Kirby's Blowout Blast

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Kirby's Blowout Blast
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Developer(s) HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Tatsuya Kamiyama
Producer(s) Satoshi Mitsuhara
Hitoshi Yamagami
Designer(s) Yutaka Watanabe
Programmer(s) Hiroshi Ohnishi
Composer(s) Hirokazu Ando
Jun Ishikawa
Series Kirby
Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: July 4, 2017
  • WW: July 6, 2017
Genre(s) Action platformer
Mode(s) Single-player

Kirby's Blowout Blast is a 2017 video game for the Nintendo 3DS. It is an expanded version of the Kirby 3D Rumble minigame in Kirby: Planet Robobot . The game was praised by reviewers for its replayability, but criticized for being too repetitive.

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Gameplay

Kirby's Blowout Blast does not feature Copy Abilities, with Kirby only being able to jump and inhale. Gameplay revolves around Kirby inhaling objects and enemies, and spitting them out as projectiles. Killing enemies with those two abilities starts a combo, earning the player points. If the player gets a high enough high score on each level in a world, they will unlock more challenging versions of each of those levels. [1]

Development and release

Kirby's Blowout Blast is an expanded version of the Kirby 3D Rumble minigame in Kirby: Planet Robobot. [2] The game released for the Nintendo 3DS on July 6, 2017, after the release of the Nintendo Switch. [3] [4] It was announced in a Nintendo Direct alongside Team Kirby Clash Deluxe , which released in April 2017. [5] [6]

Reception

Tim Latshaw of Nintendo Life stated that the game's levels encouraged replayability, but did not vary much. He also praised the game's graphics. [1] In his review for Vice, Chris Schilling called the game "another successful spin-off" for the series. [3] Jon Mundy of Pocket Gamer called the game satisfying, stating that he enjoyed how the game handled spitting projectiles. [9] The game was heavily criticized by Markus Grundmann of Eurogamer, who found the levels repetitive. [11] In his review for Cubed3, Drew Hurley praised the game's replayability, but criticized it for being too short and easy. [10]

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