Everyone loves Kirby. He's sweet, happy, bouncy and he looks like a big Dramamine pill. His platforming games are consisently fun and nobody wants to run afoul of him in a Smash Bros game.
However, when Kirby falls, he falls down hard. It's kind of a funny thing, given that his body is made of nothing but whipped creme and fibre glass insulation, but his few misteps leave the pink guy pretty bruised. 2003's Kirby's Air Ride sold poorly and caused friction between Nintendo, Hal Labs and Kirby's daddy, Masahiro Sakurai. It hurt, but Kirby bounced back. How could he not.
But Kirby floated over another potential pitfall in the SNES era.
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