Kirby RtDL Deluxe Leaks/Datamines

[quaint osprey]

we get forgotten land which had banger story execution imo

its still not perfect but a major step in the right direction for the series

[dull geode]

Guess the new funny mode will show if they've really grown

Or if Galacta will do nothing and have "What a Dream battle!" In his description

[mortal dock]

FL seems like he's learning from the feedback of lore in past games

[quaint osprey]

i lowkey feel like in a way we should treat modern era as almost entirely different series from classics. since barely any people carried over since then and new games have a lot of quirks exclusive to them that they are still figuring out

[mortal dock]

wonder if ||New Magolor Mode|| will reflect a similar change

[dull geode]

FL requiring basically no outside reading aside from supplemental stuff that isn't necessary is super based

[broken smelt]

I’m so hyped to see what the next game’s story’s gonna be

[uncut oxide]

SA was a little better because you had Hyness kinda explain things a little bit
but even then it’s confirmed he’s somewhat lying

[quaint osprey]

dream battle descriptions def will get the cut lmfao

[quaint osprey]

its not that hes lying

hes just a bit insane

and biased

[compact mica]

And talking really really fast

[uncut oxide]

yeah it was moreso denial of the truth

[mortal dock]

can't believe we're past the "pause for lore" era

[compact mica]

Good

[mortal dock]

it was a very good meme

[compact mica]

On screen story telling is better

[uncut oxide]

i’m so happy we are
good storytelling yummy

[lofty slate]

Magolors Epilogue is literally Fnaf UCN all over again

[mortal dock]

fr fr

[dull geode]

Engage in gacha mechanics for lore

[mortal dock]

I'm glad it's more engaging

[mortal dock]

perfect mobile game idea

[quaint osprey]

i didnt think about it but

we really dont know if rtdx WILL have pause for lore approach lol

like idk. maybe they will do something else.

lor database

[compact mica]

There probably will be descriptions

[errant perch]

Hopefully magolor can provide us with more story telling throughout both main story modes

[lofty slate]

Hang on guys brb gonna go rob my local GameStop and get an early copy of rtdldx

[compact mica]

Magologs would be cool actually

[mortal dock]

honestly think they just thought "pause screen should tell you about the boss" and then "what if we added some tidbits" and then it snowballed from there lol

[quaint osprey]

lor would kinda be perfect for this sort of thing imo

[compact mica]

Log files on the lor written by our egg friend

[languid dragon]

Sunken Scroll style collectables?

[quaint osprey]

maybe

that would rule

FL kinda had that with figurines already so id love if they kept expanding on the idea

[compact mica]

"I saw some strange girl staring at these sphere eating creatures and taking photos and notes for some reason"

[languid dragon]

Maybe like the Alterna Logs were they become less corrupted the more you progress through level

[lofty slate]

Super Magolor Galaxy

[mortal dock]

one thing starfy did really well was having notes you could find around the world about characters in that setting. was nice world building and would fit kirby well

[compact mica]

I am going to Mago the galaxy

[languid dragon]

Magolor’s Journal

[lofty slate]

Magolor doesn’t need the Lor anymore

He can just fly around on launch stars

[broken smelt]

Oh shoot data from the Lor would be sweet

[dull geode]

Kinda hope they make some new ones lol

[compact mica]

Having lor written from Magos perspective or something also gives more room for personality

[dull geode]

Or at least upgrade the existing ones

[quaint osprey]

i mean i do want more lore dont get me wrong but pause descriptions are lame as fuck

[broken smelt]

MagoLogs

[quaint osprey]

like no matter how you slice it

[lofty slate]

Magolog Day 1: the pink menace has been spotted. I will kill him when he least expects it

[quaint osprey]

pausing in the middle of the boss fight to read lore is questionable game design

[compact mica]

They're also very limited space wise

Especially noticeable in rtdl

[quaint osprey]

not to mention it limited what can even be told within the game because it always has to relate to bosses

[compact mica]

Which doesn't care about pause screens for lore outside one moment

[quaint osprey]

figurines were so good in this regard because they could be just about anything

[compact mica]

And figures you can easily go back to!

[quaint osprey]

i cant even rule out the fact that there might be more additional collectibles or some sort of lor logs

[broken smelt]

Info from the Lor would work perfectly in this

[compact mica]

Not likely but I kinda want flavour text for the masks

[quaint osprey]

because HAL doesnt advertise the hecking game

they don't even advertise those magolor tickets on the levels in the story mode!!!

[compact mica]

Written again from Magolors perspective

[broken smelt]

The Lor is like alive too isn’t it? It could be that as well

[quaint osprey]

like they are there in the footage. but we dont know what's they are for.

[broken smelt]

Same

[mortal dock]

the Soon TM direct better help resolve some of this lack of marketing (It won't. But I like being optimistic)

[broken smelt]

But maybe that’d be too much flavour text lmao

[compact mica]

Yeah probably

[quaint osprey]

nah it should lol

theres like 3 weeks until the game

[compact mica]

Its gonna

[mortal dock]

at the very least they will show the game yeah lol

[compact mica]

Whatever isn't meant to be super Secret will be mentioned

[quaint osprey]

theres never too much with kumazaki

[broken smelt]

True

[mortal dock]

tho I bet the Nintendo social media won't show it off as well as they should

[quaint osprey]

as much as we rag on pause screens i have to commend the fact that kuma is like

responsible for all

alllll text in modern mainline games

all dialogue. all pause screens. everything

[mortal dock]

wtf? damn

[compact mica]

Zamn

[quaint osprey]

revenge of the king was first game he fully wrote for the series

[compact mica]

I still find it funny how Daroach has the most dialogue

[broken smelt]

And he’s the general director? What’s his position at HAL again?

[quaint osprey]

yeah

hes at the table of directors of HAL now too

hes the head honcho of kirby

[mortal dock]

rotk did a great job recreating the Coolness of romk

[broken smelt]

Let’s go!!!

[lofty slate]

Five Nights at Magolor’s is real guys

[errant perch]

Modern Kirby lore is just Kuma’s elaborate fan-fiction and I’m all here for it

[compact mica]

Rotk is definitely a great way of making ex dl1 canon in some way

[mortal dock]

sounds silly but the part where you enter dedede's room and it's pitch black and silent gives me chills lol

[broken smelt]

He was a Kirby fan growing up no? I’d go wild too if I was given that position

[quaint osprey]

kumazaki grew up with dl1 and adventure yea

[broken smelt]

I’d implement the wildest shit

[mortal dock]

I know kirby is 30 years old but that's a mind boggling concept for me

[quaint osprey]

adventure's climax is the reason he's a fan or even became interested in game development in the first place

[compact mica]

Nothing beats having the biggest fanboy in charge

[mortal dock]

someone who grew up playing the games now directing said games

[broken smelt]

That is the DREAM

[mortal dock]

man is living the life

[quaint osprey]

iirc he was like 19 when he started working at hal?

or something like that

[compact mica]

I'm jealous lol

[dull geode]

GRAAAAH but where else do they put it for this game

Magolor Tome tracks lore

[quaint osprey]

who knows!!!!!!!!! it can be anything

[compact mica]

Wasn't Sakurai 19 as well when he started dl1?

[mortal dock]

wait sakurai was that old when he started doing kirby stuff too right.

[broken smelt]

Lor Logs!!

