Samurai Kirby: Difference between revisions

Samurai Kirby shows [[Kirby]] standing and facing 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. 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 1P character is always Kirby and the 2P 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]].

|{{center|[[File:KSS Waddle Doo SK sprite.png|All versions]] [[File:KSSU Waddle Doo SK alt sprite.png|''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' Korean release only]]<br>[[Waddle Doo]]}}

|{{center|[[File:KSS Wheelie SK sprite.png|All versions]] [[File:KSSU Wheelie SK alt sprite.png|''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' Korean release only]]<br>[[Wheelie]]}}

|{{center|[[File:KSS Chef Kawasaki SK sprite.png|All versions]] [[File:KSSU Chef Kawasaki SK alt sprite.png|''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' Korean release only]]<br>[[Chef Kawasaki]]}}

|{{center|[[File:KSS King Dedede SK sprite.png|All versions]] [[File:KSSU King Dedede SK alt sprite.png|''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' Korean release only]]<br>[[King Dedede]]}}

|{{center|[[File:KSS Meta Knight SK Sprite.png|All versions]] [[File:KSSU Meta Knight SK alt sprite.png|''Kirby Super Star Ultra'' Korean release only]]<br>[[Meta Knight]]}}

|{{center|[[File:KRtDLD Samurai Kirby vs Bandana Waddle Dee screenshot.png|150px]]<br>'''[[Bandana Waddle Dee]]'''}}

|Easy: ~92<br>Normal: ~62<br> Hard: ~32

|{{center|[[File:KRtDLD Samurai Kirby vs Chef Kawasaki screenshot.png|150px]]<br>'''[[Chef Kawasaki]]'''}}

|Easy: ~76<br>Normal: ~51<br> Hard: ~27

|{{center|[[File:KRtDLD Samurai Kirby vs King Dedede screenshot.png|150px]]<br>'''[[King Dedede]]'''}}

|{{center|[[File:KRtDLD Samurai Kirby vs Magolor screenshot.png|150px]]<br>'''[[Magolor]]'''}}

|Dropping a miniature version of the [[Lor Starcutter]] onto Kirby while laughing.

|{{center|[[File:KRtDLD Samurai Kirby vs Meta Knight screenshot.png|150px]]<br>'''[[Meta Knight]]'''}}

|Easy: ~34<br>Normal: ~24<br> Hard: 16-18

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.

*In the Japanese version, the character names are written in hiragana calligraphy instead of their regular katakana names. Additionally, there is grass blowing in the wind at the bottom of the screen, which was removed from the translated SNES version to make room for English text, but was restored in all versions of ''Kirby Super Star Ultra''.

*The "sword master" Kirby in this sub-game is referenced by the Topknot [[Alternate costumes#Kirby Battle Royale|Headgear]] for [[Ninja]] Kirby in ''[[Kirby Battle Royale]]''.

*In the Korean release of ''Kirby Super Star Ultra'', most of the game's sprites are altered to remove references to Japanese culture. Namely, 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.