Checklist

The Checklist, called the Award List in the British English version of Kirby Mass Attack, is a board of objectives that can be completed in various Kirby titles, comparable to achievements in other game series. These objectives are called Tasks and Awards in the American and British English version of Kirby Mass Attack, respectively. The first Kirby game to feature a checklist was Kirby Air Ride, and completing these lists is necessary for 100% completion of the game. They serve as a likely inspiration to the Challenges in the Super Smash Bros. series.

Checklists by game

Kirby Air Ride

Screencap of a partially filled-in Checklist for City Trial.

Main article: Checklist (Kirby Air Ride)

There are three distinct Checklists in Kirby Air Ride - one for each game mode: Air Ride, Top Ride, and City Trial. Each list consists of 120 boxes, each with their own objective to satisfy. At first, the objectives will be unknown to the player, but playing the game should be enough to unlock the first few by happenstance. From there, adjacent boxes to those cleared in the list will have their objectives shown. When clearing certain objectives (red boxes after completion), rewards are given, such as Kirby palette swaps, new Air Ride Machines, Sound Test music tracks, and other rewards.

One reward in particular is a purple Checklist filler. This allows the player to automatically complete a challenge on the checklist; however, the challenge in question will appear purple until the player completes it normally, after which it changes to its standard color when cleared. Some challenges, such as those that unlock Ending movies or those that unlock Dragoon or Hydra parts in City Trial, cannot be cleared using a purple filler. Five of these purple fillers are available for each Checklist, and each can only be used once; clearing a challenge on which a purple filler was used normally does not allow that purple filler to be used on a different challenge.

Filling in 100 boxes is necessary to 'complete' the game mode, which unlocks its Ending movie. Filling in all 120 for each one is necessary for 100% completion, and all boxes of the completed Checklist will turn gold-colored, except for those completed using the purple filler, which will turn gold if the player later clears the challenge normally.

Kirby Mass Attack

The checklist in Kirby Mass Attack.

Main article: Checklist (Kirby Mass Attack)

A Checklist is kept in this title, which is filled in by performing various tasks in the main game. There are 35 tasks in all, separated into five pages. While objectives can be completed at any time, the objectives are not shown to the player until enough Medals are collected to do so. The amount required is as follows:

• Page 1 - 80 Medals
• Page 2 - 100 Medals
• Page 3 - 120 Medals
• Page 4 - 140 Medals
• Page 5 - 160 Medals

Completing the checklist is required for 100% completion of the game.

Kirby Battle Royale

Main article: Medal

While not called a Checklist, this title has a medal board which functions basically the same as previous Checklists. Each time a medal is earned, Battle Coins are awarded to the player, which can be used to unlock abilities and characters, battle modes, Headgear, and music files.

Kirby Air Riders

The Checklist in Kirby Air Riders.

Main article: Checklist (Kirby Air Riders)

The Checklist returns in Kirby Air Riders, working similarly to the original Kirby Air Ride, having a list for each of the four main modes, as well as list for objectives specific to Online play, to a total of five. Each list consists of 150 boxes with their own objective to accomplish, and reveals a unique illustration when fully completed (similar to the Treasure Hunt achievements from Kid Icarus: Uprising). The Online Checklist is considered optional, and no riders or machines are locked behind it.

Much like the original game, completing objectives reveals the objective conditions for adjacent squares on the Checklist grid, and may reward the player with unlockables, such as new Air Ride Machines and riders, but now objectives may have minor rewards such as Miles and customization parts for machines, riders, and licenses, guaranteeing some prize, big or small, for each box filled. New to this game as well is the option to click on a box to try its objective right away, a randomized display of one or two available objectives that appear in menus or while the game is paused, and quick access to all Checklist progress through most menus via the ZL button.

Unlocked riders and machines are now shared between modes, and are evenly distributed between the four main Checklists. A particular rider or machine may only appear in one Checklist, but most are unlockable through multiple objectives across different Checklists: for example, the Battle Chariot must be acquired through the Top Ride Checklist, while Scarfy may be unlocked from either the Air Ride or City Trial Checklists. If an objective unlocks a rider that is already unlocked, it instead rewards one of their alternate colors; doing the same for an Air Ride Machine adds a copy to customize in My Machine.

Trivia

• With the exception of a few spaces, the Checklists in Kirby Air Ride have their objectives randomly scattered through the grid every time a new save file is created.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クリアチェッカー Kuria Chekkā チャレンジリスト Charenji Risuto	Clear Checker Challenge List
American English	Checklist	-
British English	Checklist Award List	- -
Dutch	Checklist	-
German	Checkliste	Checklist

See also

• Heroic Mission (Team Kirby Clash Deluxe)
• Heroic Mission (Super Kirby Clash)