[mortal dock]

YEA

[quaint osprey]

like. after magolor epilogue i legit can believe Anything

this remake can go fucking insane lol

[dull geode]

Honestly true

[mortal dock]

that's insane. I'm gonna be 19 in 2 months and idk about you but I don't know how to create kirby yet

[dull geode]

Best evidence towards God being real (it's Kirby)

[compact mica]

Kinda hoping for the dc stages

[broken smelt]

It will be your time as Kirby director soon

[compact mica]

It would be a good bookend for the Magolor saga

[quaint osprey]

wouldnt be surprised if they will end up being there after all

[mortal dock]

Amazing mirror sequel.... IS REAL!

[broken smelt]

Peak!!

[compact mica]

We are getting the middle part of Magolors character arc we've been missing

[quaint osprey]

i dont even aim to be kirby director because dedede fanboy is already in charge so i dont have much more to add 😎

[mighty breach]

If ||Magolor going to hell|| is something that can be approved and done, then good lord what awaits us in the future

[dull geode]

I feel like somehow doomers are going to be ignored in this mode and I will give it 0/10 if that happens

[compact mica]

Taranza going to heaven

[mighty breach]

Falls off and lands back on earth

[mortal dock]

I had a slight feeling of doubt when the leak surfaced because it seemed too good to be true. like that's such a raw concept wtf

[broken smelt]

||I speculated about hades being implemented in but I legit didn’t see it happening||

[quaint osprey]

thing is, kumazaki IS the biggest dude with kirby now. he's calling the shots what can be allowed with the franchise and what can't be. i lowkey feel like this is half the reason why this mode even exists in the first place.

[dull geode]

This is the WORST feeling cause it looks so real but there is no confirmation

[quaint osprey]

who will tell him not to do it? no one. there is no one to tell him that

[mighty breach]

a man with no restriction of power

[compact mica]

Absolutely real I say

[errant perch]

Also we have post-fl translation so hopefully|| mago in hell ||can be well told and understood on top of being a good story

[compact mica]

It's the type of unhinged genius move Kumazaki would do

[quaint osprey]

so true

[broken smelt]

The next game.

[quaint osprey]

honestly

[broken smelt]

Is gonna be SO good

[quaint osprey]

even besides insanely cool premise

what gets me. is that this mode has entirely different gameplay loop

fucking SKILL TREE??? in my KIRBY GAME???

[compact mica]

The tree system?

It's genuinely fitting

[quaint osprey]

what does this mean for the level structure in itself. imagine if its friggin metroidvania lol

[compact mica]

||Magolor has nothing when he's dead and has to reclaim his power||

[mighty breach]

I don't understand something tho
What did Kumakazi mean with the "pinnacle of the Kirby series"
A pinnacle goes up and then down
But so far it's only been going up

[hallow laurel]

you can put Kirby anywhere

as long as it is SFW

[compact mica]

So true

I love how versatile he is

[quaint osprey]

FL can be considered to be pinnacle of the series

but its not peak of the series

[hallow laurel]

if Kuma wants Magolor to be in hell

so be it

[compact mica]

You can put him in anything and it will generally work

[mighty breach]

kuma is morpho no way

[quaint osprey]

there is a difference

[hallow laurel]

that hell will just be... a Kirby-ified concept

[quaint osprey]

pinnacles are like... defining things of outstanding quality. FL can be considered that i think

[broken smelt]

Next Kirby game:

[worn bridge]

It's so funny how quickly RTDX discussion veered

[compact mica]

All it took was to flip the box

[quaint osprey]

okay but it does boggle my mind why HAL are keeping so much about the game under the wraps. like for a while i thought its because they don't have much to show because it's a remake. but now i'm just. huh????

[compact mica]

Kinda funny how the biggest reveal was lurking on the back of the box the whole time

[quaint osprey]

theres barely any time left until its released

wheres marketing

[hallow laurel]

soon

™️

very soon tbh

[compact mica]

The marketing team fell asleep

[broken smelt]

There’re only a few weeks left

Less than a month

[compact mica]

They were listening to sky waltz for 10 hours

[errant perch]

Overview trailer and demo drop. This Friday. Calling it now.

[hallow laurel]

Well, this week is a good week to reveal this mode and missions

no

Thursday.

[quaint osprey]

when all of this happened my mind flashed back to the day when RTDX was first unveiled

[mighty breach]

Just wanna point out how fucking based HAL is as a developer to do so much fucking cool shit with a remake

[compact mica]

Why not Wednesday?

[quaint osprey]

there was this huge discussion about this game won't be worth 60 dollars

lol

[hallow laurel]

Thursday.

I mean it.

[errant perch]

Latter half of the week

[compact mica]

Why that day specifically ?

[hallow laurel]

because that's when Star Allies and FL demos were released.

[mighty ocean]

I remember being like half an hour early for my psych class and checking Twitter

[compact mica]

Oh yeah

[broken smelt]

I was thinking something next week but there’s barely any time left 💀

[mighty breach]

It think it'd be worth 60$ if scope shot, but unfortunately, 😔

[quaint osprey]

yeah im lowkey not sold on the idea of RTDX being included as a major thing in the next direct

unless next direct is literally this week lol

[broken smelt]

I bet ||magolor epilogue|| will be in the next trailer too

The hype is real

[mighty breach]

I think it really should be advertised cause like
It's definitely a major selling point

[errant perch]

They seem to be preparing a bunch of things on the e-shop I think I heard

[compact mica]

My mind blew up when I saw Rtdl dx trailer in my search results

[quaint osprey]

it should be

[compact mica]

I was looking for secret switches in adventure

[quaint osprey]

but direct is not neccessary

[lyric socket]

definitely

[quaint osprey]

i think even shadowdrop can cause a lot of buzz

case in point

FL's second trailer

[lyric socket]

they put it on the back of the box dor a reason

[hallow laurel]

The mode shows up on the back of the box art

[quaint osprey]

imo i feel like shadowdrops cause even more buzz than direct inclusions

because they dont have to fight for attention with other stuff

[hallow laurel]

so clearly, it's something they're proud to even spoil a bit

They just... won't say why the fuck Magolor looks like that

[errant perch]

We need our ||scrambled egg|| to save us from another farmer direct

[hallow laurel]

but we know

lol

[quaint osprey]

i think this also means that they wont keep post game stuff a secret. well. they will like "show it" but not go into detail with it

[compact mica]

The main gimmick of fl wasn't even revealed until a pretty late point

[quaint osprey]

yeah but game still had pretty decent marketing up to that point

[spark forge]

Oh whats the old saying….

Ah yes, i remember

[quaint osprey]

i remember us going crazy over "pink car"

[dull geode]

Magolor better just randomly tweet this out I can't wait for a direct to have confirmation

[spark forge]

Y’all ready for a direct announcement tomorrow?

[mighty breach]

I just hope that the mode is bigger than HiAD

[broken smelt]

A little clip of the beginning of the ||magolor epilogue|| at the end of trailer 2 could be enough. ||Like imagine the trailer ends with nothing only to see magolor waking up in hades||

[hallow laurel]

I just want RTDL DX now

I don't need a Direct

[quaint osprey]

i think this game has one definite advantage over SA and FL in a way that mode CAN be bigger purely because they wont have to develop "the main main" game this time

[hallow laurel]

And I don't wanna replay the old game...

