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a waste of huge money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game to me is the worst kirby game out there. i am a kirby fan but this is not worth no 34.99 or 29.99. Because you can beat it in one day instead rent it. this game is the worst of them all, why dont they make a remake of kirby superstar instead of this crap. canvas curse is better than this. The controls are good but i expected something like kirby and the crystal shards which you can also beat in one day also but at least theres 3d graphics to come back to.Pretty much if you're going to get it rent it dont buy it.This should be done with almost all kirby games because most are short except for air ride.

Dissapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is kinda fun, but it is very different. First, it's not like canvas curse that you use the DS at it's full capacity. It's a traditional game, which uses the face buttons. The game is good all kirby games are good, but this one is kinda repetitive and it is not as half as fun as the other ones. It has new cool powers like magic, cupid etc. If I would have known that this game was like this I wouldn't have buyed it at the price listed above...

same thing as always

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

when i saw this on tv i thought it looked cool and decided to get it
so when i got at first i liked it but after i beat in like 45 minutes i was bored with it. i mean sure theres a mix thing but the only powers you can mix is ice with bomb and sword with thunder,ice,or fire and no you dont interact with the enviorment exept destroy grass and dig so nitendo really needs to create something different. But i guess if you never owned a kirby game and want one then fine get it.

A 1 day game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Here's my son's review:

This game is fun, but short. However, it is a must for Kirby fans. The playing style is different and changing the enviroment is great. The only thing is, you will beat the game in 1 day.

On Backorder until JULY! Try Best Buy or any other source.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: January 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I disappointed my daughter on her January 2 birthday, since I was not able to get Kirby Squeak Squad. Before and since then, I've been in search with no luck. I ordered it from Best Buy with an expected two-week turnaround. I hope they are right! Waiting until JULY is just too much! Amazon isn't the only source out there.....

It was a present

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Purchased this item as an XMAS gift. Receiver truly appreciated and enjoyed the gift.

Kirby is great... but not this one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Kirby is a GREAT franchise, Kirby is a great and original character, and the man who created Kirby is one of the masterminds behind Super Smash Bros. However, this game is lacking. In Kirby, you swallow enemies to get different abilities so that you can fight enemies. That is still there. The great feeling of controlling the pink puffball is also still here. However, the level designs feel repeated, and the difficulty of the game is WAAAY too easy. Even for a Kirby game. The story-line (even though no Kirby has that great of a story other than Canvas Curse) is very weak. At the beginning, Kirby is about to eat a piece of cake, when the Squeak Squad steals it. So he chases and you have the game. At the end (which comes relatively quickly, even for a Kirby game) all he does is eat his cake. He didn't even seem to help any other people!
The usage of the touchscreen is almost unbearable. Technically, what is on the touchscreen is, well, Kirby's stomach. Here you can store bubbles of copy abilities and mix abilities. However, this is way too hard to try and do. And the limited space is confusing as well as the fact of there being no use of storing more than one copy ability. Oops for Hal Labs.
They added what seemed to be nothing new, other than an excruciating new touch screen play, which is not good. I believe some of the music has been used before in more than one Kirby. The story-line is short, and not good. But worst of all, there seems to be no "fresh" material in this game at all! It feels overused... Sorry. I LOVE Kirby, but this seems to be the worst of the crop.
Your friend in gaming,
CPU12 The Nintendo Freak

Doesn't paint the Canvas Curse masterpiece, but still a treat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 28 / 33
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Kirby's Canvas Curse was a Nintendo DS sleeper and one of the highest-rated Nintendo DS games in early 2005. One of the first fully-featured Nintendo DS games, Canvas Curse showed what the DS could do with lots of touch screen innovation, creative graphics, and deep gameplay features. Kirby Squeak Squad, Kirby's sophomore DS effort, is nothing like its predecessor. It is instead much more like the NES, SNES, N64, and Game Boy adventures of this beloved ballooning Nintendo character, and as a result it offers much of the same.

Strawberry shortcake is quite a tasty morsel. With this in mind, one must understand why Kirby is so inclined to tracking down and finding the thief of his delicious treat. After finding out that the normally devious King Dedede is innocent of charge, Kirby discovers the Squeak Squad, a menacing band of baddies, is responsible. This leads to his trek through eight cute, colorful worlds in search of his dessert. The story is so bare-bones that it's hard to call it anything but ridiculous and unimportant, but one must ask how important a 2D platformer's storyline really is in the first place.

