Kirby's 30th Anniversary Should Include a Touchscreen 'Curse' Collection

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Kirby fans are currently looking ahead to Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the pink puffball's first true 3D platformer releasing for Switch on March 25. The February 2022 Nintendo Direct revealed Forgotten Land is going a step further by adding even new bizarre mechanics like Mouthful Mode, which lets Kirby transform into objects with different purposes than his usual copy abilities. However, it's likely Nintendo and HAL Laboratory will have even more surprises in store after that release.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the Kirby franchise, and Nintendo's 2021 financial report highlighted «a variety of projects» in development to celebrate. Kirby has produced no shortage of spin-offs that could fit the bill, and in 2012 fans received Kirby's Dream Collection on Wii to celebrate the series' 20th anniversary. A new collection could focus on Kirby's more popular spin-offs given mainline titles are being released through the Nintendo Switch Online service, and a duology tailor-made for Switch releases are Kirby: Canvas Curse and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.

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A lot of Kirby spin-offs since the Nintendo 3DS era have been expansions of sub-games present in mainline Kirby titles. For example, Kirby Fighters Deluxe and Kirby's Blowout Blast are more involved takes on side modes from Triple Deluxe and Planet Robobot, respectively. Many of the spin-off titles before that were more unique, from early entries like Kirby's Pinball Land and the golf-like Kirby's Dream Course to the GameCube racing game Kirby Air Ride.

Kirby: Canvas Curse released for Japanese audiences in early 2005, about four months after the official launch of its release platform; the Nintendo DS. Many in