Unlock A Special Kirby Theme In Tetris 99 This Weekend

Celebrating the pink puff's return to Dream Land

by Liam Doolan Tue 18th Apr 2023

Tetris 99 has announced its next event is for Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, released on the Switch back in February.

This event will begin later this week on 21st April and will run until 24th April. If you participate and accumulate 100 points, you'll receive a new theme featuring background art, music, and Tetrimino designs inspired by the Kirby release.

If you've not tried out the Switch version of Kirby's Return to Dream Land just yet, we highly recommend it. There's also a free demo you can download via the Switch eShop, allowing up to four players to enjoy select stages and subgames.

Will you be participating in this upcoming event? Comment below.

Liam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He's been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief. He's also got a soft spot for Sonic the Hedgehog.

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FishyS
Tue 18th Apr 2023

Yay, Maximus Cups are always fun. I'm glad they're doing them more often again lately. And can never have too much Kirby.

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Sisilly_G
Tue 18th Apr 2023

There's also a free demo you can download via the Switch Online service.

This is implying that you need a NSO subscription to download the demo, which isn't the case.

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HammerGalladeBro
Tue 18th Apr 2023

Nice, can never have enough Tetris 99 themes. Right now I'm grinding for tickets for the default themes, thankfully I have the physical version so I can have 4 tickets a day and it should take me about 23 more days for the remaining 6 themes. I finally got all the Special Themes and the default Nintendo ones.

Hopefully Metroid Prime Remastered can have one too.

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ZZalapski
Tue 18th Apr 2023

This will be Kirby's 5th Tetris 99 theme, including three out of the last four. Nothing wrong with Kirby getting a theme for each game, but what about themes for Splatoon 3 or Pokémon Scarlet/Violet?

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DwaynesGames
Tue 18th Apr 2023

@ZZalapski Some of the T99 themes are too busy or the blocks are difficult to see. Kirby Star Allies, though, is one of my favorites. It has a very nice theme. It worked very well!

This one looks good too!

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DwaynesGames
Tue 18th Apr 2023

I half expected a Mario Movie theme. 😉

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DwaynesGames
Tue 18th Apr 2023

@ZZalapski I don’t think Pikmin 3 ever got a theme, either. Maybe Pikmin 4 will.

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Fizza
Tue 18th Apr 2023

The song choices this time around are so damn funny.

100 Players: The first level theme of the game.
50 Players: The happy-go-lucky amusement park side mode.
10 Players: LITERALLY ONE OF THE MOST SPOILERY SONGS IN THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE.

I mean they're all bangers but still; it's very funny.

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Grumblevolcano
Tue 18th Apr 2023

@ZZalapski They'll probably time Tetris 99 events near to the major DLC releases like they did for FE Engage. Splatoon 3 with Side Order, Pokemon Scarlet/Violet with The Indigo Disk, Xenoblade 3 with DLC wave 4.

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HammerGalladeBro
Tue 18th Apr 2023

I kind of wanted a Mario Strikers: Battle League theme that had the Mario Wins theme when you are Tetris Maximus and the Opposing Team Score theme when you lose.
I suppose for the music it could be
Theme 1 (99-51 players left): Lava Castle 1
Theme 2 (50-11 players left): Mushroom Hill 2
Theme 3 (10 players left): Golden Goal

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shoeses
Tue 18th Apr 2023

It's crazy because there's so many of these they could do and just don't. If there's no new games why not do Events for older ones? Why not do more repeat Events for ones people missed? There's so much they could be doing for Tetris 99 and it really feels like an afterthought.

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ZZalapski
Tue 18th Apr 2023

@shoeses Your last sentence can be applied to many games besides Tetris 99.

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Ganner
Tue 18th Apr 2023

I love this game and still regularly play it. However, as some have said since there are already a few Kirby themes I was looking forward to more variety. As we know a game's music can really add some spice to Tetris 99 so with games like Bayonetta 3, Astral Chain (especially in my opinion!), Metroid Prime (yeah I know there's already a Dread theme), and Doom 2016/Eternal are good examples I see lots of potential for fun themes. At first, I thought there would only be Nintendo system/first party exclusive themes however with the Monster Hunter Rise theme that opened the door to all sorts of possibilities in my mind.

Nothing against Kirby I'm happy for all the Kirby fans swimming in their fandom. I just believe there's all sorts of potential for good themes of a bigger variety instead of multiples of the same subject matter. Oh well it's not the biggest deal. Just my 2 cents.

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RupeeClock
Tue 18th Apr 2023

The Kirby themes tend to be the best for Tetris 99. They've got the best visuals and sound design that really carries the gameplay, and superb music tracks. I still keep using the Super Kirby Clash theme for that fantastic 10 players remaining track.

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BoFiS
Tue 18th Apr 2023

Nice, though I wish they'd put the past free themes up in the store so those of us who missed a couple can fill in the gaps

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