[quaint osprey]

its already been developed lol

[broken smelt]

Papi talking to magolor

[dull geode]

Uegh there are probably going to be new pre rendered cut scenes too

[quaint osprey]

TRUE

[hallow laurel]

yes

[broken smelt]

YES

[dull geode]

Or at least in engine ones

[quaint osprey]

you know

[broken smelt]

||MAGOLOR WAKING UP IN HELL||

[hallow laurel]

that said probably not like

[quaint osprey]

with all of the stuff this game has and probably will end up having

[hallow laurel]

not prerendered like PR, SA and FL

[quaint osprey]

i can totally see why it weighs more than SA with all dlcs lol

[hallow laurel]

It depends how long ||Magolor Epilogue|| is

[vague vector]

yeah if scope shot isn't in it's unfortunately a bad remake

sorry I don't make the rules

[quaint osprey]

i mean magolor epilogue wont be the only thing in the post-game either

[compact mica]

I reckon 7 levels at least

[hallow laurel]

Nah

[mighty breach]

New arena probably

[hallow laurel]

this seems bigger

[dull geode]

I would say that they'll be in engine but I feel like they'd want to use the 3d space of pre rendered scenes

[compact mica]

Bigger?

[hallow laurel]

this new mode looks like the biggest extra mode yet

[broken smelt]

Are they gonna do a forgo dreams you think?

[compact mica]

I'm frothing at the mouth

[quaint osprey]

i mean

skill tree for 7 levels is

a bit much

[hallow laurel]

because I kinda refuse to believe you do a skill tree

for 7 big levels

[quaint osprey]

yeah

[hallow laurel]

even if they were really big

it's a bit much

[dull geode]

Looks more like an ability purchase screen than a true skill tree to me

[hallow laurel]

• is it even a good idea to have 7 big linear levels for it?

[compact mica]

Know what maybe the metroidvania idea is the best one like Klu mentioned

[quaint osprey]

hollow magolor

[hallow laurel]

it's the same thing.

[dull geode]

But still raises the question of how much is even here if that's a thing lol

[compact mica]

I feel like escaping hell would be like a labyrinth

[hallow laurel]

you just described the same concept with different words

[dull geode]

I mean skill trees have branching paths hence the tree lmao

[hallow laurel]

I mean

I get it

[dull geode]

That just looks like a menu

[hallow laurel]

but we really just mean the same thing

[errant perch]

It’s similar but they have different layouts

[hallow laurel]

that said I don't think it's an ability thing

[errant perch]

Both involve upgrading abilities, close enough for my pea brain

[errant burrow]

I do just feel like if they're going to do this skill shop thing, they're probably going to do a lot more than just repeat HiAD/Forgo Dream's level to level collection structure

[hallow laurel]

it looks more like improving Magolor's moveset

[errant burrow]

also I don't want HiAD again so

[dull geode]

Id be amazed if its completely new levels

[compact mica]

I wanted hiad again but

[hallow laurel]

but also I think the 4th icon is a heart

and probably better health here

[compact mica]

I'm fucking salivating at the potential here

[errant burrow]

I want something new dammit

[hallow laurel]

so definitely and most likely a full stats thing

And I'd think to improve skills like this, you would need special items

[dull geode]

As long as the gem apples move doesn't mention clash im good LMAO

[errant burrow]

I'm not going to like going through these boss rehashes if it's in a structure that's already been rehashed the entire game itself

[mighty breach]

It gives me a lot of Kirby fighters 2 vibes with the story items

[compact mica]

Kirby's one of those few series where you could wish for something only to be subverted in the best way possible

[hallow laurel]

and this is where I'm like wondering what they have in mind

because they could kinda pull a Great Cave Offensive here

[dull geode]

Me when I get the magolor sticker

[hallow laurel]

but instead of treasures

it's stuff to improve Magolor's skills

[errant perch]

except there’s no rng bullshit that fucks you over and gives you bad upgrades every run

[dull geode]

Whatever those shard things are in the top left

[mighty breach]

Btw which one do you consider bigger, Forgo Dreams or HIAD?

[dull geode]

Me when I have to collect magolors life essence or something

[hallow laurel]

Forgo Dreams imo

[compact mica]

Forgo Dreams

[dull geode]

HIAD is all new but it's not as long as dreams

[hallow laurel]

HIAD's thing though is that the level design is fully new

but in the case of Magolor Epilogue

they cannot put the same level design as is

They have to take into account Magolor's moveset

[tawdry cairn]

Also bc extra mode presumably is still in

[hallow laurel]

I do wonder about that

[dull geode]

Extra mode gaining dust

[mighty breach]

Forgo Dreams had 6 levels and a final boss level
Wonder if the Magolor Epilogue will have 7 levels and then a final boss one

[dull geode]

Difficulty toggle pretty please

[compact mica]

This is so unfair

[hallow laurel]

I don't think a difficulty toggle can work as easily

[compact mica]

Why does rtdl get to shoot up form worst ex mode to best?

[hallow laurel]

because it's the newest game

and that HAL are crazy people

[compact mica]

Good

Thank you Hal

[errant perch]

||Maybe Magolor could replace his ultra sword with other super abilities||

[hallow laurel]

the thing is like

[mighty breach]

Ok hear me out
Extra mode unlocked from the start, like if it was a harder difficulty

[hallow laurel]

I fully expect Magolor to be playable outside of that mode

and I don't mean the Arenas

A few people noticed this and it's still in my mind

[compact mica]

That's a good way to do it. You could even get better rewards relating to MagoLand in ex difficulty

I presume Magolor is gonna be like Mages

The game lets you go all loose and use him in main and guest star if it's here

[quaint osprey]

as much as id like for the game to have difficulty options currently im not as sure

mainly because with FL we could deduce it due to visual difference in health bars

but... from all promotional material with RTDX we have, nothing suggests it

[tawdry cairn]

I doubt it

[hallow laurel]

To be honest if they put Extra Mode on top of the rest

I want it to be a speedrun mode

[quaint osprey]

its the likeliest possibility

its not really hard to do at all anyway lol

[mighty breach]

Turn it into guest star please

[hallow laurel]

I want Extra Mode to be more interesting

[quaint osprey]

it just adds replayability

[hallow laurel]

because it was boring in the original

[compact mica]

It would surprise me little if we got Guest Star type mode

[onyx jackal]

What is the origin of the origin of all

[hallow laurel]

it just felt like I was replaying the same game again

without any real addition

[mighty breach]

Move the extra mode exclusive magolor dialogue to the main mode

[compact mica]

Oh ho! You did not notice the extra scarfy

[hallow laurel]

if you make it more speedy I might be down

[tawdry cairn]

Also for the extra mode challenge stages, they could change those into a toggleable difficulty after you beat the originals once (like the extra hard tilt n roll puzzles in FL)

[quaint osprey]

guest star type mode is the easiest thing ever for this game to add. they have the characters. they have versions of the bosses without super abilities. just remove super ability sections entirely and reshuffle energy spheres with something else

boom

[languid dragon]

This is why difficulty options should be a thing

[quaint osprey]

unlike vanilla rtdl, chars actually have unique moves too

[hallow laurel]

The thing is

[compact mica]

Hey what if they brought back the shortcuts from tdx?

[quaint osprey]

that would rule

[hallow laurel]

That's where I'm torn about the difficulty modes

[compact mica]

Feels fitting for a game involving portals

[quaint osprey]

i mean honestly

[hallow laurel]

because we can't have EX bosses from the start.

[languid dragon]

• Keep the stronger enemies
• Make the normal bosses stronger/have more health
• Don’t half player health

[quaint osprey]

while my point of reference is guest star

they can do much cooler than guest star

they can keep basic concept of having other characters than kirby be playable but go further with it than SA

[tawdry cairn]

There's several changes in extra mode that I don't see Hal allowing you to do immediately

[quaint osprey]

kinda like forgo dreams was cooler HIAD

[tawdry cairn]

Just based on their design philosophy

[hallow laurel]

I mean

[tawdry cairn]

Wild mode had few actual substantive differences from spring breeze mode

[hallow laurel]

cooler than Guest Star is basically

a unique story per character

[compact mica]

Hey since theres less characters than SA maybe they can do more catered routes for what main 3 have to face?

