Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu (JAP Version) Kirby & The Amazing Mirror (US / EURO Version) How To Play Guide (TXT version) By Trolly Version 1.2 Released on 5-14-2004 ===================================================== CONTENTS -------- 1. Introduction 2. Controls 3. Items 4. Cell-phoning System 5. Map Info 6. Ability Info 7. Mini-game Info 8. Contact 9. Credits 10. Update Info 11. Copywrite Info 1. INTRODUCTION --------------- Welcome to this How To Play guide related about the last Kirby game for Game Boy Advance, Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu ! Kirby & The Amazing Mirror) This guide will explain the basic concepts of this game, like the controls, the items, the cell-phoning system, and so much more. 1.1 What is Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu? ................................................ Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu is the second Kirby game for Game Boy Advance (released after Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland). This game, apparently is like the Nightmare version because of the graphics, but the content is different! There you can find new and big levels, a few new abilities, items, enemies, and bosses are added, and also a cool cell-phoning system specially designed for the Multi-player mode! 2. CONTROLS ----------- If you have played any Kirby platform game, you will notice that the controls are almost identical, but on this new game, some new commands are added. Here you can learn the basic controls of the game: Control Pad ........... Left / Right - Walk Left / Right (Tap twice) - Run Up - Gets you through door Up (Hold) - Fly Down - Eat (While you inhaled an enemy) Down (Hold) - Look down Left / Right / Up / Down - Swim (while in water) A Button ........ Jump Fly (In Mid-air) Super Jump (In top of another Kirby) Swim up (While in water) Confirm Menu A + Down - Slide B Button ........ Inhale Use Ability (if you have one) Stop Fliying (While you fly) Spit Out (While you inhaled an enemy) Spit Water (While in Water) Cancel Menu / Return to Game (While in Pause) L Button ........ Return to Main Area R Button ........ Call the ohter Kirby(s) Start Button ............ Pause Select Button ............. Drop current Ability Switch Ability Info / Map Info (While in Pause) 2.1 Ability command ................... Like in Kirby Superstar, Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu has the possibility to mix buttons combinations to create different attacks while you have an ability. For example, if you have adquired the Sword ability, you can press repeatly the B button to create another attack; or if you have adquired the Cutter ability, you can press Up or Down to raise or descend the sharp blade when you shoot off one. 3. ITEMS -------- The items that you can find on this game are numerous. So, on this section, you can know the different kinds of items that you can find when you are playing. 3.1 Normal Items ................ These items can be found in the ground or hidden in closed chests. Food - Restores some energy (around 1 and 4 Heath Points, depending the kind of food) Pep Brew - Restores 2 Health Points Maxim Tomato - Restores all your energy 1UP - Gets an extra life Candy - Makes Kirby invincible for a short while of time Battery - Charges a bit your cell phone's Battery Gauge 3.2 Secret Items ................ These items can be found in closed chests. These are important items to complete 100% the game, so explore all zones to find the chests and the way to access them! Chest - Open them all to get 100% complete on the game. It contains normal items (look them on the previous section), or the next hidden items. Map - Reveals the Zone's map and the links of each zone. Spraypaint - Paints your Kirby into another colour. You can paint him into 14 different colours! CD Player - Unlocks the Sound Test mode. Music File - Unlocks a part of the Sound Test SFX. To unlock completely the SFX in the Sound Test mode, you must to find the 10 different Music Files. Extra Health - Add one Health Point to your energy bar. By the way, you can know how many items you have collected looking the list on the main menu. Check it out and collect all the items! 3.3 Secret Items ................ In the game, you will find blocks that will obstruct your way. At least, you can destroy them. But not all the blocks acts at the same way. So here you can know the different kinds of blocks and the way to destroy them! Star Block - These blocks are very common on any Kirby game. Simply inhale and spit them out, slice through them, or use an ability to break them. Bomb Block - Break it to destroy other blocks linked to the Bomb Block. These blocks can't be inhaled. Metal Blocks - These blocks are hard to destroy. The only way to break them is using a powerful ability, like Burning or Hammer. Rocky Block - These block are like the normal Star Blocks, but with a heavy weight. Inhale to drag them at you. These blocks are totally indestructible, so it means that you can't destroy them using an ability for example. Exists a big-version of this block, which you can't inhale to drag it. You must to call the three Kirbys and inhale together to drag it with no problems. 