
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards is a traditional platformer Kirby game the player controls Kirby, whose objective is to get to the end of each stage through the use of Copy Abilities. Kirby and Ribbon, armed with the Crystal, destroy 0² and the Dark Star.


Kirby and his friends infiltrate Dark Star, and King Dedede launches them up to challenge 0². The victory is cut short, however, as the Crystal detects a powerful presence of Dark Matter energy within the Fairy Queen and expels it from her, manifesting over the planet to create Dark Star. Once Kirby and his friends collect every Crystal Shard and defeat Miracle Matter, Dark Matter flees Ripple Star and explodes. Kirby finds one shard and gives it to Ribbon, whereupon the two set out to find the others. The Crystal shatters into 74 shards scattered throughout several planets, and Ribbon crashes onto Planet Popstar. Ribbon tries to fly away with the Crystal in tow, but is stopped by three orbs sent by Dark Matter. In response to the threat Dark Matter presents, the queen of Ripple Star orders a fairy named Ribbon to take the Crystal to a safe place. Its gigantic mass attacks and searches for the Crystal, blackening the sky and sending the fairies into panic. This power, however, draws the attention of Dark Matter, who wishes to use the great Crystal for its own evil agenda. The planet itself is protected from danger by the power of the great Crystal, which watches over Ripple Star. On the planet of Ripple Star lives a group of kind and peaceful fairies. Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Instruction Booklet.After hearing her desperate plight, Kirby resolved to help Ribbon recover all of the Crystal Shards. Still holding one of the Crystal Shards, Ribbon fell onto the planet called Pop Star, where-perhaps by fate-she ran smack in to Kirby. And when they caught up with her and attacked, the fairies' crystal shattered into tiny shards, which dropped like falling stars in the solar system. She grabbed the shining stone and escaped from Ripple Star-just before the planet was completely engulfed.īut as Ribbon fled, three dark clouds split from the mass of Dark Matter to chase her through space. The cloud, a sinister force known as Dark Matter, had come in search of the fairies' secret treasure-their shining Crystal.Ī fairy named Ribbon knew that dreadful things would come to pass if Dark Matter gained control of the powerful Crystal. But then one day, a mysterious black cloud appeared and surrounded the peaceful planet.

In a distant corner of the galaxy, fairies lived peacefully on the planet called Ripple Star.
