Kirby

Grey Coo > Purple Coo

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Nago > Rick > Coo > Pitch > Kine > Chuchu

>angry birds

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Koki I fucking love you man but some of the shit you draw is just... WHY?

>not liking angry birds

Coo > Kine > Pitch > Rick > Nago > Chuchu

Purple has a weird face. Grey actually looks like an owl.

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Best theme.

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Coo is a cooler character than Meta Knight

Maybe its just because I indulge in a lot of Jojo, but that's probably the least offensive alternate colors ever.

I literally couldn't give two shits if he's purple or grey, call me when they make him lime green or some shit

It's the same thing as "Should Kirby be pink or yellow?" except this time the original creator didn't win. Coo was always intended to be grey, and was made purple by Shimomura's superiors to make him "pop" or whatever.

If you support purple Coo you support the stifling of creative and artistic freedom.

>make him lime green
STOP

Dedede's hat there looks cool. A shame it didn't stick.

So no one has the freedom to have their own take on Coo? You have just as many instances of current devs making him grey as there are of them making him purple

Besides, Shimomura's games were clearly different in style and visuals to Sakurai's, their foundation is in taking Kirby in a different way, if you support non-Sakurai Kirby you support the stifling of creative and artistic freedom

>So no one has the freedom to have their own take on Coo?
It wouldn't be their take, it's the take of marketers who wanted to artificially make him stand out more.
>Besides, Shimomura's games were clearly different in style and visuals to Sakurai's, their foundation is in taking Kirby in a different way
If you don't support both at once you support the stifling of creative and artistic freedom. If you can't tell the difference between creativity and marketing you're a goddamned idiot.

user, I think you need to seek help, purple instead of grey is the last thing you'd want to call a marketing scheme, and the only reason its around is because of art from DL2 which was approved in japan, probably by shimomura as well. And its not a yellow Kirby situation, even in that case the american marketing went with a safe, neutral route as to not make their own decisions on Kirby's color

Any of Coo's current incarnations are also completely devoid of marketing, he's not a selling point, most people don't even recognize him, the choice to make him purple was all on the games' artist who should have the freedom to make him purple if they goddamn please

They even have a logical reason, one is a stage hazard that needs to stand out for gameplay reasons, and one is a game who's main focus is colors and such which didn't' even need his cameo to begin with, but it works better in the context of paint to use vibrant ones

>die at the last phase of star dream in true dream with a tiny bit of health left

Well time to put this game down for 2 years

Yellow Kirby was his own person, Keeby.

Bump

Coo's theme > *

Eh I dunno about "artistic freedom" but Coo used the DL3 design in DL2, he was even colored grey in the Super Gameboy intro and ending. Clearly he was always intended to be grey and there were disagreements on how Coo should look, remember if you were around back then these were going to be "the new main characters" up until Kirby 64 got gutted to hell then Shimomura vanished, they were pretty important.

I dunno why the new devs would make him purple when he was always intended to be grey, I personally think he looks cooler grey. Maybe there are no devs left who took part in creating/implementing Coo and looked up official art for reference, maybe there are only devs left who wanted him purple, who knows.

You could see Rick just fine and he's primarily white against white trees. Big 3D animated moving targets with proper lighting and shading won't blend into a flat unmoving background no matter the color, they could have easily made him grey with yellow lighting shining on his white belly like they did Rick. I think giving Shimomura's characters really vibrant colors is like a (albiet quite minor) spit in the face to his legacy since that's exactly the style he avoided. You're right they arw just fanservice cameo appearances, so it shouldn't be too hard getting it right.

That did come much later, sort of a reference to Miyamoto's wishes more than anything.

>Dancing Doll throws a Nuclear Switch

>pitch is the youngest of the group
>not even a baby, just a child
Kirby is an adult, confirmed.

Fun Fact: Shimomura created the animal friends, which means he was responsible for the color change. At least get your facts straight before you spew your bullshit.

What do you mean?

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I'm talking about that silly argument on artistic stifling. The fact that Kirby threads have boiled down to Coo's feather colors is a bad omen. Maybe Shimomura wanted him to be purple. He was the only one using the animal friends anyway.

And this, too. Kirby was an adult in the Shimomura games, Pitch being a good contrast to Kirby himself, along with Kirby actually reacting to getting kissed.

>The fact that Kirby threads have boiled down to Coo's feather colors is a bad omen.
At least it's 100x better than "poyo" "borb" "come", waifufagging, memeing, circlejerking, shitposting, etc
>Maybe Shimomura wanted him to be purple.
His own drawing of Coo found in Kirby 64's files show him to be grey, obviously he wanted him to be grey.
>He was the only one using the animal friends anyway.
Hitoshi Yamagami used them too.

>borb detected

Hey, here's a question, in like, say, Megaman's universe or Bomberman's, would Kirby be able to survive?

Has he ever been able to inhale/exhale bombs?

He's fought the Poppy Brothers how many times?

what do you fags have against chuchu? she is the best octopuss girl.

I love Chuchu you dicklicking cuntface, she's just my least favorite.

Why can he inhale Poppy Bros. Sr.'s bombs but not anyone else's?

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He's a lil shit that's why.

>90% of Kirby posts are arguing over whose opinions are better

Where were you when Kirby got the most autistic fanbase?

Playing Kirby.