4. CELL-PHONING SYSTEM ---------------------- One of the best additions of this game is the cell-phoning system. With this system, you can call to the other Kirby(s) using a cell phone. It's useful if you need help in any moment or place! You can call to the other Kirbys in any moment of the game, but only if they are in differents zones. You can know it looking the Kirby icons in the top of the screen. To call to the other Kirbys, press the R button, and Kirby will show you his cell phone! Then he will start to call them, and they will appear in your screen. When they have appeared, they will try to help you if you are fighting against a boss (or mini-boss), for example. Sometimes, they will drop food for you if you call them. An advice: don't call them when you are in front of an enemy, because if Kirby is hurt when he is calling, the comunication will be interrupted, and it's probably will not come all the Kirbys! But the disadvantage is the battery. If you call to the other Kirbys, the battery gauge decreases. With the battery gauge totally charged, you can call three times as maximum. Fortunately, you can charge your battery gauge collecting batteries. When the battery gauge (displayed on the top of the screen) is showed with a X, it means that you can't call to anyone, so try to find a battery to charge it a bit. The Kirby's cell phone also has the possibility to call the Warpstar! Simply press and hold the L button to call it, and it will ride you to the Main Area. The good thing is that the battery gauge doesn't decrease when you realize a call to the Warpstar. As you see, the system is easy to learn and use, but remember, you should look the battery gauge from time to time! 5. MAP INFO ----------- Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu has long levels and zones to explore. So to explore them sucessfully, you must to have in your hands a map of each zone. This game has two kinds of maps: the Zone map, and the World map. 5.1 Zone Map ............ First, press the Start button, and then press the Select button until you see a screen with squares. This screen is the Zone Map screen, where you can know the zones of each level. You can find the Zone Maps in two versions: one of them in small size, and the other in big size: - Small Size: The zones (in squares) are displayed, but not the links to other zones. - Big Size: The zones and the links to other zones are displayed. The disadvantage is you start each zone with the small sized map. To unlock the big one, you must to find the Map item (hidden in the big chests). In a big sized map, you will find: Orange squares - Represents the non-explored zones. Yellow squares - Represents the explored zones, but with hidden closed-treasures inside. Yellow squares (shinny) - Represents the zones that are totally explored. Normal lines - Represents the links to other zones, and you can go back to a linked one entering through a door. Arrow lines - Represents the links to other zones, but you can't go back to a linked one entering through a door. 5.2 World Map ............. First, press the Start button, and then press the Select button until you see a screen with starry dots and the four Kirbys. This screen is the World Map screen, where you can know the linked levels. When you press a big switch, you will link the level where you are with another one (usually links to the Main Area). The links creates doors to jump to the other levels. For example, if you push a switch in a room of Moonlight Mansion, you will link the level to the Main Area. With this link, you can jump from Main Area (Rainbow Route) to Moonlight Mansion quickly! 5.3 Doors Info .............. The doors you will find on the game are three, and these are displayed at this way: This door, passing through it, you can go back to a room Passing through this door, you can't go back to the room you were before. This big door represents the goal of the zone. When you enters to a big door, you must to ride the Warpstar. Catch it and the bonus will start. In the bonus, you must to collect all the food, the Maxim Tomatoes, the batteries, and the 1UPs as you can before the time is up, but be careful with the Rocky Blocks! 