Kirby Squeak Squad

Controls

• Select: Right Shift
• Start: Enter
• Up: Up Arrow
• Down: Down Arrow
• Left: Left Arrow
• Right: Right Arrow
• A Button: Z key
• B Button: X key
• prepare to use your mouse a bit.

Trivia:

• King Dedede's design in Kirby: Squeak Squad's official artwork is very similar to his appearance in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
• Kirby: Squeak Squad has a notification for the player's birthday set on the console, which features a special illustration of Kirby and the Squeaks.
• In this title, when left alone for long enough, Kirby will fall asleep and start dreaming of his shortcake. After a moment, he will wake up and inhale his dream cloud. This happens both in the stages and on the map screen.
• A good part of this game's music consists of arrangements of songs from Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land and Kirby & The Amazing Mirror.
• This is the first game in the Kirby series to receive an in-house Korean localization, reflecting the South Korean government's removal of almost all restrictions against Japanese cultural imports in 2004 (which had been in place since the Korean peninsula's liberation from Japanese colonial rule following the end of World War II in 1945). While Kirby Air Ride previously received a South Korean release in 2004, it was handled by Daewon Media rather than Nintendo (as the latter's Korean subsidiary would not be established until 2006).
• This is the only time King Dedede appears as the first boss.
• This is the only traditional platformer to feature Copy Abilities that does not include Stone... sorry Stone fans...
• Some of the game's backgrounds are modified versions of backgrounds from Kirby & The Amazing Mirror.
• The time between the releases of Kirby: Squeak Squad and Kirby's Epic Yarn marked the longest duration without an entirely original Kirby release in North America since the beginning of the series, at 3 years, 10 months and 13 days.
• There is an unused ability called Block in the game's data. This may be an early or scrapped version of the Triple Star. Interestingly enough, Kirby wears a hat similar to that of the Mirror ability from Kirby Super Star when Block is active.
• Despite being a recurring Kirby boss, Whispy Woods does not appear in the game outside of his cameo on the title screen. In fact, Kirby: Squeak Squad is the only traditional platformer in which neither Whispy Woods nor any counterpart of him (such as King Golem, Flowery Woods, and Clanky Woods) is fought.
• Even though the Squeaks are implied to be the thieves of Kirby's strawberry shortcake, carefully observing the opening cutscene shows that the individual who actually committed the act closely resembles a Waddle Dee.
1. However, the Waddle Dee may instead be a placeholder sprite that the developers neglected to replace.
• This is the last game to have the Boss Endurance mode, as future Kirby games replaced it with other modes, such as The Arena, The Ultimate Choice, and the Colosseum.
• Castle Dedede looks very similar to how it appeared in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Additionally, there is a device in Dedede's room very similar to Dedede's Monster Transmitter in the anime, though here it is actually a high-tech energy vault containing Dark Nebula's chest. The Halberd also appears similar to its anime appearance.
• This was the last Kirby game to be developed by Flagship, and the last game Flagship developed before being dissolved.