As much as it annoys me that Nintendo is doing another Dinosaur Planet rebranding, ignoring a potential new brand in order to shoehorn an existing franchise, making it a Kirby game has people interested in the title.
For better or worse, "World of Fluff" (or whatever it would have been called) just wouldn't sell as well as "Kirby's Epic Yarn". It wouldn't be getting all the pre-release coverage. Fluff would just be yet another Wii game that came out to little fanfare, sold moderately at best, and was forgotten within a week. Even the reviews will probably be kinder to "Kirby's Epic Yarn" than "World of Fluff". After all, making a "no death" Kirby game is being cute and making the game accessible to all, while making a "no death" new character game is making a grade-schooler-only Wii-is-for-kiddies game.
I agree with you on all counts, particularly regarding how reviews will inevitably be kinder. I guess I'm annoyed that the Kirby name has been exploited more than anything for the past four years. But people will laud Epic Yarn with Kirby on it, and Nintendo will rake in the sales. What else matters to Nintendo?
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For better or worse, "World of Fluff" (or whatever it would have been called) just wouldn't sell as well as "Kirby's Epic Yarn". It wouldn't be getting all the pre-release coverage. Fluff would just be yet another Wii game that came out to little fanfare, sold moderately at best, and was forgotten within a week. Even the reviews will probably be kinder to "Kirby's Epic Yarn" than "World of Fluff". After all, making a "no death" Kirby game is being cute and making the game accessible to all, while making a "no death" new character game is making a grade-schooler-only Wii-is-for-kiddies game.
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