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Template:KA KGT
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Details
Developer(s)	Compile Banpresto HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Designer(s)	Kazunori Ikeda
Release date(s)	SNES: April 25, 1995 February 1, 1995 Virtual Console (Wii): July 27, 2007 July 27, 2007 September 24, 2007
Platform(s)	SNES, Wii Virtual Console
Rating(s)	ESRB: PEGI:

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Template:KA KGT (known as Kirby's Ghost Trap in British English) is a puzzle game developed by Compile, in collaboration with HAL Laboratory, that was released in 1995. It is a spinoff title and a direct modification of the Japanese puzzle game Super Puyo Puyo, except featuring Kirby characters. Due to its similarities to Super Puyo Puyo, this game was never released in Japan, making it the only Kirby game with this distinction.

Story

“

Welcome to Dream Land, a small and peaceful country situated on a far away little star. In Dream Land the local pastime is a puzzle game called "Avalanche." Kirby decided that since every Dream Lander plays the game, it would be a great idea to have a country-wide competition to determine who is the best player of all.

After months of organizing, the First Annual Dream Land's Avalanche Competition was finally announced. To be held at the Dream Fountain, this would be the biggest event in the history of Dream Land!

All the Dream Landers have been practicing, and all plan to attend and compete. Like Kirby, they have been dreaming sweet dreams of becoming the Avalanche Champion and claiming the highly sought after "Dream Fountain Cup."

The rules for the competition are quite simple: Everyone will travel by foot to the Dream Fountain. If, while on their journey, two Dream Landers happen to meet, they must challenge each other to an Avalanche match. Only the winner of the match may continue onward towards the Dream Fountain. In this way, the number of competitors will be whittled down to a manageable size before the final action at the Dream Fountain.

Can you help guide Kirby through the competition so he arrives successfully at the Dream Fountain? Can he rise above the grizzled veterans and achieve his dream of becoming the reigning champion? His fate is in your hands!

”

— Template:KA KGT manual

Gameplay

File:KAvalanche Lololo and Lalala match.png

Kirby competing against Lololo & Lalala.

This game plays identically to that of Puyo Puyo, and as such, the rules in Template:KA KGT are the same. Different groups of colTemplate:Ored Puyos (referred to in this game as blobs) fall from the top of the playing field and eventually touch the bottom. The goal is to drop and rotate the Puyos in just such a way that four or more of the same colTemplate:Or connect and touch each other from above, below or to the side. This done, they will disappear from the playing field. Any Puyos above them will fall down and fill in the spots where the matched Puyos once where.

Clearing Puyos will send Garbage Puyos (referred to in this game as boulders) to the opponent's playing field. Garbage Puyos cannot be cleared when four or more of them touch and can only disappear if a match of four colTemplate:Ored Puyos is accomplished right next to them. It is possible to set up a chain reaction by matching four Puyos and then letting other Puyos fall into spots where they will connect with more Puyos, in turn, clearing more of them one after another. The more Puyos that disappear from the result of a chain reaction, the more Garbage Puyos will be sent to the opponent's playing field.

Just before the Garbage Puyos rain down on a player's playing field, they will be shown an icon, indicating how many Garbage Puyos will drop. A small icon indicates one Garbage Puyo, a bigger icon indicates 6 Garbage Puyos and the brown icon indicates 36 Garbage Puyos.

The winner is the one who outlasts their opponent by burying their playing field with Garbage Puyos and getting the opponent's third vertical column in their playing field filled to the top with Puyos.

Some techniques found in later games of the Puyo Puyo series are not possible to perform in this game, such as neutralizing Garbage Puyos by matching Puyos before they fall or double-rotation, which is the act of rotating Puyos vertically when trapped in-between columns of other Puyos.

Stages

During the Competition mode of the game, Kirby faces 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 playing field shake, resulting in a purely visual effect), but their playing styles vary slightly, generally becoming faster and more aggressive as Kirby advances through the game.

