Critical Hit: Kirby's Co-op Curse

Kirby's Epic Yarn came out on Sunday and my girlfriend and I have been playing it ever since. It's a pretty fun game; cute, cuddly, happy-go-lucky. Who would ever think gaming's cutest puffball had a darker side.

Kirby's Epic Yarn offers both single player and two player coop for its story mode. Naturally, my girlfriend and I thought it would be a blast playing as cute and fuzzy puffballs collecting jewels and beating all those baddies. How we were wrong . . .

The gameplay is simple. Go through each level collecting as many jewels as possible. If you beat the level with enough jewels to earn a gold medal or higher, you then unlock new items, music, and levels. If you get hit by an enemy, you lose many of your jewels. You cannot die, just frustratingly lose all of your jewels.

The first time one of the players gets hit and loses a ton of jewels is when the hatred begins. I would like to provide you with a few quotes that sum up what it's like to be in the same room as my girlfriend and I playing Kirby's Epic Yarn. Both of us are experienced gamers but that wasn't enough to get around Kirby's co-op curse.

"OUR JEWELS!!! WHAT DID YOU DO!"

"Don't throw me! Throw the enemy!"

"In case you didn't know, bad guys hurt you."

"*sigh* Come on. Did you not see the giant snowball rolling toward you?"

"Move! Get out of the way! I'm going to punch you!"

"I want to have fun but you're not letting me."

"You see. That's how you kill a boss. Not what you were doing. But I'll give it to you that you're pretty good at losing all of our jewels."

"OUR jewels? I'm the one that collecting them all!"

"Why are you acting like a child and throwing me down the hole?"

"Haha! I'm having fun! Oh, man. You should join me this game is a lot of fun! I bet you wish you were having as much fun as I am right now! Wooo!"

[When you are being brought back to the playable area but your "partner" is being a jerk by either moving too fast or hiding behind fabric so you cannot touch them thus remaining in limbo until your partner has had all the kicks that they can get and decides to "let" you play again.]

"Draw a line to it. Draw a straight line . . . . Okay, yeah, that's not line. I don't know what you just drew."

. . . It's a fun game.

Later I plan on reviewing Kirby's Epic Yarn along with many other major releases in October (and Halo:Reach) so stick with me.