Ask Guru Gobbo #77

It was convenient but also sensical. Kirby had to assemble the different world's, what were they this time? Wishing Stars? Well, he needed to bring together those different stars to bring forth NOVA to make his wish. Since things went awry, the stars all banded together to make a super weapon. Rainbow Drops came together to form a blade, the Heart Stars made a magic wand, and the Crystal Shards formed a gun. Hardcore! Collectibles are always going together and makin' stuff. Why, my old comic book cards (baseball, what?) just formed a giant, cardboard robot of sorts and fought against my bin full of '90s toys. Yeah, '90s toys! When they were still good.

1) The first difference I heard of was the white T.A.C. from that mode. This, I assumed, was to differentiate that TAC from the regular game's TAC who could assume the form of any helper. However, if all of them are like that, then I would think that, since they all already had more than one color scheme with the foe versus helper colorations, then a third was used. It could be to set them apart from their standard Helper state, and maybe they all have a little bit of differences to them, such as more life. They do have the lack of exploding upon death and all that fanciness, so there is differences between that and regular modes. I guess it's a smack across the head to make sure folks remember.

2) No one is "weak" to the Paint ability's color splash. They just change color and alter behavior. It's more drastic in Heavy Lobster, sure, but that's the gist of it. As for Marx Soul dishing it out, this is the first I've ever heard of it. In truth, Paint is a screen wide attack, which is a huge help, while lacking the frequency or power held by Mike and Crash. This balances it out rather nicely. You can, if wanted, ditch what you got (assuming anything is "got" at the moment), and secure a sure hit. Plus, I don't know if it actually exists or that it, truly, does not have some affect on the cosmic jester. So... I really can't fully say.

3) Wow, that's... that's actually a pretty nifty strategy. I'm always to lazy to play creatively. Yeaeh... I suck. Shame'd.

1) I could, here, say that I respect you opinion, but you have to put together all the pieces of the puzzle. Or, just the other one, which is conveniently named King Dedede. Oddly, that was in response to a question you asked, personally. It shoulda stuck more to memory. It's more elaborated there, but, basically, the concept of the huff-n-blow was not, originally, portrayed as a unique ability in Dream Land. It seemed more of just something that folks did, hungry folks. The Dream Landers just sat around, playing, dreaming, and eating. The King really liked that latter. Granted, the whole "psychic power" concept still could be applied, but metaphysical abilities require just a tweak of untapped mental prowess. The gaping mouth and powerful lungs stretch far beyond operating on a different brain frequency. Yes, I know it's a game, and I know I say not to look so deeply into stuff. Technically, my path is the shallower of the two. Dem's fatties.

2) There's plenty of people Kirby can't eat. He can't eat any mini-boss until it's well beaten and never a full fledged boss. Why, even the lowly Lovely can't be eaten. That doesn't mean he can't eat them. Anyhoo, there are probably plenty of forces more powerful than Kirby. However, Kirby is one of the few who actually tries to do anything for the most part. As for the enemies, evil is typically stupid and lackluster, luckily. Even when they think they are all that, they fail. I'm looking at you, Dark Matter.

1) No, that's not kissin'. That's what is affectionately called "bird mouthing". Kirby just shares food with his helper. Whether or not he's actually up-chucking into the friend's mouth or just had some set aside for them to also enjoy, we'll never know as we can't see it. ... Naw, it's the regurjitation. Nasty! Then again, Kirby is always spitting stuff up. It's what builds the fabric of the series.

2) This isn't mocking Pokémon, no. At least, not in particular. This is a parody of every RPG that has ever been, which all about use experience points and other "worthless" stat values. Pokémon is just one of many titles in this genre.

3) That fact was a little evident in your name, yes.

4) I don't play as Meta Knight. Ever. So, I can't say. I don't have any game where you be him. You know, 'cuz they're always remakes, and I own the originals.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down there, buddy. You just bit off a mouthful and squared it off in a giant... square... of off.

1) Sointenly. There's been far harder to replicate glitches and far less pay-out reported. That at least has reproducibility and a pay out.

2) Avalanche isn't canon. It was an entirely American production to paste over the pre-existing game, Super Puyo. It has no bearing on the series at all. However, now, Kirby is perfectly tongued in the mangas. He only can't speak at Sakurai's discretion, which he feverishly insisted upon for the show, immobile on his stance in fact. He never openly speaks in any of the games (outside of the previously stated example). However, non-animated, non-audible, and indirect references to speaking are abound. I don't know what the deal is with that. Pretty lame, if you ask me.

