Video: Brand New Trailer For Kirby Star Allies Shows Off 8 Playable Characters

I’m looking forward to playing this game. I have a few kids in the house who are probably the most excited about it.

Kirby! Woo!

I've been incredibly excited for this game since it was revealed! It's quite a good sight to see just how fleshed out the mixed abilities and friend helpers are. Actually, I do wonder just how good the AI will be. Amazing Mirror's Kirby AIs were always good for a laugh, but it gets frustrating after a time. Not a major complaint though.

That video was great, I'm a lot more hyped for the game now than I was . it's looking better than ever. I've never bought a Kirby game at launch before but I will be this time.

I've never played a Kirby game, but is there any in the series that's a genuinely great game? Serious question as I'd like to give the series a go. For example, the Wii U title looked a bit like a schedule-filler.

Only just came round to Kirby despite playing Nintendo since the NES. I have a huge appreciation of these games as my younger kids can play them as "entry level" platformers.

I love Planet Robobot and Kirby on the Wii. This will be a day one purchase for sure (I only haven't pre loaded as I know the kids will keep asking "when is it released?" )

@JohnnyC playing alone, it's a calm, fun 2D platformer. You may not lose a life through the entire game.

Personally I think the multilayer with younger kids is where the games shine.

@JohnnyC Most Kirby games are genuinely great. Kirby is one of those franchises that pretty much can't do wrong - even the spinoffs are very polished, creative, and full of content.
The best ones though are Kirby Super Star Ultra for the original DS (or its original version, Kirby Super Star for the SNES), and the three new core ones: Kirby's Return to Dream Land for the Wii, and Kirby Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot for the 3DS.

As a side note, out of the traditional games, Kirby's Adventure is also a definitive standout, it's easily one of the best NES games without a doubt, but the other ones mentioned added so much more.

Fire yo-yo guy reminded me of Kratos and he's the only 1 I want to play as now. 😆

So are these 8 limited to certain areas or to multiplayer or are they AI? Seems weird to me to need 8 characters, isn't that what the copy abilities are for? Unless the 4 player only allows for 1 Kirby, not 4. Which to me seems odd since copy abilities.

Anybody have a link to an article explaining how all this works? My son's pre-ordered the game recently and I'll play with them if we can do 3 player on the TV screen. Thanks.

Slick! This is a day one for me, loved Planet Robobot and still dig Mouse Attack for the old school Kirby flavours with a more up-to-date twist. Honestly can't wait.

@JohnnyC I really like Mouse Attack. I think it's called Squeak Squad in the US.

Visually this is looking quite beautiful. Sure, the art style is understandably simple, but what they’ve done with the lighting and texture effects is lovely. I’m very much looking forward to this as it heavily reminds me of Kirby Superstar, which is far and away my favorite Kirby game.

@JohnnyC My favourite Kirby is Epic Yarn on Wii.It was made by Goodfeel, the developers behind Yoshi's Wooly World and the new Yoshi coming to Switch later this year. It's probably the easiest game I've ever played as you can't die but it is great fun to play through.

Yep, hopefully getting this day one funds permitting. Loved the last two Kirby games I completed (Epic Yarn and Rainbow Paintbrush). Also got Planet Robobot in the house to play (my son is playing it through first), that's three for three in terms of quality. Here's hoping Star Allies continues that trend.

Thanks all. I've downloaded the snes title (super star) for now which seems to be quite good so far. See how I get on with it.

There was also a couple of new Tweets as well.

https://twitter.com/Kirby25thJP/status/956732151952650240

https://twitter.com/Kirby25thJP/status/956361011098824704

I think this looks great - I'd take Kirby Star Allies over Tropical Freeze, for sure. I just love the colour, characters and animations, and only hope the gameplay can match them.

At first I thought they showed off the fire yo-yo twice in the the video. Just realized they showed of the ice and fire(yep, I eat KitKats the wrong way. Just one big bite!) versions.

I haven't played a normal Kirby game in a long time. This is an itch that is going to be scratched at the right time. I'm too excited.

Not exactly a game that I cant wait for, but I know it'll be fun to play whenever I need a moment to just relax. With or without a friend.

first game to allow us to play other characters, besides Kirby in Single-Player? (AFAIK) if so, thats awesome! I've been excited for this game since it's reveal at E3 last year. now that there a release date. i can finally pre-order it!

I can't wait! It looks to be a lot of fun.

Can´t wait!!

Kirby is probably the most consistently high-quality series on Nintendo. None of the games are ever GOTY material, but very few games in the series, if any, are legitimately bad (compensating for the time of release, of course). My personal favorite is Kirby Super Star, as well as The Amazing Mirror. While I've outgrown being a passionate Kirby fan, I still appreciate the games and enjoy playing them with my son, and I'm sure Star Allies will be no different.

@NewAdvent Same could be said for Pokemon as well.

@TommyTLG lol, thought he meant Mass Attack and had a typo. Forgotten about the regional namings.

