Kirby's Return to Dream Land begins when a mysterious alien visitor crash lands on the star-shaped planet, and pieces of his ship are scattered to the four-or five, in this case-corners of the world. It's refreshing to see Kirby doing what he does best, and with the Wii soon to be cycled out for the Wii U, we need a couple more solid titles to see the best-selling system of this generation out. There are no strings, no paint, and no pinball machines here Kirby is called upon to inhale his enemies and copy their powers as he makes his way through level after level, just like the old days. However, in a 2011 Iwata Asks interview about Kirby's Return to Dream Land, three screenshots of each beta were shown, so it could be likely that the betas still exist, or if they were simply just photos of gameplay taken during development.Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the newest Kirby Game for the Wii and the first classic Kirby adventure we've been able to play on a console since the Nintendo 64. It is currently unknown if the three original betas still exist. Even with their previous troubles with the solo mode, they instead were successfully able to get a 4-player Kirby game, while still making it feel like a 1-player Kirby game. It was finally re-announced, demonstrated and released in 2011. When Shinya Kumazaki was brought into the development team, he looked at the three cancelled games, took elements from it, threw those elements and the new ideas into the new Kirby's Return to Dream Land. Short after, the development team realized something: their ideas weren't working because they were focusing too much on 4-player mode, and decided to strive for a 1-Player romp. The third cancelled game would've returned Kirby to his side-scrolling roots, yet it would be in the graphical style of a Pop-Up Book, but it got cancelled for unknown reasons.
Back onto the other two cancelled games, the second cancelled game was originally going to take a more open-world style gameplay idea which would have been a huge first for the series, but due to extremely challenging gameplay, and the same reason as last time they cancelled a Kirby game, it was scrapped. Also, even though it wasn't announced at E3 2007, Beth Llewelyn of Nintendo of America did confirm that the project had not been abandoned. Then, Matt Casamassina of IGN furthered the idea of it appearing on the Wii stating it would be announced, and indeed be released on said console in 2007. However, a Kirby game called Hoshi no Kābī (translated from Japanese to Kirby of the Stars) did appear on a list of upcoming Wii games set for release in Japan in 2006, and from time to time, appeared, and disappeared on/from other game lists as well. The Second & Third Cancelled Games, and The Final Outcome However, The four Co-op mode would Be used Back in The 2018 Kirby game for the switch, Kirby Star Allies. However, the reason the game got canned was because of the developers not achieving the level of quality they wanted. It also would've marked the first appearance of the Water Copy Ability which did eventually make it's way into Kirby's Return to Dream Land. It also originally had a four player Co-op mode, in the style of Kirby Super Star, where Kirby can (after gains gaining a Copy Ability) either summon the enemy that had said Copy Ability (by pressing an undistinguished button on the controller), or a second, third, or fourth player could join in by gaining the Copy Ability that Kirby currently has.
By having a 3D environment while being only limited to a horizontal path. According to the footage that was released, it appeared to play similarly like Kirby 64. The first cancelled game was announced at E3 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube under the tentative title " Kirby Adventure". The footage of the First Beta that was released during E3 2005. Kirby Adventure GCN GameCube Trailer - E3 2005 "Kirby Adventure" (The First Cancelled Game) 2 The Second & Third Cancelled Games, and The Final Outcome.1 "Kirby Adventure" (The First Cancelled Game).