Kirby: Canvas Curse

Kirby: Canvas Curse also known as Kirby: Power Paintbrush in Europe and 'Touch! Kirby' in Japan is a platforming game that was developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo in 2005, and is a game where you don't use the buttons to control Kirby.

Plot
One day, Kirby notices a portal, and out of nowhere, a witch, who is known to be Drawcia springs forth out of the portal, and warps the reality of Dream Land. Kirby is then turned into a ball thanks to the witch's spell casted on him. Now he must give chase to the witch and defeat her.

Why It Is Not Canvas Cursed

 * 1) Creative level design:
 * 2) * For example, the very first level, or in this case, all the levels you go through have something creative, like the music, and the way the enemies move.
 * 3) Speaking of the music, the music is quite fitting, even the final boss music, Drawcia Sorceress is quite fitting.
 * 4) Some features that were added in this game:
 * 5) * For example, Cart Run with the concept taken from the Gourmet Race. This involves getting as much food as you can to accelerate and get past King Dedede.
 * 6) ** Paint Panic involves a challenge where Paint Roller draws a canvas, and your job is to fill in the rest of the canvas before the Bombers touch you.
 * 7) *** Block Attack involves a boss fight with both Kracko Jr and Kracko (with Kracko Jr on Level 1 on the lowest difficulty, and Kracko on Levels 2 to 3 on the highest difficulty).
 * 8) * While we are on the same subject, the difficulty can be set to level 3 on all boss fights, which includes Cart Run, Paint Panic, and Block Ball.
 * 9) The fact that Drawcia is the first female final boss in a Kirby game is a nice change up to the other bosses (although Queen Sectonia is in second place from another game).
 * 10) In comparison to Kirby Mass Attack, the magical paintbrush serves as a guide, rather than the star that guided Kirby in the aforementioned game.
 * 11) The backgrounds in each level are decent.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The later levels, such as level 7 become pretty difficult when it comes to trying to navigate yourself to the goal. The last level becomes the hardest really fast.
 * 2) With this game requiring you to use the stylus, it can sometimes become such a chore whenever you're trying to go over slopes and slants in general.
 * 3) * It also doesn't help that the stylus doesn't always help you navigate your way around the level or get you out of trouble like what the 2005 advertisements have said earlier. It is very easy to run into spikes, and enemies, and easily take damage until it's game over.

Trivia

 * This game marks the debut of many Soul bosses throughout the Kirby series, with Drawcia Soul being the first.
 * Kirby: Canvas Curse is the first Kirby game that requires you to use the stylus, with Kirby Mass Attack being the second to last in the DS era from 2011.
 * Unlike the other Kirby games, it does not play like a regular Kirby game, than the other as it only uses the stylus.

Reception
Kirby: Canvas Curse received generally favorable reviews on Metacritic, receiving a score of roughly 34 out of 40 by Famitsu. 1UP.com calls this "genuinely excellent" game. GameSpot calls it a "satisfying game".

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