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Kirby: Canvas Curse
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Overall Critic Score:3.5763
Kirby: Canvas Curse Critic Reviews
When Nintendo needs a character for a unique game, they often call on Kirby. His stature as a ball with arms and legs makes him easy to shoehorn into just about any type of game you can think of. For Kirby Canvas Curse, the pink sphere loses his arms and...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at GamerDad
the PSP. Overall Comments: Despite this little gripe, Kirby Canvas Curse remains untarnished. The $35 price tag is well worth it, as the game provides hours upon hours of different things to do (which cannot be done on any other system)....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Nintendophiles
Kirby: Canvas Curse doesn't change many traditional platforming elements. You still venture around levels collecting stars, flipping switches, and killing bad guys on your way to the level's end, but even these menial tasks are a blast thanks to the...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at UnderGroundOnline
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Many DS games feel like they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to find some way to support the touchscreen, which is often optional. Other games that are more creative with the touchscreen are short and under-developed, more tech demos than bona...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Yahoo! Games
One of the best handheld games to come out this year. It’s loaded with fresh ideas and new play mechanics....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Gaming Age
While the game might be short, it's chock full of extras to make sure any completionists will get their money's worth....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Deeko
When gamers first heard that Nintendo's new handheld would feature two lcd screens, with the bottom screen being touch-sensitive, most didn't know what to expect. Now that the Nintendo DS has been launched worldwide, gamers are starting to understand...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Nintendo Spin
Since Kirby is a quadriplegic and his body forms a perfect circle all he can do is roll into one direction. Each world or canvas has obstacles to avoid and enemies to destroy. Every world is split into three parts. Using the stylus, you can make Kirby...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Portable Review
Simply one of the best DS games released thus far and an easy choice for DS owners griping about the lack of strong software for their tech-heavy handheld....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Game Revolution
It’s clearly the best game for the DS currently out there and a good demonstration as to how good a DS game can be when it utilizes all of its features....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at VGPub
'm sure many are a bit skeptical when it comes to Nintendo's pink cream puff. I know much of our staff swore him off for good after the mind-numbingly simple Kirby's Air Ride, and even at his best, Kirby never was a "killer app" (although I'd say Kirby:...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Digital Entertainment News
It has longevity, charm, and controls that endure the wild departure from traditional platformers and make a highly enjoyable game. It comes highly recommended....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Nintendojo
One of the best titles to come out for the DS yet....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Gaming Target
HAL are well and truly back in the hot seat, relying upon nobody else for this instalment of one of their key franchises. As is tradition with the Kirby games, the story is one of such detail and suspense that George Orwell would be proud of it – Kirby...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Cubed3
Kirby Canvas Curse is presented in a simple, yet effective fashion. The story is a little cheesy and weak, but it sets the job before you up well enough. The basic premise is that a cursed canvas has taken Kirby's ability to do anything except to roll...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at DS Advanced
While the overall length of the main game is on the short side, the novelty of drawing lines on the screen to move the little nut around never gets old, thanks largely to the varied and challenging level design. Good on ya, Kirby. Hope the hair grows back...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at WHAM! Gaming
this game as childish by a glance at the pastel colors.If you have a Nintendo DS you should pick up Kirby Canvas Curse. This game showcases a unique title that's designed for the DS. Best of all it's genuinely fun to play. It's not some technical demo, li...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Siliconera
Kirby is pink…very pink. This really sets the tone for a game that is filled with bright and colourful characters and environments. The graphics in Canvas Curse are very, very good, easily the best I have yet seen on the DS. They are very clean and...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at DarkZero
If there’s anything that has changed in this new Kirby title, it’s the gameplay. No longer are you walking along with Kirby, eating everything that crosses your path in an unstoppable torrent of pink, puffy rage. Now, in fact, you aren’t even using...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Gamerz-Edge
The great single player gameplay should help to alleviate any pain that the lack of multiplayer may have caused. In typical Kirby fashion, this is a wonderful title that is fun, addicting, and exudes a kind of charm not found in many games today....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at eToychest
Recycling what's fast becoming an over used plot device, Kirby: Canvas Curse is the usual story of a witch/wizard/magical underling run amok. Evil intentions this, chance encounter that, and before you know it, Dreamland has been transformed into a...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at HonestGamers
I wasn't the only one who felt that Nintendo had their heart in the right place when Yoshi Touch & Go came out, and I wasn't the only one who drew comparisons to it's gameplay with Kirby Canvas Curse. I'd like to say that I'm now joining the ranks of...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at GamersMark
Graphically and sonically, Kirby: Canvas Curse excels and impresses with apparent ease. If you fail a level, then that wonderful “one-more-go” feeling that eats up so many hours of our lives as gamers comes into play, and whilst this game isn’t the...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at RewiredMind
Pink is in, as Nintendo produces a stunning DS platformer using nothing but the sense of touch....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at IGN
Kirby makes his debut on the DS and his debut is welcomed. There have been few titles that make good use of the unique features of the system or lack any sort of originality. But our pink friend is something different. He's not about the complex...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Game Rankings
It’s a rare treat, and very appreciated. Kirby: Cursed Canvas comes from nowhere, but deserves to go everywhere. It’s another absolute proof of the validity of the DS as a unique gaming platform, and sets a new challenge bar for relaxing platform...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Eurogamer
A genuinely excellent game. It impresses on many levels, perhaps most of all for the simple fact that it's the first example of a traditional 2D platformer that genuinely works with no input besides a stylus....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at 1UP
Let's start with the goal itself -- get Kirby through the level. He's going to keep on rolling no matter what you do, which is where drawing the rainbow comes in. Once that stylus hits the screen, you find yourself drawing bridges, walls... whatever it...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at GotNext
But then, back in June, Nintendo finally showed faithful DS owners the first oasis in the vast, lonely desert called the DS software library, which was both small and decidedly poor in overall quality at the time. That oasis was called Kirby: Canvas...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Games are Fun
If you own a Nintendo DS you simply must own Kirby’s paintbrush, it doesn’t get any simpler than that....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at IC-Games
The perfect marriage of a handheld game and a touch-sensitive screen....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Cheat Code Central
With a loveable hero, incredibly technical handling, and a truckload of features all wrapped up in a wonderfully stylish presentation, Kirby: Canvas Curse not only brings a breath of fresh air to a seemingly stale handheld gaming world, but it also...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Thunderbolt
An engaging experience from start to finish, including the mini-games and boss battles....read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Armchair Empire
Although Kirby: Canvas Curse is a radically different game in terms of its gameplay, the story is pretty much the same. Someone has yet again come to ruin Dreamland and turn Kirby's friends against him this time in the form of an evil sorceress known as...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at N-Europe
Players will only need to use the stylus to control Kirby, and all of the action is shown on the bottom screen. The top screen serves as a map, as well as a display screen for stats such as health and lives remaining. Most of the gameplay revolves around...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Lawrence
From start to finish, Canvas is packed with beautiful graphics, awesome level designs, and compelling gameplay. Boss battles are cool and unique, and the minigames and bonus options are worth...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at Electronic Gaming Monthly
Contrary to popular belief, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Kirby is an odd, somewhat repetitive series has that has been inhaling gamers for more than 10 years. Its gameplay mechanics haven't changed much in that time – navigate...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at GameZone
and you use a stylus as a magic paintbrush to draw a rainbow-colored bridge or escalator to help Kirby find his way. You can also draw rainbow shields to protect Kirby from cannon fire and stun monsters with the stylus, which I suppose would be a useful t...read the complete Kirby: Canvas Curse review at The New York Times
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