[hallow laurel]

with unique level design fit for them

[quaint osprey]

this is possible

[compact mica]

Or Magolor if they give you him for it

[quaint osprey]

theres just 3 characters (4 if magolor also gets a campaign)

plus

[hallow laurel]

Bandee Epilogue

no

Bandee Prologue

[quaint osprey]

wave 0 dudes were robbed of unique level design in SA

for their guest stars

this is their revenge

[compact mica]

Adventure was shafted altogether for level design

[hallow laurel]

To be honest the more I think about Bandee Prologue

[errant perch]

How was he sent flying in the intro cutscene

[hallow laurel]

the more I'm like

"wait Magolor's skill system fits too well with Bandee's training approach and storytelling"

"fuck"

[quaint osprey]

not to sound like a hater but i dont think bandee gonna be getting special treatment this game lol

[hallow laurel]

I don't expect it either

[tawdry cairn]

I brought this up earlier but this reminded me of it (and I will say it again bc there's new ppl in chat ) but I wonder if they'll bother explaining the alternate magolor colors at all since we see ||epilogue still has multiplayer||

[quaint osprey]

i wouldnt be surprised if this will be some sort of skill???

that we will have to unlock????

maybe the very first one

[hallow laurel]

I don't think so?

Either the first one

[quaint osprey]

yeah it can act like tutorial

[hallow laurel]

or straight up possible from the get go

[quaint osprey]

so it can work from the start

but also be explained

[compact mica]

What if a skill you need to unlock involves Magolors appearance looking more alive?

[mighty breach]

we gonna keep on alternating between putting stuff in spoiler tags and not putting it in tags lol

[dull jay]

I guess it will just be a non canon adittion

[boreal spruce]

magolor splits himself into 4

[mighty breach]

I could totally see it as something like "I can summon clone of myself with my magic" or something

[hallow laurel]

god HAL just reveal this mode already

[toxic crown]

direct

its comin

[languid dragon]

||Magolor on his way to recruit 3 other versions of himself (they also went to Hades)||

[mighty breach]

They're all Magolors from different dimensions

[compact mica]

The other 3 versions are Manager, Professor and Clash

[quaint osprey]

dmk goes into hell to split magolor into 4 specifically

[mighty breach]

Magolor from the yellow dimension, Magolor from the blue dimension and Steve

[languid dragon]

||Magolor mitosis||

[compact mica]

Dmk probably lives in hell in his spare time

[mighty breach]

That's a good way to describe Amazing Mirror

[compact mica]

You're more likely to find Sauron and Nightmares hatechild in hell

[mighty breach]

Hell would probably have a better map design

[dull geode]

Probably not I mean we do just have 3 other kibleys

[mighty breach]

(I say this as a huge amazing mirror fan and enjoyer)

[dull geode]

And star allies has

[compact mica]

You walk down a desolate road, the music silent

[dull geode]

It just has

[compact mica]

And then...

GOAL GAME

[mighty breach]

BRONTO BURT

[quaint osprey]

yeah but its not like its allowed to have 2 dededes or mks at the same time

[mighty breach]

oh

[quaint osprey]

kirbies are exception because its a tradition

and also to not make kids fight

[mighty breach]

Star Allies:

[dull geode]

Probably just one of those things where it's like "it's a video game who cares"

[quaint osprey]

Star Allies:

[quaint osprey]

i mean yeah ig

[tawdry cairn]

I totally think they could just brush it off as game convenience and I would get it

[quaint osprey]

it just seems like they are keeping these rules in the story mode so it would be cool if they tried to justify it

[tawdry cairn]

It's just interesting to think about what they could say if they actually tried to justify it

Also we've seen other kirby colors before so imo that isn't really that big a concern

[dull geode]

Unfortunate that only the base one seems to stick to having barely any color lol

Yellow one is just YELLOW with the gray belt erm cringe

Should look like old mustard

[quaint osprey]

tbh

i think its more for practical reasons more than anything

if you do want to play that with someone else youd want to easily tell who is who

and bleaker colors blend in more

[worn bridge]

Okay so do we think that magolor's hands are also brown under his weird all encompassing gloves

[quaint osprey]

i mean

based on all other kirby creatures we know

yeah probably

brown cat

[mighty breach]

hands are usually the same colour

Usually the feet are what changes in relation to the body
And in magolor's case, they're invisible

[dull geode]

Magolor is a orb of color!!!!!!

[mighty breach]

Chocolate egg

[compact mica]

Honestly being adorable and evil at the same time?

[dull geode]

Really need a deep explanation as to how his clothes lost color

[compact mica]

It's a win

[mighty breach]

The audacity

[mortal dock]

I wanna see full cat magolor

[dull geode]

He looks fine but his fit is wild

[compact mica]

Nago but without limbs

[dull geode]

Omg forgo magolor

[errant perch]

If Magolor has yellow eye does that mean he has a caramel inside

[tawdry cairn]

The exposed ear is honestly wild

[quaint osprey]

honestly i love how now we have 100% confirmation that his ears are legit. that said we also now know that hes 100% not of hyness species either lol

because his ears dont have weird markings like hyness's do

[mighty breach]

Thank god

[compact mica]

So glad they aren't horns or different coloured or anything

[quaint osprey]

no long nose magolor

[dull geode]

Well he doesn't have a big ass nose

[quaint osprey]

i mean

[compact mica]

Thank goodness for that

[quaint osprey]

he still could've under robe

[mighty breach]

No

[quaint osprey]

just like hyness

[mighty breach]

Nope

[quaint osprey]

but now its very unlikely

[compact mica]

I refuse to believe it

[mighty breach]

I refuse to consider the possibility

[tawdry cairn]

Honestly hyness's robe doesn't really look like it would be hiding that big ass nose either

[mortal dock]

if magolor turned out to be ugly I think I'd cry

[tawdry cairn]

So

[dull geode]

Did the crown just get rid of his nose when it took him over

[tawdry cairn]

[compact mica]

He's a cat not a drug infused Squidward

[tawdry cairn]

Magonose

[sweet lagoon]

magolor takes off the robe to reveal a big ol schnoz

[dull geode]

Does magolors real mouth have a weird connected tissue

Sounds like kind of a problem

[mighty breach]

would actually be so cool if he took out the hood in the epilogue
Hair reveal

[quaint osprey]

magolor epilogue is actually just magolor going through all stages of grief regarding the loss of his nose

[dull geode]

Honestly the new magolor design is so raw lmao they could have just kept him the same and no one would have asked questions

[compact mica]

Maybe the other 3 Magolors are some metaphorical thing to represent different emotions or parts of his personality

Probably not

[mighty breach]

Reminds me a lot of this fanart https://images.app.goo.gl/9k9AXTuesCV4eSH16

uh

embed fail

[compact mica]

Epic embed Disaster

[mighty breach]

http://aminoapps.com/p/iwtynl

there you go

Artist in the link

[compact mica]

My favourite genre is artists making fanart of something very soon after it's revealed

[mellow snow]

Me

[dull jay]

Someone on twitter made a fan art of torn magolor but deleted it because spoilers

[mellow snow]

I’m probably the first person to try drawing ||Hades Puffer||

||Literally I can’t tell if he’s wearing a beard or Void’s chest fluff||

[manic kite]

I'm going to make fanart and pass it off as my own original idea

Nobody will suspect a thing

[compact mica]

Was it the Magolor account?

