Tag: HAL Laboratory

The final “world” is actually just the final boss stage and is housed within the hub of World 7, but it has its own introduction. You fight to get the star-rod back from King Dedede who then realizes Kirbs is the only one who could handle the TRUE final boss! Which is some guy that looks like Waluigi. Its an odd final battle because its unlike much of the rest of the game — the first phase is a horizontal shooter and then you battle as Kirby again in a more traditional manner. Once completed we can assume dreams return to all the critters of Dreamland and nighty-nite sleepin’ tight!

On the shores of the orange ocean is the Rainbow Resort, which despite its name actually features a lot of nighttime levels where a rainbow wouldnt even occur. But its pretty jazzy and vibrant none the less, and has some of the most unique elements of any of the worlds. Went real hog-wild on this one they did.

The Orange Ocean world starts out in tune with the concept, very orange. But then just goes all squirrely and tosses in an random ice stage and green/grey areas. It does have a real cool pirate ship area however.

World 5 is the Yoghurt Yard. Can you imagine your yard or someone you knows yard covered in yoghurt? Its hard to. This world gets a bit more modern and wild with checker patterns and more stages have tricky secret switches to find.

This world has a stage with multiple UFOs on it. Its one of the rarer powers you can find. Before this world, I think only one level has UFOs. Kirbs can really rock the house once he has Alien Tech.

This world is most notable for showing off a clever trick to make it seem like Kirbs is sprinting around the outside of a circular tower. Cycling the color of the bricks to create motion (is how I assume it worked). I can remember seeing it as a kid and being like “Now we’re talkin’!”.