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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
This game plays identically to that of Super Puyo Puyo, and as such, the rules in Template:KA KGT are the same. Two players face off against each other with their own playing field. Pairs of differently-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, in any combination. 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 a player runs out of room in the playing field to place Puyos, that player will lose the game.
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. Because of this, they are essentially meant to waste space and make matching Puyos more difficult.
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, clearing more of them one after another in succession. 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. Setting up a large enough chain will create the eponymous "avalanche"; so many Garbage Puyos will be dropped that the opponent has no chance to recover.
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 a brown icon indicates 36 Garbage Puyos. The playing field is six across and twelve high, for a total of 72 spaces. The winner is the one who outlasts their opponent by burying their playing field with Garbage Puyos to the point that no further Puyos can be dropped.
Some techniques found in later games of the Puyo Puyo series are not possible to perform in this game, such as "offsetting" (neutralizing Garbage Puyos by matching Puyos before they fall) or "double-rotation" (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! | - |
| 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. |
| 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] | - |
| Enemy: Oh yeah? Try and figure your way out of this! | |||||
| Stage 7 | Bugzzy | File:KAvBugzzy.png | BUGZ | Enemy: ROOAAAAAAARRR!!!!! | - |
| 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. |
| 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!! | - |
| 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. |
Trivia
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, released for the Sega Genesis in 1993, plays similar to both Template:KA KGT and Puyo Puyo.
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.
External links
- Puyo Puyo, the series from which this game is derived, at Hard Drop Tetris Wiki
- Kirby's Avalanche on Kirby Informer
