Ask Guru Gobbo #76

There's this helpful thing in all of the Game directories. The pages titled "Enemies", "Mini-bosses", and "Bosses" shoes sprites of all the foes. Well, for the most part. Some of the newer games may be incomplete in these departments. For the most part, however, all the graphics are there.

1) Hey, I'm not a little monkey to fetch basic episode descriptions. I mean, for Pete's sake, watch the thing on-line if you want to know. Not that hard. Well, for other people. I don't have the stomach for it. Or the time. Anyhoo, the only artwork from the show on Scarfy that I've ever seen is of the two-eyed variety, both happy and angry. That's why I need to use more than one random source for what happens in stuff. Of course, as I said, people should just watch them.

2) You weren't the first person to think of cheetah. I just don't see it. I mean, the thing is striped, not spotted. That's pretty much the thing needed to be a cheetah. Stripes. Well, that and speed. I don't see ol' lard butt getting past one mile per day, quite frankly.

3) I like none of them. The replacements are all garbage in my opinion. I don't like any of them.

5) No. No, they probably won't. I mean, that info was spilled out long, long ago. It's not like it just popped up. No one cared about it before.

I never knew that was even in question. His name is "Mark", rightfully in the original Japanese. Even still, the name Marx is still pretty masculine. Even his appearance and garb is rather masculine... for as far as Kirby characters go. Big, clog shoes, bowtie... a lack of pink. I'm guessing that the high pitched voice is throwing you off.

1) Kirby didn't learn how to swim between these games. The programmers just felt like actually coding that ability. He did, by right, swim before, but the swimming was just walking in a slow suspension. So, really, he probably just put forward more effort since there was, oh, more than two puddles encountered on the mission.

2) Incorrect. Waddle Doo has not appeared in every game. Dream Land 2 & 3, in fact, as well as a ton of the non-platformers. Waddle Dee is the only "every game" enemy. The number two spot is secured by King Dedede.

3) Blopper! He must be in all games!

4) No one ever said that they don't have houses, but they just never have any housing shown. Truthfully, Kirby's house has only come up in the games in, what? One occasion? That stuff just isn't seen. Places like Castle Lololo and Butter Building could have barracks and quarters for the "workers", but that path is just never shown.

Don't know, don't have it, never played it. I never had any troubles with Mirror, tho'. I mean, it's one of the best powers, I always thought. Always being able to reflect (most) stuff can't hurt, I'd take it.

It's properly separated. It is, sometimes, combined, but the words are to be parted in the properly written title.

The sprite sheets are made with a simple graphical program, most likely MS Paint. The staff bars are drawn and the notes are placed where they would occur in the sheet music. In other words, sheet music is made. Did... did that really need explained?

I don't think so, otherwise I'd be getting a lot less simple questions. Note: that's simple questions, not stupid ones. Those never cease.

I see why you went with "Drawcula". Wow, that boss music is very vampiry. I'm know that music is new to Canvas Curse, but it may have appeared in Castlevania a few times.

Spectacle Space, however, is a techno-remix of a Kirby music classic. I'm not quite certain which one. It's a very basic, very widely used tune. I can't seem to place what game or exact placement it had. It is a very, very familiar score, tho', just heavily techno'd up.

Yeah... Kirby's arms reach down to his feet. Here's one from Avalanche Not canon enough? How about any time he ducks? Actually, they go further down than that. I mean, seriously? That's your big coup de grace? The guy is an amorphous, stretch blob who disobeys all rules of anatomy. Reaching down to his feet is the least likely reason to give for the shoe argument.

1) Obviously, that can't happen. Broom Hatter could never do that to Squishy. They went in on the small business proposal, and neither can back out now.

2) You know, I've been trying to look up when his dee-oh-bee was first jotted down, but I'm not sure I have the appropriate catelogues to recover that information on me. I'll have to look that up when I'm reunited with my stored chronicles near Thanksgiving.

3) I would not partake of fried Tookey because I'm watching my weight. As for killing and eating the thing, yeah, no problem.

4) Tookey is the enemy from Dream Land's Extra Game that replaced Twizzy. It also appeared in Kirby's Super Star as just a run-of-the-mill foe. It's name is a play on "turkey", despite the fact that it looks more like a chicken than the bald fowl. This is why it was the avian of choice to be finger lickin' good.

Wow, that's some surprising insight. Yes, Kirby is probably like Detective Comics' Plastic Man: a jolly, nutty guy who normally uses his super powers to turn into comical objects, but in truth this masks his potential to be an unstoppable force of sheer destruction. If Kirby ever did switch sides, for whatever the reason, it would not be a good day for Pop Star. No one has ever been able to stand up to the creampuff before, but, then again, no one ever tried. Normally, it's Kirby striving again something else. If everyone on Pop Star banded together, and I mean everyone, their numbers alone would be able to put an end to Kirby's reign of terror. You know, as long as they don't pull any one-at-a-time, bogus junk that will surely lead to their downfall.

Sh-shut it up. Shut it up, you. Okay, so I didn't bother to check the dates. It was late and I was tired. There was, like, a good chance it would have flown that way. The way has wings, by the way, wings that it uses to escape! * flap flap flap *

I know how the games work, I know what is in them, I know the levels, the bosses, the enemies. The things I don't know are the finer details you generally get from actually playing the game. King Dedede having a questionable monster machine in the background. Ducking providing a form of quasi-protection in Squeak Squad. The specific tactics taken by enemies and bosses. And, most of all, difficulties and opinions on these games. The most basic of guides tells what Kirby's attacks are in Super Smash Bros., and I've played Smash before, just not the newest ones. The fundamentals haven't changed.

Really. This isn't a question. You're suppose to ask questions. This isn't a soap box for people to talk or chit-chat at. There's suppose to be questions that I answer. Now, I'm not really singling you out for any real reason. I've just been letting a lot slide as of late, but I'm putting my foot back down. Things really need to shape up, and they shall. Also, I'm not here to answer this questions because I flew away at #13.