The previous 12 months 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 newest of the three to launch. Consideration is now turning to what the longer term holds for the franchise.
Kirby director Shinya Kumazaki addressed this to IGN at this 12 months’s Sport 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 newest Kirby launch was a remake, Kumazaki says that remakes gained’t simply occur for the sake of it. They wish to make it possible for 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 can 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. Nevertheless he did say that having 2D video games, 3D video games, or “one thing utterly completely different” are all issues which might be “inside scope” for HAL Laboratory’s future.
Kumazaki concluded the dialogue by saying that “you may need skilled it in the event you performed Forgotten Land, in that it’s not fairly open world. It’s actually a 3D recreation that basically makes use of, sort of inherits the playfulness and the convenience 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 transferring ahead is proceed to supply that distinctive 3D expertise, and never essentially be caught throughout the boundaries of current genres”.
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