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Kirby: Canvas Curse

Your DS stylus has been infused with the power to paint! When Kirby gets turned into a ball by an evil witch, your hand-drawn rainbow paths become the only way he can find power-ups and reach the gates of each…

85 24 March 2005

Kirby: Canvas Curse is an adventure developed by HAL Laboratory, released 24 March 2005 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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What Kirby: Canvas Curse is

Kirby: Canvas Curse is an adventure game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Kirby: Canvas Curse, known in Europe as Kirby: Power Paintbrush, is a 2005 platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Kirby series

Kirby: Canvas Curse is the 42nd of 94 entries we hold in the Kirby series. The next entry was Kirby: Squeak Squad in 2006. Its critic score of 85 is 7 points above the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Kirby: Canvas Curse holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Kirby: Canvas Curse launched on 24 March 2005, within three weeks of God of War, God of War I, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and SWAT 4. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War, God of War I, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, SWAT 4.

Cheats and codes

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When did Kirby: Canvas Curse come out?
Kirby: Canvas Curse was released on 24 March 2005 for Wii U and Nintendo DS.

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