I've Never Experienced KIRBY LORE... 

Why though?

“Does Kirby even know what’s going on?” He knows that he does not approve of it and that he’s going to violently stop it.

The best thing about Kirby lore is how dang consistent every bit of detail is. A cute example is when Kirby destroyed Meta Knight Halberd and sink it into the orange ocean in Kirby Super Star, the airship is not seen again UNTIL a couple games later in Kirby Squeak Squad where you fight Meta Knight in Secret Ocean. During that Battle he finally raised the Halberd from the ocean mid fight implying that he's been trying to fix it ever since and you use the newly fixed ship to transition into the final level. The fact that small detail like that is given so much attention is really cool!

The reason kirby lore works so well is because you're never FORCED to interact with it(except maybe in the finale of Star Allies). It's always in optional dialoige, bonus modes, and/or hidden in the flipping pause screen. It fits with Kirby's "easy to learn, but harder under the surface" design philosophy.

Oh yeah, additional lore for Queen Sectonia of Triple Deluxe: The English version of Sectonia Soul’s battle says Kirby must grant her “Eternal Beauty Sleep” (thinly veiled euphemism for death) since she’s too far gone and a shell of her former self. In the Japanese version of the battle, not much is changed from the English version, aside from one important fact: it’s narrated in the first person. Sectonia *herself* is asking Kirby to kill her, she’s begging for a suicide by cop. RATED E FOR EVERYONE MY GUY!

The two ends of the Kirby noob spectrum: RTGame (“Kirby’s just a little marshmallow, I’ll just hop on in to Forgotten Land”) vs Nico (“Lol Kirby lore can’t be *that* complex right? I’ll just watch a lore vid for shits and giggles”) and they both lead to mental annihilation.

Actually, Susie's situation in Star Allies is actually a Mistranslation. It states in the Japanese version that "She'll provide happy lives and family harmony with the power of science, and under such a philosophy, will exterminate the "savages," and makes no specific mention of her continuing Haltmann's plans."

My favorite thing about Kirby Lore is how Kirby is the only one who does not care about the deeper meaning of everything and just wants to live life and protect his friends.

Regular people: Oh hey look it's a butterfly! Kirby Fans: OH GOD NO, NOT THE BUTTERFLY!

*Meanwhile in an alternate universe…..* Nico: Holy shit, the lore of Kingdom Hearts is some Kirby levels of absurd

Yes Nico...The Sun and Moon is an actual character in Kirby. You fight them as BOSS FIGHTS in multiple Kirby games. Marx basically told lies to them, make them both angry and throw hands againts each other. Marx then lies to Kirby that he needs to summon an intergalactic wish granting star to make them be chill again.

Once you know about the lore, you can never look at butterflies the same again.

My favorite part of Kirby lore is how despite how convoluted it is, Kirby doesn't have a f*cking clue about almost any of it. He's just like, "Big scary thing is threatening friends! I'm gonna stop the big scary thing!"

Fun fact! Galacta knight is officially sealed outside of continuity. Thats why every time you fought him up until the butterfly, it was the 'first time'. Also, there's a fun list of things that quote 'actually happened in Kirby canon'. Theres a reason people have dubbed smash world of light as "Kirby mildly unusual thursday"

The joke of it Kirby getting his food stolen and going on a killing spree is only funny because of how fucking accurate it is

The best part about Kirby lore is seeing people be introduced to it.

I would seriously recommend the series _Kirby Lore_ by WoolieVS. He narrates the series as if it were an eldritch horror story, without getting any of the details wrong. Kirby is just that kind of game...

Kumazaki: So how many layers of weird lore bullshit are you on? Nomura: I dunno, like, 4 or 5 ish? Kumazaki: You are little baby. *Watch this*

Fun fact: susie's star allies go description is actually lost in translation. according to the kirby fanmade wiki: The English version states that, following in the footsteps of President Haltmann before her, Susie remains undeterred in advancing her mission of mechanizing new planets and people alike. However, the original Japanese version of her Guest Star ???? Star Allies Go! description instead states that she'll provide happy lives and family harmony with the power of science, and under such a philosophy, will exterminate the "savages," and makes no specific mention of her continuing Haltmann's plans. also, two more things: void's description in soul melter EX kinda leans towards it meaning that it's KIRBY'S ORIGIN, since it's description says "Void takes his first steps toward a new age. In place of tyrannical rage, will he find... naptime? Gentle breezes? Treats? He may even dream again... a dream of friends reunited!" and it's battle theme uses a sad rendition of green greens at one point....it's mostly just specilation though...it might not actually mean anything but alot of it makes sense if you put the pieces together, especially since when you beat it it dies with a SMILE ON IT'S FACE, and because after you beat it you unlock the retro kirby skin....the design that void is very similar to... Also iirc the bit About morpho knights design is actually a coincidence.

The funny thing here is the lore was pretty much made without the games strictly telling you it was a complete story, you could easily go for the show story and just think Kirby is a really young star warrior that woke up before maturing into a complete warrior, but when you tie up all of the games and little details together things become incredibly dark. And that's not even adding the new stuff from the forgotten land.

And another thing: HAL Labs loves to throw in cheeky references to their company name in the games. There are the hidden HAL rooms of course but within the lore there’s the HALtmann works company, the HALcandrans where Magolor is from, and the three companies from Forgotten Land, Holine, Alivel, and Lighttron, spell out HAL if you take the first letter of their names.

I love how nico goes from "this is confusing" to "holy crap that's dark...and confusing"

37:08 If it makes you feel any better, in the original Japanese version, Susie had turned Haltman's company into a charity using the power of science to help lives

16:30 I love how you can visibly see him start to mentally breakdown at Kirby Squeak Squad. Yes Kirby has Killed Gods over cake. Yes this is completely normal for the franchise. No HAL Laboratories is not on acid. I think.

Yeah, Kirby kinda perfectly reflects the player’s “I have no idea what’s happening, but that won’t stop me from destroying everything in my path.”

by the way, Forgotten Land creates a whole new lore problem by introducing a different UNIVERSE MODELED AFTER EARTH AKA SHIVER STAR! the fact. that Kirby lore is this deep and detailed while being a game about a cute little pink puffball fighting bad guys with the power of friendship makes this one of my favorite series of all time.

12:05 Marx got the Sun and Moon to fight so he could trick Kirby into summoning Nova for him. Ostensibly this is so Kirby could wish for the Sun and Moon to stop fighting, but actually, Marx wanted to swoop in and wish for the power to control all of Popstar. Hence the nightmare demon transformation

Kirby lore is wild and that’s what makes it so good. Just like kingdom hearts. I love how it completely subverts your expectations; especially since the series comes off as this cutesy innocent kids game. Triple Deluxe was my first Kirby game and it genuinely surprised me with all the lore surrounding Queen Sectonia. I had your exact reactions. 😂

Note that most of these lore was established by Shinya Kumazaki, HAL's designer since Kirby Canvas Curse and director for Super Star Ultra onwards. Sakurai era might've implied things here and there but never upfront. As you see, Sakurai doesn't care deepest depth of lore too much, like in Smash Ultimate, he never explained Galeem and Dharkon's motives. Most of the things are just there for the game's sake. But Kumazaki? He's a MASSIVE nerd. He loves bombastic boss fights, deep lore, and hellish abominations. He drew lines all over what Sakurai left to explain what Kirby is. Still, despite everything, Kirby is a pink blob filled with good vibes and friendliness. None of the lore Kumazaki established contradicts that.

I kinda wish this video was retitled “Kingdom Hearts Fan Attempts to Understand Kirby Lore”, since it would accurately give most people an idea of what they’re in for

Kirby lore has no right to be as complex and interesting as it is and I love it. Lol. Also, fun fact: Kirby canonically can't read, so... yeah, he probably has no idea what's happening at any point, just that bad thing is happening and he has to stop it to make his friends happy. Despite the lore being super complex, Kirby is always the same simple and lovable puffball. :)

The kirby lore is BIG, SCARY, AND PINK!!!

