
Just before the Garbage Puyos rain down on a player's playing field, they will be shown an icon, indicating how many Garbage Puyos will drop. Setting up a large enough chain will create the eponymous "avalanche" so many Garbage Puyos will be dropped that the opponent has no chance to recover. The more Puyos that disappear from the result of a chain reaction, the more Garbage Puyos will be sent to the opponent's playing field. It is possible to set up a chain reaction by matching four Puyos, and then letting other Puyos fall into spots where they will connect with more Puyos, clearing more of them one after another in succession. Because of this, they are essentially meant to waste space and make matching Puyos more difficult. Garbage Puyos cannot be cleared when four or more of them touch, and can only disappear if a match of four colored Puyos is accomplished right next to them. If a player runs out of room in the playing field to place Puyos, that player will lose the game.Ĭlearing Puyos will send Garbage Puyos (referred to in this game as boulders) to the opponent's playing field. Any Puyos above them will fall down and fill in the spots where the matched Puyos once were. This done, they will disappear from the playing field.

The goal is to drop and rotate the Puyos in such a way that four or more of the same color connect and touch each other from above, below or to the side, in any combination. Pairs of differently-colored Puyos (referred to in this game as blobs) fall from the top of the playing field and eventually touch the bottom. Two players each have their own playing field, a grid of 72 spaces (6 across and 12 high). This game plays identically to Super Puyo Puyo, and as such, the rules in Kirby's Avalanche are the same. In this way, the number of competitors will be whittled down to a manageable size before the final action at the Dream Fountain.Ĭan you help guide Kirby through the competition so he arrives successfully at the Dream Fountain? Can he rise above the grizzled veterans and achieve his dream of becoming the reigning champion? His fate is in your hands! Only the winner of the match may continue onward towards the Dream Fountain. If, while on their journey, two Dream Landers happen to meet, they must challenge each other to an Avalanche match. The rules for the competition are quite simple: Everyone will travel by foot to the Dream Fountain. Like Kirby, they have been dreaming sweet dreams of becoming the Avalanche Champion and claiming the highly sought after "Dream Fountain Cup." To be held at the Dream Fountain, this would be the biggest event in the history of Dream Land!Īll the Dream Landers have been practicing, and all plan to attend and compete. In Dream Land the local pastime is a puzzle game called "Avalanche." Kirby decided that since every Dream Lander plays the game, it would be a great idea to have a country-wide competition to determine who is the best player of all.Īfter months of organizing, the First Annual Dream Land's Avalanche Competition was finally announced.

Welcome to Dream Land, a small and peaceful country situated on a far away little star. Due to its similarities to Super Puyo Puyo, this game was never released in Japan, making it the only Kirby game with this distinction. The game, which can be played with one or two players, revolves around stacking multi-colored blobs (otherwise known as Puyos) and matching chains of the same color. It is a spinoff title and a direct modification of the Japanese puzzle game Super Puyo Puyo, except featuring Kirby characters. Kirby's Avalanche, known as Kirby's Ghost Trap in British English, is a puzzle game developed by Compile, in collaboration with HAL Laboratory, that was released in 1995. Box art for Kirby's Avalanche from various regions
