Festival

“	Honk, toot, and bammity-bam! Bust out a festival of drums and horns, which makes everyone break into a wild dance! Gather your all-star friends and have a party!”
	— Flavor text • Kirby Star Allies

Festival is a Copy Ability in the Kirby series, debuting in Kirby Star Allies.

Games

Kirby Star Allies

Festival focuses on dancing around and transforming all onscreen enemies into Point Stars; this also does damage to mid-bosses and bosses. Festival is more powerful if used when Kirby has Friends around. Unlike most Copy Abilities, this can only be used once, and does not have a Helper. Festival is obtained from the Donpuffle enemy and the Yggy Woods boss's golden cherry.

Techniques

Move	Controls		Description	Damage
Move	Type A	Type B	Description	Damage
Dance Solo	B	Y	Kirby will do his victory dance in a more festive music, transforming all enemies into Point Stars and damaging all mid-bosses or bosses onscreen.	180
Festival Dance	Use Dance Solo with friends		Kirby and his Friends dance, transforming all enemies into Point Stars and damaging all mid-bosses or bosses onscreen.	190 + 10 × # of Friends

In Other Languages

Names, etymology and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology and notes
Japanese	フェスティバル	Translates to Festival.
English	Festival
Traditional Chinese	慶典	Translates to Celebration.
Simplified Chinese	庆典	Translates to Celebration.
German	Festival	Same as English.
French	Festival	Same as English.
Italian	Festival	Same as English.
Spanish	Festival	Same as English.

Trivia

The song that plays when the Festival ability is used is a remix of the Kirby Dance.
The logo that appears behind Kirby at the end of the dance is the 25th anniversary logo.
Festival is the first limited-use Copy Ability to be introduced since Magic in Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, a 14 year gap.
The hat Festival Kirby wears may be inspired by the dancers in the Rio Carnival, a celebration in Brazil.
This ability was possibly inspired by the scrapped Tonosama ability from Kirby Super Star. Both are based off of dancing/festivals and use flashy objects (Festival using feathers and Tonosama using fans) while using the ability.