[dull jay]

Yes

[compact mica]

I think that's their username

[mellow snow]

Delightfully devilish Seymour

[compact mica]

Based they're one of my favourite Kirby based twitter accounts

[manic kite]

And if I get caught, I'll just start fighting

[compact mica]

That's odd

This fanart is awfully like the one they have in the box art leak

[manic kite]

Must be a retail worker

Wait this crap [It's good art tho] is 6 years ago

[mighty breach]

they knew

[compact mica]

They were a pr manager for Hal (they time traveled as a reference to Manager Magolor)

[craggy frost]

The || galacta-morpho || idea is sick

I think morpho is bound to appear if we're truly going to hades

And i bet if we get a new arena we get a new final challenge there too.
My bet for what would be the crown, on its own, unleashed on us. After an even more messed up paradise magolor soul

[broken smelt]

If there really are multiple butterflies I bet utter chaos will ensue

[sweet lagoon]

If there’s multiple butterflies I’m gonna eat em all

[craggy frost]

Oh it would be so worth it to have like ...6 of them fluttering around the screen on the runway to the final boss of that mode

Just imagine

The tone that sets

[sweet lagoon]

One morpho. One

[broken smelt]

I prefer the idea of one morpho but a bajillion could be interesting too

[craggy frost]

Also they would totally go after magolor if they truly go after those who cheat death for way too long, like galacta and fecto forgo

They would also go for sectonia if she had lasted longer in soul form in triple deluxe

That wasp refused to go down

[broken smelt]

Dude.

[mighty breach]

Considering Magolor's whole thing is lying and tricking people, it feels extremely in character for him to actually attempt to trick and cheat death

[broken smelt]

If TDX gets remade you know what they’re doing for sure

[craggy frost]

Now that i think about it, morpho and || death from puss in boots 2 || (puss in boots spoilers) are thematically similar

[craggy frost]

Oh they sure would

[mighty breach]

(wrong reply lol)

Targets already taken care of:
-Galacta Knight
-Fecto Forgo (operation failed, but Kirby kinda of did the job

Following this, Possibly targets for Morpho:

• Marx (survived what everyone assumed that was a death)
• Dark Meta Knight (came back somehow besides being shattered in Amazing Mirror, messed with the Triple Deluxe plot while he should had been dead)
• King D-Mind (a bit hard to say considering the nonsense that is clash, but dude keeps coming back after dying so much)
• Magolor (definitely should be dead, we'll have to see how it goes)
• Kirby? (Dude has been victorious way too much, eventually, Morpho may come for him)

[toxic crown]

you forgot steve from accounting

[mighty breach]

we don't talk about the Steve incident

[lofty slate]

Minecraft Steve?

[wheat urchin]

tbh the gcn final boss being in magolor epilogue makes too much sense

-Fatty puffer has a similar color scheme and design to him in the screenshot

[lofty slate]

Nah, I think magolor has to fight himself, it would make the most sense imo

[wheat urchin]

-The game takes place in a new sinister location

magolor is what became of the gcn final boss

[lofty slate]

I thought that said sister location for a sec lol

[placid vigil]

sister location

[wheat urchin]

funtime susie jumpscare

[lofty slate]

[toxic crown]

i find the gcn boss design pretty lame

hope they go for a more suped up soul boss

well soul version

[wheat urchin]

i just hope it isnt a reskin of the final boss

[worn bridge]

I think GCN demon dude would be cool but I'd like to see something more original. Especially since it's pretty likely that Magolor ends up in ||Hades||

[wheat urchin]

that would be very underwhelming imo

[placid vigil]

okay they will add 3 billion eyes to the original demon design

[tawdry cairn]

Final boss reskin will be for the new arena alone

I can't imagine there wouldn't be some other fight for end of magolor epilogue

Although imo it'll probably involve gk or morpho

[dull geode]

surely the true arena comes with a new super boss as well right

seems like tradition (i guess AB Void isnt really new but he is exclusive to ucz lol)

chaos magolor or something lmao

[tawdry cairn]

That's what I mean

[lofty slate]

My brother in arms

[toxic crown]

i mean if morpho is the grim reaper ||i could see him absorbing magolor soul as the last phase of the fight ||

[lofty slate]

🤝 me and chaos magolor

[dull geode]

actually rtdl is literally the only game without a soul boss exclusive to true arena LMAO

so safe to say we're probably getting a new one since this game basically seems like what if rtdl was released now

[sweet lagoon]

||the butterfly touches magolor and it just cuts out there||

||the end||

[tawdry cairn]

Yes that's why it seems very likely to me that they'll use that trope for an arena containing the epilogue bosses, especially bc the epilogue is unlikely to contain a variant of the magolor fight

For obvious reasons

[dull geode]

random thought, but maybe theyll just rename phase 2 magolor to magolor soul

who knows what fate awaits the ex bosses lmao

[languid dragon]

EX bosses when Hades bosses:

[dull geode]

im just trying to think of why grand doomer would be beefed up

whether its in AD or in hades

[sweet lagoon]

I just wanna know what’s gonna happen to extra mode

[placid quail]

Divine Doomer

[sweet lagoon]

it is racking my brain

[placid quail]

True

[dull geode]

like what happened to him lmfao

maybe he just eated whatever the mcguffin of this mode is and got super powers lol

[tawdry cairn]

I mean tbh it's weird to me that the epilogue would have all the bosses be based on the rtdl guys again without more context

[dull geode]

thats why i think its not hades lol

seems more like a messed up dimension that Magolor got slurped into

like how the jamba heart made those dimensions in HIAD

[placid quail]

they're undead versions?

[dull geode]

crown might have done the same

[placid quail]

it looks like fucking hell tho

[broken smelt]

Oooooo

[placid quail]

plus the hiad dimensions were identical looking

[tawdry cairn]

Tbh I don't think they would go that route, especially considering guys like whispy

[dull geode]

deadspy

[wheat urchin]

we dont even know if theyre all gonna be upgrades of previous fights

like far flung had a ton of reused stuff and then boom grand mam

[dull geode]

ill wait for trailer for final verdict on Hades but nothing here is screaming Hades except for Hell Puffer lmfao

as funny as that is

to me at least

[placid quail]

well undead versions of Dooter, Puffer, Goriath, G. Doomer, and Metal General

[tawdry cairn]

Tbf that is literally the only screenshot we have of a level in that mode lmao

[placid quail]

its red and fiery, it honestly doesn't look THAT like AD

[dull geode]

im also kind of going off of how they've described the aftermath of the Magolor fight for Magolor in the past

[broken smelt]

Hades variants don’t make much sense since all those bosses are probably still alive but I think they’ll come up with something

[dull geode]

decisive battlefield does for sure

[placid quail]

Retcon

[tawdry cairn]

The negative energy given off while the bosses were guarding lor parts crossed into another dimension bc of the lor's connection to ad!!!

[placid quail]

it doesn't look like Decisive Battlefield Either

[dull geode]

that'd be a crummy retcon tbh

just go against what's already been said

[placid quail]

And saying marx is alive ISNT

or saying Dark Meta Knight is alive

[dull geode]

who what when where how

[placid quail]

or saying Magolor is alive in the first place

[broken abyss]

what if it's all bosses that kirby's canonically killed?

