There was a lot of desire to celebrate the kirby 30th Anniversary, and the impressive 2.65 million copies of the recently released Kirby and the Forgotten Land are the best proof of this. Of course, you won’t have to wait much longer to embark on new adventures with the intrepid pink hero: Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards It will arrive on Nintendo Switch before the end of the month. More concretely, next May 20.
Released in March 2000, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards It was the three-dimensional debut of the HAL Laboratory Nintendo saga, although the truth is that we had already seen the little glotoncillo messing around on N64 through the original Super Smash Bros. All in all, the cartridge managed to take the charm of previous desktops and notebooks to a new dimension.
From here a note: as with the rest of the N64 games on Nintendo Switch, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards It will only be available through the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, so you won’t find it on the eShop for sale separately. On the other hand, for the price that the difference costs when you extend the contents of the subscription, you will have access to the best of Nintendo’s 64-bit console.
As an illustration, a 12-month subscription to Nintendo Switch Online along with the Expansion Pack can be purchased for approximately 39,99 dollars. And in case an annual f amily plan is better for us to share with up to 8 accounts, the final price remains 69,99 dollars.
Adventures in three dimensions and extra fun on four controls
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is one of those classics not sufficiently remembered within Kirby’s extensive career in video games. A title that, unlike other Nintendo champions such as Mario or Link, declined
And it is that for when Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards reached the shelves we had become totally accustomed to 3D games and the Nintendo console was doing time until its natural replacement with authentic great games, so the question was not how to take advantage of the console, but the character himself in this new adventure. And despite the fact that visually he sinned modesto, HAL got great ideas out of his hat that turned him into a very special title.
- To begin with, the development of levels of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards It is still in two dimensions at a playable level, despite the fact that the scenarios are created in 3D. Now, as an exception we have the fights against final enemies.
- On the other hand, HAL introduced an extra variety to the games by allowing Kirby to absorb two types of skills for the first time and mix them to create new kinds of copy powers. We could even combine two abilities of the same type to make one more powerful.
- But it is that, in addition, the four control ports of the console were used to offer alternatives to the main story through three entertaining sub-games.
As is often the case in pink hero games, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards It’s a relatively short and really simple game, but that doesn’t make it any less fun and interesting. Especially for the little ones in the house and those not so skilled with the controls.
And, logically, that it joins the collection of classic N64 games at no additional cost is much more than an added claim for owners of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack: it is the unequivocal signal that it is time to pick up where we left off. or be conquered by his simple but entertaining game proposal.
