“Some call it a puffball, some call it a marshmallow, but most people prefer to simply call it Kirby.” This was the beginning of Kirby 64. Back when Nintendo donned an even more finicky website, the teaser for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards still rings true over two decades later. As a Kirby fan through and through, the amount of people asking me what exactly Kirby is never ends: let’s settle on pink puffball.
As of today, May 20, the pink puffball cometh to Nintendo Switch Online and Expansion Pack members in the form of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Initially released on the Nintendo 64 back in 2000, the game was HAL Laboratory’s first dabble with making Kirby 3D.
It wasn’t until this year, with Kirby and the Forgotten Land, that we saw Kirby go on their first fully 3D adventure. It wasn’t an easy ride though, and Paul Cecchini delves just how long and complicated Kirby’s journey to 3D was in this article.
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