


Instead, it was actually a lore-dependent decision sprinkled with some gameplay considerations that lead to Kirby being the best choice.

In a column for Japanese magazine Famitsu, translated by Source Gaming, Sakurai dismisses the idea that his own bias for the character contributed. It was long suspected that director Masahiro Sakurai chose Kirby to survive, and thus start off the World of Light mode, because Sakurai created Kirby when he was at HAL and thus maintains some preference for the character. In the cutscene, almost everyone dies, except for the pink puffball Kirby, who managed to use the Warp Star to teleport out of the galaxy before it is absorbed by the formless Galeem. Ultimate Direct, a cutscene from the game's World of Light singleplayer mode was shown. At the end of the final Super Smash Bros.