Notably, in the cut-scenes between each round, Kirby is shown trash-talking his opponents and speaking in full sentences. This is a very unique and strange occurrence; in most of the rest of the Kirby series, Kirby is not rude, and has never been known to speak outside of simple phrases, such as "hi" or "poyo". Instead, his behaviTemplate:Or is more in line with the personality of Puyo Puyo's protagonist, Arle Nadja, who is replaced by Kirby in this game. As such, the game's storyline does not fall into the canon, and certainly does not reflect Kirby as a character in the main series.

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.

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!
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	Enemy: You did not treat Waddle Dee with respect... Now I, Waddle Doo will repay you in kind!	-
Lesson 3	Waddle Doo	File:KAvWaddleDoo.png	WADO	Kirby: I don't think so!!	-
Stage 1	Poppy Bros. Sr.	File:KAvPoppyBrosSr.png	PBSR	Enemy: Hi, Kirby! Want a bomb sandwich?	Like Waddle Dee, Poppy Bros. Sr. does not turn its blobs.
				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.	Whispy always opens the battle by attempting to build four rows of blobs at the bottom.
Stage 2	Whispy Woods	File:KAvWhispyWoods.png	WHIS	Kirby: I feel like some apple pie!
Stage 3	Kabu	File:KAvKabu.png	KABU	Kirby: Who blocked the path with this boulder?	Kabu is the only enemy whose abbreviation is the same as his name.
				Enemy: Your road to glory ends here^[sic]
				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!!^[sic]	-
Stage 6	Lololo & Lalala	File:KAvLololoLalala.png	LOLA	Enemy: Oh yeah? Try and figure your way out of this!	-
Stage 7	Bugzzy	File:KAvBugzzy.png	BUGZ	Enemy: ROOAAAAAAARRR!!!!!	-
Stage 7	Bugzzy	File:KAvBugzzy.png	BUGZ	Kirby: Oh, I'm soooo scared^[sic]	-
Stage 8	Paint Roller	File:KAvPaintRoller.png	PAIN	Enemy: Let me paint you a lovely portrait...	-
				Kirby: Oh, how sweet of yo-
				Enemy: ...of you losing to me, HA HA HA!
				Kirby: Paint Roller, you are the meanest art student I've ever met.
				Enemy: Student? HA! I am the MASTER!!
Stage 9	Heavy Mole	File:KAvHeavyMole.png	HVYM	Enemy: I am Heavy Mole, watch while I undermine your precious dream!!^[sic]	Heavy Mole is the first opponent fought at the Dream Fountain and focuses primarily on rapidly destroying blobs rather than forming big chain reactions.
Stage 9	Heavy Mole	File:KAvHeavyMole.png	HVYM	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 deadly music, or fry like a moth! HA HA!!	-
Stage 11	Kracko	File:KAvKracko.png	KRAC	Kirby: You couldn't hit a barn sized lightning rod, Kracko!	-
Stage 12	Meta Knight	File:KAvMetaKnight.png	META	Enemy: None shall pass! En garde, Kirby!	Meta Knight is more skilled than other opponents at making a comeback when most of his playing field has been covered in rocks.
				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.

Gallery

Kirby's Avalanche title.png

American title screen
Kirby Avalanche mode selection.png

Mode select screen
Lesson 1 (Easy) gameplay against Waddle Dee.
Kirbyavalanchescreen16.png

Broom Hatter talking to Kirby.
Kirbyavalanchescreen24.png

Kirby going against Heavy Mole.

Trivia

Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, released for the Sega Genesis in 1993, plays similar to both Template:KA KGT and Puyo Puyo.

