Ask Guru Gobbo #108

Windows Vista may be the source of your problem. The game was developed for older operating systems, and while Windows had a pretty good streak of back compatibility, I don't know what untold horrors could lie within Vista. It could just be as simple as checking to run the sought program as if on an older version (if that feature still exists) or it could be impossible. Now, keep in mind, I help people with Kirby trivia. I am not tech support. I would recommend looking to a place that does, or the Kirby Warrior RPG website as they have probably chronicled every question anyone has ever had with running the game. It seems kind of silly to be asking about one website at another, know?

As for the version, yes, you need the "Full" version. The updates released just patch up the actual download to right any wrongs that have been discovered in the code since its release. Rather than make the player download the whole juggernaut again, it's generally easier to give them bite-sized bytes. Of course, that rule of internet courtesy was from way before the high speed fueled bit torrent and viral video age.

By the time this is posted, that section will most likely have been updated at least once. The area wasn't going without notice, despite its long stretch without anything added. Nothing was being added to the list of received submissions because, while things were being submitted, nothing was accepted. A lot of people really the mark of the idea and just used it more as a "Hey, I thought of this for Kirby, wee!" Long lists of boring text that were sterile of the charm and child-like whimsy I tried to paint with the opening. I may actually be parsing out content from this one, either sooner or later, as it just doesn't belong. I'm a little sickened at how much, "When KSSU came out..." beginning bits I've gotten, frankly.

1) Update? That's something the staff rarely if ever does. Most of the "staff" that gets hired are forum frequents who get a good reputation with the current moderators to, themselves, become moderators to replace those that left, and thus the cycle repeats. Most of the actual site updates, however, are just performed by a long standing, select pool of elder staffers, like Ivyna J. Spyder or the like. Anyhoo, the actual selection process, even for that, is generally just a current staffer passing a baton off to someone they have a good rapport with. That's how I got my foot in the door!

2) Yes, I will wash those figs, but enough about produce hygiene, your account was activated because ... well, I don't know. Sometimes things like that fall through the cracks. Maybe it was no one has been looking, they thought you were spam, mistook you for a vengeful banned member, or you won the unlucky Spite-of-the-Day lottery. I'll work my magic and get 'er fixed lickity split.

... What?

3) There's a giant topic in the miscellaneous board at the forums about friend codes and the such. It's a Nintendo-centric site, but I'm sure some people spill out any of their other gaming network IDs. I don't do any of that stuff myself, so I've never delved into it. That'd be like a vegan going to the butchers.

1) You really don't understand, huh? The heavy inhale bit started in Amazing Mirror, not Squeak Squad. Regardless, the difference between a super-sized regular enemy and a battered up mini-boss is the adjective affixed to the latter -- they don't put up a fight. The larger-than-your-average-bear foes can still offer some resistance to the gastric fate offered by Kirby's mouth, but an incapacitated body can do no such thing. They just go with the flow right into Kirby's belly.

2) Yeah, I read Brawl in the Family's How the Dedede Stole Christmas comic, too. I always equated the robe more to a boxer's, light and silken, than to a furred parka, but it certainly fills the role.

1) To dissect this quandary, it has to be solved by proxy. Now then, the animated series never shows any masked character unmasked. Sword and Blade keep their true faces hidden as does Meta Knight. However, we know that, from the games, Meta Knight has the same appearance as Kirby. This is believed to remain true even when crossing the continuity lines. Thus, by association, if Meta Knight looks the same, Blade Knight must be the same, and we know what he looks like. See Blade Knight Revealed for further explanation. That being said, with him being some sort of weird cyclops, he probably has more to do with Waddle Doo than the Tiff/Tuff crowd.

Moving down the list, while Sword Knight is touched on in that previously linked reference, he is never unmasked in the games. Therefore, there is no in-game reference for the alter ego's face. I look at it this way, however, as do many other folks, like Ivyna J. Spyder, which I can tell from artwork they've drawn. The "this way" is the elongated protrusion from Sword Knight's helmet. Armor, being heavy, should not have a long, jutting section on it unless it is protecting something, such as a long, protruding piece coming from the back of your head. With such a grossly different anatomy, I doubt they would be the same.

2) That's... not really a theory. That's an observation. If information was presented on air, then it must be taken as factual. Of course, the show loosely maintains consistency.

You're going through all of the Sessions? Dag, yo. Even I wouldn't do that, and I wrote them~!

