Kirby’s making his return to consoles in a stylish new 2D platformer for the Wii called Kirby’s Epic Yarn.
The new game features a pretty spiffy visual style based around yarn and other cloth textures, and even turns the aesthetic into a gameplay element. Kirby seems to have lost his ability to inhale enemies and assimilate their powers, but he makes some automatic transformations when performing certain actions, like turning into a car when dashing or a submarine when swimming. The game will also enable cooperative play between two players. Perhaps the best news is that the game is being developed by Good Feel, the crew behind Wario Land: Shake It!, so we already know they can pull off a great Wii sidescroller. It looks great to me, and it’s fantastic to that we’re getting a 2D sidescrolling rendition. The art style is also really cool and special, something that can really give a game some great character (see: Yoshi’s Island).
Kirby’s Epic Yarn is set for release this fall on the Nintendo Wii.
