Kirby's Rainbow Resort

"High above the skies the Mirror World needs help! A shadowy figure is unleashing chaos in a peaceful world. Meta Knight flies into Mirror World to protect Dreamland. However..." (Shows MK breaking Kirby in four alter egos... all the Kirby guys heading into the mirror).

Of course my main objective at E3 was to see any and all Kirby things that might possibly be there. After hunting around the Nintendo area, I was finally satisfied that nothing else was there except Kirby: The Amazing Mirror (YES finally the official name).

The moment I got to the Nintendo section in the West Hall, they were playing the promo clip of Amazing Mirror on this big screen. It seemed promising and I got all psyched and wondered what I would find. The Nintendo area was huge, it takes up probably a 1/3 of the room, so I circled the whole thing maybe 2-3 times.

So, the first thing I noticed is that it was in a smaller GBA area. The GameCube test stations are huge, there is usually a one person wait for those if not more, but the GameBoy area could get pretty crowded. There were three Kirby demo game stations, and as I stood waiting to record the video of the promo clip I just sort of watched who was playing. There were people of all ages, and they stayed for a good time. Two guys came up, and one teased the other about playing Kirby, but he later tried it out and was also there for some time too I might add to my amusement. ^_^

I played the game for the first time in English which was nice, but there is no game play differences from the Japanese one at all… except some of the enemy names are different. Here's a quick list of what I noticed, the good and bad:

Picture	Japanese Translation / Old Name	English Change
	Annie	Cupie
	Blockon	Blockin
	Biruge	Snooter
	Cheep	Chip
	Dessie	Boxin
	Droppie	Droppy
	Lip	Leap
	Mini	Minny
	Rollon	Roly-Poly
	Tokon	Bang-Bang
	Boxii	Boxy
	Air Roster	Bombar
	Mr. Frosty	.... Mr. Flosty! I have no idea what is up with this. I thought maybe I was going blind but no.. it's definitely Flosty. I wasn't too thrilled about that... it doesn't seem right.
	N/A	Not many knew what to call this before, but the game has him credited as 'Shadow Kirby'. It's safe to assume 'Dark Meta Knight' is probably 'Shadow Meta Knight' too.

I will be back again to check out the game, with a notebook and paper... I totally forgot it this time around. I'll write down the story, more enemy name changes and such. I really stretched my time thin, but I will be back!

One last thing to note, because this was a demo version, when you stopped playing a cute screen game up that said "Thanks for playing!" Obviously I can't rip snaps from this, but here's one I've recreated. It basically looked like this more or less.

I'll try and get a picture next time.

All in all, it was interesting. Miniscule compared to the Pokemon rally they had going on next to it, drowning out virtually anything that might come through the tiny GameBoy. I will admit I was a tad disappointed more wasn't done to say 'HEY! KIRBY OVER HERE!'. It was more like, 'That's just our GameBoy games. OH AND OVER HERE IS PAPER MARIO 2 AND DONKY KONGA!' Both games are actually quite appealing, but you get what I mean. (I hope) hehe ^_^ To anyone doubtful about this game, I just want to say I think it's one of the best Kirby games to date - it's really excellent. It deserves so much more marketing and lime light than it gets/is getting.

There was a lot of talk about this Nintendo DS system, and possibly a Kirby game helping debut it, but I am getting the impression that this was only revealed in the conferences, which is only open to VIP/Marketer/Developers/etc. If it is around at the show, I'll have a better look for it next time - I got a little lost hehe. =) I'll study the E3 Program lists a little better to see if it's listed. Here are some links in case you want more on it:

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This is just a clip of the Kirby promo they would play on the big screen. It's pretty short, but 7 megs none the less. Sorry, I'm having problems super condensing these, even zipped it's like 6 XD Download it if you want it, because I'll be moving it to FilePlanet after E3.


Two pictures taken from the movies that played randomly on the big screen (view the video above).	The opening screen.	These are pictures of the station where you can pick up the GameBoy to play. It also had controls and basic info on how to play.	Randomly, they would flash logos on the walls that would fade again (you can see this in the video above too). This is just a close up.