Samurai Kirby

Samurai Kirby File:Samurai Kirby KSS gameplay.png Kirby facing off against his fourth opponent, King Dedede. Details Type(s) Reflex Levels 3 (each with five opponents) Players 1-2 Appears in Kirby Super Star Kirby Super Star Ultra Kirby's Toy Box Comparable to Quick Draw

Samurai Kirby is a sub-game appearing in Kirby Super Star, and later in its remake, Kirby Super Star Ultra, as one of the two unlockable Nostalgic sub-games, the other being Megaton Punch. In both versions, Samurai Kirby can be played by pressing any button. It features three different difficulty levels.

In Kirby Super Star Ultra, Samurai Kirby can be unlocked after completing the Meta Knightmare main game. Unlike the other Sub-Games, Samurai Kirby retains its dated graphical style, and is no different from its appearance in the original Kirby Super Star (except for a different title screen).

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 changed to a style strongly based on Samurai Kirby's.

Gameplay

Samurai Kirby shows Kirby standing against his opponent in a scene lined with bricks and a horizon level sun. The objective is to draw faster than the opponent, by pressing any button immediately after an exclamation mark signal appears. "Drawing" involves pressing any button after the exclamation signal. 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.

In 2-player mode, the 1P character is always Kirby and the 2P character is randomly picked among Kirby's five opponents.

Opponents

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Foe	CPU reaction frames	Kirby's weapon and effect	Opponent's attack
File:Waddle Doo KSS SK sprite.png Waddle Doo	Easy: 82 Normal: 63 Hard: 18	A fan, which knocks down Waddle Doo	Smacking Kirby with a fan
File:Wheelie KSS SK sprite.png Wheelie	Easy: 50 Normal: 41 Hard: 14	A toy hammer, which knocks down Wheelie	Running over Kirby, with a tire mark on his face
File:Chef Kawasaki KSS SK sprite.png Chef Kawasaki	Easy: 21 Normal: 17 Hard: 12	A pie, which hits into Kawasaki's face	Whacking a frying pan onto Kirby's head
File:King Dedede KSS SK sprite.png King Dedede	Easy: 16 Normal: 13 Hard: 10	A megaphone, which stuns Dedede	Whacking Kirby flat with a hammer (known as 杵 in Chinese and Japanese) for making mochi
File:Meta Knight KSS SK sprite.png Meta Knight	Easy: 11 Normal: 10 Hard: 08	A blade, which cuts off Meta Knight's mask	Cutting Kirby's face with a blade

Gallery

• Samurai Kirby KSSU title screen.png

  Title screen in Kirby Super Star Ultra

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 in hiragana calligraphy instead of their regular katakana names.
• The "sword master" Kirby in this sub-game is referenced by the Topknot Headgear for Ninja Kirby in Kirby: Battle Royale.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	刹那の見斬り Setsuna no Mikiri	Slash in a Flash 刹那 (setsuna) means "in a flash". 見斬り 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 刹那の見斬り改 (Slash in a Flash - Modified) in the Japanese version.