Kirby Star Allies Will Receive Free Updates Adding Fan-Favourite Playable Characters

YEEAAAAHH WHAT A FANSERVICE
Im so happy im now definitly sold on this game

Free.......lol

I won't be buying this game at launch, certainly not paying €60 for what will most likely be a short, easy game. And I'd wait for reviews before blindly saying I'm buy it.

You're telling me these characters won't be locked in lootcrates?!?! Boo Nintendo!!1!

Jokes aside, this is really nice fan service. Gotta love the Dreamland 2 and 3 callbacks.

Bring on the cuteness!

Bring on Adeleine, please! <3

Rick! Can't wait to give these guys a shot. They just look so adorable!

This was such a nice little announcement. There have been so many awesome supporting characters in Kirby games over the years and it’ll be great to play as them. I’m fully expecting characters like Adeleine, Prince Fluff, Magolor and Ribbon in future updates.

As an old school Kirby fan, this is pure hype.

This was one of my top 3 moments of the Direct. They're all so adorably cute! So happy the game is only a week away and unlike Bayonetta 2, I should be getting on launch day from Amazon Prime! 😁

All of them look cute.
Eh... except that Blue Slime with crossed eyes. Looked weird.

I haven't really played enough Kirby games. I really, really should go back and play a bunch of these, I owe it to myself because the series is so good and adorable and gosh, I can just slap myself silly for not playing these enough. But I still recognize all of these (thankfully, I don't disappoint myself completely, yay!) and actually did get me kind of excited! Didn't expect them to be free even so that was a great treat as well!

Forgot Kirby was even in the ND yesterday until I saw this. Well I kind of knew it was but coudln't recall what they showed.

I can't believe people are so excited about this. I am so in the minority these days with game DLC. I just want to get the game Day 1, play it, finish it, and move on to the next. Now I'll be waiting to play it until they announce they are done adding free characters.

New characters are good, but just put them in the game at release.

Oh well, old dog, new tricks. At least they are free. Free is nice when you have to pay $60 to get the base game.

£34.99 when you order online and collect instore at Smyth's toys.

Kirby fanservice is the best fansevrice.

Extremely excited about them. Marx especially.
I'm absolutely predicting Adeline, Magolor, taranza, and Susie, maybe Daroach and possibly Pince Fluff. I guess some others are possible as well, like Galacta Knight, Dark Meta Knight, Elline, Drawcia, Claycia, Ribbon, Gryll... The possibilities are endless.

Played the demo, it wasn’t bad. Maybe not a day 1 purchase but I’ll probably get it. Eventually.

Adeleine, Ribbon, Magolor, Prince Fluff, Susie and Elline would be the other six I want. Nago, Pitch, and Chuchu will probably come as well I'd assume.

@rjejr I don't understand? Sure some games have had a bad tendency to seemingly strip content from a game just to sprinkle it on later, but I think you are generalizing sir. Like you've felt so harrassed by dlc that any dlc at this point is a sore point.

This is just a fun bit of fanservice that adds to what will likely be a great Kirby adventure. It doesn't change the base game, just gives the player a chance to reminisce with old favourites. I can easily imagine that HAL didn't orginally plan to put these guest characters in, but post production decided it would be nice.

I forgot that it was coming out next week until the direct reminded me. I have to put that on my wishlist for now since I promised myself not to buy a new Kirby game until I complete an older one (planet robobot).

If they release Nago in the next update, it will be extra ammunition to convince my friend to buy a switch.

I'M GONNA LOVE PLAYING AS MARX!

I am beyond excited for this! I cannot wait to play as rick coo and kine again. Its been over 20 years since the last time they were playable. This makes me so happy!

YES! The animal buddies are finally back for real,
not just as cameoes!

@Platinumhobo "I can easily imagine that HAL didn't orginally plan to put these guest characters in, but post production decided it would be nice."

But the problem is, I can also easily imagine a bunch of head honchos up at Nintendo corporate HQ saying:

"Look, kids these days are easily distracted and quick to move on. We have a great little game here in Kirby but it's short and kids will forget about it within a week, how do we keep them coming back for more?
Horse armor?
um, no.
New levels and areas?
No, too much work.
How about all those fan service characters we hid in the game as unlockables we take out and dole out a couple every month for the rest of the year?
Yeah, ok, let's go with that.

It wasnt' that long ago, think back to SSBB, that characters were unlocked in a game as you played it. SSB4 was the 4th game, hence the 4, yet the first that had characters after the game. Why can't these characters be unlockable but in the game from the start?

I know this isn't SSB, it's Kirby, but I just want to play a game and be done w/ it. All of these after the fact DLC just make me want to wait until their done. I know there's nothing I can do about it, thats' gaming this gen, and last, but I thought Kirby would be spared.

Guess I should just be happy I don't have to pay $12 per amiibo to unlock them. amiibo's are as dead as Wii U. Well more dead than 3DS anyway.

Abdomen blow HAL... now I have to buy this.

@rjejr but... why would they WANT kids to play the game longer (especially since rolling out updates is slightly more work than just including them if they’re already finished)? It’s more profitable for developers to have players finish games quickly so they buy even more games quicker, not to mention reviews tend to be based on the content in the game upon release (meaning having said content in the base game would only improve reviews, never hurt them). If it was paid DLC or an online game with servers to populate, that’d be one thing, but there’s little reason for them to withhold free content for the sole reason of getting people to replay an offline game.

