Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn

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Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn NA English box artJapanese banner art Cover art of Template:KEEY from various regions Details Developer(s) Good-Feel, HAL Laboratory Publisher(s) Nintendo Release date(s) March 7, 2019 March 8, 2019 March 8, 2019 March 9, 2019 April 12, 2019 Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS Rating(s) ESRB: PEGI: CERO: Game size 11656 Blocks

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Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn is a spin-off title exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS. It is an enhanced port of Kirby's Epic Yarn featuring some new content, including extra items, abilities, and game modes. Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn was the last Kirby game released for the Nintendo 3DS, and furthermore was the last Nintendo 3DS game that was physically released.

New features

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn features the following new content:

Ravel Abilities

Main article: Ravel Ability

These are six hats that operate similarly to Copy Abilities, giving Kirby new ways to attack opponents. They are as follows:

Ravel Abilities
Ability	Description	Ability	Description
Bobbin	A hat that allows Kirby to throw a bobbin on a string similar to the Yo-yo.	Marking Pins	A pincushion hat that allows Kirby to throw marking pins at enemies.
Button	A hard hat that allows Kirby to toss exploding button bombs.	Nylon	A blue crown that allows Kirby to create vortexes that draw in beads when used.
Knitting Needles	A weaving hat which causes any Yarn Balls Kirby makes to become larger when worn and allows him to make regular ones at any time.	Wire	A wire hat and sword that allows Kirby to swipe at opponents.

Game-Modes

Extra Game modes
Game	Description
Devilish Mode	An extra game mode which causes devilish creatures called Devils to chase Kirby through a given level and try to harass him. If Kirby takes damage 5 times, he is defeated and forced to restart the stage. This mode is available to select whenever Kirby enters a stage.
Dedede Gogogo	A Sub-Game which tasks King Dedede with moving through a fast-paced course as quickly as possible while collecting Fuse Beads and Luminas, defeating enemies, and avoiding hazards.
Slash & Bead	Slash & Bead tasks Meta Knight with flying through courses in an auto-scrolling environment, collecting Fuse Beads and Luminas while defeating as many enemies as possible. In addition to obtaining beads from enemies, beads will also appear out in the open, or trapped inside balloons that can be popped with any attack.

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  The first devil type, Me-Devil.

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  The second devil type, Ye-Devil.

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  The third devil type, We-Devil.

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  Yarn mole, an enemy exclusive to Dedede Gogogo

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  Chain Flamer, an enemy exclusive to Slash & Bead

Stuff

55 new pieces of Furniture are available for decorating Kirby's Pad. These can be obtained by completing stages in Devilish Mode using Life Pieces.

Additionally, 36 Fuse Bead Mats can be completed by playing Slash & Bead and Dedede Gogogo.

The player can now also move and place items in Kirby's Pad with the touch screen.

amiibo

Kirby can gain aesthetic hats if the player scans in a Kirby series amiibo figurine. These hats are tied to certain Ravel abilities.

Custom Ravel Abilities
Hat	Related Ravel Ability	Notes
Star Hat	Knitting Needles	This hat is based on Prince Fluff's crown.
King Dedede Hat	Button
Meta Knight Hat	Wire	This is in fact not a hat but Meta Knight's mask.
Waddle Dee Hat	Knitting Needles

Returning features

Main article: Kirby's Epic Yarn

Being a port, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn features nearly all of the content of the original game, including the stages, enemies, bosses, and other features. For information on this content, see the Kirby's Epic Yarn page or the navigation box below.

There is one notable feature that does not return, however. Due to the nature of the 3DS system, local multiplayer is no longer possible. As such, Prince Fluff is no longer playable, being relegated to a support role similar to Bandana Waddle Dee in Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Kirby: Planet Robobot. He will still appear during cut-scenes and in the Goal Game. He also occasionally appears in the middle of a stage to give Kirby a star bead or a ravel ability.

History

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn was first announced during the Nintendo Direct on September 13th, 2018. This direct revealed the name of the game, along with announcing several of its new features, albeit briefly. More information was later posted on Nintendo's official Twitter Page.

For a brief period, the North American page for Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn erroneously stated the game to be playable exclusively on 'New Nintendo 3DS' systems. This was later corrected.

Nintendo eShop description

One ticked-off sorcerer just banished Kirby, warping the poor puffball to a yarn world in need of saving. The twist? Having a yarn body is epic! Kirby can transform into knitted wonders like tanks and flying saucers. Plus, his new ravel abilities mimic his classic copy abilities, adding something new to every stage of this action-adventure game! Ravel abilities allow Kirby to drop buttons like bombs or wield a wire like a sword. And that's just the beginning of all the makeshift magic. Dead end? Unzip a secret passage. Too dark? Unbutton the night to shed some light. Boss blocking your way? Unravel its face! As you play, you'll collect decorative treasures for Kirby's Pad. Show yours off with the StreetPass feature! If story mode isn't tough enough, see if you can earn more collectibles in Devilish Mode. In this harder mode, you must survive without invincibility as devils obstruct your path through each stage. There are also all-new minigames starring Meta Knight and King Dedede!

