Kirby's Epic Yarn
| Kirby's Epic Yarn | |
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North American box art
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| Developer(s) |
Good-Feel HAL Laboratory |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Kentaro Sei |
| Producer(s) |
Etsunobu Ebisu Yoichi Yamamoto Nobuo Matsumiya |
| Designer(s) | Madoka Yamauchi |
| Programmer(s) | Hironori Kuraoka |
| Artist(s) | Tetsuya Notoya Rieko Kawahara Yumiko Sano |
| Composer(s) | Tomoya Tomita |
| Series | Kirby |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
| Release |
Wii Wii U Nintendo eShop |
| Genre(s) | Platforming |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Aggregate score | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 86/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 9.5/10 |
| Eurogamer | 8/10 |
| Famitsu | 36/40 |
| Game Informer | 9.5/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | B+ |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpy |  |
| GameTrailers | 8.4/10 |
| GameZone | 8.5/10 |
| Giant Bomb | |
| IGN | 9/10 |
| Joystiq | |
| Nintendo Power | 8.5/10 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 8/10 |
| The Escapist | |
Kirby's Epic Yarn, known in Japan as Keito no Kirby (毛糸のカービィ Keito no Kābī?, lit. "Yarn Kirby"), is a 2010 platform video game developed by Good-Feel and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. It is the tenth installment of the Kirby video game series and was released in October 2010 in Japan and North America and in February 2011 in Australia and Europe. It is the first entry in the Kirby series on a home console since 2003's Kirby Air Ride and its first home console platform game since 2000's Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
After eating a tomato belonging to the evil sorcerer Yin-Yarn, Kirby is banished into Patch Land, a world completely made of fabric, which turns him into yarn and makes his abilities to copy enemies by swallowing them and flying useless. He must help Prince Fluff by collecting seven pieces of magic yarn that are used to stitch Patch Land together. Kirby can also transform into objects like a car, a dolphin and a parachute at certain parts of the game.
Before the game's release, Kirby's Epic Yarn won numerous awards at E3 2010 including Game of the Show from GameSpot. It was released later that year to critical acclaim, receiving an Editor's Choice award from IGN, who ranked it as #95 in their "Top 100 Modern Games". As of April 2011, Kirby's Epic Yarn has sold 1.59 million copies worldwide. A spiritual successor to Kirby's Epic Yarn called Yoshi's Woolly World was released in 2015 for the Wii U.
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