Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
A remake of the original Kirby's Adventure for the NES.
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land is an adventure developed by HAL Laboratory, released 25 October 2002 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
What Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land is
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land is an adventure game developed by HAL Laboratory and released in 2002. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kirby's Adventure is a 1993 platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is the second game in the Kirby series after Kirby's Dream Land (1992) on the Game Boy and the first to include the Copy Ability, which allows the main character Kirby to gain new powers by eating certain enemies. The game centers around Kirby traveling across Dream Land to repair the Star Rod after King Dedede breaks it apart and gives the pieces to his minions.
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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Kirby series
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land is the 34th of 94 entries we hold in the Kirby series. It arrived 11 months after Super Smash Bros. Melee. The next entry was N.M.E. Battle! in 2002. Its critic score of 70 is 8 points below the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average. Players rate it 76, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land launched on 25 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, TimeSplitters 2 and Age of Mythology. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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