Sakurai shares development secrets of Kirby’s Dream Land

Kirby’s Dream Land is celebrating its latest anniversary today, and director Masahiro Sakurai is honoring the occasion with a special feature in which he shares secrets about the making of the game. This also ties in with the milestone of him reaching 100 videos on his YouTube channel.

Kirby had a orchestral concert for its 25th anniversary in 2017, and Sakurai prepared some development stories to present on stage. Thankfully he still has them, so he decided to provide everything in his new YouTube video.

Sakurai goes into a lot here, from a look at the dev tool to character / enemy designs and more. He also shared a bonus secret about Meta Knight that was only included in the Osaka performance.

Below is the full video with Sakurai in which he shares development secrets of the original Kirby:

Kirby’s Dream Land first released on the Game Boy in Japan on April 27, 1992. It would follow that August of the same year in North America and Europe. If you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you can play it on the service right now.

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