Kirby: Awww, ain't he sweet? He's an adorable little puffball who eats thngs, aw shucks! Kirby Lore: w̷̨̛͇̘̪̥̮̆̓͐̕ẖ̶̡̘͎̼̥̲̠͍̩̑̉̉͛̾́̓̑̽́̕͠͝ă̶̝͚̋̑̿̓̅͘͝t̷̬̼͆̏͛̏͂̔̂ ̴͕͙̥͉̖̦̈́͒͌̊̿́͂͂̉͌̔̚͘̚͜͝ḩ̸̝̱̥͇̳̲̺͇͔̱́͜ͅḁ̴̢̲̰̮̙̲͕͙̪̇̏̒̊͝p̴̢͚̳̏͋͆̉̐̂͌̀̈̾̓͐̅̅͝p̵̩̙͕̮̣̻̜̜͊ͅḙ̷̞͇͖̜̣̯̻͕̗̮͕̲͂͘͝ǹ̸̨̰̳͖̥̩̲͇̳̻̗̰̼ȩ̶̪̹̖̰͈͑̿̓́͌͋̾̾̀d̶̰͍̤̟͕̙͓͇͚̺̺̲̫̱͛̽͌͋̈́̋̌͊̀̄̚͜͝ ̸̢̢̰͚͕̙̤̗̯̜̻̩̀̏̿̈́̋͋̾̿̆̐̃͜͝t̶̨̨̨̠̣͎̻̮̯̼̣̝̯̗̤͋̾ơ̴̧͇̠̣̯̩̝̮͎̘͔̮͑̿͆̿̍͋̇̾͘̕͠ ̸̢̜͓̝̖͖̞̤̜̗̗̜̈ͅt̵͖̀́͒̎́̒̋̌̈́̕h̸̢̧̧͚͔̖͙͇̯͂̃͛̒̀́̂͊̈́̿̈́͋ͅë̴̢͉̙̮̤̺͋̽̉̌͝ͅ ̵̡̙̠̤̝̞̀̽̇͋̍̔͒̌̀͝͠͠s̸̛͎͚͍̥̺̘͍̞̊͆̀̓͑̎̔̆̇k̵͈̦̘̺̱͚̮̞͉̓̒͌̃ỷ̷̖̦̗͖̀͒͆͗̿̕?̸̭̲̲̼̺̫͎̖̘̤̓̏̿

4:36 Not 5 minutes in and he’s already having trouble keeping up! I can’t help but chuckle. 28:57 …Can someone please animate this? This sounds too accurate to *not* be shared. 33:02 You can actually pinpoint the *second* when Nico’s brain breaks in half. 43:56 Nico almost Rage Quits the Lore.

"Why's it gotta be so much all the time with the kirby lore?" The best part about it is that the lore is something that you're able to just invest as much into as you want, you can honestly just go "big bad guy go eat" because that's exactly how Kirby goes about it