3) Kirby does come from a world full of people like him. It's called Pop Star. Time use to be that Dream Land was just chock full o' the kind, but that was when the title was expected to be a one shot game. As titles grew, things slowly were retconned to make it so that the hero was more unique. The crowd of other puffballs at the end of the first game were changed to Waddle Dees at later repetitions, and so on. There are other Kirby-like things. That's what Meta Knight is, and that's what Keeby is. However, at the dawn of Shadow Kirby, abouts, they felt like saying, "What? Things like Kirby? That's never been seen before. Kirby's gonna have to be cut into parts to make more of them, not to mention a weird mirrored copy of Kirby. What do you mean that Meta Knight is effectively Kirby and has been in three titles before this? Shut up!"

4) That's technically an inaccurate count of who looks like what. Meta Knight, yes. Galacta Knight, is that truly known? Meta is known to be a Kirby clone since his mask falls off. I don't believe I saw Galacta's cover fracture in the videos of his defeat. Now, why we could assume he has Kirby's face beneath such, we could draw the same conclusion with Ax Knight. The real Doppelgangers of the pink puff are those mentioned in (3). You gotta have the face shown to be officially in the running. Regardless, it is assumed that they are of the same "species", if any of the Pop Starians even are of different species. They could just be variations of the same stock, like breeds of dogs. Dem's fairly varient for being, by right, all C. familius.

5) This is never shown to happen, so it can only be taken as "no", but it can be assumed, if they are, in fact, the same, that he can do everything Kirby can. Why, even King Dedede can do it, and they look nothing alike. This has been more fully discussed in the past. It's pretty spread out over the sessions, and I don't think I could lasso it all.

6) The trumping chain has been brought up before. It was used to defute the Galacta Knight is future Kirby theory. It's true that the order makes no sense. How could Meta Knight want to face the best and strongest, after all, when he's been getting his butt kicked since day one by Kirby, and he still never was able to be Kirby. Again, unless Galacta Knight is future Kirby, which then creates a paradox. And, thus, I implode upon myself.

7) I don't know of any, but I don't own, play, or care about the title. If there isn't any glitches mentioned on the game page for it.

8) If a cheat enabled the inhaling of Scarfy, I don't see how any glitch would arise. I'd think Kirby would just fill and have a star to spit out. Scarfies programming is only to the degree where suction triggers his change and has no effect on it. Objects aren't handled differently once taken in. At least, from a programming angle, it would be stupid to do such.

1) While I do enjoy the mixer-upper, shiftiness, I don't remember saying that I liked Phan Phan. At least, not recently. Before attesting to saying that I didn't like the replacements used in Nightmare in Dream Land, which, honestly, is just due to the fact that they are replacements, I told that Phan Phan gave me the creeps since it was half an elephant. Also, Big Foot is my twin brother. I'm Yeti. Whacka whacka!

2) If I hated them all equally, then how could I hate one less? That's just rewording the same question with no real change.

3) In truth, this seems to be very hard to find. I think it may be a coloration phantom or a flawed memory. Although I thought I found it in more than one occation, the only and closest thing to it I can find is this sprite: direct yourself to the "damaged" pose. The "mouth" seems to just be darker-than-normal shading. Regardless, the mouth is still apparent in things such as manga and other such stuff. Um, don't ask what said others may be. That's, uh... classified.

No, it's very simple, in fact: Sword Knight is purple. However, in Air Ride, the 3-D graphics were modeled more after the animated series' variety. Squeak Squad kept it more to how it was, classic and purple. However, since all things went way of the animated series, the green scheme was the adopted manner of representation. They made all new graphics each time, anyways, so there really was no hubbub in doing so.

The false unnamed arch enemy was named. He was Mexora. As for crazy questions, it's the well constructed ones that I like. There's classy ones that are humorous, like Prophallus, and then there's "& Friends" who you will not be able to recognize as not one of their several submissions has made it through. I really don't get as much garbage as I make it seem. Well, there's droughts and then deluges. Generally, frustrations build up to the point where there's mental breakdown. Good times.

The two aren't even remotely comparable. In any way. At all. In the slightest. I think you mean the helper system in Super Star compared to the helper system in Dream Land 3, aka: Gooey. Those two are compared here.

1) Yeah, you declare it a tie. Generally, the side that says that is the losing side that tries to save face by walking away. There's a lot more on the "shoe" side of things, especially sense. Your squatting arguments are still moot. The references were given to show Kirby's flexibility. He can, if he wanted to, reach his feet easily. And, when you don't have legs to bend, that would be how you remove your shoes. He can't exactly kneel to put them on, lacking knees, but the closest equivalent would undoubtedly be obtainable.

2) The "One Tough Cream Puff" was the old slogan, which should probably just be acknowledged as a common piece of Kirby trivia. They changed it, as addressed priorly, to the new slogan.