External links

Puyo Puyo, the series from which this game is derived, at Hard Drop Tetris Wiki
Kirby's Avalanche on Kirby Informer

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+{{rewrite|Missing information on the following modes: 1P vs. 2P, Practice and Options}}
 '''''{{KA KGT}}''''' (known as {{UserLang|us='''''Kirby's Ghost Trap''''' in British English|gb='''''Kirby's Avalanche''''' in American English}}) is a puzzle game developed by [[wikipedia:Compile (company)|Compile]], in collaboration with [[HAL Laboratory]], that was released in 1995. It is a spinoff title and a direct modification of the Japanese puzzle game ''[[wikipedia:Puyo Puyo|Super Puyo Puyo]]'', except featuring ''[[Kirby (series)|Kirby]]'' characters. Due to its similarities to ''Super Puyo Puyo'', this game was never released in Japan, making it the only ''Kirby'' game with this distinction.
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 == Gameplay ==
-{{rewrite|Some of the wording is lifted straight from the Kirby FANDOM with barely any changes}}
 [[File:KAvalanche Lololo and Lalala match.png|left|thumb|[[Kirby]] competing against [[Lololo & Lalala]].]]
-In ''{{KA KGT}}'', like in ''Puyo Puyo'', certain groups of col{{o}}red blobs fall from the top of the screen. The player must then rotate the groups (or formations) of blobs before they touch the bottom of the screen or the pile of blobs below so that matching col{{o}}red blobs touch from above, below, and the right and/or left. Once four more same-col{{o}}red blobs touch each other, they will disappear, and any blobs above them will fall down to fill in the empty space.
+This game plays identically to that of ''Puyo Puyo'', and as such, the rules in ''{{KA KGT}}'' are the same. Different groups of col{{o}}red Puyos (referred to in this game as blobs) fall from the top of the playing field and eventually touch the bottom. The goal is to drop and rotate the Puyos in just such a way that four or more of the same col{{o}}r connect and touch each other from above, below or to the side. This done, they will disappear from the playing field. Any Puyos above them will fall down and fill in the spots where the matched Puyos once where.
-If Kirby manages to set off a chain reaction with these blobs, {{UserLang|us=boulders|gb=ghosts}} will then fall onto the opponent's screen. The number of {{UserLang|us=boulders|gb=ghosts}} that fall depends both on the number of blobs destroyed and the number of consecutive chain reactions if any. These {{UserLang|us=boulders|gb=ghosts}} will only disappear if the player manages to pop a full group of blobs that are in direct contact with the {{UserLang|us=boulders|gb=ghosts}}.
+Clearing Puyos will send Garbage Puyos (referred to in this game as {{UserLang|us=boulders|gb=ghosts}}) to the opponent's playing field. Garbage Puyos cannot be cleared when four or more of them touch and can only disappear if a match of four col{{o}}red Puyos is accomplished right next to them. It is possible to set up a chain reaction by matching four Puyos and then letting other Puyos fall into spots where they will connect with more Puyos, in turn, clearing more of them one after another. The more Puyos that disappear from the result of a chain reaction, the more Garbage Puyos will be sent to the opponent's playing field.
-Notably, in the cut-scenes between each round, [[Kirby]] is shown trash-talking his opponents and speaking in full sentences. This is a very unique and strange occurrence; in the rest of the [[Kirby (series)|''Kirby'' series]], Kirby is not rude, and has never been known to speak outside of simple phrases, such as "hi" or "poyo". Instead, his behavi{{o}}r is more in line with the personality of ''Puyo Puyo''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> protagonist, Arle Nadja, who is replaced by Kirby in this game. As such, the game's storyline does not fall into the [[canon]], and certainly does not reflect Kirby as a character in the main series.
+Just before the Garbage Puyos rain down on a player's playing field, they will be shown an icon, indicating how many Garbage Puyos will drop. A small icon indicates one Garbage Puyo, a bigger icon indicates 6 Garbage Puyos and the brown icon indicates 36 Garbage Puyos.
-==Bosses/Stages==
+The winner is the one who outlasts their opponent by burying their playing field with Garbage Puyos and getting the opponent's third vertical column in their playing field filled to the top with Puyos.
