Ask Guru Gobbo #75

0) No, I caught it, I just didn't really care. I've been pressed on time and don't have the ability to play with answers.

1) While it's true that Meta Knight should be able inhale, by sheer assumption, he wears a mask. That gets in the way a bit. Also, the mask is worn in assumed shame of his true identity. He doesn't wear it for protection. Once it comes off, he hides his face and flees the scene. He doesn't like what he is. He has a severe identity crisis. He's not going to be openly displaying an ability of that kind when he's trying to keep it under wraps.

Well, yeah, I agree. I hate that stuff. It's lame.

That statement preceded the review. In fact, the review of Ouch! was done as a total parody to that exact comment. You're kinda looking at it in a backwards fashion.

1) Kirby games aren't really known much for "challenge". You seem to have the latest few, remakes of older ones, and the first. There really aren't much more to fill in the gap. Dream Land 2 and 3 are definitely not on the list of "tough" games. I wouldn't think Crystal Shards would be, either. Sounds like you pretty much got all the Kirby-like Kirby games down. I guess you could try Dream Course for some related but slightly different challenge. Getting all gold medals in that is pretty tough.

2) King Dedede is much more difficult than Kaboola, I'd think. A lot of it has to do with the lead-in to the King battle. Kaboola doesn't ever seem to really take me down, even hard Extra Game. It's just simple dodging. Of course, Dedede is, by right, the same formula. I seem to slip more on him, tho'. Yep. Still abbreviating it.

3) I've never faced Dark Nebula, so I can't gauge that question.

4) I don't seem to play it as much as you, so i don't really think I'd burn it out like that. I mean, really, that's a lot of play.

The episode, "De-appreciation Day" was about a "prank day" instituted by King Dedede where he played "jokes" on the townspeople, which led to the event that caused an explosion that, while not killing Kirby, the Cappies made the royals feel it did. Ha-hah!

No, it does not. You just sign up in the gallery for use in the gallery. Approvals normally occur at several points within a day, at least once. It occurs whenever a moderator logs in to see new sign ups.

Grill is an onion witch fought as the final, super, for-realsies boss in Kirby Kirakira Kizzu, or "Super Star Stacker" as it pretty much can be called.

1) Dream Land would actually be a bit more peaceful without Kirby there. King Dedede, sure, got a little bit of monsters and such early on, but he only really got into the game to get rid of Kirby. Plus, Nightmare only really only sent over the strong, troublesome critters when he knew a Star Warrior was in town.

2) I really don't know. Being "popular" would require what everyone else thinks on the matter. I'd think that the Super Star classics would hold some good weight in the department, Megaton Punch and Samurai Kirby.

3) "Star Warriors" are not a particular stock or breed. They come from all sorts of species and planets, even. They are more of just a "chosen soul", if you would, people born to a special destiny. They have parents and sibling just like anyone or anything else.

4) I'm getting sick of these age questions. Really. How is this suppose to be quantified? Dedede is said to have ruled for over a hundred years, and we don't even know if those are Earth years or Pop Star years, and they never give numbers. This is not disclosed information, or even hinted at. Meta Knight is, by all accounts, an adult, either young to middle aged. Numbers are meaningless.

5) The whole Sword Knight/Blade Knight appearance speculation had focus prior.

6) Nightmare made all of the monsters with the abilities that Kirby copies. It stands to reason that on his ultimate creation, he could be able to make the ability of ability copying. I don't even see it as a questionable matter.

Do you mean in the game or on the production side of things? The two can easily be completely different.

Game-wise, no one made the enemies. They were just the servants and underlings of King. The enemies are never "made" by anyone, except for N-Zs which, I'm pretty sure, were made by Dark Matter.

Production-wise, the character design team made them. That would include Masahiro Sakurai himself and, possibly, Mogami Kurand, who was the only other guy to have "design" in his role.

Man, I have no idea what I thought I was looking at before. I could have sworn I saw something of the new Bammer, but I guess it was just either old footage or I wasn't paying attention. Most focus, after all, has been on the new bosses, not the old ones, and doing such a change without change (that makes sense) isn't something I've come to expect from the Kirby people. Yeah, you're right. It's an entirely different look, wholly. I was too lazy and pushed to bother checking it and just chalked it up to other people being stupid. Well, also, I was going off of prior statements regarding an appearance shift. I assumed it was only a cultural change and not a complete makeover. Bammy is all stone now, even the eyes, which makes a lot more sense when you get down to it. It definitely helps promote it as some ancient, giant cave spirit/force, too, rather than some big bloke with rocky hands only.

Yes. You could have easily heard it from me. Release of the Wii title was last said to slotted for release on this very year. They haven't made any other announcements since then regarding the game. Rightfully, it can only be assumed things are still on track, but, on the flip side of the coin, the prolonged silence and shortening time left in the year really pulls into question Nintendo's intentions. We can only assume it's still green.

1) People ask the same questions repetitively since, while going down to the question sending form, they scroll right over the "Search" box and don't even bother to see if a prior question exists. For the most part. I know some folks do. A lot don't.

2) This is a trick question. Squeaky Bogg has no arms. He cannot punch. Also, there is no such thing as an Ometon. It's the Rainbow Resort's sasquatch.

3) I don't think the whole "southern Sheriff" really translates in other countries. I don't know for a fact, but I would take it that another, corresponding accent would be used in place of the American classic.

1) "Crimp" is "Climb", a wall walking, explosive spitting foe seen in Squeak Squad. The massive "all enemy" list was compiled before the English names were placed into the respective page, so the wrong names were placed into file. That page should, by all right, be erased. It just needs, well, finished before it can be removed. My advice is not to look at a big list of blanked out names and wonder, "What's that?"

2) "Shelkoo" is the false name given to Coner, the hermit crab enemy. It is a phantom like "Meta Ax" and such where the name never was in the game and probably was circulated by some strategy guide. I thought I got rid of that sole, annoying link before.

3) Topper is an enemy in Canvas Curse. I assume, from what I've read on it on the site (the real site parts that has info on games, especially newer ones), that it is square shaped, metal enemy with four pin, two from the top and bottom, that sits in place and hangs between two electric currents. It just blocks the way.

4) Eibun, from what I can tell, is "Bun", the super-sized throw enemy from Squeak Squad. See "Crimp" for details on why.

5) I'm getting a little sick of people say, "Eeeeh, Kirbypedia doesn't have articles written. I'll complain about that while flooding questions. I'm sure that near daily updates to the site and polishing off that project can be easily managed." A-no.

No. Block is not a mystery. It was a place holder. It was said before. It has been formally explained. It is just Triple Star with a coxcomb. This is painfully obvious from Kirby holding Triple Star in his hands with this false ability. It was what Triple Star was suppose to be. That's it. No secret meaning, no profound hidden coolness. It's leftovers in the back of the fridge, aged, stinky, and green.

It is interesting, however, that you were able to find this all. Your scientific manner of approach is commendable and solid. I guess no matter how far along Kirby games get, they'll always have errors open for cracking. Good stuff.