Ask Guru Gobbo #54

Much like what would happen if I found myself a Waddle Dee, I would immediately set off to Japan and reap the benefits of his adorability. Much the same, I'd probably be held in violation of copy right law by HAL for owning their property and would have to surrender my possession. However, for those first few glorious minutes, I'd be the king of the scene, assuming round pink cute things are in, which, if I recall anything I've seen from Japan recently, the answer is yes!

1) There's a change what can be depicted through various media. For example, a "children's" book like The Hobbit has, within its first page, the decapitation of a goblin king whose head proceeds to comically roll into a hole, creating golf. Not only is that grizzly death, but it's comical. Much to that effect, video games tend to get away with more cartoonish violence and whatnot than a cartoon can. It's all about the target audience. Anyone reading a book is expected to be mentally capable to handle such things as death. A video game, while targeted to the younger crowd, especially an RPG, typically takes a higher brow. Toons, on the other hand, just require someone to sit there and watch. Things that are "too scary" only need to be observed. To avoid any annoying letters from parents, these situations are typically avoided. Note, this is just the typical action taken. I know there are breaks to the trend, but, by and large, that's how it goes.

2) There wasn't a two. Oh, wait, there it is.

1) It wasn't only what I said, it was... well, what I said. I stated it could have a higher percentage of nitrogen, a gaseous element, which would logically take place over another air filler. But, also notable, I said such "total bull" and accredited the fact to being something that fans of the games thought about more than the makers of them.

2) No, that is an unlikely theory. An amorphic blade is like drawing a line from A to G then X before getting to B. Likely theories always are straight lines from point A to B. An example of that would that Meta Knight just has more than one sword. I mean, you can update your weapons.

3) While I do have an Interactive Fandom section, currently with just a section for fan made Animal Friends, I've often thought about the possibility of what to expand to next. It does without saying that fan Copy Abilities was one of those options; however, after seeing how poorly such topics fare in the forums, I shudder to think about allowing it. Copy abilities are, or at least were, suppose to be Kirby taking on the ability of a foe. Now, they just seem to be things more for Kirby to do. Now, one thing I have considered is making abilities that existing foes can grant to Kirby. But, seeing how the state of IF is a big if itself, time will tell its fate.

4) There is nothing wrong with hand drawn comics. In fact, I prefer hand drawn comics to the normal sprite based fare. No offense to any skilled sprite comickers out there, but they basically allow anyone to just slap together some pre-made images without much effort and produce garbage. Granted, much the same can be done with a pencil and paper, but then the whole process of scanning and cleaning up the image usually produces too much effort for the lazy to follow through with. Anyways, the Fan Comics section or the Gallery are both places to submit your comics to. Just scan them, make sure they are readable, and send them over. I say such since, sometimes, I've gotten comics that were completely illegible.

By all expressed accounts, Spinni is a male. Typically, in all things Kirby, when a character is a female, it is painfully obvious, with either flowers, a bow, or girly colors. Spinni, however, is a guy. I know that, typically, in a team of people, we're use to the fast, speedy one being the female. However, this isn't an American creation. The whole matter of demographic spreading doesn't have to be followed. So, there doesn't have to be a token female character. Frankly, I'm surprised Spinni wasn't given the Trini treatment and given a gender change.

Weren't these already discussed? I have to update that Super Star Ultra page to reflect this information.

1) Revenge of the King is a platforming adventure, probably along the lines of Dyna Blade. Since they go out of their way to mention you play as Meta Knight in Meta Knight Ultra, and since I doubt they'd let you play as King Dedede, no, you don't. It's just what folks want: more classic Kirby platforming. Whether or not it has some type of gimmick, like Milky Way Wishes no copying or such, is to be learned in, well, a week. The game comes out on the 22nd.

2) Meta Knightmare Ultra, as previously told here and reported by Nintendo Power, does allow you to play as the blue swordsman. I don't know how many times that has been covered. Anyways, I don't think Meta Knight Ultra is like the previous Meta Knightmare mode that has you sprint through the whole game. Rather, as told, Meta Knight is training for a competition and can use the touch screen to execute certain skills. Since all of the games allow saving outside of Spring Breeze and other games not long enough to merit it, I can only assume, yes, your progress can be recorded. No guarantees, however.

1) Yes, they reflect what I'm feeling for the most part, either while reading the question or while answering it. Smilin' B. doesn't necessarily mean "happy", now. It's a general use icon for when no other emoticon is fitting for the situation.

2) I'm pretty sure I've answered that somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. Well, regardless, the honor goes to the first Kirby game I bought, Kirby's Dream Land 2. Animal Friends rule!

3) My personal favorite Squeaky Bogg is the Evil face. It's so cute in a horrible way!

No clue. The only source of subbing I know if is Ivyna J. Spyder, and she can only spit out so many so fast. The only advice I can give is patience. According to a recent statement, she is still working on them.

Doable? Well, spell check gave it the okay. You are clear for take-off.

Anyhoo, the membership of Kirbypedia is actually limited to staff personnel and not to open membership. It's like a country club: exclusive, snooty, but generally better kept. I know that it probably is keeping a lot of good stuff from getting done, but I truly believe that we are preventing far more disaster from happening.

Anyhoo, I've actually changed some things since you last called bull on King Dedede calling bull, including said bull calling. One of those Latin pages, the other language gibberish, was also updated to contain real information, the Star Stacker page. I really do update the thing more than the main page shows. However, the front only shows important updates that I feel like bothering with an update for. All recent changes appear within the standard wiki section for that specifically.

Anyhoo x2, I know that there isn't a Super Star Ultra page yet. Much like the actual site's page, it's more of a wait for actual information to be obtained that way the page can just be tossed up done rather than updating it piece by piece. Otherwise, you get those hanging incomplete pages that are just no fun to hunt down.

Regardless of these rantings, you can still contribute to the project. Of course, there's been a lot of garbage I just flake over that gets sent in. I'm sorry, but when you say, "I'm helping the site by copying and pasting information verbatim from the site's game page", you aren't adding anything.

According to my sources, the one episode begins with all the kids and whatnot going nuts over the book series while the elementary episode starts with King Dedede's castle walls being vandalized. Now, that's not to say there isn't some Harry Potter linking with the evil school teachers and everything. I dunno. Never big in either the show or the wiz kid. However, they both seem to begin entirely different, according to my sources. Never saw it myself to confirm that fact, but I'd take it as such.