Random: Sakurai Originally Wanted Kirby To Grab Enemies With His Tongue

Beating Yoshi to the punch.

We've been talking about Masahiro Sakurai a lot recently, haven't we? The creator of Kirby and Smash Bros. has started up his own YouTube channel, where he's already amassed over 200,000 subscribers, and he's already released one video about 'hit stops'.


Sakurai has also started a miniseries on the channel called 'Game Concepts', which is where the game designer will talk about the games he worked on and how he came up with the concepts for each one. His first video focuses on Kirby's Dream Land — which is the first game Sakurai directed.


The video is a lovely look back at just what inspired Sakurai to create the pink puffball, and he talks about why he made the game easier in an era where video games were more difficult, and the fact that he wanted Kirby to 'fly' because he thought it would be too harsh to lose a life for simply missing a jump (looking at you, Castlevania).


But Sakurai drops one amusing tidbit early on in the video. Kirby's most-recognisable skill is the ability to suck up enemies and take on their powers. The latter part didn't come until later, but in Kirby's Dream Land, he could still suck up enemies and spit them out — and that's how he defended himself. But Sakurai admits that he originally wanted Kirby to use his tongue to grab the enemies rather than by deeply inhaling.

 

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