Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition

Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition is an anthology title for the Wii that was made in celebration of the Kirby franchise's 20th anniversary. It was released in 2012 in Japan and North America, but it never saw a release in Europe and Australia. Like nearly every Kirby title, Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition was developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo.

Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition includes the first six Kirby platforming titles—Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards—as playable titles. The game also features a Sub-Game titled New Challenge Stages, which features 13 unique Challenge Stages based on those found in Kirby's Return to Dream Land. There is also a museum section titled Kirby's History which features box art and video spotlights for every Kirby game released up to that point and three viewable Kirby: Right Back at Ya! episodes: "Kirby Comes to Cappy Town," "Crusade for the Blade," and "Waddle While You Work." Besides the game disc, Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition is also packaged with a booklet that highlights Kirby's history and provides behind-the-scenes trivia about the series, as well as a soundtrack CD, Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition Compilation Soundtrack, which has 42 music tracks from earlier Kirby games and three new arrangements by the HAL Laboratory sound team.

The six classic games are emulated via the Wii's Virtual Console interface despite the fact that Kirby's Dream Land and Kirby's Dream Land 2, let alone Game Boy titles in general, were never released on the Wii Shop Channel. Like the Virtual Console, all six games have the HOME Menu options to suspend gameplay and view their respective manual. Besides the Nintendo GameCube Controller and Classic Controller, all six games have a horizontal Wii Remote as a controller option.

Trivia

 * The 's website suggests that the boss fights of Zero and 0² were a reason for giving Kirby&#39;s Dream Collection Special Edition an E10+ rating, specifically for animated blood and cartoon violence. The specific excerpt that suggests this is: "One boss character (a giant eyeball) fires red droplets at Kirby; additional red-damage effects appear as its health decreases."