-During the Competition mode of the game, Kirby may face a total of 16 [[Boss]]es 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 visual effect), but their playing styles vary slightly, generally becoming faster and more aggressive as Kirby advances through the game.
+Some techniques found in later games of the ''Puyo Puyo'' series are not possible to perform in this game, such as neutralizing Garbage Puyos by matching Puyos before they fall or double-rotation, which is the act of rotating Puyos vertically when trapped in-between columns of other Puyos.
+==Stages==
+During the Competition mode of the game, Kirby faces a total of 16 [[boss]]es in the order presented. These bosses do not possess any special skills (apart from [[King Dedede]], whose blobs make the playing field shake, resulting in a purely visual effect), but their playing styles vary slightly, generally becoming faster and more aggressive as Kirby advances through the game.
+Notably, in the cut-scenes between each round, [[Kirby]] is shown trash-talking his opponents and speaking in full sentences. This is a very unique and strange occurrence; in most of the rest of the ''[[Kirby (series)|Kirby]]'' series, Kirby is not rude, and has never been known to speak outside of simple phrases, such as "hi" or "poyo". Instead, his behavi{{o}}r is more in line with the personality of ''Puyo Puyo''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> protagonist, Arle Nadja, who is replaced by Kirby in this game. As such, the game's storyline does not fall into the [[canon]], and certainly does not reflect Kirby as a character in the main series.
 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.
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 |rowspan=3 align=center|KABU
 |bgcolor=#FFD0FF|Kirby: ''Who blocked the path with this boulder?''
-|rowspan=3| -
+|rowspan=3|Kabu is the only enemy whose abbreviation is the same as his name.
 |-
-|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Enemy: ''Your road to glory ends here''
+|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Enemy: ''Your road to glory ends here''{{sic}}
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 |bgcolor=#FFD0FF|Kirby: ''OH!! Hi Kabu, are you ready for a game of {{UserLang|us=Avalanche|gb=Ghost Trap}}?''
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 |rowspan=2 bgcolor=#285068 align=center|[[File:KAvLololoLalala.png]]
 |rowspan=2 align=center|LOLA
-|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Kirby: ''To get this far you must have a-MAZE-ing skill Tee hee hee!!''
+|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Kirby: ''To get this far you must have a-MAZE-ing skill Tee hee hee!!''{{sic}}
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 |-
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-|bgcolor=#FFD0FF|Kirby: ''Oh, I'm soooo scared''
+|bgcolor=#FFD0FF|Kirby: ''Oh, I'm soooo scared''{{sic}}
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 |rowspan=5|Stage 8
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 |rowspan=2 bgcolor=#285068 align=center|[[File:KAvHeavyMole.png]]
 |rowspan=2 align=center|HVYM
-|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Enemy: ''I am Heavy Mole, watch while I undermine your precious dream!!''
+|bgcolor=#FFD0D0|Enemy: ''I am Heavy Mole, watch while I undermine your precious dream!!''{{sic}}
 |rowspan=2|Heavy Mole is the first opponent fought at the Dream Fountain and focuses primarily on rapidly destroying blobs rather than forming big chain reactions.
 |-
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 ==Trivia==
-*[[Whispy Woods]] is the 5th boss in this game rather than the first as in most other games.
+*''[[wikipedia:Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine|Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine]]'', released for the {{UserLang|us=Sega Genesis|gb=Sega Mega Drive}} in 1993, plays similar to both ''{{KA KGT}}'' and ''Puyo Puyo''.
-*[[wikipedia:Sega|Sega]] released a game similar to this and ''Puyo Puyo'' two years earlier outside of Japan, called ''[[wikipedia:Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine|Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine]]''.
-*Waddle Doo is referred to as Waddle Dee's cousin, and Paint Roller is said to be an art student.
-*[[Kabu]] is the only enemy whose abbreviation is the same as his name.
 ==External links==

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