"so did anyone actually die in these games" Taranza: *yes*

Finally, (**cracks knuckles**) my time to shine. You’ve stepped into my Kirby Trivia Wheelhouse now. Buckle up bitches, it’s going to be a LONG ONE. Ok, first things first. Sakurai isn’t the series head anymore, and hasn’t been for a long time. He’s only directed a handful of games for the series: Kirby’s Dreamland, Kirby’s Adventure (and it’s remake, Nightmare in Dreamland), Kirby Superstar, and Kirby Air Ride. He was also a special advisor for Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, worked closely with the Kirby Anime, and voice acted King Dedede in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, but aside from that, he hasn’t been involved with the series in a long time. Shinichi Shimomura is responsible for what most Kirby fans refer to as the “Dark Matter Trilogy” (Dreamland 2, Dreamland 3, and Kirby 64). Each major villain of those games ties directly into Dark Matter in some fashion, hence why fans connect the three into a trilogy. Shinya Kumazaki is the current major series director starting with Kirby Superstar Ultra, with his first original directed Kirby game being Kirby’s Return to Dream Land. It was also around this era that more hints of an interwoven lore started to pop up, along with the first mentions of the ancients. He’s also got one HELLUVA eldritch Lovecraftian art gallery, which really explains the direction the series took. Second, Morpho Knight. It may be a biiiit of a stretch to imply he’s been with Kirby all along, but I wouldn’t exactly put it past HAL. He’s said to be a being that casts Judgement upon final battles, and he when he lands on a target and transforms, he’s consuming that target along with their power. To quote Forgotten Land’s capsule description for him, “There it feasts on the most powerful soul it finds and takes the form of a scarlet-clad knight”. It happened to Galacta Knight, and it happened to Forgo Soul too,though Chaos Elfilis implies that one can survive being consumed by Morpho Knight. You’ll notice during his battle in Forgotten Land, he shoots out images of Fecto Forgo; that’s because he’s fighting with Fecto Forgo’s absorbed power. Now if you take a look at most modern Kirby game intro cutscenes, you’ll notice that orange and yellow butterfly always lands on Kirby in some fashion. The Morpho Sword further mentions that “This dangerous weapon grants that form to any who wields it. For Kirby, wielding that power is… a breeze”. This may imply that Kirby is powerful enough to resist Morpho Knight’s transformative abilities, enough to also wield his sword with significant ease. On Susie, the Japanese version of Planet Robobot more so states she wanted to “bring [Haltmann] to his senses” or “wake him up” when attempting to steal the Star Dream helmet, implying she was hurt Haltmann no longer recognized her due to Star Dream’s machinations. I have a feeling that one twitch chat member saying “revenge” as her motive was accurate: it just wasn’t revenge towards Haltmann, but Star Dream, for erasing his memories and former self. That isn’t to say she’s completely nicey-nicey. Meta Knight’s still afraid of her after she mechanized him into Mecha Knight, as he runs away from her in one of the intro screens to Star Allies. Though at least she’s on slightly better terms with Kirby and friends, and definitely not as villainous as she once was. In regards to Galacta Knight, while he technically hasn’t made a canon appearance unlike Morpho Knight, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist. Even after the incident with Morpho Knight in Star Allies, he shows up in a later released spinoff entry , Super Kirby Clash. It is unknown if he’ll ever show up in official mainline canon, though he’s made plenty of appearances in bonus modes. Also his theme is a banger please listen to it, it shreds soooooo hard. As for some fun tidbits I think are neat, in Star Allies Marx’s description it’s said “he’ll be your buddy if you keep him well fed!”, with some fans memeing that Marx wouldn’t’ve tried to take over Popstar if he just got a Snickers or something. The Kirby Anime isn’t canon to to the games. It follows a “monster of the week” format, and combines elements from various Kirby games. Nightmare from Kirby’s Adventure is the main villain, and wiped out swarths of the galaxy, with only the Star Warriors to resist him. Meta Knight was one of these Star Warriors, and Kirby was expected to become one too, though he crash landed on Popstar 200 years too early, hence why he’s more-or-less a baby in the anime who primarily speaks in “poyo”s and other babbling (though some instances in the games imply he knows some basic speech). 4Kids was responsible for the English dub, and most would say it’s actually one of their finest works in dubbing. Especially since Meta Knight, voiced by Eric Stuart, and King Dedede, voiced by Ted Lewis, have some of the most meme-able voices in anime dubbing. Meta Knight’s got an affected Spanish accent inspired by Zorro(I actually thought your voice for Salsa in Mother 3 sounded pretty close to him!) and King Dedede has a Hilariously over-the top Southern Accent. These voices were so iconic, several Kirby fan projects usually have Meta Knight and Dedede’s voices reference their anime accents. Though most Kirby fans, including myself, look back on the anime with nostalgia, some have raised a bit of contention over a certain aspect: King Dedede’s character. As loveably hammy and memey as he is, there’s no denying he’s a way bigger jerk to Kirby in the anime than he is in the games. In the anime, Dedede summons monsters via Nightmare’s (and his Dan Green dubbed N.M.E Salesman minion’s) monster-4-hire shopping service, and frequently antagonizes Kirby and the other civilians of Cappy Town (though sometimes they do get along). In the games, while Dedede started off as a villain, after Kirby defeated him in the first game, every other time you fight Dedede he’s either A. Possessed/Brainwashed, B. Fighting a friendly match, C. trying to stop Kirby from unknowingly unleashing a demon lord, or D. That’s not even Dedede, it’s a clone. In fact, in Kirby’s Adventure, Dedede’s trying to STOP Nightmare instead of buying monsters from him. Dedede sealed Nightmare away in the Star Rod and shattered it, giving the pieces to his minions. Unfortunately, this meant the citizens of Dreamland could no longer dream, and Kirby didn’t happen to catch the “Sealed Nightmare Demon” part. But at least Kirby beat Nightmare after accidentally unleashing him and now all is well. His appearance in Forgotten Land further cements his reformed Hero status, with his first action after being freed from Fecto Forgo’s brainwashing being to save a Waddle Dee and buy Kirby and friends some time. He’s basically if Bowser got consistent character development and became Mario’s best buddy, hence why so many fans love him.

how to survive in a kirby game: DO NOT interrupt Kirby's naptime or take his food, you can be an elder god planning the destruction of the universe, but as long as you follow those two rules, you'll be able to pull it off successfully.

It still weirds me out how "Another Dimension" is the name of a place in the Kirby Universe. Like it's not a figure of speech to say they're lost somewhere, they're literally in "Another Dimension"

This whole stream was so wild. Love how bizarre and eldritch Kirby Lore can get.

Behold, as NicoB slowly descends into madness that is the Kirby games' lore.

