Maybe i'll bring back Waddle Wednesday or Jigglypuff Sunday to celebrate this thread.
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might be best to leave that for the social.
If Bandanna Dee isn't playable in this Kirby action fighting game, heads will roll.
Not like they would actually forget about him given his importance.
I would be very surprised if he was left out, somehow.
But you have to realize that they released robobot last year, meaning they have just about a year to make these two expanded minigames and a game that, while inspired by another minigame from triple deluxe, could very well be expanded in meat to became its own standalone game.
Do you really think that with such a tight timeframe HAL will reveal even MORE games for Kirby's birthday? I found that quite unlikely.
Also, as Zebei said, this is a lot more than other franchises get for their birthday (I mean, they even gave this event its own Twitter account and a series of concerts in Japan. I'm sure HAL also considers this a form of celebration).
HAL Laboratory is a large company that has multiple teams.
In 2015 - the year before Kirby: Planet Robobot - they released Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and, spread between late 2014 and early 2015, two expanded mini-games from Kirby Triple Deluxe (Kirby Fighters Deluxe, and Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe). Accordingly, it actually isn't difficult to believe that we could get one more game this year - they've shown previously that they're capable of releasing two expanded mini-games plus a larger scale game within about a year of the last one.
Most series don't get a couple of cheap downloadable expanded mini-games taken from a year-old game, one of them being a free-to-play title, to mark milestone anniversaries like a 25th - they most often get a game in their main genre, or an anniversary collection, as well as little bonuses and live real-world events. They did that for Kirby's 20th, though it didn't get a global release, and it wouldn't entirely surprise me if we saw a 25th anniversary collection, either, which might see a worldwide release this time.
There's no doubt that the Japan-only Kirby 25th Anniversary Twitter account and concerts are considered a form of celebration, as is all of the Japan-only merchandise. It would seem very strange for a company as reverent of their properties as HAL to only release cheap recycled downloads for a 25th anniversary event.
Time will tell, regardless.
EDIT: I sincerely apologise, I made an error above, as the European dates for Kirby Triple Deluxe, Kirby Fighters Deluxe, Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe, and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse threw me off.
To correct myself: They released Kirby Fighters Deluxe and Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe (the expanded mini-games taken from Kirby Triple Deluxe) six months after Kirby Triple Deluxe (suggesting a short timeframe for creating the expanded mini-games), and they released Kirby and the Rainbow Curse one year and 11 days after Kirby Triple Deluxe. Basically, HAL Laboratory have shown that they're capable of releasing two large Kirby games and two expanded mini-games within the space of one year. This was alongside BoxBoy! also being made and released during that same timeframe, for a total of two large retail games, two small recycled downloadable ones, and one moderately-sized (173 stages) downloadable title in about one year.