[game]Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards[/game] is a Kirby platform game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. Kirby 64 is a 2.5D platform game, with gameplay similar to earlier Kirby titles, where the titular character Kirby has the ability to inhale enemies and objects...
Kirby's first 3-D adventure is also his Nintendo 64 debut, and it finds the always-versatile hero battling a new enemy called Dark Matter. Dark Matter is after a distant land's powerful crystal, but a young fairy named Ribbon attempts to save it by escaping with the gem to Dream Land. Now the crystal has been broken, and it's scattered around the world. Take control of Kirby and help him journey across six worlds, battling a wide variety of enemies and challenging bosses, as he tries to collect all 100 pieces of the shattered crystal.