The demo turned me off on this game as I was worried it would be light in content (as Kirby games usually are). The Direct is making me reconsider, I at least am waiting for more info... I want to know if there will be new levels to go with these added characters along with game length. Playable Marx makes it so hard to say no...

@Dev since when does anyone actually die in a Kirby game? We’ve seen plenty of bosses blow up and come back later!

@Krisi don't forget the small possibility of character's from the tv series.

@ShadJV "but there’s little reason for them to withhold free content for the sole reason of getting people to replay an offline game."

There's only 1 reason, and 1 that matters to me a lot, marketing.

Every time they release new DLC there's a new article on NL and all the other websites that cover the game. And when people read that article they remember, "oh wait, I was supposed to buy that game but something came up." Or they remember to buy ti as a gift for their kid or niece or nephew. I'm sure it's a lot cheaper to put out one character and soak up all the free publicity that comes along with it then pay for actually advertising and make TV commercials.

Plus, if you put out enough characters over the summer and fall for a spring game, when Christmas rolls around you can then release the same game again and call it "Complete" and people who missed it before get ti again. If they dont' do that, selling a $60 game again for $60 w/ all the parts included, they then need to sell it for $30 on the Selects line.

So that's why, constant marketing. And it also keeps it in the mind of the gamer who did buy it. Maybe they think to tell their friend to buy it when they see the new DLC. Or maybe they want to go buy a Kirby amiibo or a Kirby game on 3DS.

Marketing. Very cheap, practically free if they cut the characters out of the already finished game, marketing.

@edgedino Yeah, that's possible... But I wouldn't really like it.

..... and the point of downloading these characters for free rather just having then already in the game is....

1. It was an after thought.
2. Free stuff sounds good
3.Some folks really do think that collecting virtual stuff is really collecting stuff really.

Don't trust HIM.

Gooey was also in Dreamland 2, he just wasn't playable.

Anyway, I'm freaking ecstatic to see these characters return. I've always been a big fan of them. Hoping to see the other companions from Dreamland 3 in the future.

Maybe in the next update, Nintendo will fix the 30fps bug haha

@rjejr I don't know dude, it just seems like other game's practices have made you weary.
I think of a game like MH; they always do a bunch of post release dlc. And given the nature of it, I always figure it was ideas they had that just didn't make the deadline for the base game. The dlc is never a real selling point to most, but it does give the players you already roped in more reason to play.

Also, it's a Kirby game. There's always unlockables. These guest characters are something new for a Kirby game and I am as certain as I can be about an unreleased game that we will still have plenty to unlock. Alternate version of the story, minigames, post game, Arena, etc.

Blown away. Loved Rick, Kine, and Coo! I can't believe Marx is playable!

As fun as it sounds I hope it isn't mandatory. I want as few update-stuff on my Switch as possible, simply because it eats up my memory-space and I still can't store my save-files on a memory-stick (or even better, on the game-cards themselves).

@Platinumhobo "it just seems like other game's practices have made you weary."

FFXV broke me. The game I bought day 1, the single player JRPG, bares little resemblance to the Royal Ed released last week. I bought the season pass with the game at release. Now I would need to pay another $15 for the Royal pack DLC. And they are also working on more DLC perhaps into 2019 that I'll need to pay more for. All for a game that took them 10 years to release after it was announced as FFvsXIII. Had I know this wasn't a game, it was an episodic tv show, I never would have purchased it.

FFXV may be an outliner, there may never be another game like it, but it broke me, and yes now I am weary before buying any game. At least the Mario Luigi balloon challenge meant nothing to the main game, neither did "find Mario stickers" in Captain Toad. And these extra characters probably won't change anything in Kirby either, but I'll probably wait to play it in single player just the same. I will be playing mutliplayer with my kids starting this weekend, that will just be for a fun time with my kids, not really caring about the game content at that point.

This is the one part of an amazing Direct that had me out of my chair, screaming with crazed delight. I never expected this to happen but am so glad it is!

Being able to play as the animal buddies, Gooey and even Marx... unbelievably awesome! This is looking set to the best Kirby yet, an I have high hopes that it might be the game to finally compete against Kirby's Fun Pak as my all time favourite video game (surprisingly on a system I've yet to truly care for).

@rjejr FFXV....I totally get it man. You're not the only one upset about that whole "ordeal"

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
"short easy game"
>5 hours for just 3 worlds according to a person with a full version of the game
>person saying this has clearly never played a kirby game's final boss or it's true arena

@adude "It’s not an overly long game, clocking in at six or so hours depending on how much time you spend seeking out the various secrets."

http://cogconnected.com/review/kirby-star-allies-review/

Use Google translate, but HobbyConsolas say it's very short.

https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/reviews/analisis-kirby-star-allies-exclusivo-nintendo-switch-193770

"For the average player, most will breeze through Star Allies in four to six hours."

https://press-start.com.au/reviews/nintendo-switch/2018/03/15/kirby-star-allies-review-cute-chaotic/

"The rather brief quest ends right as the level design begins to come into its own."

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/14/17115594/kirby-star-allies-review-nintendo-switch

"Just be aware that it’s also super easy and reaches the end in a handful of hours."

http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/2018-03-14-kirby-star-allies-recensione