I’ve been chatting to Nintendo this week aboutKirby’s Epic Yarn, and was informed that the inspiration for the gamecame from a stop-motion movie. I wasn’t told what the movie was, and for some reason it was implied that developer Feel-Good didn’t want to tell anybody.
As weird as that was, it seems that the “stop-motion movie” in question may not have been a movie, but an old commercial for a past Kirby game.GamesRadarsaw our story and then posted an old advert forKirby’s Adventure(found by our own Monodi, it turns out!). Lo and behold, it’s a stop-motion video and Kirby bears more than a passing resemblance to hisEpic Yarnincarnation.
We don’t know if this is the “stop motion movie” to which Nintendo of America is referencing, but the similarities are pretty damn compelling. Plus it’s a fantastic little commercial, so watch it anyway!
