The RetroBeat: Kirby’s Adventure can teach today’s devs how to nail their endings

Earlier this week, Nintendo announced that Kirby’s Adventure is coming to Nintendo Switch Online on February 13 (along with Super Mario Bros. 2, but we’ll talk about that one another time).

This is fantastic news. Kirby’s Adventure is one of the best games ever made for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The side-scroller’s release in 1993 marked it as one of the last major Nintendo projects created for the historic 8-bit console. It was also a landmark title for the (then young) franchise. Kirby’s Adventure is the first in the series to have the copy mechanic, Kirby’s now iconic ability to gain enemies’ powers after he eats them.