At least we play video games, faggot.

the last 3 % on Epic Yarn are the worst

>people debate on the internet
what autists
i was in my house

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Who the fuck is even Pitch? I remember them all clearly, except for Pitch.

The holy trinity of Kirby games

Return to Dreamland
Dreamland 3
Super Star Ultra

>dreamland 3
>not Amazing Mirror

Dreamland 3 has Sand Canyon

>Super Star Ultra
>No on-couch co-op
No thx, Revenge of the King ain't worth that

Nah Amazing Mirror is kinda weak

Nothing wrong with waifuposting when all Kirby girls are qt pies.

You can couch co-op in it, you just need another DS.

You need two copies of SSU.

What's the best Kirby song and why is it Rainbow Resort?

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DS download play

Which only allowed Spring Breeze.

they're all daughterfu material though, and I'm pretty sure the Kirbyverse has Yotsuba rules. Or is that only on /vr/?

>need 2 different consoles and 2 different games to look at 2 different tiny screens
Too inconvenient and impersonal, it's best to stick with Super Star. Also the physics are ever-so-slightly faster in the original, but that's hardly noticeable.

That's just a demo, Green Greens of Spring Breeze only.

It still allowed it with only one game.

Plus, they fixed Great Cave Offensive to not need a 2nd player to 100%, and added the best glitch in the game.

He's the tiny bird.

For you

This one is criminally underrated
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>fixed
>utilizing teamwork for some things is a flaw
You don't NEED a 2nd player anyway, they just make things a lot easier and quicker.

Reminds me of Kirby 64 Dedede, which is still my favorite

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No, there's specifically one part in the tower that you need a helper with fire attacks (bonkers, burning leo, or Jet-Capsule)

Which part?

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medda nite

Reminder Shimomura's vision for Dream Land 2 was for Kirby to have a badass tank but those darn marketers made him dumb it down for baby kawaii animals they could easily market

Couldn't find the tank concept art but hey here's DL3 in game art where he's purple, go figure

Pretty sure Shimomura agreed that having a tank wouldn't fit, nobody ever tried to get it to come back. The friends were planned around the same time, it was just a musing that they all correctly decided would be unfitting.

Conversely its clear there's an agreement that Coo's colors could go either way depending on what works best, as his original incarnation was on a limited palette with the official art being purple, his second incarnation being a grey sprite but still being purple on occasional art, he's as much purple as he is grey and any recent appearances are just fanservice calling back to these iconic, common color choices which have always been a good fit for Kirby's colorful world and not some stupid conspiracy

>Dreamland 3
>not Adventure

He's also purple in the overworld sprite, but grey in-game, in the game-over screen, and in the credits sequences.
It's almost as if many different artists and designers work on games.

To light the underwater cannon I think? It doesn't need to be a human tho. AI can do it.

You mean
>Return to Dream Land
>not Adventure

RtDL is great.
personally my top 3 is Super Star Classic > Adventure > Epic Yarn

Also the coolest method of completion in the series. Helping characters is a lot more rewarding then collecting bits and bobs.

Ya pic related is really cool

I can agree with this. Helping cute new characters in every level should return.

That one was pretty tricky, loved it. Finding the baby frog also took me a couple of tries.

Animal buddies need to come back!

Reminder

Dream Land 2
Dream Land 3
Kirby 64

Were they ever called "animal buddies"? Pretty sure that was a DKC thing

DL3 has a few inconsistencies with its art. Ado for example has brown hair and bead eyes in the overworld portrait and her sprite, but she has black hair and regular eyes in the intro, the ending, and the boss butch.

>not Lethal League.webm

Its back in the days of separately drawn assets and still some palette limitations, the way I see is that Coo has light, greyish and purple feathers, but from one sprite to another the purple was accentuated or not at all present due to various reasons, for sprites its always important to consider the backgrounds it'll be against and how it will look

With Ado, black hair is really just dark brown hair and the eyes depend on the size of the sprite and whatever aesthetic they wanted to hit, as there's that one kawaii anime Ado while her sprite was meant to be super chibi size and could only accommodate the bead eyes

It just goes to show they weren't married to the specific minute color difference but just the established overall palette (you'll note the greens of Ado's shirt are different as well) and willing to flex it for good art, and making a fuss over it is silly when you go past simple opinions and personal preference into some misguided statement about artistic integrity or whatever was begin argued earlier

>With Ado, black hair is really just dark brown hair and the eyes depend on the size of the sprite
Not quite, her overworld portrait is bigger than her face in the intro or exit, yet that has bead eyes as well. Anime eyes, also, could work on a sprite that size, several other characters have them.

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I miss adult Kirby. He seemed pretty "grown up" in all the classics up until NiDL.

Did Waddle Doo build up enough speed to enter a parallel universe after only 25 seconds? Impressive.

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Sweet, a late night Kirby thread! Hopefully I don't get sleepy now, but someone scanned the entire japanese 20th Anniversary book. I'll do an image dump if it's ok with you guys. Also here's the link to said scanned pages.

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>someone actually fucking did it
holy shit, I've been waiting for this forever, you can't believe how glad I am its been scanned

I wish they could use Candy Constellation once again in-game. I really miss hearing that theme while playing
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>someone actually did it
Maybe that /vr/ thread actually paid off!

I know right! I guess I'll dump the scans to give this thread a little life though.

there are a lot of them, you might want to just focus on interesting stuff with game art and concepts

All right, duly noted.