With the 2D platformer standards already in sight, Kirby hits on all cylinders: the levels are fun and have a great design. Enemies fill up every one of them, some hidden in walls for an extra challenge. Kirby's suck-things-up skills come in handy like always, and there are more than 20 abilities to help the little guy get through each level and defeat his countless enemies. These abilities are mostly familiar; you'll spit fire, blow ice, and even emit sparks. Rather than only destroying enemies, some abilities affect your environment-for example, blowing ice over lava keeps the molten substance from burning Kirby. Another perk this time around is that Kirby can keep up to five abilities or items stored in his stomach, and using the touch screen, the player can combine things to form other abilities or items. I'd have liked to see more abilities, though. This is where Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards really excelled; letting the player combine several different skills for really fun effects. How could I forget Fridge Kirby?

Kirby Squeak Squad doesn't offer much depth to its formula and rarely strays from what's worked in the past. One could go as far as to say that it's simply an update from the GBA titles, and those that really enjoyed Canvas Curse will be disappointed to find that the amount of gameplay modes and the depth found in each is noticeably missing here. Kirby Squeak Squad is as short as any Kirby game, too, clocking in at about five or six hours for a trip through each of the eight worlds. In its defense, there are collectibles that serve as a bonus for exploring each level. By finding treasure chests scattered through the worlds, you'll unlock things like enhanced abilities (throw a bigger Cutter!) and even different Kirby colors (paint him Green!) This extends the length of the game a few hours, but I only missed a few treasure chests in each world, so they're not much of a pain to go back and get.

Kirby has a distinct style and this style was preserved very well in Canvas Curse, despite the major functional change. Squeak Squad has no excuse to mess this up, and it doesn't. The visuals are crisp, clean, colorful, and are 2D greatness. Kirby and everything in his world animates very well. The abilities yield some decent 2D effects. I'd have liked to see some 3D here and there, though-if a game like Super Mario 64 DS can deliver a totally-3D experience, I'd imagine a game like Kirby could integrate some 3D into its style, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards looked great. The music and sound effects have Kirby written all over them, so series fans will find a lot of familiar sounds and such.

Kirby Squeak Squad is no Canvas Curse, but it's another great platform effort for the DS and yet another solid Kirby title. Though they seem to come out by the year, Kirby games always generate some excitement with younger crowds (partially thanks to the television series) and I'd imagine that age group will really enjoy this title as much as the others. One might notice that I gave Kirby Squeak Squad the same score as I gave Yoshi's Island DS. Both are solid DS platformers, and I'd say they're interchangeable-if you're into the Kirby series, check out Kirby. If you're into the classic Yoshi's Island, try that one. If you want to try both, by all means, it's no mistake on your part. Despite its shortcomings, Kirby is a fun game that joins New Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi's Island DS for a very solid trio of Nintendo platform games.

The multi-talented pink puffball returns to the DS with a rather easy platform game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

(Scroll to the bottom for point-form pros and cons of the game.)

I have to start off with a warning -- Kirby Squeak Squad is an incredibly teeth-rotting, sickeningly cute game. And for those that played Canvas Curse, be aware that Kirby's brought back his old platforming style for this one.

Visually, it's vibrant, colourful, and has those old school sprites that many of us older gamers welcome and are used to. Musically, it has all the cute little Kirby tunes that should be familiar for veteran Kirby gaming fans; the tunes are simple, fun, whimsical, and "childish" which perfectly compliments the little pink puffball.

The story of Kirby Squeak Squad is very simple: Someone steals Kirby's shortcake and he's out to find out who and get it back! Since it's a platformer, you really can't expect some complex, mind-provoking plot, can you? :P Plus, it's Kirby who, in recent years, seems more and more targeted at the younger, pre-teen crowd anyway.

The game has you guiding Kirby through 8 colourful yet dangerous worlds. He comes with his standard abilities which are jumping, ballooning-and-arms-flapping-to-fly, and, of course, inhaling and copying enemy skills. The gimmick this time is that you can carry more than one ability -- but only if you found them in bubbles. Up to 5 bubble items or abilities are stored in the copy palette which is on the bottom/touch screen of the DS. Touch an ability bubble within the palette and Kirby will don the headwear or costume of the one you chose thus gaining a new ability. Touch an item bubble and he'll reap the healing or life-extending benefits of it! The player is also free to mix them to get new items and abilities. (There are some exceptions though.)

