Kirby and the World of Dreams

Kirby and the Wonder Star (known in Japan as 星のカービィ：ホームワールド [Kirby of the Stars: Homeworld] in Japan) is a 3D platformer and role playing Kirby game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the New Nintendo Switch. It is the first game in the series to host an open-world environment with missions and characters to interact with, rather than a regular goal-oriented mechanism. It is the spiritual successor to Kirby and the Forgotton Land , and the worlds, characters and abilities following up on or taking inspiration from the original game. It is also the first game in the series to feature fully voice-acted characters, with dialogue being fully spoken by each character; voices are also given to characters who usually never speak, such as King Dedede himself. It was announced in a Nintendo Direct that aired on on November 28th, 2024, and released worldwide for the New Nintendo Switch on September 20th, 2025.
== Story ==
The game opens with Chief Sirenus and his son, Sir Prince Octorava, disguised as ambassadors of the sparkling kay island and kirby, visiting the castle in the Dreamland to steal Elfilin, and the residents are in a panic. We're introduced to our beloved pink puffball, Kirby, as he walks out of his house in Green Greens as he get's accompanied by his friends Bandana Waddle Dee, Rick and Kawasaki as they watch the rising of the sun. They walk out for some fresh air, until they get summoned to the castle.
Kirby is happy to have made a new friend, and the creature decides to introduce itself as Queen Drimi, one of the seven Star Guardians of Kirby's galaxy. She tells him that she and her friends have been dealing with Chief Sirenus and his son's anatics and Elfilin is kidnapped by a kirby imposter and it's up to kirby and his friends to save her. so they go to the sparkling kay island
==Gameplay==
Being the second fully 3D entry in the series, Kirby and the Wonder Star allows the player to move freely around the environment. It controls similarly to Kirby and the Forgotten Land, although Kirby is no longer limited to a specific area as in the previous entry; he can explore every area of the world around him, and can enter and exit areas as he wishes. Areas that are clear boundaries are represented by bottomless pits, force fields, or pools of liquid such as poison, magma, or an empty area of water. Kirby and the Wonder Star introduces the pink puffball to a completely open-world environment, with his main goal being to traverse the many areas inside the worlds he explores in order to collect Wonder Shards, items that help advance the story similar to Power Moons from Super Mario Odyssey. However, areas can have several goals, being in the form of side quests accessible by interacting with NPCs, and can sometimes extend to other areas in the game. The completion of one or more of these goals will usually reward Kirby with a Dream Shard, but can also provide him with items, currency, and abilities. The camera works similarly to Super Mario Odyssey; it is able to be moved and rotated freely, and usually centers itself on Kirby, sometimes moving different directions to provide depth and perspective.
Kirby’s moveset remains virtually the same, with only a few small tweaks made to adapt to the open-world style of the game. He can walk, run, jump, and hover up to a certain height and for a certain time before he gets tired. The height he can achieve and the time he can do so has been extended slightly from Kirby and the Forgotten Land to accommodate the open-world gameplay style. He can also blow out puffs of air while hovering. In addition, he can guard to take less damage from attacks, and dodge in the same fashion as Kirby and the Forgotten Land, where he can preform a perfect dodge by doing so just as he is about to be attacked. As is tradition, he can inhale enemies and objects and spit them out, and swallow them to obtain Copy Abilities. The movesets of every Copy Ability have been expanded to provide more techniques, while also having been adjusted to balance out the difficulty. If Kirby takes too much damage at once, he can lose his Copy Ability; he can also remove it manually. The lives system is absent once again, with Kirby only losing Star Coins each time he loses all his health. However, unlike Kirby and the Forgotten Land, Kirby will lose 100 more Star Coins every time he loses all his health, instead of 100 at a time like before.
Completely new to the game are Kirby’s enhanced Dream Abilities, which allow Kirby to control and manipulate the environment around him to perform tasks. They function similarly to Super Abilities from Kirby’s Return to Dream Land, in that they are usually exclusive to the environment they are in, and they have an energy meter that limits the amount of time the abilities can be used for. However, rather than providing advanced techniques, they allow Kirby to utilize the environment around him, in ways such as creating giant sculptures, changing the weather, changing his shape, etc. In order to utilize Dream Abilities, Kirby must collect a certain number of Wonder Shards by completing various missions and tasks. Once he does so, he will be able to approach an area where usage of a Dream Ability is required and access the ability by standing in a certain spot where Queen Drimi can help him activate the ability. Similar to Kirby’s Return to Dream Land, Dream Abilities are limited by an energy meter that decreases as he uses the ability. Once it runs out, Kirby will revert back to his normal form. If he has not completed a mission that requires a Dream Ability before the energy meter runs out, the mission will restart from the beginning. Once Kirby has unlocked a Dream Ability, he will be able to use it without needing to collect more Dream Shards, but only in places where there is the appropriate spot.
