Samurai Kirby

Samurai Kirby Preview image for Samurai Kirby from Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Details Type(s) Reflex Levels 3 (each with five opponents) Players 1-2 (Kirby Super Star) 1 (Kirby Super Star Ultra) 1-4 (Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe) Appears in Kirby's Toy Box Kirby Super Star Kirby Super Star Ultra Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Comparable to Quick Draw Speed Eaters Speedy Teatime Kirby Card Swipe Flash Fishing Samurai Kirby 100

This article is about the Sub-Game from Kirby Super Star and its remake. For the similar Sub-Game in Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, see Quick Draw.

“

Push any button immediately when you see "!".

”

— Instruction - Kirby Super Star

Samurai Kirby is a sub-game appearing in several Kirby games, most notably in Kirby Super Star, where it serves as one of the two side games along with Megaton Punch. In both that game and Kirby Super Star Ultra, Samurai Kirby can be played by pressing any button, and features three different difficulty levels.

In Kirby Super Star Ultra, Samurai Kirby is unlocked after completing the Meta Knightmare Ultra main game. With the exception of the title screen, it was directly ported from the original version, with the only differences being that two-player support was dropped and the name of Cook Kawasaki was changed to Chef Kawasaki.

In Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, Samurai Kirby can be played with up to four players simultaneously, who can face off against each-other. There is also a new variant of the game called Samurai Kirby 100, where the player faces off against 99 other players (though not in real time) to see how their reaction time compares.

A demo of Samurai Kirby was also broadcast in the Japan-exclusive Kirby's Toy Box.

In Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, the sub-game Quick Draw had its western theme replaced with a Samurai Kirby style, and is known by a matching name in the Japanese version.

Gameplay

Kirby facing off against King Dedede; his fourth opponent in Samurai Kirby, in Kirby Super Star

Samurai Kirby shows Kirby standing and facing his opponent in a grassy field at sunset. The objective is to draw faster than the opponent, by pressing any button immediately after an exclamation mark signal appears. The round will restart if Kirby draws too early, which gives him a strike. The sub-game ends when Kirby loses to an opponent, or when Kirby gets three strikes in a row. A sign at the lower-right of the screen indicates the time from the signal to the reaction. Kirby uses a different weapon against every opponent, and likewise, every opponent uses their own.

When playing with a second player in Kirby Super Star, the player 1 character is always Kirby and the player 2 character is randomly picked among Kirby's five opponents. When playing multiplayer in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, player 1 is always Kirby while players 2, 3 and 4 can pick between King Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Waddle Dee, or another Kirby. If played with two players, it uses the sideways perspective from the original; if played with three or four, it uses the angled perspective of Quick Draw. If a retry is deemed between 2 or 3 players in a 3-4 player match, the players not included in the retry will sit out until a win is given. In 3-4 player matches, faulting twice will make the player sit out as well. Players sitting out will depict their character sitting facing away, looking sad and are unable to act until next match.

Opponents

Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra

The alternate sprites are used in the Korean version of Kirby Super Star Ultra.

Foe	CPU reaction frames	Kirby's weapon and effect	Opponent's attack
Waddle Doo わどるどぅ	Easy: 82 Normal: 63 Hard: 18	A fan, which knocks down Waddle Doo	Smacking Kirby with a fan
Wheelie ういりぃ	Easy: 50 Normal: 41 Hard: 14	A toy hammer, which knocks down Wheelie	Running over Kirby, with a tire mark on his face
Chef Kawasaki こっくかわさき	Easy: 21 Normal: 17 Hard: 12	A pie, which hits Kawasaki's face	Whacking a frying pan onto Kirby's head
King Dedede ででで大王だいおう	Easy: 16 Normal: 13 Hard: 10	A party popper, which stuns Dedede	Whacking Kirby flat with a hammer (known as 杵 in Chinese and Japanese) for making mochi
Meta Knight めたないと	Easy: 11 Normal: 10 Hard: 08	A blade, which cuts off Meta Knight's mask	Cutting Kirby's face with a blade

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Foe	CPU reaction frames	Kirby's weapon and effect	Opponent's attack
Bandana Waddle Dee ばんだなわどるでぃ	Easy: ~90 Normal: ~60 Hard: ~30	A fan, which knocks down Bandana Waddle Dee	Smacking Kirby with a fan
Chef Kawasaki こっくかわさき	Easy: ~75 Normal: ~50 Hard: ~27	A pie, which hits Kawasaki's face	Whacking a frying pan onto Kirby's head
King Dedede ででで大王だいおう	Easy: ~60 Normal: ~40 Hard: ~23	A party popper, which stuns Dedede	Whacking Kirby flat with a hammer (known as 杵 in Chinese and Japanese) for making mochi
Magolor まほろあ	Easy: ~45 Normal: ~30 Hard: ~20	The Ultra Sword, which causes Magolor to double over	Dropping a miniature version of the Lor Starcutter onto Kirby while laughing
Meta Knight めたないと	Easy: ~35 Normal: ~25 Hard: ~16	A blade, which cuts off Meta Knight's mask	Cutting Kirby's face with a blade

CPU reaction frames are taken from the official Japanese guidebook. Unlike in previous versions of Samurai Kirby, if the player keeps retrying the game after Kirby is defeated, the CPU opponents will gradually get slower, in a similar mercy mechanic to bosses in the Main Mode becoming slower and having less health if refought.

