In case you missed it, Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn was recently released on the 3DS. This is an enhanced version of the 2010 Wii title. As with all of its software releases, Nintendo made a number of appropriately-themed goodies for this game available over on the rewards website, My Nintendo.
One of these was a computer screen wallpaper featuring the pink puffball and Prince Fluff against a bright and colourful backdrop.
As normal as it sounds, once you actually look at the image of the wallpaper, which is no longer available to purchase for 50 platinum points on the My Nintendo America website, you'll see there is actually a small Fortnite logo in the top left corner.
We've got no idea what is going on here and how this even happened in the first place. Surely it's an error rather than a teaser of things to come. While there have been a lot of Nintendo-themed battle royale suggestions since the release of Tetris 99, we can't say we've heard anyone mention a game like this for Kirby. Who knows, though, crazier things have happened.
What do you make of this? Is it royale a slip-up? Would you actually be keen for a Kirby and Fortnite cross-over? Would you rather a standalone Kirby battle-royale? Tell us down in the comments.
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The reward is no longer available.
Dang.
That's a little odd of Nintendo to do that. Maybe it's a situation like when the SMB ROM used in the VC release was from the internet, and they've just taken an image found online, or maybe it was a mistake.
Kirby Fortnite crossover incoming. You can't hide it from us now, Nintendo.
Play as Kirby on the Nintendo Switch only! Instead of shooting the opponent you swallow them whole to gain their abilities.
Either Fortnite Yarn expansion or the latest Kirby Battle Royale game from 3DS will make the jump to Switch, 3D graphics, over 50 players on a large island, that kind of thing
The crossover no one asked for nor wanted.
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Ugh...
Fortnite...
Someone left a Photoshop layer visible.
How absolutely (extra) epic.
Well... Kirby battle royal was on the 3DS.
"One of these was a computer screen wallpaper featuring the pink puffball with one of the enemies from the game against a bright and colourful backdrop."
What do you have against Prince Fluff??? I dont remeber him being a enemy??
Or the person who made the article didnt play the game??
@DrawnRed I don't know who Prince Fluff is. Do you know who Mantorok is?
When cancer spreads........to everything
I thought Kirby Battle Royale already was a thing.
@DrawnRed Yeah, Mr. Doolan has it all wrong. Though the prince looks a little angry with his eyebrows, he's a kind soul.
@twadebarcelona That was finally proven a myth actually. The ROM they used the same encoding system as the public one, but someone managed to find subtle differences in how it had been ripped that proved it wasn't actually taken from the internet.
Remember when Fortnite was rumored to be coming to the Switch and almost every article was about Fortnite for a week?
This reminds me of then but in an acceptable dosage.
I know sometimes watermarks from certain assets can accidentally get slipped in to a game from time to time due to user error. But I'm still trying to wrap my brain around how this even came to be. Like... did the graphic designer working on this wallpaper just keep all his designs in a single photoshop file, and just turn off the layers from projects he's not using, and forgot to hide the logo layer? Was it a petty move from a Fortnite fanboy who hates Kirby? Was this an intentionally placed logo teasing the plot of the next Kirby game? None of it makes sense!!
@link3710 Thanks for letting me know. I hadn't seen anything saying that there had been differences found, only the original articles online about it, so this is the first I heard about this.
@twadebarcelona
I heard somewhere that it actually wasn't a pirated (downloaded) room and I think the source of that statement was kinda reliable, but I don't remember the actual explanation for the confusion.
"One of these was a computer screen wallpaper featuring the pink puffball with one of the enemies from the game..."
He's not an enemy, he's player 2.
"Would you rather a standalone Kirby battle-royale?"
Ahem...
Poor old prince fluff. Kirby steals his thunder by usurping his game and now hes downgraded further to some enemy.
@AlohaPizzaJack Prince Fluff was, if I recall correctly, the player 2 character in co-op mode. Not something you forget if you played it. Neither is Mantorok, dying a slow and torturous death somewhere below the ruins of a temple, reduced to feeding on flesh and bone, but not forgotten.
edit: as said in the above comment, it was from what I've read even originally the main character of the game, before they decided to make it a Kirby game.
@twadebarcelona um, actually.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCro3FHKdHA&t=100 turns out there is doubt that it happened that way and makes perfect sense.
The only way this makes any sense to me is if Nintendo outsourced their graphic design stuff for My Nintendo rewards, but I thought they didn't? Odd lol.
@JFizDaWiz Thanks. Someone else already mentioned this.
NoA must outsource graphic designers from the same place Epic does.
@TF-Warrior Now I blame you, because I can't stop watching it.
Kirby Battle Royale coming to Fortnite.
Did anyone manage to get the wallpaper? Does it actually have a Fortnite logo?
Ok... so the wallpaper is back on the website. They removed the Fortnite watermark. The reason is, there is actually a Fortnite wallpaper. They put the watermark on the wrong one.
Fortnite graphic of some description was made in the same size, they duplicated the file across to work on the Kirby wallpaper and forgot to remove that layer. Actually fairly common to duplicate files like that.
Definitely seems like the most likely explanation to me!
There, ruined!
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