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Kirby Star Allies is a main-series Kirby game for the Nintendo Switch released in 2018, making it the first main-series release on a home console since Kirby's Return to Dream Land in 2011. It is a side-scrolling platformer game with three-dimensional visuals that succeeds the Nintendo 3DS titles of Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Kirby: Planet Robobot in general style, though it takes on a set of features and attributes more reminiscent of titles like Kirby Super Star. Designed as a "culmination" title of the whole series, the game is largely designed around celebrating it, including several references to past titles in multiple forms, and was released as part of the series' 25th anniversary celebration. In place of a special power-up or vehicle specifically for Kirby, Kirby Star Allies features extensive multiplayer co-op, allowing Kirby to recruit allies from various on-stage enemies or summon special partners from the Dream Palaces. With the aid of these partners, Kirby can then perform combination moves, including some special transformations that can only be done with a full party of four.
Kirby Star Allies was initially announced at E3 2017, known then as Kirby for Nintendo Switch. It subsequently released on March 16, 2018 in nearly all regions, seeing later releases in Hong Kong (for the digital version only), South Korea, and a number of Southeast Asian regions. Unlike past mainline games in the series, Kirby Star Allies received three free updates over the course of the next several months; this was done to keep interest in the game, as well as to "keep long-time fans happy". The added content mostly came in the form of additional Dream Friends and an Extra Mode that involved them heavily, along with extra bosses and bug fixes. While Kirby Star Allies received mixed impressions from reviewers, it was a commercial success, and is the third best selling game in the series, with 4.38 million copies sold worldwide as of December 2022. Moreover, it, alongside the following main-series game, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, are considered a big, connected project that led HAL Laboratory to finally create a mainline 3D Kirby game.
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