Missions

In Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, there are seven Missions for this Sub-Game. They are as follows:

• Apprentice Samurai - Play Samurai Kirby for the first time.
• 10 in a Row without Faulting - Defeat 10 rivals in a row without faulting.
• Dueling Samur-eye - Play while wearing the Waddle Doo dress-up mask.
• 5 in a Row without Faulting on HARD - While playing solo, defeat 5 rivals on HARD without faulting.
• 30 Total Rivals Defeated - Defeat a grand total of 30 rivals.
• Clear All Difficulties - While playing solo, defeat 5 rivals on each difficulty setting. (EASY / NORMAL / HARD)
• Blade-Master Samurai - Complete all other missions for Samurai Kirby.

Once all 100 regular missions are completed, one final mission related to this Sub-Game is unlocked, as part of the "True Extra Missions" category:

• Victories without Faulting (HARD) - While playing solo, defeat five rivals 2 times in a row without faulting on HARD difficulty in Samurai Kirby.

Trivia

• The title logo calligraphy for the Japanese version was written by Masahiro Sakurai himself with a brush pen.
• In the Japanese version, the character names are written using hiragana instead of katakana. In Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra, the text is written vertically right-to-left, like a traditional scroll.
  • In the international versions of Kirby Super Star and Kirby Super Star Ultra, the Japanese scrolls seen during gameplay are kept, with a translation running across the bottom of the screen. This resulted in the removal of the animated grass at the bottom of the screen in Kirby Super Star, which was restored in Kirby Super Star Ultra.
  • In Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, the text is fully translated in all languages and written horizontally left-to-right, even in the Japanese version.
• The "sword master" Kirby in this sub-game is referenced by the Topknot Headgear for Ninja Kirby in Kirby Battle Royale.
• Meta Knight's sprite shows that his mask has a scar on his left eye; this corresponds to Dark Meta Knight's scar.

• In the Korean release of Kirby Super Star Ultra, most of the game's sprites are altered to remove references to Japanese culture. Namely, the Japanese text scrolls are translated into Korean rather than being subtitled, Kirby and Meta Knight's topknots are removed, the scar on Meta Knight's face is absent, and all other characters use their regular in-game sprites. This is due to South Korea's restrictions on Japanese cultural imports, which were implemented in response to Japan's occupation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945; most of these restrictions were gradually lifted from 1998 to 2004, but some still remain in place.
  • In all versions of Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, the unique Japanese outfits in the original were replaced with topknots for every character, which may be related to this.

Gallery

Kirby Super Star

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  Title screen in Kirby Super Star

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  Title screen in the Japanese version of Kirby Super Star

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  Splash bar featuring Kirby which appears at the start of every round

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  Splash bar featuring Waddle Doo which appears at the start of its round

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  Splash bar featuring Wheelie which appears at the start of its round

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  Splash bar featuring Chef Kawasaki which appears at the start of his round

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  Splash bar featuring King Dedede which appears at the start of his round

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  Splash bar featuring Meta Knight which appears at the start of his round

Kirby Super Star Ultra

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  Title screen in Kirby Super Star Ultra

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  Splash bar featuring Kirby which appears at the start of every round

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  Splash bar featuring Waddle Doo which appears at the start of its round

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  An alternate version of Waddle Doo's splash bar, Korean-release only

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  Splash bar featuring Wheelie which appears at the start of its round

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  Splash bar featuring Chef Kawasaki which appears at the start of his round

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  An alternate version of Chef Kawasaki's splash bar, Korean-release only

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  Splash bar featuring King Dedede which appears at the start of his round

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  Splash bar featuring Meta Knight which appears at the start of his round

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  An alternate version of Meta Knight's splash bar, Korean-release only

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

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  Screenshot of multiplayer gameplay in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

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  The aftermath of a multiplayer clash

Other

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  Artwork for the KIRBY MUTEKI! SUTEKI! CLOSET merchandise series

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	刹那せつなの見斬みきり Setsuna no Mikiri	Slash in a Flash 刹那せつな (setsuna) means "in a flash". 見斬みきり is a pun on 見切り (mikiri, "prediction in fighting") and 斬り (kiri, "slash"). Quick Draw (Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land version) is known as 刹那せつなの見斬みきり改かい (Slash in a Flash - Modified) in Japanese.
Traditional Chinese	刹那間一斬 chà nà jiān yī zhǎn	Slash in a Flash
Simplified Chinese	刹那间一斩 chà nà jiān yī zhǎn
Dutch	Samoerai-Kirby	Samurai Kirby
French	Kirby samouraï	Samurai Kirby
German	Samurai-Kirby	Samurai-Kirby
Italian	Kirby Samurai	Samurai Kirby
Korean	대결! 한판 승부 daegyeol! hanpan seungbu	Battle! One-Round Contest
Portuguese	Kirby Samurai	Samurai Kirby
Spanish	Samurái Kirby	Samurai Kirby

References

Kirby Super Star Ultra Menu
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