Mini

"Shrink down to tiny size so you can fit through tight passageways."

- Mini's Flavour Text

General Information
Mini (also called Minimum) is one of Kirby's Copy abilities in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror. When Kirby inhales the miniature enemy, Minny, he too gets downsized to the size of a button. It is notable for being the only ability, besides Sleep, which actually hinders Kirby's combat skills rather than improve it.

Mini is only really useful to retrieve several of the game's treasure chests. This is because Mini has the ability to allow Kirby to enter small cracks and crevices. The only downside of the ability is that Kirby is a virtual sitting duck when such a small size, and has no way of defending himself against any foe or calling his friends with the cell phone. When Kirby goes through a door with this ability, he loses it. Even though this ability does not help with defense against enemies, it is a really rare copy ability and near impossible to find.

As of now, Mini has only appeared in Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, but in the coding of Kirby's Adventure exist sprites for a tiny version of Kirby, which was perhaps an early version of the Mini ability which was canceled at some point in production.

Trivia

 * In Kirby Squeak Squad, there are Kirby Bubbles that Kirby can find with a small Kirby-like figurine inside it. While it does not give him a power, he can get a 1-up if he mixes three of them together.
 * Although not an ability, Mini Kirby does make an appearance in the anime in which Kirby is shrunken down by a newly purchased shrinker laser gun from Nightmare Enterprises.
 * In the hidden code of Kirby's Adventure, sprites for a smaller Kirby can be found. This may be lead to the point that Mini was once an ability for the game, but was cancelled and never saw the light of day.
 * The ten Kirbys in Krby Mass Attack are similar to the Mini ability, being their both small, and very defenseless. However the ten small Kirbys in Kirby Mass Attack can still attack.

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ミニマム