If you thought Marx getting the sun and moon to fight was insane, one of the spinoffs has Dedede steal every star in the sky. Every. Single. One.

so just an fyi, the japanese pause screen description does not explicitly say that zan partizanne tried to kill herself. iirc it basically adds that she "lost everything," which, when combined with the fact that she "climbed a tower in desperation" in the middle of a thunderstorm, has lead many to interpret it as she wanted to kill herself.

Also, it's not explained but the friend hearts ability Kirby and his friends have come from the 4 friend spears that were sealing Void in the Jamba heart before it shattered into pieces and fell all over Popstar. The 4 spears belonged to four warriors and it was revealed in Kirby: Super Team Clash (A fighting spin off game) after the video came out that Galacta Knight was known as Aeon Hero after sealing Void in the Dream Kingdom before the 4 Kirbies (species) defeat Aeon Hero and seal him long before the other Kirby games. Which is why you see hearts when the butterfly of paradise absorbs Galacta Knight...... not that complicated.

And you think calling Kirby in Smash 'The Pink Demon' is too much

"Astral Birth Void", the souped up form of Kirby Star Allies' final boss fought in the post game, has a name that's roughly synonymous with "Void Born of the Stars", just like the Japanese title of the series Hoshi no Kaabii/Kirby of the Stars. Their pause menu descriptions are almost identical too! Only the Astral Birth Void is a creature of darkness and malice, while Kirby is the embodiment of happiness and love.

Ironically enough, your stream made me interested in Kirby lore to the point that I became a full on fan of the series. This type of worldbuilding in the aesthetic of a cute platformer drew me in. So thanks Nico ^_^

Something I should mention from the wiki: In the Japanese version of Void Termina's second phase’s Soul Melter EX description, it is implied that Void was created from the combination of all chaos and possibilities, Dream, Dark, Soul, and Heart, in a substance of sorts. It is also stated that he was born as “the progenitor of origination." It explains on why there are so many big bosses with the evil one-eye ( because of the properties of Dark energy/element), why kirby himself (and his mirror reflection in Amazing Mirror) couldn't be corrupted (being made of pure Heart I assume), and why there is Soul versions of bosses (the souls of being are an actual energy/element). What even better is that Forgotten Lands build on this by showing us what a creature who uses the Dream element/energy is like

The funny thing is that, just by looking at this video's length, I can tell you, HE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE OF KIRBY LORE.

"That's super dark! He believed his daughter was dead and it made him lose his mind! So he became obsessed with power to bring her back from the afterlife!" Pokemon fans: ...Should we tell him?

Welcome to the kirby lore Nico, where the cute creatures turn out to eldritch monsters and cannot be trusted, there's a floating eyeball that uses it own blood as attacks and everyone's afraid of a butterfly

16:30 Kirby’s cake 18:45 The Lor 21:35 Kirby’s Surprised Face 21:55 Shadow Dedede 24:05 Dedede’s Castle Windows 26:55 Dedede and Meta Knight Fighting Back 28:40 Kirby’s Confused Face 32:00 Get in the Robot Kirby! 33:00 Distorted Screams 43:00 43:40 Morpho Knight and the Butterfly

To answer your question on whether Kirby knows what's going on or not: No, no he doesn't. Kirby Fighters 2 implies that Kirby can't even read. All Kirby knows is, "Bad guy is doing bad things and making me and my friends sad" and that's all the explanation he needs to start wailing on gods of immense power.

I really like how Sai edited this video. Instead of being a stream clip, it uses the lore videos with Nico's reactions on camera. Keep on doing your fine work, man!

Seeing Nico's reactions, ESPECIALLY from Robobot's section of lore is absolute gold

I actually managed to watch this stream live. As a Kirby fan myself, watching someone like Nico progressively lose his sanity learning about the lore in somewhat real-time and then have a butterfly of all things be his breaking point is an experience I'll never forget.

So this is what happens when a man discovers the lore of Kirby for the first time… It’s so… innocent.

I love how every Kirby game can be sum'd up in: "I would have gotten away with it too! If I hadn't disrupted this one pink ####'s nap/meal/morning!"

Welcome to Kirby, where it's more grotesque than rated M games and no one bats an eye

The Susie thing *is* a translation error. Japanese version just says she's taking over his company and is kinda bossy. English decided to punch it up and go "NO SHES SUPER EVIL STILL" Despite none of the games really backing that up. It's dumb.

