5 May 2011

By: Andrei Dobra, Games Editor
Kirby: Canvas Curse Hints VI (DS)
Kirby: Canvas Curse is a game made only for the Nintendo DS handheld platform by studio HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo itself for its device on March 24, 2005, in Japan, under the name Touch! Kirby, on June 13, in North America, as Kirby: Canvas Curse, and on November 25, that same year, in Europe, where it was called Kirby: Power Paintbrush.
Kirby: Canvas Curse DS Hints Nintendo
Despite the different names, the game was the first appearance of Kirby, Nintendo's iconic character, on the DS platform, bringing many new features, including a new control scheme that ditches the traditional D-Pad scheme from older platforms like the Game Boy Advance, in favor of the touchscreen built into the new DS, requiring players to use the stylus in order to guide Kirby around the game's levels by pushing on the screen.
Defeating the Drawcia Sorceress and the Drawcia Soul During the battle of Drawcia Soul, it mostly stays where you cannot damage it. One of the attacks bounces closer, then attempts to smash you. It is easy to stay in one spot, then when it is moving to you, dash the other way.
Sometimes it will trick you by bouncing in a different location other than where you are at, so you think that he is coming at you. You will then dash into it and get damaged. Only move if it is definitely going to hit you.
You may need to turn around at times. It is a good idea to stay in the middle of the field during this attack so that you have two ways to go. Another of its attacks shoots out a group of "X"-shaped objects. You must tap them when they open up.
Each one will slightly damage Drawcia Soul. If you do not tap them fast enough, they will come down and attempt to attack you. The blue ones come down as ice balls are going down in one direction.
All you have to do is move out of the way. Yellowish ones appear as a laser that rotates 360 degrees then fades. You must draw a line that prevents the laser from hitting you. The
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ones remaining are the red ones. They come down as fireballs and try to hit you. You must block them with a line two times in order for them to die.
In another of its attacks, it breaks itself up and turns into meteor comet things that try to hit you. It is a good idea to stay in the middle of the field during this attack. You must draw a shield around you. Make sure you re-trace it numerous times because the attack lasts awhile.
After the attack, globs of paint go back together to form the Drawcia Soul again, ready for the next attack. If the Drawcia Soul goes off the screen and starts to turn orange or red, go to the top of the screen and stay there. Drawcia Soul will dash through the bottom of the screen. You do not have to stay at the top for long, because the attack does not last that long.
Be aware, because it might do it again. Another attack is a point of vulnerability. The attack does nothing. Drawcia Soul gets closer to you. You must tap him with the stylus and he will come out again. With Kirby, you must tap him three times before he freezes for a short time, whereas the other characters can take about five hits. Once he is frozen, dash up to him and hit him.

This will do more damage than the other attacks do to him. He will then go back out. If you choose not to dash up and hit it, it will go back out after awhile. If you choose not to tap it at all when it is coming out at you, you are missing out on inflicting a lot of damage on it.
Once it goes back out, it is going to execute another attack. There is one more attack it will do. It will get close to you and it will appear that there is a slit in the front. A bunch of sharp objects will float around.
You must block them with a line, but be aware that they spin around awhile. If you get the chance, dash away from the Soul when it is using this attack. The best place to be during this attack is in a corner, as there are only two spots they can hit you, where the other spots have five possible places of hitting you.
Check out a video of Kirby: Canvas Curse below.
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