HAL Laboratory on approach to Kirby rereleases, tease for series’ future

HAL Laboratory simply got here out with Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe, a remake of the Wii recreation. The studio has now spoken additional about this strategy in an interview with IGN.

Kirby director Shinya Kumazaki advised the positioning that HAL Laboratory’s aim is all the time to “present a brand new gameplay expertise.” As an alternative of merely remaking video games as a result of they’ll, there needs to be one thing new to it. Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe not solely introduces the brand new Magolor Epilogue, but additionally Merry Magolor theme park with further mini-games.

Will we proceed to obtain each 2D and 3D Kirby titles sooner or later? Kumazaki would solely say that each are “inside scope” for HAL Laboratory. The staff may additionally pursue “one thing utterly totally different”.

Lastly, as for the way forward for Kirby, Kumazaki teased:

“You might need skilled it when you performed Forgotten Land, in that it’s not fairly open world. It’s actually a 3D recreation that basically makes use of, form of inherits the playfulness and the benefit of play of 2D Kirby video games. And that’s a singular 3D expertise that we wish to present. And so what we wish to do shifting ahead is proceed to offer that distinctive 3D expertise, and never essentially be caught inside the boundaries of present genres.”