[wheat urchin]

wondering whats up with this supposed skill shop system

[dull geode]

these words are very mysterious

[placid quail]

Magolor, Marx, AND DMT all died on screen but were retconned into surviving
them retconning HOW magolor survived is worse than retconning that he survived at all

[tawdry cairn]

I'm cautiously optimistic bc that kind of thing seems like it wouldn't fit in the usual postgame mode length we've had but I also think it would be weird to expect something super long

[hoary oar]

Wait KIng
Lowkey this
Actually feels like what the actual answer would be

I mean they have the funny lor symbols on them and that's what connects all the bosses of RtDL

[dull geode]

the truth revealed

[hoary oar]

That they were holding a part of lor

[wheat urchin]

said it with klu but i think this extra mode has kinda cemented this game as a must get for me

[placid quail]

Doesn't explain the demon look

[broken smelt]

Morpho was trollin

[dull geode]

so i guess that would mean there are 5 levels which would be messed up for the other two guys to be forgotten lmao

[tawdry cairn]

Well it was primarily a joke lol

[dull geode]

i can forgive dropping general thats fine who cares hes got a big robot hes fine

[tawdry cairn]

But a joke based on some dumb shit that I could hear kumazaki saying

[placid quail]

If it's 5, then what if it's the 5 stages of grief

[dull geode]

not LANDIA

[hoary oar]

||Ok here's my batshit theory for 'what if it's not simply hades'':
This is, like strimp said, essentially Magolor's personal hell
And it's created by the Lor itself to 'torment' Magolor||

[broken smelt]

Damn

[dull geode]

when the five stages or grief are tree fish genie bird and monkey

[broken smelt]

Lor is being harsh

[placid quail]

ok I dont think the lor is implied to be able to do this

[hoary oar]

What if at the end of the mode
The Lor finally speaks to Magolor

Cause like in the main story the Lor wouldn't talk to him right and he was like "I hope someday I'll hear its voice"

[dull geode]

the lor thing could make sense though. Considering the ending for this should probably have Magolor get the Lor back. so itll probably be relevant somehow

[placid quail]

Denial Woods
Anger Dooter
Bargaining Puffer
Depression Goriath
Acceptance Doomer

[hoary oar]

After Magolor conquers Lor's trial for him, the Lor will deem him worthy to be its master and speak to him

[broken smelt]

Depressed goriath 💀

[dull geode]

honestly thats a cool idea lmfao

[placid quail]

but when they had the chance to say it had "illusory powers" THEY DIDNT

[dull geode]

this being a messed up Lor trial sounds sick

[placid quail]

IMO it JUST MAKES MORE SENSE for it to just be hell

[tawdry cairn]

On this whole thing

[dull geode]

im sure the crown is involved somehow evil little thing

[tawdry cairn]

Isn't the lor on the menu

[placid quail]

the lor does not have this power

[placid quail]

it was in the pause screen

[wheat urchin]

gcn final boss is it's true form/it's original ancient halcandrian wearer

[tawdry cairn]

top left

[placid quail]

and IT'S THEME plays in the menu

[dull geode]

there is an icon in the top left if you mean the leaked menu. hard to say if its the lor cause it kind of looks like currency for the upgrades

[wheat urchin]

looks like broken parts of something

[placid quail]

Why are people so adamant on this happening?
can't the crown get a NEW form instead

[dull geode]

now if we're collecting cute miniature lors then im down. cute little bottled ships

[wheat urchin]

tbh either im ok with

[placid quail]

Starcutter Images

[broken smelt]

If this really is magolor’s personal hell, the gcn guy being the final boss could work

[wheat urchin]

i just dont want the same winged eyeball crown fight for a third time

[hoary oar]

Magolor collecting bottled ship models

[dull geode]

but yeah i dont think thats the lor. loks like some kind of fragment

[placid quail]

but magolor ex already exists

[sweet lagoon]

I’d like it if they brought back concepts they were gonna use in gcn

[dull geode]

maybe its like a fragment of magolor himself and thats why he needs to get them lol

[placid quail]

I mean, fair point

[slim pasture]

Yooo

[lofty slate]

Im telling u guys, magolor has to fight himself in the end

[hoary oar]

Lmao typman get pinged

[lofty slate]

It makes so much sense

[dull geode]

god if only we knew what they white part said itd probably help so much

[tawdry cairn]

Yooo

[hoary oar]

White part?

[tawdry cairn]

What if I could travel to HAL Laboratories
Inc.?

[hoary oar]

TRUE

[broken smelt]

dont see what that stops tbh

they could pull it off

[dull geode]

||oh hold up i just noticed the attack symbols actually have the weird blue fragment thing under them it looks like. its definitely currency||

[placid quail]

they look too similar

[slim pasture]

True

[hoary oar]

Personally I just don’t like that design that much so I’d rather something else happen

[placid quail]

Magic Medallion halves then?

[dull geode]

wait maybe its a number. kind of looks like a 4

[placid quail]

which one? Betalor or Magolor EX

[mellow snow]

||This one kinda looks like a heart. Health upgrades?||

[hoary oar]

The funny red guy with the nails and black flame lanterns

[tawdry cairn]

that's what i would guess

[dull geode]

funny how gem apples arent on this menu

clash erasure my beloved

[hoary oar]

I mean there’s 5 blank slots

[tawdry cairn]

although it's funny bc nowadays health has been represented through green images

[broken smelt]

||wait are they completely making a new mode for magolor with new level design or will it just be a hard mode with a makeover||

[hoary oar]

Who knows

[tawdry cairn]

||if extra mode stays i'd imagine it would be new levels||

imagine making you play through the same level designs 3 times

[dull geode]

5 blank slots and not one should be for APPLES

[broken smelt]

true

thats a LOT of new content then

[hoary oar]

NiDL moment

[dull geode]

give him a silly magobomb

epic manga reference

[tawdry cairn]

they're referencing the other two remakes

ssu (adds new modes)

nidl (makes you play the game 3 times)

[dull geode]

if that apple bomb mentions anything about parallel worlds i will never ever forgive hal never in my life they better make like 6 clash games to work out all the lore with no breaks

actually if they mentioned that it would make the timeline of events for Magolor even more confusing lmao

[broken smelt]

the game ends with magolor saying "i need a vacation" and putting on a green version of his outfit

MCU post credit scene

[dull geode]

LMFAO

i would scream in terror

then end it with an ed sherran song

[broken smelt]

this will be kirby's return to dreamland deluxe in 2023

[dull geode]

while imc crying my eyes out over having to accept clash lore

galacta knight shows up and says "you looked better in green"
Me:

[lofty slate]

Kermit the frog vs magolor

Who would win

[dull geode]

wait wtf ||Magolor only has like 6 or 7 unique moves how the HELL are there TWELVE icons???||

||does my man have NEW MOVES??||

[lofty slate]

Magolor final smash

The smash bros leak is real

#magolorforsmash

[dull jay]

One of them is health

[tawdry cairn]

some could just be stat upgrades yeah

[lofty slate]

Oh hey magolor

Speak of the devil

[dull geode]

||the second one kinda looks like an upwards magic sphere||

||so maybe he does actually get new moves||

[lofty slate]

final cutscene shows Magolor and Susie going out on a date and Kirby eats all the food

“Goddamn it Kirby! You just had to ruin my date again 🤦‍♂️ “

“Next time we’re not eating food…”

Magolor also wears his Magoland drip outfit

[dull geode]

||okay it would be turbo awesome if Magolor's final attack is him using Magoloran Launch on the final boss lmfao||

||gets the lor back and goes monkey mode||

[lofty slate]

Oh yeah it would be

[lofty slate]

||primal magolor||

[magic plover]

I'll have to try gamestop again tomorrow
Got off work literally 2 mins after gamestop closes
if not tmrw I don't work Wednesday &'ll try to get a closer shot of ||Magolor Epilogue|| then

[lofty slate]

Oh well

It’s all good gala

[placid quail]

ok so U the leaker

[dull geode]

id be surprised if the real sleeves are up yet

especially cause why has noone else done it

[magic plover]

im not the original leaker no
but ik my gamestop at least has rtdx display boxes

[tawdry cairn]

gala is not the one who leaked the initial screenshot but more importantly they could confirm

[dull geode]

idk just ask a chill dude working there if they got the sleeves yet lmfao

[lofty slate]

GameStop employees wearing magolor drip

[dull geode]

show them the funny picture and they'll be like WOWZA howd you get that IM CALLING THE POLICE

[errant burrow]

i'd really doubt that they'd have display cases with the back yet for most locations

i think i've seen them just do placeholders before

[placid quail]

oh ok poggers

[placid quail]

Do they have copies

?