And another thing. You got off WAAAAAY easier with the Arena modes in Forgotten Land compared to Triple Deluxe and Robobot. Those two games have “The True Arena”, which have the Soul versions of the final boss. They’re also way harder than the Forgotten Land arenas. Picture, if you will, playing through the Data Fights in Re:Mind. You cannot heal unless it’s in between battles. You have limited heals. You get to Data Xehanort, and he predictably kills you. You now have to not only fight Data Xehanort again, but ALL THE OTHER DATA FIGHTS BEFORE HIM. THAT’S what the old “True Arena” fights were like in the Kirby Series, unlike forgotten land where you can pay to redo a fight if you lose. It’s also where the dankest lore was hidden, since most young children wouldn’t likely be able to access it.

What we think about Kirby: Cute pick puffball, all adorable creaters, one king Penguin who steal foods, Happy sunny days, & Butterfly. What the Kirby’s lore is: Betrayal, God of Destruction, the Darkest of the evil Darkest, The Writing is too dark than Yoko Taru’s writing, trust issues, & Butterfly.

Nico’s Sanity Approaches the Roche Limit

I actually didn't know a whole lot of Kirby lore when I played Planet Robobot, but I *did* know about Super Star, which was enough to make the reveal at the 32:30 mark *COMPLETELY BONKERS.*

The best part about Kirby lore is that no matter how complicated or eldritch the lore is, none of it matters, cause Kirby doesn't understand any of it nor does he care. He just wants all the problems to go away so that he can go back to his regular life. It's hilarious.

The Kirby series is the definition of dont judge a book by its cover.

I love how the butterfly/Morpho Knight broke Nico the same way it did the Kirby fanbase. We all now have collective PTSD thanks to a fluttering insect. Also, welcome to the Kirby fanbase Nico, we welcome you with open arms. May I interest you in our lord and savior Bandana Waddle Dee?

Seeing Nico freak out over how messed up Robobots lore is genuinely amazing

He should listen to the series' music. Every game has something incredible to listen to!

I wasn’t able to catch this stream live but as soon as I could I went back to check out the VOD because I knew that the reaction to this would be absolutely glorious.

Makes sense that the butterfly was the breaking point for him, just think every time it landed on Kirby it was just trying to absorb his soul. Very cool!

24:33 I like to imagine Nico walking up to a group of Waddle Dees, pointing at em, and just yelling “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOOOSE”

The sound of Nico's brain falling apart trying to comprehend the lore of a series that stars a smol pink boi. This is a treat

Where else but in Kirby games can you find a mix of both adorable wholesomeness and creepy Nightmare Fuel? Kirby lore is pretty wild, though, full of deep backstories and cosmic horrors, all bundled together with the heroic adventures of a cute pink puffball who swallows enemies whole and gains abilities based on their powers. Hats, too. =P Edit: I stand corrected. There are a lot of series that combine adorability and Nightmare Fuel. They just didn’t occur to me at the time, lol

Other fun fact: It’s unknown if The Jambastion Mage Sisters are really blood sisters or “sisters” as in the Covenant variety. Some take the non-blood sisters approach since they were found in separate locations and some would say there’s even a bit of lesbian subtext between Francisca and Flamberge, but nothing is confirmed. (SWEET HOME ALABAMA INTENSIFIES???)

I think I get Nintendo's thought process when they made these games for kids, I think. Because kirby is a child himself he doesn't really comprehend all the horrible stuff that happens around him, this is supposed to reflect the fact the kids playing the game probably won't comprehend it either until later on they grow up and replay the game for nostalgia or watch a youtube video about it, that works too. It's a weird way to bank on the nostalgia and replayability but judging by the fanbase they nailed it.

I mean Kirby games ARE normally self contained to “new big evil thing go kill it with friendship” when it comes to any game on its own but amid the continuity of every game there’s this massive god war of ancient tribes that ACTUALLY makes sense altogether

As someone who's grown up with Kirby & knowing all the lore like common knowledge, seeing you react blind with no expectation of what's to come makes this one of my favourite videos on the site xD As to "why?". Well, I feel like it's proof that a lot of care & effort was put into the series! I'm not sure how to explain it better but it's like... They didn't have to, but I'm so glad they did! Plus I feel like, at least for me, having well written characters & world lore even in such an otherwise "simplistic" series makes me care about it so much more! For example, I've always loved Kirby & Squeak Squad was the first game I ever 100%ed but I never had much interest in Mario with the exception of the RPGs... (Also everyone go sub to RPGmonger!! I've been following him for a while and his content is really good!)

