my city Staff writer Isaiah Colbert is still pondering how Kirby gave his buddies a healthy kiss on the lips, a practice Ian Walker notes in one my city Article began in the 1996 anthology Kirby Superstar.
A quick look at the game’s North American instruction manual shows this move, referred to as “Lend”.[ing] a helping hand, but come on,” he writes. “Give a helping hand”, in Kirby Superstar looks like Kirby is about to pick up some useful item, quickly turn around and press her chubby face into that of a companion. Seems suspiciously hands-free if you ask me.
The practice had Kirby turn health-promoting items like cherries into touches in co-op play Lady and the tramp Moments and “later appeared under different names like ‘Face-to-Face’ and ‘Item Share,'” Walker writes. And in case you’re in doubt that this kiss is definitely a kiss like the great Nintendo seems to want you to: “The Kirby fighter Spin-off series solidified what we all recognized as true by adding a big ‘SMOOCH’ graphic over the characters’ heads whenever they were, well, snogging,” says Walker. Case closed.
What makes it unforgettable: It’s an unconventionally chaste and useful kiss that you don’t see every day. And it’s important to kiss your homieslike watering a plant.
