The story in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse is actually quite similar to some of the series’ most recent installments, at least until the finale. Here he is, in all his adorable clay glory! Aside from a couple of minor hiccups, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse adapts the core mechanic from Canvas Curse, adds plenty of elements and fan service from other Kirby titles and turns it into a good chunk of adorably hard platforming delight. Leave it to Kirby, then, to finally give the GamePad a grand game focused on touch, with an adorable claymation art style, plenty of unlockables to collect and some of the toughest levels in the series. Indeed, unlike the DS family, where touch control is utilized in pretty much every game, the Wii U GamePad’s touchscreen has been a rather under-utilized part of the controller, aside from menus, Miiverse and games that have better control methods. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, the pink guy’s debut solo outing on the Wii U, could be called an underdog amongst the sea of titles in the Wii U library simply because of the system it’s on. So, imagine my surprise when Nintendo revealed it was getting a Wii U-exclusive spiritual sequel.
Add the head-turning art style, which took a page from the modern art playbook and made everything bright and colorful, and Canvas Curse was, in my opinion, at least, the DS’s first great game, and is still one of my favorite entries in the Kirby canon. It fully utilized the DS touch screen and turned it into a controller all by itself, providing a great amount of challenge and unlockables, as well.
Most of the launch games for the DS were either great tech demos with lots of experimental gimmickry or awful ports with tacked-on touch control. Among the games released in the DS’s first year on sale, I considered Kirby: Canvas Curse to be the first to showcase the potential in Nintendo’s then-fledgling system.
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