1:58 You ever just find something for the first time and then IMMEDIATELY hate it? That is me when it comes to this. Imagine my surprise finding THAT when trying to look up the Eldritch Abomination for an Art project in school. Just finished the video. That was fun to go through again with those edits

The great things about Kirby Lore is that it’s designed in a way that you don’t NEEDS to study up on it to enjoy each games stories, most of them are simple and easy to follow, BUT if you do dive Into the lore, stuff gets way more interesting and fun! But once again, it’s not an overarching story you gotta follow or you’ll be lost

So for Super Star Ultra it was just a collection of Kirby games. They added new games and extra modes to existing titles as well for the collection. The lore is… well, as you saw, pretty insane, but you can play them all without having to rly understand any of it. They all have self contained stories that connect through threads like shown in the video.

Kirby lore is just “you’ve accidentally inconvenienced the wrong baby, now he’s going to kill you and your god”

hearing someone refer to galacta knight as "one of meta-knight's alt skins in smash" filled me with a rage i did not know i had until now now i know how people feel when someone says something is from fortnite

When it comes to the Mirror World, there's a few more details, like how Shadow Kirby would jumpscare the player a few times, but he turned out to not be evil and just didn't trust the four playable Kirby (Amazing Mirror's big selling point is that it's a metroidvania where you can play Coop, which would be awesome if it weren't released during the GBA days) until it became clear that they were saving the Mirror World. The Mirror World also has a few more creative characters other than just Dark/Shadow (X) or literally just Kracko because Kracko exists in all worlds. There's King Golem (the first Whispy Woods variant to not be made out of wood), a shark head that you fight underwater (Acro's counterpart), a giant rat (who didn't have a Dream Land counterpart until Squeak Squad), Mega Titan (no counterpart), Wiz (presumably the counterpart of Paint Roller) and a canon Kirby appearance of Master and Crazy hand. The counterpart most important to the lore other than Dark Meta Knight is his master, Dark Mind (Nightmare's Mirror World version, to be precise). As shown by the boss fight against Void, Dark Mind is Dark Matter and Nightmare's missing link. But it doesn't stop there: according to the Kirby Clash series, Dark Mind survived having his body destroyed and getting repeatedly stabbed and shot in the pupil by possessing Shadow Dedede. And unlike regular Dedede, it's permanent and they now use the name King D-Mind (who was apparently created because Masked Dedede reminded the development team of Dark Mind's helmet). This further implied Shadow Kirby ultimately failed to stop the villains in the Mirror World. Speaking of Kirby Clash, in Super Kirby Clash Galacta Knight's needles (which are the same design as those found in the big Jamba Heart) and Aeon Hero nickname imply he was one of the four heroes that defeated Void Termina. One last detail, just for fun. When Kirby games mention "another dimension" it's talking about the one introduced in Return to Dreamland that was literally called "Another Dimension".

Before anyone comments: Sakurai DID NOT WRITE THE KIRBY LORE. Sakurai did have major involvement in the creation of Kirby but hasn't worked on the series directly since Air Ride and that was 19 YEARS AGO. The main writer for the games has been Shinya Kumazaki who is also the current head director of the series and has been since Super Star Ultra which was 14 years ago now. While there have been creepy looking bosses in the series before this, there wasn't any deeper story or hidden connecting plot threads between games until after Kumazaki started directing. It frustrates me how people keep throwing around Sakurai's name likes he's responsible for everything related to Kirby when that simply isn't true. Kumazaki and his team at Hal deserve just as much credit for making Kirby what it is today, maybe even more.

The best thing about Kirby lore is that it’s filled with eldritch horrors that want to control the universe and Kirby DOES end up stopping them but he’s usually on a meaningless quest to get his cake back, save the Waddle Dees, or even just for fun.

Kirby is a cosmic comedy. He never knows what he gets himself into but prevails despite all the oppositions efforts, whether they be eldritch horrors that embody pure evil or computers sponsored by capitalism.

Ever since that day, Nico can no longer rest free when he sees a butterfly...

Kirby lore is pretty straightforward. Helps that it doesn’t have games that’s happen before previous games or in between previous games or far into the future or far into the past. It’s a straight line with preseries lore just being stuff you find in the games as you go through them. My favorite is the part where Kirby fought Zero and then LITERALLY TORE HIS EYE OUT WITH GORE AND BLOOD with the power of love.

Well, time for Nico's poor brain to get rumbled by the wholesome pink ball of doom. You will never escape this rabbithole friend.

