Kirby's Return to Dream Land

Kirby's Return to Dream Land
North American box art
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Shinya Kumazaki
Producer(s)	Hiroaki Suga Hitoshi Yamagami Shigefumi Kawase
Artist(s)	Kazuyuki Nakamura Kenichiro Kita
Writer(s)	Shinya Kumazaki
Composer(s)	Hirokazu Ando Jun Ishikawa
Series	Kirby
Platform(s)	Wii, Wii U
Release	Wii NA: October 24, 2011 JP: October 27, 2011 EU: November 25, 2011 AU: December 1, 2011 Wii U Nintendo eShop JP: January 28, 2015 PAL: February 19, 2015 NA: July 30, 2015
Genre(s)	Action-platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Kirby's Return to Dream Land, known in Japan as Hoshi no Kābī Wii (星のカービィWii, "Kirby of the Stars Wii"^?) and in Europe and Australia as Kirby's Adventure Wii, is a Kirby video game and the twelfth platform installment of the series, developed by HAL Laboratory, and published by Nintendo. While Kirby's Epic Yarn was released in 2010, Kirby's Return to Dream Land is the first traditional Kirby platforming home console game since Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, which was released in 2000 for the Nintendo 64. The title was first released in North America in October 2011, and later in Europe in November 2011.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land features the staple gameplay of traditional Kirby platform games, in which the eponymous character Kirby possesses the ability to inhale and copy enemies in order to attain forms which give him a variety of attacks such as breathing fire or swinging a sword. The game supports cooperative multiplayer gameplay, allowing up to four players to control various Kirby characters, including Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and Meta Knight. Kirby's plot focuses on the characters retrieving the scattered pieces of a crashed alien spaceship.