It should be noted that this game is very VERY friendly in that it practically holds your hand when it comes to problem solving. For example, if you're about to head into a boss battle, Copy Ability bubbles will readily be available outside for you to use and these are usually the ones needed to defeat the boss. However, from experience, it's a good idea to mix these bubbles together to get another ability. (Tip: Tornado, although it can be hard to control, is a sure-way to take down bosses without receiving much damage. Trial and error in mixing can get you the ability if it's not available as a bubble or from the tornado enemy.) And if you need to get a chest that's seemingly impossible to reach -- no worries! There's an enemy nearby with the ability you can use to get it!

The helpfulness continues when you complete a stage by allowing you to freely enter and leave after picking up 1-Up items, as well as bubble items and abilities. Indeed, there's no need to replay the stage from start till end to keep those items. This is extremely handy if you just loaded up a save game since Kirby defaults to having 3 lives (1 in use and 2 extras) and has no special abilities.

Kirby Squeak Squad also features four single/multi-player sub-games for up to 4 players. (All participants don't need the game to play as they're downloadable off the player with the game card.) The game allows you to play 3 of them right from the start but the 4th one is a post-game unlockable bonus. The default mini-games are all based on reflexes and judgement; the first one has you grabbing shortcakes before the opponent(s), the second one features bumper-stars where you can ram foes off the platform while zipping around on a star, and the third one's all about shooting as much food as you can within 30 seconds. The unlockable sub-game is an endurance boss rush mode where you get to fight all the bosses in the game in succession without extra lives or anything. Unfortunately, none of these sub-games reward you for your efforts. In fact, it doesn't even maintain a high scores list.

Lastly, there are A LOT of things to collect in this game such as sounds, spray paints for Kirby, scrolls to upgrade abilities and more -- all of which are obtained through the various chests scattered across the worlds. Each stage has tiny chests under its number to indicate the amount of chests that are in that stage. Note that there are five particular chests that contain seals that are needed to continue on after world 7 so grabbing all chests is a good idea! Or you can just check a walkthrough/guide to figure out which ones you need. :P

Overall, the game is a lot of fun but simple (thanks to the hand-holding approach) and unfortunately, sort of short. A lot of gamers seem to be able to finish the game within just a few hours to under 2 days. Of course, those are the ones that don't have butterfingers and are platform game veterans. Sadly to say, I'm neither. :/

PROS:
- Vibrant and colourful
- Very cute (this could be a con, I guess)
- Fun soundtrack
- Familiar Kirby gameplay
- New mixing items and abilities system
- Lots of things to collect

CONS:
- Game guides you in overcoming barriers and bosses (could be a pro?)
- Short game
- Should have more sub-games or at least had incentive prizes that could be added to the collection or used in-game

A great kirby game that's a little too easy.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The story is that kirby is about to take a bite out of that delious strawberry short cake then all of a sudden something comes out of no where and steals it. Then kirby relises that the cake is gone and blames on no other than King DeDeDe. Then kirby goes to DeDeDe's castle to get his cake back. But what kirby dosn't relise that the mousers were the ones that really stole the cake and that King DeDeDe has nothing to do with what happened to the cake. In this game, you can store certain amounts of items and powerups in kirby's stomach. You can use these items and powerups whenever you want. You can mix items and powerups to get certain things like a 1-up, A tomatoe, a radom power up, or a special power like the thunder sword altho both the sword and the elaments thunder, ice, and fire must have special scroles in order to get the elament swords. This mixing ability was in kirby 64 before but this system is not as active as the one in kirby 64 but is going in the right step. You can efect certain things in this game such as cooling the lava to make platforms. You can collect chests that are in the levels(except the very first one) and when you touch the larger chests a mouser will come out and try to get the chest from or will already try to get the chest that's wide open. When you get the chest, you have to run to the exit with it or you have to fight them in order to get the chest back. In ordewr to get to the last two worlds, you must have all the star selers and in order to get them you must keep collecting the chests until you have all the star selers. The final boss is a dissapointment. It looks like a giant star with one eye and is easier than nightmare and darkmind. The backgrounds and sprites are great. The music is very good. I like the new halberd theme, king DeDeDe, and doroche's boss music. There is one power up that owns all boses and that's the tornadoe. This game was great and was in the right step but was just too easy. If you're a fan of the kirby series than buy this game or rent it first.

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