Staff

List of staff in Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn
Position	Developer(s)
Director	Kentaro Sei
Assistant Director	Kazumasa Yonetani
Programming Director	Satoshi Kobayashi
Planning	Yusuke Yamauchi Ayumi Iwai Nazuno Inaba
Programming	Tomonori Sakamoto Boyang Zhao Kunitaka Takeuchi Yuya Ishikawa Mitsuru Hakuta Takanori Mori Yusuke Oikawa Kazuya Hashimoto
Design	Takeshi Okazawa Yoshihiro Hobo Ayako Inoue Midori Ishibashi Yutaka Kurihara Takeru Yoshida Atusko Ichii Takeshi Masuda
Music & Sound Effects	Akihiro Juichiya Soshiro Hokkai
Technical Artist	Takeharu Umada
Concept Artists	Tadanori Tsukawaki Ichiho Yamada
Planning Manager	Yuichi Abe
Programming Manager	Koichi Yagi
Design Manager	Masashi Tsuboyama
Voice	Makiko Ohmoto (Kirby) Tomoko Nakamura (Prince Fluff) Yuko Tsuga (Japanese narrator) Pablo Magaz (Latin Spanish narrator) France Marien (French-Canadian narrator) Dave White (American English narrator) Paul Vaughan (British English narrator) Olivier Deslandes (European French narrator) Wolf Kähler (German narrator) Massimo Marinoni (Italian narrator) Carlos Riera (Castilian Spanish narrator) Sun Lee (Korean narrator)
North American Localization
NOA Localization Management	Nate Bihldorff Reiko Ninomiya Rich Amtower Ann Lin Tim O'Leary Scot Ritchey
NOA Localization	Rich Comegys Marjolaine Drouin Dan Fazio Dutch Hixenbaugh Ayaka Osakabe Yanett Cepeda Valor Thaddée Wiseur
European Localisation
NOE Localisation Producers	Saskia Doorschodt Jesús Díez García
NOE Localisation	Martina Leonor Bassani Andrea Jähn Roby Liebetruth Greg T. Sadownik Eren Baykal Gurvan Le Guen Abdelkader Beldjilali Giovanna Prati Alessandro Pagano Frithjof Koepp Benedikt Grosser Enrique Sánchez Rosa Álex Hernández-Puertas
Korean Localization
NOK Localization Management	Hyokjin Jung
NOK Localization	Dongyeon Kim Soonil Kim
Artwork	Taiki Kato Rieko Kawahara Yuto Ibaraki
Technical Support	Tsuyoshi Masada
Testing & Quality Assurance	Mario Club Co., Ltd. DIGITAL HEARTS Co., Ltd. NOA Product Testing J. Ignacio León López Jesús Gutiérrez Cuadra NOE Quality Assurance NOK Debug Team Pole To Win Korea Co., Ltd.
Special Thanks	Manabu Matsumoto Yuta Bundo Katsutoshi Yoshizawa Shoko Ando Saori Kai Tetsuya Abe Tomohiro Minemura Jeff Miller Nanami Tsuruta Masaharu Shima Akiko Ohashi Based on the work of the development team from the original Wii version. (English)/Based on the work of original Wii version development staff. (Korean)
Character Supervisors	Shinya Kumazaki Kenichiro Kita Riki Fuhrmann
Associate Producers	Nobuo Matsumiya Emi Watanabe Masanobu Yamamoto
Producers	Estunobu Ebisu Shigefumi Kawase Toyokazu Nonaka Keisuke Terasaki
General Producer	Shinya Takahashi
Executive Producer	Shuntaro Furukawa
Nintendo, Good-Feel and HAL Laboratory, Inc. are the authors of this software for the purpose of copyright. All rights reserved.

Trivia

• Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn is the first game in the series to have a sub-game devoted to King Dedede and another to Meta Knight in the same game.
• While Kirby Battle Royale and Kirby Star Allies were localized into Dutch, and the latter also in Chinese, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn (and the original Kirby's Epic Yarn by extension) was not.
• On March 12, 2019, the My Nintendo rewards program included a wallpaper based on Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn. The wallpaper contained the Fortnite logo at the top-left corner. This error was quickly fixed on the same day.
• The officially sanctioned novel series released Kirby: Big Trouble in Patch Land! on March 15, 2019 (the novel series does not follow the games' chronological order). This chapter features the Devils from Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn and characters not in the original games like Bandana Waddle Dee and Chef Kawasaki.

Gallery

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	毛糸のカービィ プラス Keito no Kābii Purasu	Yarn Kirby Plus
Canadian French	Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn	-
European French	Kirby - Au fil de la grande l'aventure	Kirby - On the thread of the great adventure
German	Kirby und das extra magische Garn	Kirby and the extra magic Yarn
Italian	Kirby e la nuova stoffa dell'eroe	Kirby and the new fabric of the hero
Korean	털실 커비 이야기 플러스 Teolsil Keobi Iyagi Peulleoseu	Yarn Kirby Story Plus
Latin American Spanish	Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn	-
European Spanish	Más Kirby en el reino de los hilos	More Kirby in the kingdom of threads

External links

• Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn page on Nintendo main site