Kirby's Epic Yarn Was Inspired by a Stop-Motion Yarn Film
by VGChartz Staff, posted on 31 August 2010 / 1,272 Views
Kirby's Epic Yarn looks amazing, because, well, it's a game that's made out of yarn, and that changes EVERYTHING. But while we've all been gushing over what that means for the supercute graphics and the innovative world-manipulating gameplay, we've all been content to say "that's a neat idea," and nobody has bothered to stop and ask Nintendo "Hey, why did you guys turn Kirby into yarn anyway?" So Jim Sterling of Destructoid asked Nintendo exactly that.
According to Nintendo, the idea came from the developers at Good-Feel (the team behind Kirby's Epic Yarn as well as Wario Land: The Shake Dimension), who got the idea from a Japanese stop-motion film made out of yarn. However, nobody at Nintendo or Good-Feel actually remembers the title of the film in question. Ouch, what an anticlimactic revelation! Somewhere, possibly lost in the annals of Japanese stop-motion film history, is the movie that inspired the new look of the classic cream puff.
We've got 47 days before the game comes out on October 17th. Anybody want to go on a quest to Japan to find the film before then?
