IGN took the word out of my mouth: "Okay..."

Nope. Not what I said at all. Believe what you want kitten.

...and Destructoid:

"Kirby and the Rainbow Curse will amaze fans of traditional stop-motion animation with its achingly charming visuals. It works great as a lighthearted single-player platformer, a wild and boisterous multiplayer campaign, a tough-as-nails action-puzzle challenge, a bite-sized Off-TV handheld experience, or a big beautiful HD spectacle on your television screen, all depending on how you choose to play it.

It's a game that has a little something for everyone, all without compromising its unyielding, unique, and undivided attention on its mission to blast pure adorableness into the world in all directions. If Kirby and the Rainbow Curse doesn't make you smile, you may need to see a doctor for that."

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...and Kotaku:

"It'd be tough to call the game simple, though, because even its fairly easy first five worlds (of seven) are full of hidden stars and treasure chests. This is one of those games you can mostly breeze through or one that you can poke through, trying to find the hidden loot. Set your own difficulty level, more or less.

By worlds six and seven, however, the game will prove legit-tough for anyone. Here's a section in which you have to control two Kirbys at once.

Not easy!

The game tends to be even tougher in its marvelous challenge mode, which consists of more than 40 levels, most of which consist of quartets of single-screen challenges, each to be completed in just 15 seconds."

In case you need a second opinion TC, here is an excerpt from the IGN review:

"And you’ll definitely need to hit your groove, because Rainbow Curse quickly bares its adorable fangs. One-hit kill enemies, tricky bosses, and levels littered with traps make for some really tough, but ultimately rewarding challenges. That might be a little scary if you were hoping to share this cartoonish-looking game with a more novice gaming partner, but the good news here is that 1UPs are in abundance, so having to replay a particularly tricky section isn’t the end of the world."

It means he's trying to get you to admit you are the 1%.

If you enjoyed Canvas Curse, you'll enjoy Rainbow Curse. The graphics are REALLY well done, the music is typical Kirby. The game-play is a little bit more challenging than you might expect. Sure, getting through the levels might not be too tough, but getting through the levels and getting all the treasure chests and other collectibles... THAT'S a challenge!

I haven't felt like I was going to scratch the screen at all yet and there's a good amount of drawing going on. You need to create a path for Kirby, you also need to dig through dirt or make lines to stop flowing water, etc. You don't have to draw these things very quickly, you just need to anticipate where you're going to want Kirby to go and let momentum take him. You draw, you tap and you hold the stylus on Kirby to charge him up for his 100-star super dash. It's simple controls, but fun game-play all the same.

One thing you should realize: There's absolutely no need for a TV screen with this game unless you are going to play Multi-player. You need to constantly look at the game pad. Not a bad thing, just a little different at first.

Being a HAL game, you're going to see simple but varied game-play, a LOT of things to unlock think Smash Bros. Trophies and even enemies that resemble Crazy and Master Hand!

I think Nintendo brought the price of the game down because of the game-pad-centric play. It's almost like a REALLY pretty DS game. A simple game doesn't mean a bad game though! It has elements of Kirby games, old-school elements almost reminiscent of Sonic the Hedgehog, believe it or not... and the pick up and play addictiveness of a lot of the touch centric games you see on mobile devices these days... It's a Kirby game at it's heart though: If you expect adorable graphics and simple, yet tricky to complete every last thing challenge, you have a good idea of what you're getting already!

Don't think he left a note, but it does sound like he suffered from depression, yes.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (Times Union) — Draven Rodriguez, a quick-witted senior at Schenectady High School who made national news last fall when a proposed yearbook portrait of him with his cat against a background of laser beams went viral online, died Thursday at home. He was 17. The cause was suicide, his parents said.

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Although his humor and intelligence were readily apparent, Rodriguez was more cherished by family and schoolmates for his easy facility for friendship.

