The previous yr was a busy one for Kirby followers. Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Kirby’s Dream Buffet and Kirby’s Return To Dreamland Deluxe have all launched over the course of the previous 12 months. Kirby’s Return To Dreamland Deluxe, a remake of the unique that launched on the Wii, is the latest of the three to launch. Consideration is now turning to what the long run holds for the franchise.
Kirby director Shinya Kumazaki addressed this to IGN at this yr’s Recreation Builders Convention. There, Kumazaki talked about that, whereas he can’t give any concrete plans for Kirby’s future, he mentions that HAL Laboratory’s aim is at all times to “present a brand new gameplay expertise”. Though the latest Kirby launch was a remake, Kumazaki says that remakes gained’t simply occur for the sake of it. They wish to be sure that there’s one thing new added to the sport. For instance, Kirby’s Return To Dreamland Deluxe had the Merry Magolor theme park and Magolor Epilogue.
That wasn’t all that was mentioned. Kumazaki additionally addressed whether or not there will probably be a combination 2D and 3D video games going ahead. Kumazaki, as soon as once more, didn’t say a lot in regards to the matter. Nonetheless he did say that having 2D video games, 3D video games, or “one thing fully totally different” are all issues which can be “inside scope” for HAL Laboratory’s future.
Kumazaki concluded the dialogue by saying that “you might need skilled it should you performed Forgotten Land, in that it’s not fairly open world. It’s actually a 3D recreation that actually makes use of, sort of inherits the playfulness and the benefit of play of 2D Kirby video games. And that’s a singular 3D expertise that we wish to present. And so what we wish to do shifting ahead is proceed to supply that distinctive 3D expertise, and never essentially be caught throughout the boundaries of present genres”.
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