Royal Road

Kirby: Triple Deluxe screenshot
Royal Road
Name (JP)	ロイヤル ロード(Roiyaru Rôdo)
- Meaning	Royal Road
World	Kirby: Triple Deluxe ← 5 Level 6 7 →
Theme	Castle, crystal
Bosses	Flowery Woods, Paintra, Kracko, Coily Rattler, Pyribbit, Masked Dedede/Masked Dedede's Revenge, Queen Sectonia, Shadow Dedede, Dark Meta Knight's Revenge
Common enemies	Antr, Beetley, Big Missile, Big Waddle Dee, Birdon, Blade Knight, Bronto Burt, Cannon Tower, Chilly, Chip, Clown Acrobot, Flame Cobra, Flamer, Furnace Bot, Gigant Chicks, Gigatzo, Gordo, Hot Head, Hunter Scarfy, King Fuwa Rover, Knuckle Joe, Land Barbar, Lanzer, Leafan, Mamanti, Moonja, Mowlee Bros., Mumbies, Noddy, Pacto, Parasol, Parasol Waddle Dee, Pipe Worm, Poppy Bros. Jr., Ringle, Rocky, Scarfy, Search, Shotzo, Sir Kibble, Sparky, Springy Hand, Spynum, Tick, Waddle Dee Steel Fortress, Waddle Dee, Waddle Dee Train, Waddle Doo, Walky, Wheelie, Whippy, Winged Eggers
Mid-bosses	Gigant Edge, Bonkers, Flame Galboros DX, Blocky DX, Mr. Frosty DX, Bonkers DX, Gigant Edge DX, Grand Wheelie DX, Hornhead DX

Royal Road is the sixth and final floating island of Floralia and serves as the sixth level in Kirby: Triple Deluxe.

General Information

Royal Road is the home of the regal Queen Sectonia, Taranza, and many insect variants of previously-seen enemies. Sectonia's castle is both medieval and technologically advanced. Multiple stages are made up of locations and settings from previous levels connected by Warp Holes. Here, Kirby rescues the People of the Sky, rescues King Dedede from Taranza's clutches, and battles Floralia's tyrant head-on. Seven Sun Stones are required to open the boss stage.

Each boss is fought again across two separate stages. This time, however, they switch up their tactics, using moves usually only reserved for when they have low health. In essence, their movesets closely resemble those of their DX versions.

While this is not the final level in Story Mode, it is in Dededetour. Hanging on Sectonia's wall is the Dimension Mirror which beckons to Shadow Dedede and the evil Dark Meta Knight. Dedede must defeat these villains to complete the sub-game.

The game's last two HAL rooms can be found in Stages 1 and 5. After defeating Gigant Edge in Stage 1, Kirby can fly up into the sky and enter the moon like a door (harkening back to Bubbly Clouds from Kirby's Dream Land). This leads the hero to the HAL Room. In Stage 5, Kirby must wait 86 seconds in the room with the 5x5 3D Securitron blocks. After the time is up, the blocks retract and push out each time with a letter from the word HAL. A door will then appear on the bottom of the screen, leading to a room with Tilt Gondolas and items.

Copy Abilities

Every Copy Ability in the game can be found here.

Archer	Beam	Beetle	Bell	Bomb	Circus	Crash
Cutter	Fighter	Fire	Hammer	Hypernova	Ice	Leaf

Mike	Needle	Ninja	Parasol	Sleep	Spark
Spear	Stone	Sword	Wheel	Whip	Wing

Rare keychains

	This section is currently under construction

Stage	Rare keychain	Image	Guide
Stage 1	Galacta Knight
Stage 2	Dark Mind
Stage 3	Sweet Stuff Drawing
Stage 4	King Dedede Painting
Stage 5	Golden Egg Statue
Stage 7	Magolor
Stage 8	Taranza

Trivia

• Stage 5 is the only non-bonus stage in the whole game to contain DX mid-bosses.
  • Royal Road is also the only level to have two bonus stages, with one being dedicated to the Hypernova ability entirely.
• The floors and walls in Stages 2 and 4 heavily resemble those seen in Kirby: Canvas Curse's Spectacle Space.
• In Stage 8, Hypernova Kirby is tasked with unfurling a banner at the end of the stage. It features images of Kirby from past games lined up, ending with Hypernova. At the end of the banner is an animated picture of King Dedede and Kirby in Bubbly Clouds. Dedede pounds the ground with his hammer, and the pair jumps in the air. The goal door and a Sun Stone can be found at the end of the banner, as well as a moon image that acts as a door. Taranza's keychain can be found in the secret area after the player descends in a long fall collecting food.
• A remix of the Fountain of Dreams' music plays during the Hypernova section of the second bonus stage.

Gallery

Bell Kirby takes shelter from a Lollipop Tank (Royal Road variant).

Kirby falls toward a Bomb Block.

Hypernova Kirby breaks a tank apart by inhaling.

Kirby fires out of a cannon.

Kirby finds a large door in need of opening.

Archer Kirby battles Masked Dedede.

Archer Kirby battles Queen Sectonia.

Kirby finds a keychain.

Kirby unfurls a timeline of the Kirby series.

Royal Road's secret room, where the Star Blocks form "HAL"