Dedicated to the
REAL Iron Chef... Cook Kirby!
Emeril, eat your heart out...
Cook Kirby
hasn't been in many games, and rightfully so, it would
seem. This is a simple power to use, and one of the
favorites of most players of
Kirby Super Star.
Kirby utilizes this ability by a simple tap of the "Y"
button. Once used, Kirby can use it no more until he
finds it again. Kinda like Crash, but there's a twist on
Cook. Kirby will put on a chef's hat, produce a golden
cooking pot and burner from who-knows-where, and bang
together a spatula and frying pan to roll call any
nearby enemies/enemy projectiles and fallen mini-bosses
into the pot. he then stirs the contents with a wooden
spoon, and after a few seconds and some seasoning, out
comes FOOD! This power clears the whole screen
(including enemies just out of sight above or below
Kirby), and can even cook up Sir Kibble's cutter blades,
Bonkers' coconut bombs, Bugzzy's miniature bugs, and
even the Poppy Bros.' bombs. And the food that is cooked
can be eaten by Kirby to regain any lost health. Of
course, to be fair, it can't do this to an active
mini-boss, or ANY top tier bosses (Kracko, Meta-Knight,
Dedede, Heavy Lobster, Whispy Woods, etc). And to be
even MORE fair, it can't be used more than once... I
already mentioned that though.... Kirby gets this
ability ONLY from inhaling his fallen mini-boss enemy,
Chef Kawasaki... or by Mixing. Cook is one of the only
Copy Abilities in Milky Way Wishes you can get by
inhaling and swallowing the enemy (The others being
Paint and Crash). Mind you that enemies will already
occasionally drop food when they're defeated... this
includes destroyable projectiles from bosses, but
doesn't happen in The Arena. However, you CAN still cook
a mini-boss after it's down (have a helper do that), or
cook its projectiles for a quick snack if need be.
Then...
there's the animé... all I can say is... COOL! He can
get this from inhaling frying pans, and is usually fed
Kawasaki's... he's not a villain in the animé, he's just
a chef that can't cook too well, save for ultra-spicy
dishes. Kirby still has the chef's hat (and one cool
transformation sequence), but now holds a silver frying
pan with a red handle... he can use that pan as a
bludgeoning weapon, cleaver, tennis racket, boomerang
(What the...?) and a sort of shield in battle. If Kirby
needs to cook his foe, he can enlarge the frying pan and
heat it up on any surface nearby that's big enough to
heat the WHOLE thing.... if which there is none, he'll
just toss it into space, where it'll orbit the SUN and
somehow conveniently land right in front of Kirby when
it comes back. He's made popcorn (Cobgoblin), fried
Popon wih a little help from Kawasaki and Meta Knight (mmm,
breaded fried cactus), and boiled king crab (heat
courtesy of the Holy Nightmare Corporation/NightMare
Enterprises transporter... but where'd the WATER come
from???). And apparently, whatever he cooks is VERY
tasty. The other time he used this ability, he was only
using it defensively, and it was kncocked away before he
could cook Monsieur Goan (too bad, he looked like a big
potato, but Curry Rice Kirby finished him off). The
attacks he has in the animé, coupled with his methods of
cooking easily suggest that Cook could work as a
multi-use power... maybe have him fire off sizzling
energy blasts that can sometimes cook enemies, and of
course the frying pan smack and MAYBE the boomerang toss
(doubt it, that's what Cutter is for). The smack would
just destroy enemy attacks, not reflect them like Mirror
can. Cooking Power would be a LAST resort move, only
used when Kirby had enough charge to his ability (not
enough energy himself, which is how Sword Beam is used),
and once used, Kirby would need to defeat enemies to
recharge it, instead of just losing it entirely.
I can only wonder if it's still going to be one use in the new
Kirby: Great Mirror Labyrinth game. Anyway, I rate Cook Kirby
a score of 10/10. It'd be better if the game used it more the
way the animé does, because THEN it would have strength
against bosses. That's two points off But because of its
ability to destroy everything AND make food out of them, it
gets an extra point. so it gets the 10/10. If it were pretty
much the same as the show, it'd rate an 11/10. Bon appetit,
Kirby!
