| “ | Draw the picture in the same order as Paint Roller before Kirby rolls all the way to the right edge or before the Bomber catches him.” |
| — Paint Panic • Kirby: Canvas Curse Instruction Booklet |
Paint Panic is a sub-game in Kirby: Canvas Curse.
General Information[]
In each "question", Paint Roller paints the outline of a picture of a recurring item, enemy, or ally in the Kirby series that the player must redraw using the Touch Screen in a connect-the-dots fashion. The Top Screen will display the speed at which each picture is completed, which impacts the speed at which Kirby goes to the next screen. These include "Slow," when Kirby will go at "Walking" speed; "Average," when Kirby will go at "Running" speed; "Fast," when Kirby will "Dash!"; and "Super Fast," when Kirby will go at "Burning!!" speed. During the battle, Kirby is pursued by Bombers, so the player will have to hurry and complete the picture before a Bomber comes to blow Kirby up. In the last room, the player has to tap the blinking panels to blow up Paint Roller and his Bombers.
Like the other sub-games, it has three difficulties, each of which indicates how many rounds the game will entail. On level one, the player is forced to endure ten rounds. At level two, it becomes fifteen, and level three goes on for one hundred rounds.
Level 1[]
When fighting Paint Roller as a boss for the first time, the ten drawings the player must draw are always the same, and always in the same order:
- Platform
- Hard Block
- Door
- Stake
- Candy
- Maxim Tomato
- Vitality
- Spikes
- Mr. Shine
- Parasol
When the player gets to the blinking panels, the first five combinations require tapping one panel, the sixth and seventh require two panels, the eight and ninth require three panels, and the tenth requires four.
When playing Level 1 as a subgame, the ten drawings are randomized; the tenth drawing always consists of two parts.
Level 2[]
When fighting Paint Roller as a boss for the second time, the fifteen drawings the player must draw are always the same, and always in the same order:
- Hard Block
- Door
- Soarar
- Stake
- Energy Drink
- Pacto
- Maxim Tomato
- Vitality
- Spikes
- Fake Top Speed Patch
- Parasol
- Big Star
- Twizzy
- Scarfy
- Mr. Frosty (two parts)
When the player gets to the blinking panels, the first four combinations require tapping one panel, the fifth and sixth require two panels, the seventh and eighth require three panels, the ninth requires four panels, and the tenth requires five.
When playing Level 2 as a subgame, the fifteen drawings are randomized; after the tenth drawing, there is a chance a drawing will have two parts, with at least one occurring.
Ranks[]
Speed and accuracy determine the rank.
- AAA: Rainbow Hero
- AA: Genius
- A: Prodigy
- B: Gifted Artist
- C: Talent
- D: Artist
- E: Art Student
- F: Sketcher
- G: Dabbler
- H: Scribbler
- I: Scrawler
- J: Doodler
List of Drawings[]
- 2005 (the year Kirby: Canvas Curse was released)
- Arrow
- Balloon Bomber
- Butterfly
- Candy
- Car
- Chilly
- ChuChu
- Coat hanger
- Compact Star
- Coo
- Clover
- Crown
- Dale
- Dark Matter
- Doghouse
- Door
- Doorway
- Eagle
- Egg
- Energy Drink
- Eye
- Fish
- Glunk
- Gordo
- Hair Bow
- HAL logo
- HAL name
- Hard Block
- High heels
- Hourglass
- House
- Kabu
- Kine
- King Dedede
- Kirby
- Sleep
- Crouching
- Standing on one foot
- Kracko
- Lightning bolt
- Lips
- Maxim Tomato
- Meta Knight's mask
- Mountain
- Mr. Bright
- Mr. Frosty
- Mr. Shine
- Mr. Tick Tock
- Nightmare
- Nintendo GameCube
- Onigiri
- Pacto
- Parasol
- Para Sorceress
- Phan Phan
- Pichikuri
- Platform
- Poppy Bros. Jr.
- Power drink
- Rainbow line
- Rainbow square
- Rainbow stairs
- Rainbow triangle
- Rainbow zigzag
- Red pencil
- Rick
- Rocket Star
- Rocky
- Sailboat
- Scarfy
- Skull
- Snake
- Soarar
- Spiral
- Spikes
- Squares
- Stake
- Star
- Sun
- Super Smash Bros. symbol
- Swerve Star
- Switch
- Sword
- Thudd
- Tulip
- Tomato
- Fake Top Speed patch
- Tree
- Triangles
- Triforce
- Twizzy
- UFO
- Umbrella
- Vitality
- Waddle Dee
- Waddle Doo
- Warp Star
- Whale
- Wheelie
- Winged Star
- Witch's hat
Related Quotes[]
| “ | Memorize Paint Roller's line. Paint it in one brushstroke! Clear picture to make Kirby dash! If you forget, stop touching the screen. Draw quickly and precisely! At the end, tap blinking panels!” |
| — Paint Panic Info • Kirby: Canvas Curse |
| “ | Draw lines as shown. Hurry!” |
| — Pause Screen description • Kirby: Canvas Curse |
Etymology[]
"Paint Panic" comes from the aspect that the player needs to paint images via brushstrokes while under pressure due to Kirby being pursued by Bombers.
Trivia[]
- The music that plays in this sub-game is a remix of the music played in the Gourmet Race sub-game from Kirby Super Star.
- This remix was reused in the Normal Challenge in Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition and in the extra stage of Gigabyte Grounds in Kirby: Planet Robobot.
- When played with the Old School music option on, the music in Paint Panic changes to the boss theme from Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land.
- One of the possible drawings in Paint Panic is of an egg with a hole pecked out of it, with a single bird-like eye staring out. This egg previously appeared in Kirby Air Ride.
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