The Dream Button is an option in the Select Mode screen of Kirby Star Allies with which the player can switch Kirby's look between the default current modern one and the classic style from his debut appearance. It's unlocked via completing the Soul Melter EX difficulty of The Ultimate Choice.

Function[edit]

By pressing the Dream Button, Kirby's modern look will change to the classic style from Kirby's Dream Land (and vice versa) throughout the game, including his look in menu icons and title screen animations. The effect lasts permanently even when the game is closed and re-opened, until the button is pressed again to switch his look to the other one. It also applies to the alternate color Kirbys in the two sub-games. However, pre-rendered cutscenes and screenshots are unaffected. Also, the ranking of The Ultimate Choice doesn't save whether the player played as modern or classic Kirby, and Kirby's icon in the ranking will always change to the enabled one.

When switching from the modern look to the classic one, the 1-Up fanfare from Kirby's Dream Land plays. When returning to the modern look, Kirby says "Hi!"

The classic Kirby has smaller black eyes, visible cheek lines when his mouth is shut, blush represented as lines, pointy arms and feet, and paler color overall. However, the change in look is purely aesthetic and does not affect actual gameplay — Kirby's animations and hitboxes are the same.

Trivia[edit]

• The English localization mistranslates the title of the unlock message as "Celebration Picture Reward!", which is carried into the other western language localizations. The original Japanese text reads メモリアル★プププごほうび！ (Memorial★Pupupu Reward!), and the unlock requirement has nothing to do with Celebration Pictures; this is correctly translated in the Chinese and Korean localizations as well. This might be because Celebration Pictures are known as Memorial Illustrations in Japanese, and the Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe translators confused the two as a result.
• The Japanese unlock message uses the word 生誕せいたん^[1] (seitan, "born") to describe "when he (Kirby) first debuted as a character". 生誕せいたん also appears in the track name of the battle theme used for Void Termina's Final Core and Void Soul (生誕の希望^[2] "The Birth of Hope"). In addition, the title of Void, 星誕せいたん (Astral Birth), has the same pronunciation as 生誕せいたん in Japanese.

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