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Like &subscribe👍🙏🥳💖Kirby's Return to Dream Land[a] (released as Kirby's Adventure Wii in PAL regions)[6][7] is a 2011 platform video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Wii. It is the ninth mainline installment and the twenty-second game in the Kirby series. While Kirby's Epic Yarn was released in 2010, Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the first traditional Kirby platforming home console game since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, which was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64. The title was released in North America on October 24, 2011, in Japan on October 27, 2011, in Europe on November 25, 2011, and in Australia on December 1, 2011.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land
Kirbys return to dreamland boxart.jpg
North American box art
Developer(s)
HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Director(s)
Shinya Kumazaki
Producer(s)
Hiroaki Suga
Hitoshi Yamagami
Shigefumi Kawase
Artist(s)
Kazuyuki Nakamura
Kenichiro Kita
Writer(s)
Shinya Kumazaki
Composer(s)
Hirokazu Ando
Jun Ishikawa
Series
Kirby
Platform(s)
Wii
Nintendo Switch
Release
NA: October 24, 2011[2][3]
JP: October 27, 2011[1]
EU: November 25, 2011[4]
AU: December 1, 2011[5]
Deluxe
WW: February 24, 2023
Genre(s)
Action-platformer
Mode(s)
Single-player, multiplayer
Kirby's Return to Dream Land features the staple gameplay of traditional Kirby platform games, in which Kirby possesses the ability to inhale and copy enemies to gain a variety of attacks such as breathing fire or swinging a sword. The game supports cooperative multiplayer gameplay, allowing up to four players to control various Kirby characters, including Bandana Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight. Kirby's plot focuses on the characters retrieving the scattered pieces of a crashed alien spaceship.[8]

The game was announced as a GameCube title to be released in late 2005,[9] but development was later shifted to its successor console, the Wii. The game was presumed to be canceled until it was re-announced in 2011. The game was made available on the Wii U's Nintendo eShop in 2015.[10][11][12]

Some elements from the cancelled Kirby title of 2005 were carried over to Kirby's Return to Dream Land,[13] such as the ability for players to stack up in a totem carried by the player on the bottom of the stack. Other elements from the Kirby title of 2005, such as Kirby's ability to befriend up to three "Helpers" (a gameplay mechanic from Kirby Super Star), were modified and carried over to another Kirby game, released in early 2018 on the Nintendo Switch, called Kirby Star Allies. Kirby's Return to Dream Land received generally positive reviews, with praise for the return to form of the traditional Kirby series gameplay, level design, visuals, and graphics, but criticism for its low difficulty and multiplayer. A remake for the Nintendo Switch, Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe,[b] was released on February 24, 2023.[14]

Gameplay
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Return to Dream Land is a 2.5D side-scrolling platform game, controlled by holding the Wii Remote sideways. Unlike previous entries in the Kirby series, the game features 3D models for player characters and enemies rather than sprites.

Throughout the game, Kirby can collect items which will heal him; food items that recover health, items that give him an extra life, or by collecting 100 stars, which immediately grants him an extra life. There are also various items Kirby can use to interact with the environment. At the end of each stage, a bonus game is played in which players time a button press to jump as high as possible to earn additional items.[15]


Kirby's Return to Dream Land supports cooperative multiplayer for up to four players.
The player controls Kirby, who retains his signature ability to inhale objects and enemies. The inhaled objects can either be swallowed, or propelled back out as a projectile. Kirby can also do a "Super Inhale", where shaking the Wii Remote or inhaling for a long time makes Kirby's inhale stronger. A Super Inhale has extended range and can suck up "Heave-ho Blocks", which are immovable from a regular in

Each copy ability has multiple attacks that are utilized depending on the combination of button-inputs pressed by the player. New abilities introduced in this game are the Whip ability, which lets Kirby grab out-of-reach items, the Water ability, which allows Kirby to extinguish fires, and the Leaf ability, which lets Kirby use leaves as a form of attack and conjure a pile of leaves to hide in and become invulnerable to nearly all attacks. The remake introduces both the Mecha ability, which gives Kirby laser cannons and robotic arms, and the Sand ability, which allows Kirby to morph sand into various shapes, as well as reintroducing the Festival ability from Kirby Star Allies.[16][17]

The game introduces more powerful, temporary Copy Abilities called "Super Abilities,