Off the bat, yeah, you're right. As I was reading your question, I just kept thinking, "I said that?" Chalk another one up to questioner misdirection on information I am not personally privy to. They asked if it was repaired, and thus I think, "Oh, so the Halberd is back and flying around. Why else would they ask if it was repaired? Economically, it should be new." My mind begins to drift off to things like Super Smash Bros. Brawl than Squeak Squad at this point, particularly with the "new look" comment I made, imagining the battleship cruising around. Since I don't own the game, it doesn't immediately spring to mind that the level is called Secret Sea.

I don't even know, really, why the guy asked if it was repaired or new. It wasn't operating! It sat on the bottom of the Orange Ocean, right where Kirby left it. Oh, eighty sessions ago, when I was so young and naive in my answer information gathering. As opposed to now. ... Ignore the BS Kirby no Omotya Bako game series question.

I gotta say, C-Z, if you're going to be going through all of the sessions, you'll probably find a good few more like this one.

You weren't suppose to speak of that blunder ever again~! In truth, I don't even really remember. I think it wound up being Waddle Doo or something, not that it really mattered. Meta Knight was the true winner, by right, after the first day of voting.

You know, this site has a Kirby Anime Section that features an Episode List that just tells all of the episodes and who was featured in them. It's been there for years. Not really hidden at all.

The only ones that aren't blatantly foretold on that comprehensive list are the Air Riders, listed each by their name, who were featured in Episodes #96 & #97 (American #50 & #51); Battleship Halberd, first in the episode, shockingly enough, titled "Takeoff! Battleship Halberd", was a big point in the last three episodes of the series; and Marx, who was never in the show. I think someone saw the brief cameo of Poppy Bros. or something and got confused. There may be a generic, small purple demon beast, but it's not Marx. I know the episode, and some people have said they look like Squeaky Bogg. They're so generic and bland that people make them look like what they want.

1) Yeah, probably. Smash Bros. aren't Kirby games, in the strictest definition. Sure, they're games, they have Kirby, but they are more a series all their own. And I use that to justify missing it.

2) Dude, totally not how I define "fan service". I mean, not at all. Still, you know what would have been a greater service to the fans of the games than a bunch of appearances of characters and the like from the games? Being like the games. You know, Kirby being an autonomous hero who is fully competent, sucks up and spits stuff out who travels around with his real friends, not to made up bowling pins with arms, to save the day from ever looming evil, not a small bit, one game villain. No, they put just enough stuff in the games to try and hook fans of the original into the "new Kirby" into tolerating it a little bit longer. That being said, refer to Bimblesnaff v. You're Not Suppose to Get Me Started for why I won't acknowledge any counter points to my rant. What do you mean it doesn't say anything about that there? It says not to! That's enough.

Besides, that octopus enemy was not the same mollusk from Tilt 'n' Tumble. For starters, that's Flotzo from Dream Land 1. The tentacled demon beast was named Octakon. And the ability isn't called "Broom". It's Clean.

3) Cough. Aside from already mentioning it this session, the comic and its praises have come up a good number of times in previous bits, as early as Session #26 and as recently as a month ago. That's about one mention per month or every twenty sessions. It's pretty well publicized here for being a fan comic.

4) Yeah, I already got the full skimmy on all minor changes made between the original and the new Ultra flavored variety months ago by Plaz Durock. I really wish people would stop acting like they have to inform me of things like this. In fact, I don't want people to inform me of anything. Unless it's, "You totally botched this answer", this is my soap box, not yours. Ask a question or go home.

5) Copy's point was to copy stuff. I guess that went without saying.

1) In my opinion, yes. They're his little dark bundles of joy, like drones to his queen bee.

2) There are a lot of things in Kirby that don't do anything. In Dream Land 3, there's these little blobs that you can step on and smish, plants you can sway by walking by, and other such things. It's aesthetic. Ooga-booga boo! That's purpose enough for many of things.

3) No, you don't play as that. That rumor comes from an image of Kirby shown but not played as once you win the Boss Butch. You can see "Boss" Kirby here.

4) Yes. He's a white, geometric shape covered in red eyes that changes to different "elements". Also refer to his deal and who he is. Miracle Matter is not really that hard of a concept to accept when you have a courageous marshmallow traveling between worlds to battle evil with a star he can call on a cell phone.

5) 0² doesn't have a sprite sheet. It's polygons. Only 2D sprite games can have sprite sheets. There could be screen shots and pictures of it, but no sprite sheets.

6) It's rightfully said "Zero Two", although I know I abbreviate it as "Oh-Two". That's the molecular formula for atmospheric oxygen, however, and the bosses name is Zero (0) in Dream Land 3 before his Crystal Shards final form.