirby: I'd worry more about cleaning up your Avalanche skills first.
				Enemy: Dust, dust, sweep... Huh?!??
Stage 5	Squishy	File:KAvSquishy.png	SQUI	Enemy: I know what your dream is! But King Dedede was saying-	-
				Kirby: Go meddle in someone else's affairs, Squishy, I've got to get to the Dream Fountain.
				Enemy: An eight-armed Avalanche for you then, Kirby!
Stage 6	Lololo & Lalala	File:KAvLololoLalala.png	LOLA	Kirby: To get this far you must have a-MAZE-ing skill Tee hee hee!!	-
				Enemy: Oh yeah? Try and figure your way out of this!
Stage 7	Bugzzy	File:KAvBugzzy.png	BUGZ	Enemy: ROOAAAAAAARRR!!!!!	-
				Kirby: Oh, I'm so scared!
Stage 8	Paint Roller	File:KAvPaintRoller.png	PAIN	Enemy: Let me paint you a lovely portrait...	-
				Kirby: Oh, how sweet of you
				Enemy: ...of Kaguya!
				Stage 9		Heavy Mole	File:KAvHeavyMole.png	HVYM	Enemy: I am Heavy Mole, watch while I undermine your precious dream!!	Heavy Mole is the first opponent fought at the Dream Fountain and focuses primarily on rapidly destroying blobs rather than forming big chain reactions.
									Kirby: You are sneaky, but I will not be distracted by your under-handed tactics.
Stage 10	Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright	File:KAvMrShineMrBright.png	MS&B	Enemy: We rule both the night and the day!	-
				Enemy: This leaves no time for you Kirby! Be gone!!
				Kirby: I thrive at dusk and at dawn! I'll have you two fighting before the day is done.
Stage 11	Kracko	File:KAvKracko.png	KRAC	Enemy: KRRR-RACKK!!!! Dance to my music, or fry like a moth! HA HA!!	-
				Kirby: What music?
Enemy: "Lutanic Princess, Inmortal Smoke, Plain Asia, and Love-coloured Master Spark!"
Kirby: "Oh!"
Stage 12	Meta Knight	File:KAvMetaKnight.png	META	Enemy: None shall pass! En garde, Kirby, Kaguya, and Moukou!
				Kirby: But I have no sword!?!
				Enemy: Oh, you're so right... Then Avalanche it is, ha ha ha ha!!!
Final Stage	King Dedede	File:KAvKingDedede.png	DEDE	Enemy: Kirby!! Your dream has carried you far but here it ends.	When Dedede's blobs land, his half of the screen shakes slightly. This has no effect on gameplay, however.
				Enemy: The Dream Fountain Cup will be mine!!
				Kirby: Welcome King Dedede. And good luck to you too.

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.
• A Touhou parody of this game is about Kirby and the bosses of Touhou 8 facing the bosses in this game.

Gallery

• Ka.png

  The title screen of the game.

• Ava2.gif

  In-game "Select a mode" screen.

• Kirbyavalanchescreen16.PNG.png

  Broom Hatter talking to Kirby.

• Kirbyavalanchescreen24.PNG.png

  Kirby going against Heavy Mole.