6. ABILITY INFO --------------- As any Kirby game, he has the possibility to copy the enemies abilities simply inhaling and eating them. If this is the first time you play a Kirby game, you should to learn the Copy technique. In any Kirby game, Copy is the action of "steal" the ability of an enemy. To perform this move, simply inhale an enemy with ability using the B button, and eat it pressing the Down button in the Control Pad. Simple, huh? In this game, you can copy over 20 abilities, like Fire, Cutter, Sword, Angel, Missile, etc. Try to learn how to use all the abilities! Copy an ability is easy; the hardest part is keep it copied. If Kirby is hurt, the ability will drop automaticly and converted into a star. You must to inhale the star and eat it quickly, because it dissapears in a few seconds! By the way, if you want to drop an ability, press the Select button, and the ability will be converted into a star. While you have an ability, you can't inhale enemies to copy their abilities, because the inhale move will be replaced by the ability attack. So if you want to copy another ability, drop the actual one. You also can find abilities hidden on figures with the icon of an enemy. Most of them can be found in rooms with doors to jump to other levels. Be careful when you are copying! Sometimes you can get different results when you copy an ability: - If you drop an ability (converted into a star) and you inhales it with an enemy at the same time, your will get that ability that you dropped! For example, if you inhale a dropped ability that contains the Sword ability, and you inhale a Waddle Doo (with Beam ability), you will get the Sword ability again. - If you inhale two enemies with equal or different own abilities, you will activate the Roulette. To stop it, press the B button, and the selected ability will be yours! Try to stop it when appears powerful abilities, like Throw, Hammer, or the rare UFO ability! In short, the abilities is an important part of any Kirby game. Use them would be helpful for you, and also so fun! 7. MINI-GAME INFO ----------------- In Hoshi no Kirby Kagami no Daimeikyuu, you can play three different mini-games. These mini-games are specially designed for Multi-player challenges, but you can practise playing against the CPU in three difficult levels. NOTE: The names of these mini-games are probably wrong. If one of them are wrong, it will be fixed in a coming version. 7.1 Hungry Hungry Kirby ....................... In this game, you must to eat the content of the dish when the lid opens. When it opens, press the A button as fast as you can. If you press the A button when the lid is not opened, you will lost the opportunity to inhale the content of the dish. Eat the apples to fill your metter (if you do it faster, you will eat more stuff). Don't eat the bombs, or you will lose a turn! If you fill your metter first, you win. 7.2 Gigaton Punch ................. In this game, you must to break the rock and make the wave reachs as far as you can. First, you will have 10 seconds to fill the bar as highest as many times as you can. Then, press the A button when the corsairs aligns with the one on the bottom (placed on the rock). If you do it the best, you win. 7.3 Surfing Kirby ................. In this game, you must to reach the goal as fast as you can. Surfing with your Warpstar, press the A button to jump. To pick up speed, you need to jump at the edge of the waves. If the words "Excellent", "Great", or "Good" appears, it means you did a good jump! If you reach the goal in first place, you win. 8. CONTACT ---------- My e-mail address is trolly_alex@fastmail.fm If you noticed anything missing or can be added to this How To Play guide, please e-mail me. I will give you credit in the Credits section. Don't ask me about illegal things like the ROM of this game. If you do it, I will not answer. For more info related about Kirby, visit Kirby Rainbow Resort at: http://www.classicgaming.com/kirby 9. CREDITS ---------- Thanks to KindarSpirit for talk to me a lot about this great Kirby game ^_^ Thanks to HAL Laboratory for develop this game. 10. UPDATE INFO --------------- Version 1.1 ........... - HTML version updated on 5-14-2004 - Official title name changed - E-mail address changed Version 1.1 ........... - TXT version updated on 5-8-2004 - 5.3: Doors Info section added to the HTML version - Mini-games names updated Version 1.0 ........... - TXT version released on 4-20-2004 - HTML version released on 5-1-2004 - Images and screenshots added to the HTML version - Links added on the Contents section 11. COPYWRITE INFO ------------------ This How To Play guide is copyrighted to Alex A.K.A. Trolly This How To Play is made for personal use and published for the Kirby Rainbow Resort site. Don't use it to put it in your site or use it to make a profit. If you wish to use this How To Play guide, please contact me at my e-mail address, and I will consider it. Don't distribute this document or alter it. If you find the guide on a site other than Rainbow Resort, please contact me.