Kirby's Dream Buffet

Kirby's Dream Buffet Digital cover art for Kirby's Dream Buffet Details Developer(s) HAL Laboratory Publisher(s) Nintendo Release date(s) August 17th, 2022 September 15th, 2022 (physical download code version) Platform(s) Nintendo Switch Supported languages Japanese, American English, British English, European French, Canadian French, Italian, German, Dutch, Latin American Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean Rating(s) ESRB: PEGI: CERO:

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Kirby's Dream Buffet is a Kirby spin-off game for the Nintendo Switch eShop. In it, Kirby is shrunk by the Dream Fork and must face off against Waddle Dees and other multi-colored Kirbys in collecting the most strawberries along food-themed courses in order to grow in size. Becoming larger grants various benefits to the Kirby in question, including rolling faster down hills, and is the metric by which the winner is decided. Kirby's Dream Buffet features three distinct game modes, including racing and battle modes, and also features online multiplayer via Nintendo Switch Online. The game also features the familiar Copy Abilities in a new form, as Copy Food abilities.

Kirby's Dream Buffet was released worldwide on August 17th, 2022 as a digital-only release on the Nintendo eShop. A physical version is set to release in South Korea on September 15th, 2022, but like with Kirby Fighters 2, it is not a cartridge but simply a download code inside a box.

Story

Kirby is shrunk down by the power of a magical fork, and now sits atop the relatively giant cake.

In Kirby's Dream Buffet, Kirby is invited to a "gourmet festival" where he finds a cake, as shown in the opening scene. Instead of waiting for the festival to start, Kirby decides to eat the cake using the Dream Fork. In wielding the Dream Fork, Kirby is affected by its magical powers and is shrunk down significantly. From here, he is joined by other Kirbys as they roll around, eating the now relatively giant food.

Gameplay

Many Kirbys and a Waddle Dee rolling down an ice cream-themed course and collecting strawberries.

Kirby's Dream Buffet is an action multiplayer game with a core focus on racing and battle modes. The goal of each mode is to collect the most strawberries and grow to the largest size to be declared the winner, using whatever other items or course elements appear along the way to gain an advantage. Strawberries can be obtained along the various courses either out in the open, dropped from above, contained in boxes, or stolen from rivals. In addition to strawberries, other types of fruit can appear known as "mission fruit", and collecting those will yield a surprise when the results are announced.

There are three distinct types of gameplay as follows:

• Race - Kirbys race along a linear course from start to finish and collect strawberries along the way. At the end of each track are piles of strawberries 50, 20, and 10 strawberries large which are first-come, first-served.
• Minigame - Kirbys roll around a small board and collect strawberries that appear while also knocking their opponents away until time runs out.
• Battle Royale - Kirbys battle opponents to steal their strawberries in an open area while avoiding the giant gloves and other hazards on the board.

Game modes can be played separately or together in a Grand Prix mode. There is also a "free roll" mode, where players can explore a big open area without any objectives or time limits. Gameplay can take place in local or online Multiplayer and/or against CPU opponents. Collecting strawberries also contributes to a level-based ranking system called the Gourmet Rank (similar to the Fighters Rank used in Kirby Fighters 2) which allows the player to unlock different Colors and Costumes for their Kirby or obtain collectible Character Treats to use as starting pedestals in races, as well as obtain music. Additional background music will also be available if the player owns other Kirby games on the Nintendo Switch.

Copy Abilities

There are a total of eight different Copy Abilities in Kirby's Dream Buffet, which are acquired from Copy Foods contained within Food Boxes or out in the open. While most of these abilities are from earlier titles, they have all been given food-based redesigns. These abilities are all single or limited-use, and some only appear in the race modes while others only appear in the Battle Royale matches. The following are the Copy Abilities in the game:

Copy Abilities in Kirby's Dream Buffet
Ability	Copy Food	Game mode	Description	Notes
Burning	Burning Pepper	All game modes	Kirby turns into a ball with a chili pepper stem and can dash forward in a burning fireball, knocking opponents away.	This is the first time Burning has appeared as a distinct ability since Kirby: Canvas Curse.
Drill	ドリルキャロット (Drill Carrot)	Battle Royale	Kirby turns into a carrot and can dig through the ground to avoid attack, then pop up to hit opponents from below.
Hi-Jump	ハイジャンプグミ (Hi-Jump Gummy)	Race	Kirby turns into a gummy spring and can launch to a distant point ahead on the race track.
Jelly	プルプルゼリー (Jiggly Jelly)	Race & Battle Royale	Kirby turns into an amorphous blob of jelly and can phase through breakable barriers and enemy attacks.	This is a new ability to the series.
Needle	ニードルキャンディー (Needle Candy)	Battle Royale	Kirby turns into spiky hard candy and can attack other racers by ramming into them.
Stone	ストーンチョコ (Stone Chocolate)	Battle Royale	Kirby turns into a brick of chocolate and pounds the ground, creating a shockwave that can damage opponents.
Tornado	Tornado Frosting	Race & Battle Royale	Kirby turns into a cup of frosting and can spin around, creating a vortex that grabs strawberries from a distance.
Wheel	ホイールドーナツ (Wheel Donut)	All game modes	Kirby turns into a doughnut and can dash at high speed through opponents to knock them away.

