Ask Guru Gobbo #41

1) That's one of many complaints, although I understand why they did it. Despite the main games having King Dedede play the reluctant or misunderstood hero in a lot of cases, almost every side game had him taking Dream Land's stars or something crazy like that. On the surface, he was the main bad guy of the series, not Dark Matter or Nightmare or whoever the real culprit was. The animated series just skimmed the top and didn't bother about the deeper, underlying dynamic that makes Dedede king of our hearts! Cheeeeesy! In fact, this sounds familiar.

2) If the case is true, and that's a big if, the mythical Emperor of Pop Star, whom shall from this day forth shall be dubbed Meops, would be considerably stronger than King Dedede. For starters, he would have had to have conquered Pop Star to even divide it up into plots of lands to distribute his daimyo to.* Second, and probably more notable, King Dedede gets himself beat time and time again by a spunky kid, Kirby. He may have the riches and the robes, but the King commands no power.

3) While often used interchangeably, Dream Land and Pop Star refer to different scales of geographic area. Pop Star is the whole planet/star, the star shaped celestial body with the colored rings around it. Dream Land is a country or land mass upon this world -- a very large, apparently, as it encompasses several locations. I would take it to be like Super Mario Bros. where most games take place in the Mushroom Kingdon, but there's still those other realms that other games touch base on, like Sarasaland, Beambean Kingdom, and Nimbus Land. Same Mushroom World but different kingdoms with different rulers.

4) I've said why Kirby couldn't eat Dedede, but that was excluding Brawl conditions. The regular Kirby game mechanics, however, do not work like Super Smash Bros. Kirby does a lot of things in that game that doesn't translate, such as displaying several copied abilities at one time and performing physical attacks like spinning whatzits. Note, you can't just say, "Well, that's Smash ability," 'cuz Smash came from these games.

5) The ripping case is only applicable to a Kirby that holds things in his mouth. The animated series purely had Kirby eat stuff. His suction just took things right from where ever it was straight into his black hole of a stomach. There's not real expanding or squatting down to swallow. Since this version of Kirby doesn't hamster hoard, the case would never occur.

* This answer is corrected in Session #42.

... Ask your parents. But, Cappies probably reproduce by releasing spores, like any fungus, into the air. That, or they are one of those parasitic breeds that has its spores root into and hallow out a host life form until it is just an empty trunk that they command to move and carry it around until it is ready to repeat the cycle. Why else did you think they have that dead look in their black pits of eyes?

1) I actually just covered that yesterday, so you were barely beat to the punch. How odd, tho', that two people just spontaneously wanted to know about TnT2 in such a short time frame. Now, I don't believe that the SP would have stopped them from making it. SP didn't launch until 2003, and this game had a debut in Space World 2001. That's quite the time difference, one in which the company has produced nearly identical sequels to games within. Why, that logic would suggest that, when the company knew a new systems was coming out, they'd stop making games for their current system two years in advance. New games, however, are released about until the new system comes out, and sometimes after. WarioWare: Twisted!, I know, packed in a automatic calibration gyro device to combat this orientation problem, but such shouldn't have even been an issue.

2) A correction to your statement, the question was could Kirby inhale so much without swallowing as to explode/rip/what have you. And while five Nruffs is a might feat, the question was more referring, I'd take it, to a number more like fifty things, a nearly impossible feat to ever have occur in any game.

Quite so. I have been meaning to make some more adds to it, but I've been busy keeping up with these questions in most any spare time I get to type things. You have to remember that I expected the flow of questions to eventually die down, and that was exactly one month ago, thirty days and thirty sessions, and the flow has only increased since then.

Guys? You mean, the whole of the Rainbow Resort staff or some type of imaginative crew that allegedly assists me in the Ask the Kirby Gurus? 'Cuz those other folks have been gone for quite some time now, a year at the soonest. Anyhoo, what do we need a theme song for? As long as there's "First you draw a circle...", all other songs are inferior! And, yes, I'm sure there's a name to that song, but that's all I care to call it.

1) The two vacuum forces generated by the dual sucking action would most likely just cancel one another. The equal and opposite force routine generally levels out in that respect. That, or the two winds would generate some kind of tornado force that would destroy the world. Dimensional ripping however, would not be the result, no more than putting two fans back to back.

2) Yes, but, then again, I see that all the time in Avalanche. Granted, I know it's not really a Kirby game, was entirely an American production, and is ripe with flaws and inaccuracies to the characters, but it's awesome!

3) Actually, I've never had Squeaky Bogg doll up for Halloween before. Out of all my characters, he's never had the costume treatment. Plenty of others have, a near yearly tradition with Not Quite Heroes and affiliated characters, but Squeaks is mostly left out of that stuff due to his mostly questionable legal infringement situation. I'll have to fix that this year. Of course, I'm sure I'll forget about it in two months. So, somebody better keep me on the ball for Session #100! Oh, jeez, the horror!

4) Kirby seems fine off to me. He has tons of friends, plenty of good eating, adoring fans, and a nearly peril free planet! Really, his friendships extend past the stars. That's some pretty hefty companionships right there. Plus, we never see Kirby in his day to day life. The only part we get a window into his when he's dashing across the country side trying to advert global disaster. Afterwards, you know they all have a giant party on the King's tab, much to his chagrin.

1) Most enemies, I would take it outside of occasional specifics, are probably not enemies with Kirby. They generally are only trying to stop him when under orders to advert disaster or have been possessed by Dark Matter. Most of them, however, prolly go, "Hey, Kirb. Whazzu?" and proceed to fist bump him to the best of there ability. However, Chilly does have some rather bold and slanty eyebrows, so he may be too much of a grump to admit any sort of friendship.

2) I don't know how to answer that, being since I have never played Pikmin. Not under my field of knowledge, not under my required sector. Anyways, I would wager that the universe with Kirby thrown into it would get a lot less Pikmin and a more sad Olimar.

3) Vinnyboy just hasn't submitted anything.

I think that's less a theory and more a typical fan game fare of unbelievable nonsense. For one thing, what "ghostly crew"? The only one that comes close to that description is Axe Knight. The rest are more of robots than skeletons. How is "The Captain" ghoulish? Also, it doesn't really explain why Kirby would be aided by Meta Knight. If he wanted to apologize in some form, Mety would help all the other puffballs he wronged and still stick it to Kirby for foiling him. Also, those few seconds of unmasking would be more than enough time for Kirby to say, "Hey, I know you!"

As fan history goes, it is definitely one of the more creative and involved pieces I've heard, I'll give you that, but ultimately it seems to meet the same end as most any other attempt at constructed historical explanation -- it doesn't really seem to fit with the overall established story.

I thought this looked familiar. Sharnay, you specifically asked this before. The answer isn't going to change. Just add in "Fumu and Bun are children" and all the rest still applies. Really, I don't understand why people think a number will make things oh-so much better. An established age group is really all that matters. Infant, child, adolescent, young adult, middle aged, senior citizen. What does it matter if they're 38 or 46? Not gonna change anything.

I'm going to say that this all falls in line with the Block ability, something that had graphics made for it that never came about in the actual game. Games tend to have a lot of unused sprites and archaic junk floating around in them as the developers change their minds about things. Things are generally indexed, so if you take something out of the system that occurs between one and three, you end up getting a blank space, so it generally just easier to leave it there. I haven't a clue what any of them could be for. Well, the food is obviously to eat.

This question is reader corrected in Session #43.