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Kirby's Avalanche (Video Game)

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Kirby's Avalanche, known as Kirby's Ghost Trap in European languages, is a 1995 Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game. It is a Spin-Off of the Kirby game series. Whereas most Kirby games are typical platformers, this game is a puzzle game. Specifically, it is an American dress-up of the Japanese puzzle classic Puyo Puyo, the 1992 arcade game's Super Famicom port in particular. Intriguingly, though he wasn't directly involved, series creator Masahiro Sakurai did supervise Avalanche's development, as revealed in an episode of Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games.Compared to Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Avalanche is closer in accuracy to the original Puyo Puyo: the Practice stages are restored along with the starting stage select (in place of passwords) and there are cutscenes where the player character converses with their opponents before matches (in place of the opponent giving a monologue against you, the player).The game was re-released on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console in 2007 and on the Nintendo Switch Online service in 2022. It has never been officially released in Japan.
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Padded Sumo Gameplay: This can be enabled from the secret menu options (Hold down A + B + X + Y on a second controller and reset the game). Adjusting the "Fall Blob" option below the normal amount can let you turn matches into more drawn out affairs as filling your opponent's field with junk is much harder to pull off.
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A Winner Is You
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A Winner Is You: All defeating King Dedede gets you is a scene of Kirby celebrating with his newly-earned trophy.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: Bugzzy's play style is heavily focused upon pulling off devastating chain reactions that require extensive setup beforehand, and is a good example of how trying to set up flashy combos in 2-player mode can be swiftly punished. The player can easily disrupt Bugzzy's strategy with Boring, but Practical quick chain reactions. This often makes Bugzzy even easier to defeat than the previous Lololo and Lalala, due to the Artificial Stupidity being unable to switch strategies and attempting to create a new fancy chain.
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Recycled Soundtrack
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Recycled Soundtrack: The vast majority of the soundtrack consists of music remixed from Kirby's Adventure and Kirby's Dream Course.
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The Dragon: Meta Knight. Interestingly, this is also the first game where he is named in-game, with it having previously been relegated to strategy guides.
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Excuse Plot
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Excuse Plot: Dream Land decides to hold an Avalanche/Ghost Trap competition at the Dream Fountain. Whoever wins is the champion. That's all the plot you get.
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Dolled-Up Installment
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Dolled-Up Installment: Take Super Puyo Puyo, replace the background music and the Madou Monogatari characters with Kirby equivalents, and you have Kirby's Avalanche.
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Rocket-Tag Gameplay
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Rocket-Tag Gameplay: Similar to the method described under Padded Sumo Gameplay, setting the "Fall Blob" option above the normal amount can let you turn matches into a matter of who gets off a decent chain reaction first and floods their opponent with junk.
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American Kirby Is Hardcore
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American Kirby Is Hardcore: Kirby comes off as a snarky, smack-talking Mascot with Attitude in this game, compared to the Cheerful Child he's normally portrayed as. Subverted ironically with the cover, despite being Western-made, it's a rather cute image of a cheerful Kirby and Dedede. The game also qualifies compared to the original Puyo Puyo, though not to the extent of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: Nintendo and HAL Laboratory (the co-owners of the Kirby franchise) rarely bring up this game, if at all, with no mention of the game in timelines chronicling the series' history, and it's one of the few games in the series that has never received any continuity nods, suggesting it has fallen into this status. However, it was acknowledged in Kirby's Dream Collection, and the Japanese tie-in book 20th Anniversary Pupupu Encyclopedia brings it up in a section dedicated to international Kirby media.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: Most of the opponents in the first half of the game were just regular enemies or bosses in the previous games — mostly from Kirby's Adventure. This also extends to some of the bosses from there, including Paint Roller and Heavy Mole. This is similar to Puyo Puyo itself, in that they both took regular enemies and made them stars.
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: Kirby himself, in one of his very few speaking roles, comes off as far more sarcastic and rude toward his opponents than his usual portrayals as a Cheerful Child — possibly as an attempt to portray him as a Mascot with Attitude. It's entirely possible the voices spoken in the game are all Kirby, since a voice is heard going "HA HA HA!" whenever Kirby beats an opponent.
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Final Boss: King Dedede.
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Shout-Out: In Meta Knight's intro as the penultimate boss, he tells Kirby that "None shall pass!", referencing the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When facing Whispy Woods:
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Trash Talk
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Trash Talk: In the opponent intros, Kirby gleefully engages in a lot of this. However, he does get out-sassed at least once —
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Early-Bird Cameo: In an odd sense; this is the first game where the modern designs of many Kirby characters appeared, such as Lololo and Lalala's White Gloves and Meta Knight's signature navy-and-silver coloration. These designs would make their proper debut in the next year's Kirby Super Star.
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