[dull geode]

yeah no way the actual sleeves are there

[placid quail]

Wait do the boxes have copies in them

[dull geode]

they definitely dont have copies

no thats why theyre display boxes lol

[placid quail]

what do you mean actual sleeve

[tawdry cairn]

like the actual piece of paper or whatever they put in the game box

[errant burrow]

as in the sleeve used for the final retail release

[tawdry cairn]

that shows the boxart and the back of the box

[dull geode]

display boxes usually dont have the box art sleeves

just a picture of the art

since you know they arent selling the box you just need to see the funny front box art lol

[errant burrow]

whatever they put up there might not be the full sleeve and just the un-rated cover art

with nothing on the back

[placid quail]

then why are we looking at the back
coldnt it be different

[dull geode]

idk

[tawdry cairn]

i mean if that is the case, he just asks the guy, sees nothing, and nothing happens

[dull geode]

going to gamestop is probably pointless tbh

unless someone working there really just feels like showing off the sleeves if they even have them lol

[placid quail]

its worth a try

[lofty slate]

“May I see your sleeves sir?”
“Um, what?”

[magic plover]

ik that mine specifically has the actual boxes just
sitting on a shelf in a row of them
saw them several weeks back, just didn't mentally register "hey check the back"

[dull geode]

well i guess we'll see lol

[placid quail]

ok check them before gamestop reads this conversation and injects the boxes with a case of destroyed

[magic plover]

i don't doubt the leak is real, it looked pretty convincing
but on the slim chance it's fake we'll see lol
just want a better picture so that its more readable

[lofty slate]

It is time to put our master plan into action and infiltrate GameStop

[placid quail]

let's kill r/wallstreetbets once and for all

[placid quail]

not serious but i am angry for GameStocks creating Crypto/NFT twitter
anyways back on to rtdl dx

[magic plover]

I'm half-planning to ask "hey can I get this" for the slim chance they don't know it's not out yet. Not sure.

[hoary oar]

You're saying you've seen ReDx boxes in your gamestop weeks ago

[placid quail]

don't, that'd give it away

[lofty slate]

A tiny bit of trolling

[hoary oar]

Or do you just mean that generally they have boxes sitting on shelves

[lofty slate]

Poor GameStop employees lol

[magic plover]

I'm sorry I didn't think to look at them
I saw the cover and its the cover I spent several hours looking at already
so I just went "oh cool" and moved on to get my used switch lite

[tawdry cairn]

there is no way that's the actual game sitting out there

[lofty slate]

I’d feel a bit bad for them actually lol

[tawdry cairn]

those are just empty boxes sitting out for preorder purposes

[hoary oar]

Yea Gamestop displays empty boxes on shelves but like

If you're saying this box has just been

[magic plover]

there's just a bunch of boxes sitting on the shelves
obviously display empty cases but

[hoary oar]

On the shelves for weeks and none of us realized

[magic plover]

lemme check the reciept to see when it was I saw them

[noble lynx]

does anyone actually care for the back of the box on a Kirby game

besides yknow

us

[hoary oar]

I mean I've read the back of the box for every game I've ever bought physical

[noble lynx]

i mean in thsi specific context

remake game, boxes on the gamestop shelves, 1 month before release

[magic plover]

9th of january

[tawdry cairn]

yeah but you're not going out to gamestops to ask to see the back of their boxes

[noble lynx]

ya

[hoary oar]

But yea I just assumed the box would've been like
Newly shipped and we immediately got its info leaked

[tawdry cairn]

maybe they just slipped up with canada

[magic plover]

im in canada

[tawdry cairn]

🫵 🇨🇦

[hoary oar]

Smh I should check my gamestop tomorrow too

[dull geode]

if the boxart was just out there we would have this verified so fast also wtf leaf country

[errant burrow]

welp, nintendo's about to annilate canada now

[dull geode]

you do know your flag is a leaf right

[placid quail]

EVERYONE WHO CAN DRIVE, GO TO GAMESTOP TO CHECK IF IT REAL

[magic plover]

so checking my reciept
its been at least 3 weeks of those boxes just sitting there

[lofty slate]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-driving-school-driving-going-off-road-gif-15434431

[errant burrow]

everyone knows the flag represents how canadians bleed maple syrup

[dull geode]

the canada leak

[hoary oar]

I mean regardless of when gamestop first got the boxart they were probably supposed to wait to display it on shelves but like
Again I'm just surprised gala's suggesting they've had the boxart since a month ago

[toxic crown]

theyve had it for a month?

thats kinda insane

[placid quail]

Its a real moment

[hoary oar]

Gala's saying they saw it on shelves on Jan9

[toxic crown]

i woulda assumed the game went gold a couple weeks ago

[magic plover]

If my shift tomorrow ends too late I'll definitely be able to get pictures wednesday
bc I'm off then
my main goal is just to get a better picture of this

i want to read it

[toxic crown]

you sure its not just basic display cases with no backs?

[dull geode]

it would be like ridiculous if somehow the boxart was just there for a month. by ridiculous i mean probably impossible

[lofty slate]

:magolorthink: emoji potential

[tawdry cairn]

i mean realistically i don't think you can confirm that bc if you could, you would have seen the back

[toxic crown]

you can usually tell by the spine as well

[magic plover]

why would they ship out switch cover/flaps for display cases in an early round of
just the front

[toxic crown]

and they display them on their own shelf

[broken smelt]

now i wanna see if i have any

[tawdry cairn]

we've known the front boxart for a while

so it could just be there to look pretty

[magic plover]

hence why I didn't think anything abt it lmao

[broken smelt]

rare canada w hopefully

[dull geode]

i mean yeah they just print out the front for the display thats how it works lol

[magic plover]

I saw it and thought "oh neat. anyways"

[tawdry cairn]

yeah this is exactly why people aren't checking the backs of the game cases lmao

[toxic crown]

its very common for gamestop to put up display cases of just the front boxart art as a way to promote upcoming games

[broken smelt]

you check the back and its just blank white

[magic plover]

wait really

[toxic crown]

and put them on the shelves with the others cause thats where people browse

[magic plover]

i will be outraged if they're just blank

[tawdry cairn]

yeah bc it catches your eye that way

[toxic crown]

yea itll be a blank back or have some gamestop logo

[magic plover]

suing gamestop for not giving me my kirby lore smh

[tawdry cairn]

someone would be more likely to know about it when they see an image of kirby instead of whatever else placeholder there would be

[toxic crown]

in fact

[broken smelt]

i've never seen this before but then again i've never checked the back of a display case

[hoary oar]

I mean yea I do feel like I've seen blank backs before looking at display cases
So more likely scenario I feel like is that leaker's gamestop straight up has just received the game, right?

