Kirby's Dreamland - Tutorial level Analysis

Platform Game Analysis

Kirby's Dreamland

For my platform tutorial analysis, I had chosen Kirby's Dreamland. A game boy edition and the very kirby first game was directed by Masahiro Sakurai. As I started playing the game, the very first difference I noticed, was that, the game would start, by using the start button. Which made me realize that, this was a one person game. as the level loads up, the first observations is the main character and the player can  experiment with the controls.

• Up button - Fly
• Down button -  to duck
• Left button -  to move left
• Right button - to move right  
• A button -  to short jump
• B button - to to suck in the enemies

 Using these options, the player can use any combination  defeat on coming enemies. The level increases in difficulties  as a player progresses, therefore the learning curve for the game gets steeper with progression of the level. The pacing of the games challenges the player to react faster using numerous combinations.

Players can figure out how to proceed and play the game by using the controls. Once players know how to sue the controls they can figure out how to proceed. During the game, a player faces many different sort of obstacles as the game progresses; 

• Slow pacing enemies
• Fast pacing enemies
•  Normal pacing enemies
• Flight enemies
• Mini bosses
• Flying bug enemies

These enemies act as obstacles for the players to be engaged in the game. As the tutorial advances the difficulties rises by playing against several enemies at once, which helps the player to use combinations of  movements to defeat the enemy. A player gets positive feed back by defeating the mini bosses and completing the 3 sub-levels of the tutorial levels. A player gets a negative feed back if he looses all his life and repeat at the start point. 

The story does not come into play until much later of the game, therefore when playing tutorial level, player does not really know about the story line of the game.