The very first area in the Kirby series, Green Greens, makes a return as the main hub of the game, similar to Waddle Dee Town from Kirby and the Forgotten Land. It functions as the rest area that Kirby can go to at any time, and as he progresses through the story, it will grow with more places and NPCs. By default, it will start out as a simple plain area consisting of Kirby’s house, some trees, and a few items that spawn so he can heal himself. However, as Kirby completes more missions and meets new characters, the plains will grow into a much more populated area with various places to visit and people to interact with, and even briefly function as part of the main story. The Waddle Dees are back to help Kirby grow his town, with the return of areas from Kirby and the Forgotten Land such as item shops and Waddle Dee-liveries with Present Codes. In addition, Kirby can find Present Codes scattered throughout areas in the main story, and store up to five on a personal notepad to use when he gets back to Green Greens.
The game also features 8 player co-op multiplayer, in which Player 1 will always be Kirby, and Players 2-4 can choose from a wide variety of Dream Allies, which take the form of enemies with alternate color palettes that are limited to their own set of abilities, usually taken from their respective Copy Ability. The game supports local multiplayer as well as online co-op.
=characters=
== Playable==
#Kirby
# Bandana Waddle dee
#Rick
# Chef Kawasaki
#4 color kirby
#Dream allies
# Sarah the Starjutzu master
==abilities/allies==
===returning=== 
#Animal/Gaw Gaw
#Archer/Spynum
#Artist/Vividria
#Beam/unnamed new beam character
#Bell/Ringle
# Bomb/Poppy bros jr
#Circus/Clown Acrobot
#Cleaning/Broom Hatter
#Crash/none
#Cutter/Sir Kibble
#Doctor/Chemitory
#Drill/unnamed new drill character
#Festival/None
#Fighter/Boxin
# Fire/Galbo
#Hammer/Bonkers
#Ice/Chilly
#Jet/Capsule J4
# Mike/None
#Needle/Needlous
#Ninja/Bio Spark
#Parasol/Parasol Awoofy
#Plasma/Plasma Wisp
# Sand/Sandran
#Sleep/Noddy
#Stone/Rocky
# Sword/Dagger Knight
#Wheel/Wheelie
#Whip/Whippy
#Wrestler/Phan Phan
===new ===
#Snake/
#Paper/
# Cosmic/
===mid-bosses===
#Bonkers
#Gigant Edge
#Grand Wheelie
#Fire Lion
#Iron Mam
#Phan Phan
#Mr. Frosty
#Vividria
==Bosses ==
#Primal Woods
#Ice Dragon
#Robull and Triflareatops
#Dark Kirby/ Sir Prince Octorava
#Crystaltra
#Skeleragon
#Terrestrial Knight
#HR-D3
#Chief Sirenus
# Emperor Sirenus and Sir Prince Octorava
==Voices==
#Kirby - Makiko Ohmoto
#Bandana Waddle dee - Justin Grollman
#Rick - Billy West
#Chef Kawasaki - Larry the Cable Guy
#Elfilin - Georgie Kidder
#King Dedede, Escargoon, and coo - Nat Faxon
#Meta knight, Chief Sirenus, Waddle Doo - Peter Serafinowicz 
#Blade Knight, Magolor, Primal Woods - Scott Menville
#Sword Knight, Mayor- Kevin Michael Richardson
#Kine, Captain Vul - Jeff Bennett
#Chuchu, Lololo, Lalala, Marx - Maria Bamford
#Taranza, Knuckle Joe, Ice Dragon, Dark Kirby/ Prince Sir Octorava - Greg Cipes
#Ex-Queen Sectonia, Claycia -Jodi Benson
#Queen Drimi, Susie, Elline - Grey Griffin
#Adeline, Ribbon, Clawroline - Cree Summer
#Gooey, Sillydillo - Bill Faggerbakke
#Sarah - Kazumi Evans
#Anna - Stephanie Sheh
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