Kirby 64: A Crystal Shards occurs as Kirby video game published for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. This game is Kirby's single game for the N64. Although the back worlds come rendered by having polygonal shape, it remains a side scroller. What makes this game unique is Kirby's ability to merge deuce separate copy abilities to create a completely newly of these (e.g., Stone + Needle = Drill).

Story: Dark Matter has destroyed the planet Ripple Star, scattering numerous crystal sherd as much as many planets. Kirby assists retired a resident of Ripple Star (the fairy girl known as Ribbon) to locate the crystal sherd & kill Dark Matter.

Copy abilities

There are Sevener different copy abilities within Kirby 64, & ii (possibly of the equivalent variety) may be merged to produce the freshly copy ability. It is Burn, Stone, Ice, Needle, Bomb, Spark, & Cutter. These abilities may be combined to produce several different types of abilities.

Levels
There are heptad planets (Popstar, Rockstar, Aqua Star, Neostar, Shiverstar, Ripple Star, Dark Star), commonly triad or even quaternion levels around every globe & of these boss. for each a single standard level has Trio hidden crystal sherd to buy, & a crystal sherd is rewarded for clearing each stamp level, except for the final one agains the boss of Dark Star. To benefit access to the survive gloexist as, Dark Star, everthing sherd must be collected.

Minigames
3 minigames may be played separate from either a independent quest inside Kirby 64. For each one game may be played by One-quartet players in one of four difficulty levels (Easily, Medium, Tough, Incredible). Characters from either a punt (explorer Waddle Dee) come playable within multiplayer.

Century Front yard Hop:
4 players line higher before of quaternary columns of circles (spaces). Click B to hop The single space send on, A to hop 2 spaces. A object of a game is to email the prevent prior to the opponents, dodging obstacles by jumping across the two.

Bumpercrop Bump:
This minigame is played inside the sidescrolling environment. Players own baskets & attempt to catch fruit falling from either the tree. More players may be hindered from either doing and then by existence "bumped" by a second streaming video player (ramming into the two).

Checker board Chase:
Played in the checkerboard style platform, allowing players to move around foursome directions. A object of a game is to knock more players off a board by destroying the tiles below the two. Click The to shoot the string of coloured tiles send on. These tiles may fall when another, along by owning anything else standing in the babies. Victims fallen tiles regenerate fallowing the patch. A board becomes little when period goes in, adding to the challenge. From each one streaming video player has Cinque spends, & a endure human standing wins.

Characters
Miracle Matter is the Globe 6 (Ripple Star) boss. Miracle Matter attacks sustaining each ability in the game. It may simply exist when hurt per equivalent ability as a a single these are applying, then these are crucial for Kirby to inhale Miracle Matter's weapons and spit the children retired, injuring Miracle Matter. Miracle Matter appears to become a final stamp; actually, there exists even more, an extra boss (O²) that could lone become fought fallowing collecting all the crystal fragment.

After fighting O² at the prevent of Globe 7 (Dark Star), a game enters a 3D rail shooter style mode in which Kirby, held in everyone's thoughts by Ribbon a fairy girl, fires at O² using the "Crystal Gun," a weapon formed from either 100% of the crystal sherd brought together. A apply of shooter style gameplay for the very endure boss occurs as revenant element inside several Kirby games.

Cards
There are 81 cards to collect in the game, which own pictures of characters, enemies, or even bosses.

Trivia
Kirby 64: A Crystal Shards was a number one & merely Kirby game to came to Nintendo 64.