[toxic crown]

yes

thats probably from a shipment

[broken smelt]

sauce?

[toxic crown]

which means game technically could be leaked anyday

[dull geode]

idk if they have the game it seems too early for that

[broken smelt]

oh fuck

[dull geode]

boxart sure its goofy ah plastic

[broken smelt]

i better not wake up to see a notification in this server

[hoary oar]

We're three weeks away from release that's pretty late to not have the game in stores yet isn't it

ok 3.5 weeks

[toxic crown]

this seems about the standard

[dull geode]

i dont think so is it?

[magic plover]

crossing my fingers that if I ask "can I buy this" while handing them the RtDX display copy the employee will unknowingly just sell me the game

[placid quail]

break street date

[hoary oar]

I dunno tbh how early stores get games before they release but like

[tawdry cairn]

it depends

[hoary oar]

A month in advance sounds right

[placid quail]

nintendo would probably c&d u

[hoary oar]

But I dunno maybe they tend to only get things a week or two in advance lol

[magic plover]

nintendo would stop me if I started posting it on youtube

[dull geode]

yeah thats what im thinking lol

[broken smelt]

not if i have anything to say about it

[lofty slate]

Magolor goes to jail for content theft

[hoary oar]

Let's be honest nintendo isn't gonna give a shit about a box leak for zelda much less something like kirby

[lofty slate]

[tawdry cairn]

at least for pokemon they usually don't get there until like 2 weeks in advance

[magic plover]

nintendo doesn't care about box art leak, no
moreso the game itself leaking

[hoary oar]

Ah damn

[mellow snow]

Motherfuckers really be scared of a box lol

[tawdry cairn]

imo it would be weird for the game to have already arrived at stores this early

[mellow snow]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-box-fighting-game-squidward-gif-15298716

[dull geode]

box leak

[broken smelt]

nintendo biggest fear

[hoary oar]

Yea ig it do be early to already have the game but like

[tawdry cairn]

not impossible ig bc idk what goes on with them

[placid quail]

oh they will if the game is in there

[magic plover]

watch all of us come back tomorrow with rtdx in-hand

[broken smelt]

that'd be wild

[lofty slate]

https://tenor.com/view/unlimited-power-star-wars-gif-10270127

[toxic crown]

this box leak doesnt really matter its gunan get dropped in a drect anyways

and barely anyone has reported on it

[broken smelt]

at least we'll get a HQ photo of the back

[toxic crown]

like there are 2 youtube videos about it i found

[dull geode]

well there are some funny haha gaming articles

for the creatures that actually read those

[toxic crown]

and its not even been posted to any nintendo related subredit besides /r/kirby

[lofty slate]

Goofy ahh news

[placid quail]

lets report it to NOA

and allow them to destroy the server

[broken smelt]

damn no one on r/nintendo cares

[lofty slate]

Mario and Zelda fans take over Kirby fans

[placid quail]

i meant nintendo THEMSELVES

[hoary oar]

Well I'm too lazy to go to gamestop tomorrow anyway
Maybe if it wasn't winter but like

nahhhhhhhhh

[placid quail]

just do it if its there

[dull geode]

i cant wait to go to gamestop to stare at the display box

[broken smelt]

im gonna go check, im in canada so hopefully 💀

[hoary oar]

Me going to gamestop just to read a line of dialogue on the back of the box

[lofty slate]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-eyes-gif-24001428

[toxic crown]

its kinda insane how niche kirby has become with the rise of new nintendo franchises

maybe niche is too harsh

[lofty slate]

CONCENTRATE

[dull geode]

kirby isnt niche its just the fandom lol

we live in the shadows

[toxic crown]

but its gotten usurped by xenoblade, FE and animal crossing by this point

and splatoon

[broken smelt]

sad reality

eh its not too sad we're still pretty big

[toxic crown]

yea kirby is still big

but in terms of the nintendo hierarchy it's def dropped

[noble lynx]

def dropped????? from where

what high place

[tawdry cairn]

also imo direct is more likely next week based on precedent, and the week after next week is too late/close to rtdx

[lofty slate]

Magolor is my favorite Pokémon from Family Guy the Musical

[tawdry cairn]

this week is possible ig but i wouldn't count on it, if we get no announcement tomorrow it's curtains for this week

[toxic crown]

nah i think next week

well

[broken smelt]

the week after next week is way too close lmao

[toxic crown]

unless its literally feb 1st

[tawdry cairn]

that's what i mean, it's technically possible just unlikely based on past directs

[lofty slate]

Nintendo Direct fans when they find a Nintendo Indirect:

[broken smelt]

i really hope this week but yeah next week is most plausible

[lofty slate]

Announcer: “Coming up: what is magolor cooking?”

[tawdry cairn]

lowkey i'm busy af this week, release it next week when i have more time to talk about kirby and not do work

[broken smelt]

the next trailer's probably gonna talk about ||magolor epilogue|| wont it?

[toxic crown]

yea

[tawdry cairn]

ya probs

[toxic crown]

def

[tawdry cairn]

it's on the boxart after all

[toxic crown]

if its on the boxart

[broken smelt]

sweet

[lofty slate]

Nintendo direct announcer: “Magolor has been sent to the depths of hell, and he needs your help to get out!”

[broken smelt]

kirby fans when the trailer shows more locations than just inferno hell

[placid quail]

magolor in hell has godzilla nes creepypasta vibes ||https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/nes-godzilla-creepypasta/images/9/98/Run.png/revision/latest?cb=20210314025622||

[lofty slate]

Yo fr

[toxic crown]

"to defeat the forces of hell magolor must call upon the power of a 9mm glock from his toyota to escape this infernal paradise"

[manic kite]

I can't wait for the...

[placid quail]

Context: This is just before ||RED shows up for the first time at the end of the 3rd level and first replacement level, Pathos||

[lofty slate]

“Magolor must live the thug life. It is the way. Introducing the brand new mode Magolor’s Epilogue!”

[hoary oar]

I can't wait for them to show a silhouette of the final boss of Magolor Epilogue but literally all of us can tell what it is

[manic kite]

...sudden ||Dead significant other giving me ultimate power to fight the bad guy||

[toxic crown]

that would be a shame

[broken smelt]

king boo from luigi's mansion 2 moment

[toxic crown]

i wanna be surprised

[magic plover]

it better

[manic kite]

It butter

[magic plover]

i can't believe it's not butter

[manic kite]

[broken smelt]

a sneak peak of it's opening cutscene would be awesome too

like the trailer ends with seemingly nothing, but we see a shot of magolor waking up and looking at the scenery before it ends

[tawdry cairn]

it would be wild if they had new cinematics

since the other postgame modes didn't (actual movies)

[placid quail]

Still better than Sonic.EXE or most other haunted game creepypastas (the bad guys win easily and kill the player)

[lofty slate]

shows Magolor doing illegal GTA things and then you see him get dragged down to hell by bandana dee soul

[magic plover]

final battle EX

[manic kite]

Seriously it had a good thing going but then it became an anime

[tawdry cairn]

[placid quail]

Psychonauts reference

[manic kite]

And then the sequel came and then it was like too personal and it didn't even finish

But it had cool spritework

[placid quail]

Ehh IMO the ||epilogue after it does help set the tone back to something more normal||

[placid quail]

MFW i make cool spritework for a creepypasta based on a mid godzilla game

[manic kite]

I can't wait for the part where I am in genuine danger