Enemies

Enemies in Kirby's Dream Buffet are largely intended as obstacles on race courses and Battle Royale stages and targets in minigame boards. In the latter case, they can be seen carrying stacks of strawberries on some boards and can be defeated by bumping into them.

The following enemies have been revealed to be in the game:

• Bouncy (with a dark pink head, blue bow, and green spring connector)
• Bronto Burt
• Cappy
• Gordo
• Kabu (with sprinkles on top)
• Shotzo

Stages

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Thumbnail image of a stage based on Elfilin.

Kirby's Dream Buffet contains at least 16 stages, though only some are known by name as of now. It is also not currently known what portion of these stages are race courses, minigame stages, or Battle Royale arenas. As with other unlockable items in the game, additional stages can be obtained by increasing the player's rank. Stages currently known by name are as follows:

• Baumkuchen - A race stage made of the eponymous pastry.
• Pie
• Sheet Cake
• Shortcake - A race stage made of shortcake.
• Whispy Stage Cake - A Battle Royale stage featuring a food-built Whispy Woods.
• ティータイム (Tea time) - A minigame stage where strawberries fall into tea cups.
• カップケーキ (Cupcake) - A minigame stage where enemies appear carrying strawberries.
• アイスキャンディー (Popsicle) - A Battle Royale stage where pieces of the stage are gradually removed using the Dream Fork.
• プリンアラモード (Pudding a la mode) - A Battle Royale stage consisting of cups of pudding and bridges of sliced citrus.

Staff

The following is a list of staff who have worked on Kirby's Dream Buffet:

Staff of Kirby's Dream Buffet
Position	Developer(s)
General Director	Shinya Kumazaki
Sequence Director	Shota Yamada
Level Design Director	Kosuke Yamazaki
Game Designers	Yuya Kozuka Ryosuke Sakamoto
Technical Director	Hiroshi Ohnishi
Lead Action Programmer	Katsuyoshi Sumitomo
Lead UI Programmer	Yushi Uchida
Programmers	Taisei Yamamoto Kakuya Maekubo Keisuke Takemura Taiki Saka Keita Yamada Hiromu Watanabe
Art Director	Riki Fuhrmann
Character Artists	Kenta Miyamoto Akiko Hayashi
Field Artists	Yuki Yoshioka Mao Yamase Keiya Ogawa Natsumi Muraki Tomomi Minami
Lead UI Artist	Kanako Omori
UI Artists	Fumiyasu Kato Hikaru Ushiki Yumi Todo Teruhiko Suzuki
Movie	D.A.G Inc. Eiki Takizawa Hisanori Matsushima Akiko Sasaoka Yuya Suzuki Kenro Shimizu Sadahiro Okui Aika Takahashi Keisuke Nishina
Lead Sound	Yuuta Ogasawara
Sound	Jun Ishikawa Shogo Sakai Hirokazu Ando Megumi Ohara Yuki Shimooka
Voice	Makiko Ohmoto (Kirby)
FRAT Framework Programmers	Kazuya Suetsugu Tetsuya Noge Tomokazu Tsuruoka Ryoichiro Atono Shinichi Kawaji Rui Uchida Ayumu Kato Yuya Suzuki Masataka Seshimo Keigo Tsuda Munemasa Kimura Takashi Matsuda
Technical Support	Kazuya Konishi Hajime Imaizumi Yousuke Fukunaga Takaaki Kazuno Takashi Nemoto Junichi Aoyagi Hiroaki Nakano Tatsuya Murase Akio Hanyu Tatsuhiro Tanoue Takeshi Minagawa Takehiro Oyama
Team Support	Yoshimi Takahashi Katsuhiro Sakoda
Artwork	Rieko Kawahara Yuto Ibaraki Emi Imamura Keiko Inoue
Testing	Masaru Kobayashi Takeshi Tamura Akiko Ohashi Manami Onozuka Taiki Maeda Yuki Itonaga HAL Debug Team Mario Club Co., Ltd. SHIFT Inc.
Localization Management	Seiji Otoguro
Localization	Shigeru Hashiguchi Kenichi Masuda Shigeru Hirayama
NOA Localization Management	Reiko Ninomiya Rich Amtower Raymond Elliget Nicko Gonzalez Berenice Hofsetz Tim O'Leary César Pérez Morgan Ritchie Thaddée Wiseur Álex Zarza
NOA Localization	Ana Celeste Ascanio Michael Benedetto Billy Carroll Yanett Cepeda Valor Kris Copeland Marjolaine Drouin Paloma Hernandez Dutch Hixenbaugh Sara Hoad Marissol Karczeski Kristopher Katz Brandon Kraemer Keli Dominiciano Nakamura Erin Peterson Carolina Quesada Babi Velho Barreto Lauren Wells Ludovic Tientcheu Ponkin Taryn Ziegler Felipe Zylbersztajn
NOA Product Testing	Kentaro Nishimura Kirk Buchanan Tomo Ishiyama Hitoshi Nishizawa Sean Egan Tomoko Mikami Andy Kolden Jim Holdeman Manna Yamasaki Tom Hertzog Young Kim Marko Wallenius Michael Sahlin James Dillon Josh Yagi-Stanton Craig So Luisa Bayona Otero Rose Hernandez Agatha Carvalhaes Camargo Hortiz Nicolas Mora Cameron Parent Libia Santos Souza Brandon Truax Frances Eckrich Aaron Jones Product Testing Technicians
NOE Localisation Producers	Iván Garrido González Saskia Doorschodt Dario de Leo Liam Higgins
NOE Translation Coordination	Pierre Sanchez Andrea Jähn
NOE English Translation Support	Patrick Joyce
NOE Translation	Clémence Dieryck Jean-Paul Hausmann Giovanna Prati Giacomo Iacumin Kent Robello Michael Hussinger Hannah Siebert Sebastian Brück Jónatan Marcos Millán José Manuel Malagón León Carsten Harmans Patrick Koudstaal
NOE QA Coordination	J. Ignacio León López Matthew David Jones
NOE Quality Assurance	Keywords Studios
NOK Localization Management	Kim Dongyeon
NOK Translation	Kim Soonil
NOK Quality Assurance	Seoung Kiung
NOK Artwork	Lee Hoonkyung
NHL Translation	Jeanie Ho Natalie Yu
NHL Quality Assurance	Eiju Umemura Chih Hsien Chien Chen Wei Ming
NHL Artwork	Mike Kan
iQue Localization Coordination	Chen Yijun
iQue Translation	Qiu Xiaochun
iQue Quality Assurance	Zhang Jiong
Special Thanks	Haruka Ioth Naho Yoshizawa Yu Kanai Tatsuya Kamiyama Masayo Nakagami Yurina Inoue Shigenobu Kasai Tetsuya Abe Tomohiro Minemura Hiroaki Ikarashi Shohei Takahama Yumi Osada Akira Eguchi Nobuyuki Okada Tadashi Ikegami Good-Feel Co., Ltd.
Coordinator	Tomoki Fukushima
Project Management	Kazuyuki Nakamura Kaori Ishizaki Shinya Saito Akira Kinashi
Associate Producer	Kei Ninomiya
Line Producer	Yoshihiro Nagata
Producers	Tadashi Kamitake Toyokazu Nonaka
General Producers	Shigefumi Kawase Shinya Takahashi
Executive Producer	Shuntaro Furukawa
HAL Laboratory, Inc. Nintendo HAL Laboratory, Inc. and Nintendo are the authors of this software for the purpose of copyright. All rights reserved. © HAL Laboratory, Inc. / Nintendo

Trivia

• The opening scene shown in the trailer for this game greatly mirrors the opening of the announcement trailer for Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition, as both feature Kirby admiring an ornately-decorated cake topped with strawberries with a peach backdrop.
• This is the first game in the Kirby series to be officially localized into Brazilian Portuguese.
• This game is the first in the series since Kirby: Squeak Squad to have all of the series' regular composers credited.
• Initially, the North American website for Kirby's Dream Buffet mistakenly used a screenshot of a song cookie above a caption describing the Character Treats. This would be corrected a few days later, but the original mistake can still be seen on archives of the site.

Gallery

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  Key art

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  Key art without the logo

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  Bloated Kirby, from the key art

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	カービィのグルメフェス Kābyi no Gurume Fesu	Kirby's Gourmet Fest
Chinese	卡比的美食節 Kǎbǐ dì měishí jié	Kirby's Gourmet Fest
Dutch	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-
French	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-
German	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-
Italian	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-
Korean	커비의 드림 뷔페 Keobiui Deulim Bwipe	Kirby's Dream Buffet
Portuguese	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-
Spanish	Kirby's Dream Buffet	-

External links

• Kirby's Dream Buffet on Nintendo.com
• Kirby's Dream Buffet on Nintendo of UK
• Kirby's Dream Buffet Japanese site
• Japanese Nintendo article detailing Kirby's Dream Buffet
• Second Japanese Nintendo article detailing Kirby's Dream Buffet
• Kirby's Dream Buffet article on Dengeki Online (JP)
• Kirby's Dream Buffet article on 4gamer (JP)