| “ | In order to stop the serious fighting between the sun and the moon, you will need to visit many planets and summon a comet. This game has slightly different rules concerning Copy Abilities, so pay close attention.” |
| — Instruction manual description • Kirby Super Star Ultra |
Milky Way Wishes is the largest of the nine games in Kirby Super Star and its remake. The game uses Copy Essence Deluxe - statues similar to ones inside Museums and Copy Essences that Kirby must touch before acquiring that ability. Inhaling enemies, regardless of whether or not they give Kirby a special ability begets a "no good" for him, except for limited-use abilities such as Crash, Mike and Paint, but Kirby can use an ability any time if he can find and attain the necessary Copy Essence Deluxe for it. Beating Milky Way Wishes unlocks The Arena, containing all of the bosses that Kirby has fought before.
Story
Marx the jester
Kirby is seen standing in front of the Fountain of Dreams. The Star Rod glows and shoots a bright light up in the sky that soon spreads. The light soon opens and reveals the Sun and Moon fighting each other and pushing each other out of the sky, changing it constantly. The camera scrolls down to reveal Kirby, Bronto Burt, Waddle Dee, and Poppy Bros. Jr. watching the fight. A jester named Marx appears bouncing on a multicolored beach ball. He asks Kirby to ask the giant comet Nova for help in order to stop the fight, but to do so, Kirby has to gather the star power from the different planets near Pop Star. Kirby, back at the Fountain of Dreams, jumps on a Warp Star that the Fountain made for him, and soars into outer space with Marx wishing him good luck.
After gathering the power from the stars from the seven planets, Kirby summons Nova and makes his wish. Before he can do this however, Marx knocks Kirby off screen and makes his own selfish wish: world domination on Planet Popstar. When this happens, he transformed into a fearsome monster resembling a bat. He reveals that he tricked the Sun and Moon into fighting each other, and that he managed to get Kirby into doing his dirty work for him, and this was all part of his master plan to conquer Popstar. Nova is obliged to grant Marx's wish, unfortunately forcing Kirby to destroy him. Nova begins looming towards Popstar, leaving Kirby alone in space. Fortunately, the power Kirby had gathered comes together and creates a Starship for him to chase after Nova with.
Marx, transformed
Nova is suddenly stopped by the Sun and Moon, giving Kirby the chance to enter him. Upon Kirby destroying his core, Nova is wounded, infuriating Marx, who then attempts to attack Kirby himself. Kirby then lands on what appears to be the moon from his battle with Nightmare, and fights Marx. Kirby wins in the battle, sending Marx flying away and into Nova, seemingly destroying them both in the process during a massive explosion engulfed in a bright white light. Kirby flies back to Popstar via Warp Star, and the Sun and Moon are seen circling around each other, ending their feud.
Features
Kirby, as seen in the Beginner's Room for Milky Way Wishes - KSSU
Milky Way Wishes is the first and only game to feature Copy Essence Deluxe (Deluxe Copy Ability in the original game) in place of the usual means of Copy Ability acquisition. While this did fix the classic Kirby problem of not having the right power-up at the right time, it did mean that the player initially had to travel powerless unless they, by having prior knowledge or otherwise, visits the planet ??? first, and acquires the Copy Essence before visiting the traditional Grass-themed starting world, Floria, or any other planet the wish to travel to first.
The premises for finding the Deluxe Essences are similar to finding treasure chests in The Great Cave Offensive, although there are a lot less items to find. There is a counter at the bottom-right of the Nintendo DS touch screen indicating how many Essences Kirby had not collected yet, which helps in locating the remaining ones. To fully complete Milky Way Wishes (and the game) at 100%, the player needs to find all 19 Deluxe Essences.
In this game, all of the enemies and mid-bosses are given an alternate color palette. In Kirby Super Star Ultra, bosses also have an alternate color palette, except for 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.
Milky Way Wishes is the only Kirby 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.
Stages
- Floria (Boss: Twin Woods)
- Aquarius (Boss: Fatty Whale)
- Skyhigh (Boss: Kracko)
- Hotbeat (Boss: Chameleo Arm)
- Cavius (Boss: Wham Bam Rock)
- Mekkai (Boss: Heavy Lobster)
- Halfmoon (Boss: Computer Virus)
- ??? (optional)
Trivia
- In the the original games' story line, the moon is seen spinning clockwise, even when on its own. In the remake, however, the moon can spin both clockwise and counterclockwise.
- The only time the moon is NOT spinning is on the game map. The Sun also has different sized spikes going around it in the map as well.
- Except for the Fountain scenes in the original introduction, everything appears as brown and tan, a somewhat more "colorful" version of black and white.
- Nova is seen to move his parts around in the remake. This is proved by his swinging pendulum and the ability to move his eyes.
- In the remake, the game map and the cutscenes in outer space have a dark blue color. In the original game, outer space appears to be black.
- Milky Way Wishes is one of two sub-games in Kirby Super Star and its remake to have a map that shows the different levels. The other sub-game is Dyna Blade.
- A remix of the opening cutscene music is heard as a part of the sountrack for Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.
- A few of the planets had minor name changes between games. Aquarius was originally Aqualiss, Cavius was Cavios, and Mekkai was spelled Mecheye .
- Right before the music starts playing and the introduction scene starts in Kirby Super Star, a star rolls by skywriting Kirby's name. This doesn't happen for the remade version in Kirby Super Star Ultra, instead appearing in the Original Kirby Movies cutscene for Milky Way Wishes.
Related Quotes
| “ | Help! You must stop the Sun and Moon from fighting!” |
| — Title Card Description • Kirby Super Star |
| “ | The Moon and the Sun are fighting, and you must settle it! Help us, comet at galaxy's end!” |
| — Title Card Description • Kirby Super Star Ultra |
| “ | One day in the year ???, the Sun and Moon fought day and night.” |
| — Introduction • Kirby Super Star |
| Milky Way Wishes |
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