Ask Guru Gobbo #36

It truly is a lackluster story. Basically, I went to eBay and found the cheapest copies available. There were a huge lot of them as the seller was constantly supplying more auctions of the merchandise. Now, I don't know if it is pirated or not, but it sure does seem shady. It's the international version, so it isn't compatible with game play to the American version, which stinks since I can't play it with my brother who later bought a US copy. The game plays exactly as it should with no glitches or anything, but the actual, physical construction just smacks of shoddy workmanship, be it the label, the box and instructions that the game was packed with, or even the cartridge case itself. Plus, its batteries had a life time of next to nothing. They died shortly after I completed the game, thank goodness, and prevent me from having any saved data.

1) Pretty much, yes. This is what makes Kirby the "hero". Supposedly, Blade and Sword are able to handle most situations; however, dire dangers require a more formidable fighter. Kirby, being the superpower in the show, is needed to take on these threats. I don't really know what cases would allow the two Knights to have some time to shine. Maybe a lame monster?

2) Everything sounds cuter in the Japanese version. It's Japan. Almost any voice is adorable. Anyways, his voice was just a bad choice, plain and simple, on castings part, or whoever had that final say.

3) Sword Knight's English voice actor is unknown. Really, no one has a clue who does it. It's a bit odd since, well, that should just be, say, in the credits of an episode or something, but no one seems to tell. They give the voice actor for the guy that mumblings gibberish, barely worth the mention, but the clearly spoken counterpart is left out? Sense abound!

4) No, it probably wouldn't. Blade and Sword Knight are minor characters. Like all non-major characters, and unlike any fan character, hrhr, they don't have one. They are just kinda there. Not everyone has some big, complicated story with a tragic past or stuff. A lot of times, the tales of one are written in the present, not in youth. The duo were, aparently, bandits that Meta Knight stopped/saved and took under his (bat) wing. Also, at the time, they wielded a mace and an ax. What?! (Hey, I'm just going from the desaturated flashback screen capture here, folks)

1) Meta Knight should not have been known at the time of his Adventure appearance. I mean, that was his first game, after all. I would say that he built up a small, cult following within the following of Kirby fans (group in a group, nutty!) that grew considerably with Revenge of Meta Knight. He was, after all, mysteriously like Kirby, which opens more questions than the game makers ever have the intention of solving. I think I cover that some here. I would say, however, that his real boom came with the animated series. With as popular as he was, Kirby of the Stars and Nightmare in Dream Land, which was just a pandering to the show, really catapulted him.

2) The Dark Matter Trilogy, although attempted to be ignored, is within canon and not some alternate world. The only game to really coincide with the stretch is Super Star, and that game was a collection of minor events that could really be stuck in the series about anywhere during that time period. However, with the presense of Dark Mind and Dark Zero, it gives the sense that these games are still recognized despite being largely left in Kirby's past.

3) The happier, gentler nature of Kirby in those games is how the director wanted him to be portrayed. It could be taken that, over time, Kirby grew a little meaner and fierce (just a little) as is the light he is sorta presented in his later titles and Super Star. While it is assumed that Kirby does have friends of some kind, they just never show up. He's generally stranded from the rest of the people of his land or is running about like a mad man trying to get cake. Either case, not a situation he'd invite friends to.

While I have already theorized about their fates, I must point out their names. While folks are free to show whatever dubbing upon they feel, there have raised some "fanon" names, is such can be true, that are generally excepted. The yellow one is called "Keeby" (or Kiibii to Kirby's Kaabii in Japanese) which is a play on Japanese for yellow, kiiro. This is its officially given name, as stated in the Japanese version of Dream Course, or "Kirby Bowl". The other ones have similarly developed names, purely derived from fans, that follow the case of stretching out a vowel sound and sticking it between "K-" and "-bi". Keebii, Koobii, Kuubii, etc. That's just made up fan jargon, however. Where which one belongs, I don't know. It's more of a Japanese thing, methinks. Ah, yes, when in doubt, pin it on the overseas.

Well, I shouldn't read into this in anyway deeply. Yep, not at all. Well, fan of Squeaky Bogg who would certainly never want to destroy him some time in the future, the green glump does have one weakness, which I think we all have, and that's the fairer females. Anything from buxom beauties to cute chicks, lovely lasses cause him to stumble. That, and bullets. Again, I think we all have that weakness. Except for Super Man, the big jerk. So, hot dames or hot lead. Take your pick.

I haven't played it, downloaded, or any of that stuff. I'm probably unable to. All of the info I know about it came from the official forum topic or the official site.

I've actually never heard of it. It seems to be so for good reason. Much of those E-Reader games are buried in obscurity. They weren't really much of anything worth noting, so most people over looked them. The game came free in issues of Nintendo Power, so that tells you a bit about their quality. I do not know why there isn't even a nod to it on the site. My guess is that no one, honestly, really know about it or enough about it to make a page for it.

Um... what? The accented E, é, is just a representation of a letter to denote its pronunciation. Much like how you write café with the mark to tell people, "Hey, you say this letter, Americans. It's not silent," animé can be written that way as well. It also appears in a popular video game/cartoon title to make people think they aren't poke monsters. Now, you don't have to do this, as writing words like "cliche" or "resume" is perfectly exceptable as the accent mark is understood. I aim to be über technical 'cuz I can and know how to.

Now, continuing with what I think is an answer to your question, people call Hoshi no Kaabii an animé instead of just a regular ol' cartoon or show since this is what it technically can be classified as, a Japanese animation. You may have noticed, I doubt it on anyone's part, that I actually refuse do this and repetitively refer to the show as simply "the animated series". Why? I just do. So, if any of this was of any help to any one, any! And you thought I said it enough times!

1)Mr. Moley, and I'm assuming his wife, actually used a different in-game state than most enemies. I've noticed that sometimes, even after Mr. Moley was defeated dead, he would pop in and out of his holes. This is just a small programming glitch thing of insignificant value that the game makers just shrugged off. Everyone explodes in Kirby, outside of Meta Knight, King Dedede, and Whispy Woods. Everyone else goes pop when defeated for the most part, however, or some how have an explosion occur on them.

2) Mr. and Mrs. Moley live in different worlds since, well, the game makers didn't put much thought into the situation. I've always kind have thought that two bosses in Squeak Squad were the mirrored doubles that should have been in Amazing Mirror. The first is Kracko/Mecha Kracko, and the second, ironically, has Mrs. Moley as sort of the real world counterpart to Mr. Moley, or something like that. Again, that's not real, just something I've thought. I would say that Mrs. Moley might have just crossed the world boundaries to avenge her hubby. That, or the game makers were really lazy and just wanted to reuse the same basic mechanics and sprite work.

3) I have no idea who or what "King Mole" is.