We knew the name “Kirby Wii” wouldn’t stick around forever, even if the latest Mario Kart, Mario Kart 7, didn’t get a particularly original name. Nintendo’s PAX lineup reveals Kirby Wii has been officially named Kirby’s Return to Dream Land and will be out on October 24.
That’s one month after the new Kirby game for DS, Kirby: Mass Attack, is released on September 19. It bolsters the upcoming lineup for Wii, which is really lacking outside of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Nintendo of America continues to say it doesn’t plan on bringing over any of the three JRPGs fans have been petitioning for (all of them are already available in Japan), including Xenoblade Chronicles, the game that was released in Europe last week to very strong reviews. Nintendo did recently say it would be watching how things go in Europe, so that’s a more promising development than what came before it.
Prior to Dream Land, Kirby had been fairly quiet as of late on consoles. Kirby’s Epic Yarn came to Wii this past October, but before that, it had been a decade since the last real Kirby game on consoles came out, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. (Kirby Air Ride was released on GameCube in 2003, but that was a racing game.)
