Kirby's Dream Buffet Rolls Out Worldwide Release Date

Kirby is definitely one of Nintendo's more experimental series. I'm excited to give this one a go.

Hopefully it will be a worldwide release

@AlanaHagues Costs 1500yen so about 10 euros, pounds, dollars... might want to add to the story

From the presentation:

It's like the old days, Japan getting it early so that when the western release comes out we just get mullered by them as they have had so much more practice.
@Clyde_Radcliffe ? I thought it was going to be free, huh maybe I wont be playing it then, ah well

@Bunkerneath Nope, they never said it was free...

@Bunkerneath Might be included in the Switch Online subscription?

@Quarth Maybe free for people with the expansion pack but I don't know as they've already given us a lot of stuff for Mario Kart, Splatoon 2, Animal Crossing...

You can eat a car, a boat, and all your enemies, it’s fine. There’s always room for dessert.

This looks adorable. I hope we get to play this and I would think so.

Do Japanese trailers have all English text? If I wasn't told this was only confirmed for release in Japan and I saw that trailer I probably would have assumed it was announcing it for NA, EU or both.

@Ellie-Moo
The trailer is American, it has an American age rating.

It seems like the article writer meant that a date's only been confirmed for Japan, while everywhere else is still waiting to hear a date.

Eh, we'll probably get this around the same date. Though a Wednesday release would be weird. Who do they think they are, Microsoft?

This should've been free with the expansion pass, such a missed opportunity. Could've had a much bigger player base from it as well.

Can't wait to play 😃

Love how the UK gets a 50% mark-up on the price…

Glad they're pricing this reasonably.

Kirbatamary.

I might pick it up. I think it’s a huge missed opportunity to not include 4-player local play as that would have been an insanely fun local-multiplayer game. My guess is the Switch couldn’t handle it without nuking the visuals or frame rate, at least in the split-screen races. Online same-system co-op is the only thing making me consider it now as it does seem like it could be a lot of fun.

$14.99 sounds like an okay price but I'm waiting for reviews before I buy.

Can never have enough Kirby!

It reminded me of Fall Guys, too. Definitely picking it up.

this should be a free e-shop release but obviously Nintendo are stingy

Looks interesting but I'm a little disappointed this wasn't more like a Captain Toad type of game with a full single player campaign included.

Also, like others have said, I am surprised this isn't an Expansion Pass + title for NSO.

@Dev9417 I think it’s implied in the game code of a previous title (Return to Dreamland) that the hand in the game over screen is also called master hand. A hand glove has been present since the first game on gameboy as well. Also Master Hand’s attacks come from the Wham Bam boss fight from Kirby Super Star. So these hands have some history in Kirby.

It has been a good year for our favourite pink ball.

And for that, I am glad .

@DeathByLasagna At least you can play 2-player local co-op. But 4 player local would've been better.

Not gonna lie, for reals thought this was free to play.
Maybe because the market has so many similar things that are free to play?
That being said, it seriously diminishes the chances of me playing this. Not cause I think it's bad, just that... I'll wait for a sale at best.

It’s on my wishlist now, but who am I kidding? This is day one buy for me.

Here we go, Kirby Guys!

@gaga64
i think VAT accounts for some of that. Though the game seems quite more expensive in the US as well, i wonder why?

@acNewUpdates that makes sense I guess.

Maybe localisation costs as well? Though to be honest I’d have thought that, unless a localisation of a given game is unlikely, they’d bake those costs into the overall production expenses at the early planning stage, and spread the cost across all regions. But I know nothing about how they assess costs on these things.

I was 100% sure this was free to play when I saw the trailer. Pass.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Kirby's dream course yet. This looks like a food themed spiritual successor, which excites me.

@MeatSauce if it was "free-to-play" the game would not be as fun nor would it have this much content in it. The pricing is reasonable, perhaps even a bit cheaper than it would be since they could have fairly priced it at $20 if they wanted to so it is definitely on the affordable side imo.

@MrCreosote Kirby's Dream Course is a golf game, this is more of a Gourmet Race game so other than the Kirbies being round balls, the games are nowhere near the same. If anything, this is more of a spiritual successor to the Gourmet Race mini-game from within Kirby SuperStar.

@Chibi_Manny
There was a brief glimpse of how the Kirbys are launched in the clip as well, which looked like it might be similar to dream course

@MeatSauce You only like free-to-play (a misnomer, surely?) games?

Not once did Nintendo ever imply this would be a F2P game, that was solely your hypothesis. I know using this word is a surefire way to garner hate and get yourself labelled as a shill but you a lot of you in the comment section are being extremely entitled right now.

I mean, yea, I'm probably gonna have to play this. Will probably ditch Fall Guys since the only things I didn't like about Fall Guys was the aesthetics/designs. So, this totally fixes that.

@Skunkfish
I never said that. I said this looks like a free to play & it does. I’m not interested in paying money for that type of game.

$15?...dam..I thot this was gonna be f2p

If they're are more courses than I guess $15 isn't so steep. But if it was just that one course than yeah we got a problem.

The eShop says "1-4 Players". Does this mean you can play alone against CPU's?

@MeatSauce But they need to make money from it somehow?

And surely, it's better to have an up front price than milking people for money via the usual F2P practices.

I hate that the largest part of game design at the moment is how to hook people in and extract as much cash as possible out of them...

I refuse to even start to play F2P games now, as I know at some point they're going to make it increasingly awkward to carry on playing without forking out a continuous stream of cash....

$14 is basically free. That's like one fast food combo. This looks fun

This game is:

(1) Online only?
(2) online + offline game modes split screen?