Ask Guru Gobbo #66

1) Yep. Paint didn't do much before, and it still doesn't do much, I see. Jumping, instant encompasses with colors, and whole screen attacking. All in all, in both versions, it's pretty lame.

2) I count twenty-five. There are five less helpers than there are abilities (Paint, Mike, Sleep, Cook, and Crash are helperless). They didn't add or remove any Copy Abilities from the game, so the tally comes out the same between the two versions. All of the previous information, in that respect at least, is still viable. Only subtleties were modified, nothing sweeping, outside of the new game modes.

That's not from an episode of the animed series. That's just deceptive fan art. If I recall, Rainbow Resort hosted a fan art contest where non-Kirby characters were given copy abilities. Ice Meta Knight was one such entry. I'm sure the artist would be glad to hear that their work passed off as something legidimately from the series.

Boy, I really didn't think it'd be that hard a concept to get.

1) Adventure probably would fall between the two modes of play. Truthfully, the definitive factor was just the director, Shinichi Shimomura, who favored that slower pace of play. However, the NES classic does seem to lean more to that side of the fence.

2) The concept of a Candy Mountain really isn't all too original, as goes for any other geographic feature with "candy" placed before it. Kirby was first, however, in the Candy Mountain territory, or at least was out of these two. Despite not being named in America, I'm certain the makers of Charlie the Unicorn had no idea that it appeared in Kirby. It just sounds like an enchanted, fairy land place name.

3) Kirby is the truest definition of an omnivore if ever there was one. He eats everything in sight. Sure, his favorite food, regardless of which canon is taken into consideration, is a fruit (vegetable? I can't keep up with how these whims change), be it the savory 'mater or juicy melon, he still eats it all. Plant, animal, sometimes even mineral or none of the above! Also, Waddles aren't tofu. They're living, breathing beings. Their deaths are actually referenced in the mangas. Dying is comical.

4) To have shame, you need something to be ashamed of. If there was some junk visible, then there'd be a rioting line of people demanding his clothing. Until then, it's like Dark Wing Duck -- no pants!

I always took Dark Mind to be the combination of Nightmare and Dark Matter just based on the name alone. "Dark" and all. I guess that saying Zero, first edition and not the redux, makes a bit more sense with the red eye and paler color to the orb part. I don't see any resemblance to Zero Two, tho'. Now, he also has spikes surrounding the parimeter, which are like the bits that go around Dark Matter's real form. Beating around the bush, I know, but I still think the commonly held belief holds constant, Dark Mind is an alternate worlds combination of Nightmare and Dark Matter.

1) Bammo.

2) I don't. I was just an excuse to bitterly insult several things at once. I take my shots where I can get them.

3) The creation of Dream Land, Pop Star, and anything to that respect is never fully explained. I would assume it would be galactic gases and particles being centralized and condensed by gravimetric fields into some vaguly world-like shape. You know, standard theories of planetary creation.

1) Seriously?

2) The Air Ride levels are named, in order: Plantes (Purantesu), Vallerion (Varerion), Sandora (Sandora... wait, there's no change there), Magheat (Maguhito), Colda (Koruda), Steelorgan (Suchiruogan), Checkknight (Chekkunaito), and Galax (Gyarakkusu). I guess those are named after levels?

3) I'm already there.

4) I did. "Satisfactorily" was never requested. Also, future requests for satisfactory answer will be ignored.

5) Nightmare was felled by the power of the Star Rod, just like he was in the game. It's nice that they kept that fact constant.

6) Needy, needy, needy. These things are suppose to be about answers to questions, not li'l icons. Here. Now no one can ever ask that again.

7) And I didn't really understand the question. You spoke of things about printing stuff and Squeak Squad. My natural assumption is that the printing had something to do with a Game Boy/DS associated printer. It's the only thing I could deduct from it.

It's probably more to give crediance to all of the different worlds being able to be transistioned to so quickly. Afterall, the Zebes level is followed by, shockles, the Kirby level. Looking for deeper meaning where there is none makes you see trees instead of the forest. Or... however that goes. It's just level progression, not a reference.

I can tackle both of these with one answer: I don't watch videos on-line, I watch them when I see them. I don't think I ever was any Crystal Shards commercials when they were on, and I'll see the Subspace Emissary cut scenes when/if I ever play Brawl. And... there's really not even much of a question about any of this even in there.

1) I have never seen nor heard GIM's name to mean anything. If it was a Y instead of an I, then I could see it being something like "Gyroscopic Yo-yo Machine". But, since such is not the case, I think it's just one of those things done. After all, T.A.C. actually even has periods between his letters, and his doesn't even stand for anything. Being sans dots makes it even less likely to have any meaning.

Just so you know, I said, quote, "the classic enemy was mouthless unless in a gigantic form, which also lacked the white arms." Yeah, those are the collosal variety of Bill. They fit the bill (hrhr) to a T.

Yes! Really, I'm not a fan of Galacta Knight, but anything to take some of the undeserved heat off of Meta Knight is a-okay by me. Take that, glory hog!

Well, saying that Squeaky Bogg is cute definately is a way to get in. Joking, but, really, reduce the complexity of my answers to pander to a lower brow of audience? Such a course of action would be laughably ludicrous! I scoff merrily at the notion. Tee-hee!

Seriously, and this time for real, there's not much behind it. Why, just now, I've probably thrown out, oh, a good two or questions. One of them just had nothing to do with anything, asking about the new DSi. Hey, yeah, that has nothing to do with Kirby. Come back when they put a game on it. Other times, the question is just too over the top to be contained within a session let along a question. "What would happen if all of these characters from so-and-so met with all the characters from Kirby's world?" No, no I won't take that one on. Other times, I'm just tired. Really, tho', few fall on the cutting room floor. It's not like I'm holding out on you folks.