Ask Guru Gobbo #86

Come now, you should know well by now that he favors cookies and their dough above all else.

Known phobias are a tricky thing. There's plenty of things that li'l Squeaker doesn't like, but this falls less to running in fear and more into the response of killing on sight. Such things are emos, bad fan characters, and unnecessary shinnichiha. Now, while he's generally cowardly and quick to turn tail, nothing in particular erks him. Sorry, nefarious villain. I wish I could help, but there just really isn't anything outright and easy like spiders or heights. There's just the threat of looming, creeping, swallowing apathy that washes over the shoes of Rainbow Resort and consume all within. I don't know where you're gonna find any of that, tho', or, as really is the case, where you wouldn't find it.

Oo! One did just come to mind! One of those aforementioned hates that couldn't be done in with a swift bonk from his spiked ball. Indestructible emo? Now it'll never stop cutting itself!

1) Kirby has never picked up an instrument from what I can recall. I believe there are some pictures of him at a piano, but those are largely fun graphics scrolled during credits or sound tests. Chiefly, Kirby mans a baton or other tool to lead the music rather than create it himself.

2) Nope. There's no map. Typically, games have world maps when they actually involve some sort of mass exploration. Kirby was fairly linear and relatively short in it's initial title. I'm sure the concept of drawing up a map never struck them as necessary.

Meta Knight won't, yes, but I'm still here. Ladies... * wink, wink, wink *

In all seriousness, this is just another odd outlet of adolescent teenage female expression. If it's not Meta Knight, then it's Inu Yasha, or Edward Elric, Vash the Stampede, Harry Potter, or Tarantulus. Chicks dig robotic arachnids, right? They're so suave and charming with their cyber venom injecting gadgets. ... Well, I wouldn't put it past them, anywise. The point is, if it isn't one charming, generally darker or misunderstood bad boy or hero, it's just gonna be the next one. There's no stopping them from crushing on a fictional character. In most cases, they feel excluded from the typical rounds of society and feel this imaginary being would accept them. Read this as they have "great personalities". Shudder!

But there is no stopping the Mary Sue. Fanatic works have always been an outlet for people to impose themselves and their twisted desires into a fictional world. They insert themselves into wherever they want to get the sought after who-knows-what they want and bend the very fabric of the established canon to their fanon just to fulfill some twisted fantasy.

Then, there's the male equivalent: "Hey... that Chun Li's hot." Ah, males. So crude.

No, how about I don't link a picture. That'd sure solve everything. I've just describe it very, very carefully.

Helper, as is its only given name, replacing any helper that was brought into the battle with this generic form, is an elusive figure. Many people do not even know it is in the the game, and sprites are hard to come by. And they are hard to find. This site, actually, only has a(n easy to find) sprite of the status box image. It is pretty much a static image with no animation, so the fact that it is skipped over isn't shocking. But, there is this sheet that has all the NOVA fight sprites in it at Dr. Shnaps, thankfully.

Wendy's had some Kirby toys back in 2003 when promoting the animated series back when, which, as I should have expected, has no mention on the actual site. Yeesh, that's behind.

Anyhoo, the four toys were a "pullback bowling" Kirby, a Magic 8-ball Cook Kirby, a pull back racer slash back pack clip, and a ... Kirby board game. Yes, it's pretty easy to see why these weren't too easily remembered. They're nothing compared to the awesome Super Mario Bros. 3, of which I still have my back flipping Goomba. He don't quite back flip anymore, however.

He's dressed up in goofy costumes since someone requested it. At the time I made those graphics, I was well, but then had my arm snap. Since the images were only good from Halloween to Thanksgiving, which was my original prediction of sick leave, I put the images there to get some face time. Now, I'm just leaving them there until Black Friday.

No, that's an appropriate question. It has to do with use of the site. Anyhoo, the reason for this was told you out front by KRR Staff: "Comments being made on this article are strangely not commenting on the article. Please heed the rules not to post pointless discussion here. That's what the forums are for."

Summed up, you and others were warned to not flood the news articles with off topic banter. They have hard enough of a time staying on topic. The drivel was removed. Staff doesn't mess around. They aren't just going to warn you again. No, the fat is cut off from the meat and discarded. It had no bearing. I wasn't the one who did this now, but I can't say I disapprove of the actions. Things should be clean, cut, and streamlined to maximize efficiency.

There are and there aren't four Kirbies, if that makes any sense. There are four players in the game, each one of them represented with a differently colored Kirby, yes, but there aren't really four Kirbies.

Amazing Mirror tied the multiple Kirby clones into the story line. They were made and were always present. This title was a platformer, which is more tied to the actual canon and storyline of the series. The non-platforming games, such as the racing and sport, are considered a bit further off and exist really just more for the fun of it. There's no significance in there being multiple, multi-colored Kirby types. They are there just to make graphics easier and to give all possible players a fair chance at play. It's sloth in development and more in explanation, I'm afraid.

1) I really gotta get that essay on Meta Knight up. Yes, I do believe that in deed. He was heading down the path of being Kirby's new great enemy, in my opinion. Dedede was taking the back seat to this guy, even becoming more of a good guy, while the carbon Kirby copy would ascend to the ranks of top bad dude. Now, that's not to say that the tired "Sonic formula" wouldn't occur. You know, Knuckles was a foe and then turned good, so then Shadow came and, I think, did about the same. Well, good or to an anti-hero. It's really the same thing.

That is a very good analysis of the knight, however, an angle I never really thought much of. That take certainly would allow the game makers to ride the middle road between the pre-animated and post-animated series, which is sort of the actions they took with King Dedede. To not offend the old fans, they'd keep him in a "me, me, me" light, but, in order not to confuse the followers of Sir Meta Knight, people could easily just assume he was acting justly. Of course, as has been done with King Dedede in just the storyline for the GameCube/Wii title, in which he steals Kirby's warp star, it seems the game makers have decided that they've been sitting on the fence long enough. What this means for the futures of anyone, I can't truly predict, but my gut tells me evil king and good knight. It also tells me to stop eating things I find in the couch cushions, but it's not the boss of me~!

2) Now, I sure don't have anything planned for the big dub-O, but it looks a certain Unnamed Arch Enemy has some scheming in mind. Onoz!