Regional Differences

This is a sub-page of Kirby's Avalanche.

Super Puyo Puyo#

To do: Background differences Competition and Practice differences

As mentioned before, Kirby's Avalanche is a western localization of the Japanese Super Famicom game Super Puyo Puyo which is a home version of Sega's arcade game Puyo Puyo.

Due to being a reskin of Super Puyo Puyo, Kirby's Avalanche had no Japanese release, the only game in the franchise with this distinction (unless you wanna count Kirby Slide, I guess).

Title Screen#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

• The splash screen replaces Banpresto with Nintendo.
• Additional rights information follows the Nintendo splash screen in Kirby's Avalanche.
• The "Super Puyo" voice clip is replaced with a "Kirby's Avalanche" voice clip.
• The title screen fades in Super Puyo Puyo but hard cuts after Kirby crashes their star in Kirby's Avalanche.
• The background in Super Puyo Puyo was changed to dark grey in Kirby's Avalanche.
  • Carbuncle is replaced with Kirby.

Mode Select#

The graphics were completely overhauled in Kirby's Avalanche but the selections remain the same. While the clouds move in the background in Super Puyo Puyo, the entire background moves in Kirby's Avalanche.

Options Mode#

Key assignment is renamed to button assignment.

Story Mode / Competition#

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"Story Mode" in Super Puyo Puyo is re-named to "Competition" in Kirby's Avalanche. The story in Super Puyo Puyo follows Arle Nadja who sets off to defeat Satan after learning the spell "Owanimo" that converts groups of four colored creatures into energy. Meanwhile Kirby's Avalanche takes place in Dream Land where the puzzle game "Avalanche" is a local pastime of Dream Landers. Kirby decides to hold a country-wide competition to determine who is the best player.

Protagonist#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Arle Nadja is aptly replaced with Kirby.

Lesson 1#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The tea drinking Skeleton T is swapped with a Waddle Dee who is scared of the forest.

Lesson 2#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Instead of Nasu Grave the eggplant, Kirby plays against the bully Bronto Burt.

Lesson 3#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The Mummy gripes about its bandages not fitting Arle's body, meanwhile Waddle Doo wants to repay Kirby in kind after not treating Waddle Dee with respect.

Lesson Ending#

Stage 1#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Draco Centauros, the claimed to be rival of Arle becomes the bomb throwing Poppy Bros. Sr. who simply challenges Kirby in a game of Avalanche.

Stage 2#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The dancing fish Suketoudara is changed to the sentient tree Whispy Woods.

Stage 3#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Sukiyapotes the foot monster that attempts to attack Arle with the Sanjyuumon Kick is swapped out with the spinning "boulder" Kabu.

Stage 4#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Harpy flies around while singing but Broom Hatter is busy sweeping dust.

Stage 5#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Sasori Man (or Scorpion Man) is replaced with a different creature, Squishy the squid.

Stage 6#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The flute playing elf Panotty is annoyed that Arle isn't dancing to his music but after Kirby told an a-MAZE-ing joke, Lololo and Lalala taunts them.

Stage 7#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The Zombie with an awful stench is unlike the ROOAAARRRing Bugzzy who thankfully doesn't have hygiene problems.

Stage 8#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The giggling Witch can't compare to the talented art student Paint Roller.

Stage 9#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

The hard stomping elephant Zo-Daimaoh refuses Arle to pass but the threatening machine Heavy Mole attempts to distract Kirby.

Stage 10#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Schezo Wegey the dark mage is taken over by the night and day duo Mr. Shine and Mr. Bright.

Stage 11#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Minotauros swings his axe dangerously close to Arle but Kracko shoots lightning dangerously close to Kirby.

Stage 12#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

While Rulue tries to get affection from Arle, Meta Knight duels Kirby in Avalanche.

Stage 13#

Super Puyo Puyo	Kirby's Avalanche

Arle faces off against Satan while Kirby faces off against King Dedede.

Ending#

The ending scene was completely redone for Kirby's Avalanche whilst maintaining the overall composition of the protagonist standing in front of a sunset.

Cast#

The "Cast" text in Super Puyo Puyo is skipped in Kirby's Avalanche along with the Carbuncle credit.

Music#

The music was completely redone for Kirby's Avalanche. Several music tracks are remixes of ones from Kirby's Adventure and Kirby's Dream Course.

The 2 player "competition mode" music in Super Puyo Puyo uses Toy of Puyo Puyo but was changed in Kirby's Avalanche to a remix of Ice Cream Island. The remix is also used in the cast credits which was originally Ondo of Puyo Puyo in Super Puyo Puyo. The introduction cutscenes for the lesson stages uses different music that does not have an equivalent in Super Puyo Puyo which uses Memories of Puyo Puyo instead.

Voice Samples#

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All voice samples in Super Puyo Puyo were replaced in Kirby's Avalanche.

Kirby's Ghost Trap#

Title Screen#

Kirby's Avalanche	Kirby's Ghost Trap

The European and Australian version was released as Kirby's Ghost Trap, with the localization recontextualizing the Garbage Puyos (called boulders in Avalanche) as ghosts due to their transparent appearance. The regular Puyos are called Blobs regardless of which version.

Despite these changes, it seems the localizers kept the writing on the repeating stone column background (the background itself was carried over and slightly modified from its source game), as it still inexplicably says "PUYOPYO".

Controller Buttons#

Kirby's Avalanche	Kirby's Ghost Trap

The controller buttons were recolored to match the European controller, and the "SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM" text was removed.

Voice Samples#

All exclusive Kirby's Avalanche voice samples were replaced with Kirby's Ghost Trap ones. Both voice actors are the same people who did the voice samples used in the SNES version of Wario's Woods. Voice numbers 0E, 21 and 23.

Text Overflow#

The change from "Avalanche" to "Ghost Trap" caused a minor text overflow in Squishy's stage, as the dialogue box was not widened and/or the text not rearranged to accommodate the longer name.