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Japanese site

American teaser site

Story trailer

Gameplay videos

Edit: new info from GoNintendo

- earn a medal at the end of each stage based on how many collectibles you've gathered up
- dying reduces your total number of beads
- you can quickly grab those beads back after you die, but they'll eventually disappear
- when playing co-op, bounce off of your partner
- little felt angels will scoop up Kirby and Prince Fluff whenever they fall
- pick up your partner and throw them
- pick them up with your strand of yarn
- they cannot free themselves from the yarn unless you hit the button to let them go
- music tracks to find and listen to in the game's music room
- collect items to put in Kirby's apartment (a customizable area in the hub world)
- hub world features mini-games
- one mini-game has you hunting down five tiny, floating, hidden creatures

Edit#2: new screens and art here, new trailer.

Edit#3: more details.

- cutscenes throughout the game
- use your thread to reveal secrets and open new areas
- Lava Landing level: erupting geysers, rising lava tides, walls of fire that you must put out by transforming into a firetruck
- tilt Wiimote to aim fire host
- Dino Land level: pterodactyls, Apatosauruses
- Cool Cave level allows Kirby to unravel himself and enter tiny tunnels as a single thread, as well as a mole to dig
- collect patches to open up new levels
- CDs represent the music unlocks
- on-screen meter indicates how many more beads you need to collect for your next reward
- Quilt Square is the name of the game hub, which also features Kirby's home
- decorate Kirby's house with unique fabrics that you unlock
- change the size and angle at which these are applied



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Why no UK love :(



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

I want this game so much. It looks sweet. And when I saw Kirby 'kirby-form' (it sounds better to me than transform) into a firetruck I had a smile on my face 10 miles wide.

 

I love you Nintendo.



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