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sniffnoy"Chrysler went to infinity."
...no comment.
(No, I'm not going to give you the context for that.)
As for Kirby's Avalanche...
When Compile went to release its American version of Puyo Puyo, it realized that, packaged the way it was - here you have a falling block game, only with a story about witches and devils and whatnot - Americans probably wouldn't be very likely to actually buy it. So, they made two versions: for the Genesis, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, the same game but with Sonic characters, and, for the SNES, Kirby's Avalanche, with Kirby characters.
Kirby's Avalanche is notable, first of all, for its amazingly awful dialogue. (Question: Why does a falling block game need a story?) Badly translated? Well it was never released in Japan, so while it's conceivable it was first written in Japanese, it doesn't seem likely, especially as the problems certainly don't look like translation errors (with one possible exception).
For instance, here is the scene before you play against Whispy Woods:
Whispy: Please don't tread on my roots, it would not be a wise decision.
Kirby: I feel like some apple pie!
And then you have to play him in Avalanche! Most of it is not quite so nonsensical as that, simply bad; however, one other scene deserves mention, the one I said sounded like it could be a translation thing:
Paint Roller: Let me paint you a lovely portrait...
Kirby: Oh, how sweet of yo-
Paint Roller: ... of you losing to me, HA HA HA!
Kirby: Paint Roller, you are the meanest art student I've ever met.
Paint Roller: Student? HA! I am the MASTER!!
(Here is the GameFAQs page on Kirby's Avalanche; KindarSpirit's FAQ contains the full script.)
The most unsettling thing about the game, though, is something never mentioned in the game: the blobs have eyes. In turning Puyo Puyo into Kirby's Avalanche, they never took the eyes off the blobs. (Assuming they had eyes in Puyo Puyo; maybe they made Mean Bean Machine first, and then forgot to take the eyes off from there. Whichever way.) The blobs have eyes - and when you lose, you see the blobs' ghosts floating up from the pit they've just fallen into. And on the game over screen, you see them looking up at Kirby.
So here we have Kirby playing Avalanche against his various enemies - playing with these blobs' lives! Clearly not an effect they intended. But it's there. This "Avalanche" that they play is quite a sick and twisted game...
-Sniffnoy
...no comment.
(No, I'm not going to give you the context for that.)
As for Kirby's Avalanche...
When Compile went to release its American version of Puyo Puyo, it realized that, packaged the way it was - here you have a falling block game, only with a story about witches and devils and whatnot - Americans probably wouldn't be very likely to actually buy it. So, they made two versions: for the Genesis, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, the same game but with Sonic characters, and, for the SNES, Kirby's Avalanche, with Kirby characters.
Kirby's Avalanche is notable, first of all, for its amazingly awful dialogue. (Question: Why does a falling block game need a story?) Badly translated? Well it was never released in Japan, so while it's conceivable it was first written in Japanese, it doesn't seem likely, especially as the problems certainly don't look like translation errors (with one possible exception).
For instance, here is the scene before you play against Whispy Woods:
Whispy: Please don't tread on my roots, it would not be a wise decision.
Kirby: I feel like some apple pie!
And then you have to play him in Avalanche! Most of it is not quite so nonsensical as that, simply bad; however, one other scene deserves mention, the one I said sounded like it could be a translation thing:
Paint Roller: Let me paint you a lovely portrait...
Kirby: Oh, how sweet of yo-
Paint Roller: ... of you losing to me, HA HA HA!
Kirby: Paint Roller, you are the meanest art student I've ever met.
Paint Roller: Student? HA! I am the MASTER!!
(Here is the GameFAQs page on Kirby's Avalanche; KindarSpirit's FAQ contains the full script.)
The most unsettling thing about the game, though, is something never mentioned in the game: the blobs have eyes. In turning Puyo Puyo into Kirby's Avalanche, they never took the eyes off the blobs. (Assuming they had eyes in Puyo Puyo; maybe they made Mean Bean Machine first, and then forgot to take the eyes off from there. Whichever way.) The blobs have eyes - and when you lose, you see the blobs' ghosts floating up from the pit they've just fallen into. And on the game over screen, you see them looking up at Kirby.
So here we have Kirby playing Avalanche against his various enemies - playing with these blobs' lives! Clearly not an effect they intended. But it's there. This "Avalanche" that they play is quite a sick and twisted game...
-Sniffnoy
