Milky Way Wishes
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Milky Way Wishes is the largest of the nine games in Kirby Super Star and its remake. The game uses Deluxe Copy Abilities - large statues that Kirby must touch before using that ability. Inhaling enemies, regardless of whether or not they give Kirby a special ability begets a "no good" for Kirby, except for limited used abilities. This is the longest and most challenging of the Super Star games - beating it unlocks the Arena, which contains many enemies from Kirby Super Star.
[edit] Story
Kirby's home planet, Pop Star is orbited by the sun and moon, who do not appear to be Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright as they do not have legs or any facial features and are just the sun and moon of Popstar. Suddenly, the two begin fighting over Popstar, plunging Kirby's home planet into chaos. Kirby sets off to activate the Dream Fountains found on the planets surrounding Popstar, intending to activate Nova, a clock-like machine with the ability to grant wishes. Before he can do this, however, Marx, the final enemy of the game wishes to control Popstar. Nova is obliged to grant Marx's wish, forcing Kirby to destroy Nova by way of a Gradius-like flying level. Kirby then lands on an unknown, purple planet and defeats Marx, restoring peace to Popstar. The sun and moon stop fighting shortly after Marx's defeat.
In Meta Knightmare Ultra (which is only exclusive to Kirby Super Star Ultra), after completing this level, Meta Knight summons Nova and wishes to fight the greatest warrior in the galaxy. Nova grants his wish and tells Meta Knight this warrior was sealed away long ago because of his superior powers, and that he would summon this great warrior again. Meta Knight then fights Galacta Knight, the strongest and final boss in Meta Knightmare Ultra, and the second to last boss in The True Arena.
[edit] Features
Milky Way Wishes is the first and only game in Kirby history to use Deluxe Copy Ability statues in order to gain powers. While this did fix the classic Kirby problem of not having the right power-up at the right time, it meant that the player initially had to travel powerless. Those familiar with the Great Cave Offensive should be able to find the Deluxe Copy Ability statues scattered about. In this game, all of the enemies and mini-bosses are given alternate color palette. In Kirby Super Star Ultra, so are the bosses, bar Computer Virus, which is most likely due to fact that it has changed its set of bosses. The alternate palettes are later used in Helper to Hero.
To complete Milky Way Wishes 100%, the player needs to find all 19 Deluxe Copy Abilities.
Milky Way Wishes is the only Super Star game to be played largely in outer space. This would be done again, although on a smaller scale in Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, but since then Kirby's adventures have taken place largely on Popstar. It is the only game to use a free cursor - that is, Kirby can be moved on the map anywhere the player chooses to move him.
