Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe: more details (Copy Abilities, Sub-Games, more) and footage

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During the latest Nintendo Direct back in September, Nintendo announced that yet another Kirby game was on the way: Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe. It’s an enhanced version of the Wii game, featuring some additional content.

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe features a total of 26 Copy Abilities, and 5 Super Abilities. Here’s some footage of those:

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe introduces two new Copy Abilities:

Mecha: allows you to attack with iron fists and the two cannons on your back, which means you can deal with enemies at pretty much any range. Also, you can fly freely in the air!
Sand: allows you to manipulate sand at will. You can attack with sand blasts or with fists of sand. You can also hide in the sand to protect yourself from attacks, and make sand structures!

There’s also one “new” Copy Ability, which comes from Kirby Star Allies:

Festival

Naturally, all 23 Copy Abilities from the original are back:

Sword
Fire
Needle
Leaf
Cutter
Spark
Beam
Stone
Hammer
Whip
Parasol
Water
Hi-Jump
Tornado
Bomb
Spear
Ice
Crash
Wing
Ninja
Mike
Sleep

Also, all 5 Super Abilities from the original are back:

Monster Flame
Snow Bowl
Ultra Sword
Flare Beam
Grand Hammer

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe also introduces a new mode called Magolor Land. It’s a theme park where you will find various Sub-Games you can play with up to 4 players. The two returning Sub-Games from the original version of the game are back, and come with 8 new ones.

Here’s footage of all the Sub-Games:

Here’s the list of all Sub-Games in Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe:

Magolor’s Tome Trackers [new!]
Gangan Blasters [new!]*
Samurai Kirby
Checkboard Chess [new!]
Bomb Rally [new!]*
Shuriken Dojo [new!]*
Quickshot Kirby [new]*
Smash Ride [new!]
Gigaton Punch [new!]*
Egg Catcher [new!]

*official English name TBC!

And that’s not all: the game features a special version of Samurai Kirby, called Samurai Kirby 100, where you can challenge the play record of the 99 most recent players.

By playing the various Sub-Games, you will be able to collect Stamps in the Stamp Rally. Collect enough of those, and you will be rewarded with prizes like masks based on characters from previous Kirby games. You can wear those masks during the main game!

Finally, here’s some more footage for the game, along with some screenshots: