Ask Guru Gobbo #50

1) XD Hah, good one. Yeah, that one sure can't be argued. The guy was engineered to be a vehicle of fandom, after all.

2) According to the official story for Adventure or at least its English translation, which normally isn't far off the mark, the Dream Spring baths all of Dream Land in flowing dreams and such. It's a Dream Lander relic that nourishes Dream Landers. Being as such, yes, I would say it's in Dream Land. Now, it could be outside of this, but it has so much connection to that region, it seems to be the case. They don't take geographic consistency too heavily in the Kirby series. You have to remember that, supposedly, all of these places are also on the Rainbow Islands from Dream Land 2.

3) They only replaced one miniboss to my knowledge, Rolling Turtle, with PhanPhan. Fire Lion stayed but looked radically different from its original sprite, appearing more like its official artwork did. Thank goodness they didn't try and pull that stunt with Poppy Bros. Sr.! Shudder!

4) The Hammer is is pretty tricky, but you at least know that it just requires a power to access. There are some real brain teasers that I remember out in Orange Ocean. Sadly, I can't quite remember what they entail as it's been a while since I had to be haunted by them. Those, in my opinion, were the real Nightmare in Dream Land.

5) Silly Leint, the Rainbow Resort is a resort for rainbows, as the name also implies. Rainbows don't sleep in hotels. That'd just be crazy!

The email criteria? That only entails including "Rainbow Resort" or something in the title and sending it to me. Now, do you mean the actual review criteria? That's pretty basic. You just don't want to make a cheap knock-off of SiR6's hard word. He summed up all the abilities rather nicely, covering all the games, the animated series, and all facets imaginable. I thought the movie review analogy was a nice summary of things to get done. Write it to say why it's good or bad, not just what it does. It's not supposed to be an encyclopedia entry that should be free of bias and opinion. Rather, that's specifically what it should include to give it flavor and reason for other folks to write reviews over the same ability.

1) Nintendo actually has a known factor in its game development referred to by several names, including chabudai gaeshi, "upending the tea table" or simply the "Miyamoto Test". He carries a lot of weight with games' releases, and if he thinks a game can be great rather than good, he'll hold it off. I think this applies to a lot of Kirby games, even if Miyamoto isn't working on the title. The first title was delayed, and Air Ride was pushed back an entire system generation as well. Also, Tilt 'n' Tumble 2 was flat out canned, and Miyamoto demonstrated that game himself. I think it's just that Kirby doesn't have good luck. He has a fan base, sure, but they'd like to get him, I guess, a broader one.

2) "Bimblesnaff" does not have any meaning. It was merely a name constructed using the Gnomish character name construction guide in Dungeons & Dragons v3. I've made claims, often, that it translates to "disaster" or "misfortune", but that's wholly garbage.

3) "Bogg" is just a surname used for the slew of beings largely created to serve as mascots at my website while "Squeaky" is from his likeness to a dog's squeaky toy. It's been said before.

From your astounding traditional artwork, I can already imagine the quality of your scultures.

1) Hm, not the Oekaki board? Truth be told, I am not certain of such's fate. I would assume that such a heavily resource draining feature would require more bandwidth than the current host desires to give. I know that iSketch offers such a feature and the folks at the KRR Chatroom would all roll over there time to time.

2) It's true! Paint Roller, contrary to the name, actually wields something like a crayon or marker. It's hard to tell for certain. Possibly, it is one of those paint markers? I think those are real, or at least more real than a paint crayon.

3) Nruff and Nelly were considered for the currently transpiring Soon-To-Be Weekly Poll, but there's one Nruff and multiple Nellies. This breaks up the whole pair theme. Granted, Pon & Con have minature versions, but there is only one of each larger version. I really wish I would have went with the little wart/hedgehogs, however, since the stupid cameo pair of Master Hand and Crazy Hand are hogging all the votes.

4) The difference between Dream Land 1 and Adventure makes sense when all things are considered. The first was a Game Boy title, and an early one at that. These are, technically, throw away games. You could save, so the whole game was meant to be completed in one sitting, easy, while sitting around waiting for the bus or what have you. Much like the first ever Pokémon title, they didn't know if anyone would care about it. That one was an accidental success, and a lot of video games are.

There are two methods to development and they work like farming. You can either carelessly toss seeds about the dirt and reap whatever grows or you can painstakingly invest a lot of effort into getting a few, specific crops to harvest. Kirby was one of those scattered seeds. It took root, so they greatly elaborated upon it. Making the jump from portable to home entertainment system was a great help, too. Of course, after this time, they started putting more effort into portable games.

5) Waddle Doo does seem to have a connection with the storm god, although so do Starmen and Flamers. Granted, Doo has more interlocked features since, in addition to the eye, he also shoots a beam. This tie, however, vanished when Kracko was given a real bolt of lightning to blast his opponents with. Now, if Waddle Doo appeared solely in Bubbly Clouds in the first title, there could be arguments made, but the cyclops can be found in more than just that level. Obviously, they can pop up in more places than just his domain. This isn't to say that they were not the creation of the eyed cloud, just that it's not wholly certain. I mean, there's some crazy theories, including Doo being a possibility of a Dark Matter infected variant of Waddle Dee, as seen in The Crystal Shards from times long ago that developed into its own established species. Due to this core of darkness, the Doos are immune to Dark Matter's control, which is why you never see them as an enemy in any of the Dark Matter games, save for the recently converted Waddle Dee rescued in the game.

I believe the double nature of Kracko all merely stems from his first game. Whispy Woods had the bomber clown as his stage's miniboss, so the two had no connection. Lololo came at you first and then brought his... whatever Lalala is to him in this series. Kracko, too, battled Kirby twice, first as a miniboss and then as the macroboss (invented terms, yay!). Since he was born with this rebirth of sorts, and since it makes for a trickier fight, they've kept the trend going. As a side note, Kracko actually was not always fought in two forms. Why, this dual battle was not replicated in his Adeleine artwork appearances, in Super Star, nor Amazing Mirror. I don't think Dream Course or Avalanche can really be counted.

6) The pig head Gip entirely confuses me. The best I can tell is that Bounder was, I dunno, too human to be an enemy? Also, they ruled so you didn't want to hurt them. Gip, on the other hand, you wanted to turn into bacon. Togezo/Spiny, I guess, was too similar to the Spiny from Mario Bros., which, actually, is called Togezo, so it makes me think that the similarities were done on purpose. Who knows? Maybe there were legal issues to work out. Seems likely.

7) While possible, being "big king" Dedede rather than just "big name" doesn't leave much room for any superiors. A shame, too, as my mind was running wild with possibilities of what such a situation could yield.

8) While I probably should put something on the Featured box, there's a link to the Ask Gurus in the top of the left sidebar, a link in the Quick It right sidebar, and a link (currently) in the Project RAINBOW banner's N, I think? It was probably updated, I think. Anyhoo, stuffing this into the feature box would require a new image to be made, which while not complicated would also require matching text. That's where the problem comes, in most cases, and is why a site should never have a uniform font standard on all its images. I probably should look into, however.

And I think this qualifies as three questions. Yay!

1) It's been covered countless times, but the Wii title was last stated as being scheduled for a 2008 release in Japan. Of course, there's been no word on this since earlier in the year, and the matter was completely glibbed over at E3 '08.

2) Waddle Dee as a star would carry the same problems as having Meta Knight as a star, but, in this case, there would be even less Dee could do. They have had some ideas of doing this, at least partially, as beta screenshots of The Crystal Shards had pictures of non-Kirby players in it, including King Dedede, Adeleine, and, yes, Waddle Dee. I can't imagine how the little pudge would do much of anything, however. Wielding the parasol alone would get a little tiring pretty fast.

There already is a Kirby series DVD. I mean, I think it is sold in volumes, but that's how they sell stuff. First, each thing separately. Then, you combine them all together to force folks into buying the whole lot again. Those crafty sales weasels!

I would love nothing better, but I think the general audience rating of this site would prevent such a graphic depiction of gore and violence. A pity, I know. But, we can dream, folks. We can dream.

Anyhoo, the reason you such so much is because you are the moralistic know-it-all who doesn't have interesting lines and hogs up too much screen time, not to mention that your voice is like scraping a rabies cat across a chalk board. Also, what are you? You aren't a Cappy, and you look like you aren't wearing cloths. Is that your body or some type of dress? It's nearly the same color as your skin.

This answer is corrected in Session #65.