Kirby’s Epic Yarn

Etsunobu Ebisu, Madoka Yamauchi, and Good-Feel / HAL Laboratory's delightfully creative, visually enchanting, and universally adored fabric-craft 2D platforming masterpiece exclusively on the Nintendo Wii (and later 3DS), released in October 2010 by Nintendo, winning Best Artistic Graphics from GameSpot and holding an 88% GameRankings and 86/100 on Metacritic and selling over 2.5 million copies, standing as one of the most charming and visually inventive artistic video games ever designed, transporting pink hero Kirby into the knitted patchwork realm of Patch Land after being transformed into yarn by the evil sorcerer Yin-Yarn, teaming up with Prince Fluff to locate the seven Magic Yarns to stitch the world back together, single-handedly pioneering the revolutionary 100% simulated textile, button, and wool yarn physics engine (unraveling cloth enemies with a yarn whip, pulling zipper tabs to reveal hidden background layers, swinging from button anchors), tactile vehicle transformations (Tankbot, Saucer, Off-Road, Digger, Train), zero-death stress-free game design, the Quilty Court apartment interior decorating simulator, and Tomoya Tomita's breathtaking, award-winning acoustic piano, accordion, and woodwind musical score.