

This build was demonstrated at E3 in 2005, and was set for release later that year. The game would also support multiplayer with up to four players. The first build was similar to the graphical and gameplay style of Kirby 64, rendered in 3D but using traditional 2D side-scrolling gameplay. The game underwent an 11-year development period in which three different proposed versions of the game were developed and scrapped. Development ĭevelopment on a new Kirby title began after the release of the 2000 game Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards as a title for the Nintendo 64.

With peace restored to the universe, Kirby and friends flee through the shrinking wormhole back to their home planet, whilst Landia takes the Lor Starcutter and returns home as Kirby, King Dedede, Meta Knight, and Waddle Dee wave goodbye. They destroy the Master Crown and take Magolor's soul with it (though the Kirby's 20th anniversary collection reveals that he survived and has reformed). Teaming up with Landia, who is split into four dragons, Kirby and his friends chase Magolor through an interdimensional tunnel to confront him. However, after Landia is defeated, Magolor reveals his true motive was to steal the Master Crown, constructed by a legendary race called the Ancients, as a source of immense power, on his head and become all powerful, with intent of making the entire universe bow before him, beginning with Pop Star. Magolor claims Landia is an evil beast that has taken over Halcandra and sends Kirby to defeat it. After retrieving the main pieces, the natives, travel to Halcandra as promised by Magolor, where they are attacked and struck down (though this time the ship's pieces stay intact) by a four-headed dragon named Landia, who rests atop the planet's highest volcano.
