Did you play Kirby: Canvas Curse or did the rainbows scare the hardcore gamer in you away? I know it's sometimes hard to put down the Halo and look at something that involves the color pink, a round ball and a magical pen that draws rainbows, but it's a really, really good idea because the game is a blast. It turns out it could have been even blastier or it turns out that HAL Laboratories, Kirby's developer, is cooking up a sequel.
If you visit their Japanese site (which is frickin awesome) and click on the "ideas cube" you get to thumb through a bunch of artwork that looks closely related to Canvas Curse. The thing is, a lot of what shows up in the artwork wasn't in the first game. Ideas that were scrapped or ideas for the next game in the series? It's probably the former but a boy can dream about more fun with a pink ball and rainbow colors, can't he?
It's possible that if I could read Japanese this mystery would easily be solved as the cube has descriptions of each image, but I can't and Google Translator won't do Flash so the mystery remains!
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5:00 PM on 06.21.2009
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This is one the stupidest things I've read here and considering Sterling writes for this place, that's saying a lot, not sure what kind of joke you where going with this but its terrible. There's better ways to talk about how awesome Canvas Curse without making it sounds like gamers are a bunch of insecure losers.
And Canvas Curse was the best Kirby game in a long time, I really wanted a true sequel yet all we kept getting where easy as hell platformers, I like Kirby but he's been stale for a long time, the Canvas Curse game was exactly what the franchise needed and I hope we see another.
Hopefully they'll do a Galaxy 2, where the overspill from the first game makes a sequel. If it happens, it'll certainly make up for not making Kirby Superstar Ultra available in the UK anyway.
looking at the idea cube more one of the sides has the box art for the japanese box art of the first canvas curse, I'm coming to the conclusion that these are just scrapped ideas... unfortunately
The picture you mention is from Touch! Kirby, and it seems to be showing the development of that DS game. (Loose translation of description of the picture) "Because seeing interesting/fun things is important, [we] thought up various ways to move and fly around. For that reason, with the help of sketching we drew some fun schemes."
(Really loose translation, studied/studying Japanese for 2 years)