It's a shame they had to cancel the game. I still can't believe they had to scrap such good ideas completely and go forward with new and completely different ones, rather than saving them for a later game. Kirby's Return to Dreamland was originally a Gamecube game, and when it was on the Wii, some of the ideas and aspects were re-used, mainly how the Gamecube version handled the 4-player co-op mode.

Y'know what, if I were to be a ruler of my own country, one of the laws I would enforce is that it would illegal to cancel video games as well as the ideas they implement. Sonic X-Treme, for example, would have never been cancelled should that law be enforced. It's a good thing Sonic Lost World is getting ideas from Sonic X-Treme gameplay and story-wise (even though the developers of Lost World were never even familiar with it).