I love how the gods kirby beats includes literal evil, self hate, deception, and corporate america.

I've played a handful of Kirby games But it never occurred to me that they would all be connected to one another I thought Kingdom Hearts was convoluted, I think Kirby might be on par, if not above Kingdom Hearts I thought each one was a standalone, but little did I know the goddamn BUTTERFLY would turn out to be a god

Pausing for Lore is the three most important words for Lore in Kirby, From Super Star to now and later, Pausing for Lore is the way to go.

I thought this would be easy for Nico after all that Kingdom Hearts lore he has absorbed. I thought wrong.

Yeh, I feel like it's a bit... rough to just deep dive into Kirby's world-building since the games usually just ease players into with mainline instalments dropping some new little hints or introducing something new that connects to stuff from the past, or expands on seemingly one-off or obscure moments from older games.. or mii-verse posts lol. Not every game is super lore heavy, some just drop little things here and there and while not always big ground-breaking bombshells serve as a nice way to flesh out the universe of these games. Thankfully, unlike a series like KH (which I also love lol) you really don't need to know about the lore super in depth to enjoy the games; they're more like an extra treat for long-term fans lol. Some things not mentioned in this video are things like the reason why Dedede can fly is that he taught himself to match Kirby's ability... but by that point Kirby had learned how to copy abilities (lol poor dedede), the powerful paintbrush witches like Drawcia (who was actually the very first soul boss in the series and I believe the only 'canon' one in terms of the fight having actually happened and not just being a hypothetical 'what-if' scenario) Claycia, and Paintra are implied to be 'sister' paintings created by the same artist, Star Dream, a clockwork star of immense power, only being able to partially analyze the Dark Matter Swordsman- which further shows how bizarre and incomprehensible the Dark Matter beings are, Necrodeus from Mass Attack possibly having connections to the kingdom of Floralia from Triple Deluxe and is theorized to have been the one who turned trapped their sunlight into gems, The other mirror connecting to the mirror world which corrupts the desperate Taranza who was trying to bring back Sectonia (this happened pre-Star Allies I believe, and while his motivation in that game is the same it's implied he's aware it's not gonna work and that Sectonia is gone for good) and said mirror also seems to have a connection a place called Another Dimension- which is a whole 'nother can of worms lol there is about as much clear info on that as there is about Void and Galacta Knight (slim to none)- even these smaller moments are so easy to get wrapped up in, especially when you factor in translation bungles. *SPOILERS FOR THE NEW GAME* Like Morpho knight's translated Star Allies description calling him a 'pure being twisted by a dark past' when the more accurate translation is more like 'a mysterious powerful being whose past is shrouded in mystery' which is more in line with how he is in the newest game. There is a lot going on and I absolutely love the universe that just slowly and often cryptically gets unveiled. I love that not every little piece is explained- at least not all at once- but just enough is given to provide some answers... but not the full picture. And that makes sense! It feels like we end up discovering the universe alongside Kirby and pals, but only the parts that happen to make the mistake of messing with Popstar lol. It makes it all feel so much grander, each little connection feels less like unnecessarily tying everything together but expanding things and allowing fans to make the connections themselves.

I find this infinitely funnier that this is a Kingdom Hearts player reacting to Kirby Lore

quick note, we also need to note that there's one-offs that weren't mentioned. Like the two spin-offs where Kirby was controlled via drawing lines through the stylus because of art-themed villains. Or the OTHER time Kirby got split into multiple pieces and NEARLY ACTUALLY DIED BEFORE THE START OF THE GAME. And of course, all of this is before Kirby and the Forgotten Land (which makes Morpho Knight explicitly canon, suggesting that Galacta Knight and others possibly are too...

My favorite part is that the fate of the Earth is never talked about in this video. As in Kirby 64 the earth shows up as a level called shiverstar and is frozen over and the deeper you go you start seeing abominations in test tubes, and a giant ass war machine robot teies to kill you.

And I think the most hilarious thing about how dark and creepy Kirby lore is the fact that every game in the franchise is E to E10 rated.

And you though Kirby lore was going to match it's cutesy appearance. Oh how naiive you were Nico. Fun fact regarding Marx's boss fight in Smash, Sakurai said in an interview that Marx's boss fight was supposed to be so much darker but it had to be toned down **A LOT** due to the ESRB rating, which would have been raised had the original conception of Marx's fight been included instead of the toned down version we see in the final product. Yeah, it could have been so much worse. And I want to see what could have been.