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Morroque
Mar 6, 2013
If I am remembering my Kirby genesis correctly, the last Kirby game Sakurai worked on that was released was Air Ride, and he departed HAL Labs shortly after that. I wish I could find the media that announced it again, but the one thing I remember about it was that he might've had to relocate to find a place with cheaper rent.

There are some leftover files in the Wii game which suggests that he was around near the very beginning of when the work was one on the current engine most Kirby games use. At the time when he was so close to being a director at HAL, having full orchestration for the background music was kind of his thing -- for both Smash Melee and in Air Ride. There are a few leftover music files that are properly orchestrated that the Wii game never uses. Those are believed to be the last traces of Sakurai's influence left in the current generation of Kirby games.

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