"He made friends wherever he went," said Rodriguez's father, Jonathan Stewart. "He had friends all over the country — people he'd met at youth-leadership conferences, online, just around town."

Among those was Reza Zand, co-owner of the Schenectady restaurant Persian Bite, which Rodriguez frequented partly for the food and partly to talk to Zand and his brother, Arousol, whose stories as emigres from Iran intrigued him.

In a Facebook post from Jan. 29, Rodriguez quoted Reza Zand as saying, "We are all people, and we should help each other out," then commented, "It was simple, but really powerful. He's definitely one of my favorite people in all of Schenectady."

"He had an empathy for the world and for other people that I think is rare in kids his age," said Stewart. "It was wonderful to see."

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Born Oct. 6, 1997, at Bellevue Hospital in Niskayuna, Rodriguez had his rebellious phase early: At 9, he wanted to dye his hair green, which his parents allowed as long as he brought home excellent grades. He kept his green locks until they no longer appealed to him, and by middle school his dark hair sported a short, preppy cut.

Rodriguez had omnivorous interests — teaching himself guitar, learning words from a Russian-English dictionary, rowing crew, making smoked ribs and other barbecue fare with Stewart, computers — and most were characterized by a single-minded determination to achieve what he set out to do. Which partly explains his briefly famous cat-and-lasers photo.

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"He wasn't trying to stir things up with it," said Stewart. "He honestly just wanted a silly photo because he had a great sense of humor." Working with Schenectady-based photographer Vincent Giordano, Rodriguez created an intentionally cheesy, laser-streaked portrait of himself holding Mr. Bigglesworth, a long, bushy stray cat who'd gotten into the family home and never left. Anticipating resistance from the school to his desire to have it included among the senior class' formal portraits, Rodriguez posted the photo online to garner support. It blazed around the Internet and was mentioned by Jimmy Fallon in a "Tonight Show" monologue and by talk-show host Ellen Degeneres.

Citing school policy, Schenectady High's principal, Diane Wilkinson, rejected it for the portraits section but participated in the making of a similar photo in which she posed with her rescue Chihuahua, Rodriguez, and he with Mr. Bigglesworth. It will get its own page in the yearbook with a message about the importance of adopting pets through shelters and rescue organizations. Stewart said Friday he believed the page still would be in the yearbook.

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Rodriguez's Facebook posts ranged from thoughts on world affairs to struggling with the lid on a jar of peanut butter to his latest efforts on guitar, all delivered with proper spelling and punctuation, including a correct deployment of hyphens that was atypical for someone his age.

"He was a grammar Nazi," said Stewart with a laugh. "He'd always find mistakes on signs, menus — 'Look, they're not using the apostrophe right!' He loved the English language."

In middle school, Rodriguez so frequently corrected mistakes by an English teacher that, when an observer was coming to the class for the day, she asked him to refrain, at least verbally. According to Stewart, the teacher told Rodriguez, "Please don't say anything during class. If you want to, you can write down any mistakes and show it to me afterward." He did.

Rodriguez is survived by Stewart; his mother, Melissa Petersen-Stewart; his 11-year-old sister, Lily Stewart; his biological father, Eric Rodriguez, and the Rodriguez family; and many other family members. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Friday night.

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Kid wasn't bullied at all. He was actually a friendly, out-going, well-liked kid who had a lot going for him.

"He wasn't trying to stir things up with it," said Stewart. "He honestly just wanted a silly photo because he had a great sense of humor." Working with Schenectady-based photographer Vincent Giordano, Rodriguez created an intentionally cheesy, laser-streaked portrait of himself holding Mr. Bigglesworth, a long, bushy stray cat who'd gotten into the family home and never left. Anticipating resistance from the school to his desire to have it included among the senior class' formal portraits, Rodriguez posted the photo online to garner support. It blazed around the Internet and was mentioned by Jimmy Fallon in a "Tonight Show" monologue and by talk-show host Ellen Degeneres.

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