That looks soooo good. Can't wait to play!

Oh man! Those visualize look so good and cute! The section where they showed off the umbrella character, that beach with the lighting looks amazing! So excited to play this game!

can't wait !! buy on 1st day

Kirby is one of those games I wish I could play ever entry of, but I always seem to have something better to play at the time. But I feel I may have to clear some space in my gaming schedule for this one as I'm VERY HYPED to play it. Wish it had drop in/out online multiplayer, but ah well, I got at least one couch pal that would run it with me. Multiplayer games like this I just don't get the biggest kick out of playing alone.

So you can play as other characters, in single player. That's cool!

I can't wait for this game! I'm beyond happy that they're finally bringing back ability mixing! Kirby is my all time favorite gaming franchise!

@JohnnyC Like others have mentioned most kirby games are great, especially Kirby Super Star (and more specifically Super Star Ultra). I would have to recommend the 3 most recent games as well Return to Dreamland is the weakest out of Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot imo. I would put it like this Planet Robobot > Triple Deluxe > Return to Dreamland. Lastly on Epic yarn, it's more of a spin off title. It really isn't indicative of what the mainline games play like most of the time.

Looks cool but please a little more challenge this time!.

Looking forward to this! Comes out a couple days before my sons birthday so going to give him this and just ordered all the 5 Kirby amiibo to go with it. Can't wait!

always loved kirby since the nes/gb games.

i'll grab this one eventually and yoshi of course. i missed all yoshi's since the snes game.

Insta-buy

FINALLY another non-gimmick Kirby for a home console.
That music sucks though (not the tune, I loved the OST on the Gameboy). What I don't like are these pretentious orchestra versions of game music. And when Nintendo does them in this style, they seem to sound even more tacky. Like they just boot up Fruity Loops and use the cheapest orchestra sample pack.

Not sure why you would play anyone but Kirby...maybe they don't have 4 colors of Kirby this time around?

@JohnnyC Kibry Robobot is the best Kirby game of the last few years. Many people also really enjoyed Epic Yarn on the Wii, while the main game is really easy. Fully completing a level is really rewarding. Co-op play is really good on Epic Yarn and the other Kirby game on Wii. If you have kids these games are a must. The Wii U Kirby game is really good. It's creative and fun, but not everyone likes it. It is a sequel to a popular DS Kirby game (Canvas Curse which also available on the Wii U eShop), that requires using the stylus for player 1 almost the whole game. So you always are looking at the gamepad and never enjoying the beautiful game on the screen (but players 2-4 can). I would start with Robobot or Triple Deluxe on the 3DS, and if you want a console game (especially for co-op mode) get the Wii games Epic Yarn or Return to Dream Land (also available on the Wii U eShop).

@JohnnyC I'd say Triple Deluxe is the best Kirby game I've played

Haven't played a Kirby game since Epic Yarn, which was awesome. Always wanted to checkout Return to Dreamland but never did. This should be my first foray for quite a while. Tried Rainbow Paintbrush on WiiU but just couldn't rock with it.

Tired of Kirby games

@NewAdvent That’s kind of an annoying comment. “I don’t mind that Nintendo makes these games but I WISH THEY WOULDN’T MAKE THESE GAMES!” lol. The nice thing about video games (and every entertainment medium or art form, for that matter) is that ones we don’t like can coexist with ones that we do like, and the existence of ones we don’t like doesn’t detract in any way from the ones we do. Sorry, I just don’t understand literally hating a game because it doesn’t satisfy you personally.

And anyway, Kirby games and Yoshi games being developed doesn’t take up any of Nintendo’s bandwidth for making other games because they’re both made by second/third-party studios, not their core internal teams. But that doesn’t matter anyway, because it’s Nintendo’s prerogative to make whatever games they want to, and thankfully they have the capacity and resources to produce many games that appeal to more than just one specific preference. Which works out great for a lot of people, since many millions of people love Kirby and Yoshi games, myself included.

The yo yo guy looks like a robotic Ness. This game looks like every other Kirby game. But that's ok, because kirby games are a blast.🖒

As a dad gamer, I’m looking forward to this one. I’ve never played a Kirby game but I like the little critter all the same

@KIRO Never played Kirby? They are great games man...there are so many you can go back and play. As a Dad gamer myself, my son and I played Return to Dreamland on Wii like a million times. We love that game and still play it. I recommend most Kirby games, especially that one to play with your kids, and this one looks like it won’t disappoint.

@Prof_Yoshtonics Return to Dreamland was great. If you still have a Wii or Wii U, you should pick it up cheap somewhere. It’s a blast.

@eaglesfly76 Cool. I have my WiiU still hooked up. It's on the VC for download for $20, which isn't bad. It seems to still retain it's price physically. When I see it it's usually going for $30 or more. I may try it out but with Star Allies right around the corner, I may just go for that one.

Can’t go wrong with either decision. Enjoy it if you play it though!

HECK YEAH