#kirby fighters deluxe

[forgottenkirbyfacts]

forgotten kirby facts 65 - fighters deluxe includes original keychains not used in other games during dededes "very hard" difficulty fight, they are all themed around him.

(gameplay i got the screenshots from)

[ronjacksilver4816]

Fighters Deluxe and Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe are 10 years old today.

I spent three hours on this. Jesus Christ, help me

[phat-bat68]

what is one thing you like abt kracko?

I had to run to Google because I couldn't remember which game it was-

But I like how in kirby fighters deluxe his little pause screen thing he actually mentions some previous fights with kirby

I think that's pretty neat

(And for a cloud, his design slaps ngl)

[electriopenguin-21]

Concept for Kirby Fighters 3

Hello everyone, today, I am gonna share my ideas for a rosters for a third Kirby Fighters game. Copy abilities are a big part of the Kirby series but I feel like there a are multiple characters across the series that I feel should get their chance to be in a fighting game so I will only have 10 copy abilities and 20 characters that are not Kirby. I will also try not to include all the dream friends forms star allies as that would be too easy, but as a result some spots will be taken up by mini bosses from the mainline games. Anyway here is my roster for Kirby Fighters 3:

Copy Abilities:

Sword

Hammer

Bomb

Staff

Fighter

Wrestler

Smash Bros

Animal

Ranger

Mecha

Characters:

King Dedede

Meta Knight

Bandanna Dee

Gooey

Magalor

Marx

Adeline and Ribbon

Susie

Elfilin

Daroach

Prince Fluff

Drawcia

Claycia and Ellie

Mr Frosty

Fleurina

Chef Kawasaki

Gryll

Galacta Knight

Morpho Knight ( think of him as like the Akuma of the game)

Qbby

So what do you think of my roster idea, any notes, let me know.

[defectiventropy]

Round7

[hellman55]

Longplay of Kirby Fighters Deluxe

[lowrezbonuslevel]

you... are my nakama.......!

Day 2 Revenge Kirby Fighters 3 and Knuckles: Old Man Yaoi Edition

⚠️ LONG (but good-faith) RANT (that gives a little extra context for today's drawing) UNDER THE CUT (don't worry it's not shipping discourse lmao) ⚠️

Okay so I know neither of these modes are canon and therefore it's SORT OF a moot point, but NARRATIVELY SPEAKING, Meta Knightmare Returns and Dededetour are completely and utterly backwards, right???

What beef does King Dedede have with Dark Meta Knight? What beef does Meta Knight have with Sectonia and Dark Matter Swordsman (besides the fact that they both breathe and hold pointy weapons)? I understand that there's this ongoing plotline with having MK face swordfighters to test his skill, but I still think King Dedede should have been the one to rematch both DMS and Sectonia in Robobot (I do know Sectonia DX in TDX exists, but she isn't the final boss of the Dededetour mode which kinda sucks).

Shadow Dedede himself is a decent idea, but he's new to the series and has absolutely no story introduction (and his design isn't all that interesting, at least to me). Sectonia? Love her, but she deserves a Dedede hammer to the face for all three phases and more. DMS (and Dark Matter in general)? The ORIGINAL Dedede opp (besides Kirby lol). I know these are just clones in-story, but the coolness factor is still there.

You can make the argument that MK got to fight Mecha Knight because of MKR--which is cool, definitely, but if it were King Dedede the same could be said for the Dedede Clone fight, so in my eyes it evens out (actually... Dedede beating Stock Mecha would probably have been even more hype. imho).

Also, a Galacta Knight battle with solo King Dedede would be rad. The power scalers would have a FIELD DAY!!!

Likewise, Meta Knight never actually got to beat DMK in a proper battle at any point, did he? So based on both canon and alt timelines, DMK could still whoop MK's ass. That's just wrong... :(

It's my understanding that TDX was made with absolutely no anticipation of Robobot, so it could be the case that they simply didn't want to give Dedede the spotlight twice. But I sort of wish they had held back on MKR regardless.

Really, I don't think you NEED the anticipation of Robobot's specific plot/mechanics to see that MKR would have fit perfectly in TDX, because it answers the question of "where the hell is MK and why did he sit back when Dedede got kidnapped"? Having him fight DMK would be a way cooler explanation than an implicit "he was doing something somewhere else."

Maybe he's been fighting on the sidelines and is now clearing out the castle--which is full of Sectonia's remaining minions, the strongest and most loyal--and getting to the bottom of some source of magic still coming from the castle. Meanwhile Dedede and Kirby are helping out the people of mainland Popstar that were displaced by Sectonia and the Dreamstalk. And DMK (or, even better--a form of Dark Mind!) serves as the final boss.

Likewise, while the main events of Robobot are going on, the King could be helping Floralia defend themselves from the invasion. (The existence of Sectonia Clone combined with the pause screen that claims "Floralia is too remote to be mechanized yet" is literally just a plot hole anyway. The invaders couldn't overtake Floralia by the time we're fighting Sectonia Clone... despite the fact that they obviously DID find the huge plant that leads DIRECTLY to their kingdom AND the invaders have a mother(computer)ship the size of Planet Popstar AND practically infinite robot soldiers...? Be so fr...)

Extra work/game industry deadlines are a consideration too, but I don't think that applies too heavily here because both modes could have heavily reused and repurposed assets and level designs.

MK could have just had the typical EX mode recolors and stuff, but maybe with the story explanation/design concept that the bosses are being controlled by the Dark Mirror this time, instead of being aggravated by Taranza.

Dededetour in Robobot could have subsequently reused TDX assets. I feel like this is even a case where reskins are the objectively cooler option, as opposed to entirely new assets: seeing the flowery, green areas of Floralia converted to gross, grey landscapes would have been AWESOME, as well as seeing the insects and flower-based enemies turned to robots. Maybe the People of the Sky have been mind controlled: the six main flower fairies work together as a miniboss, and defeating them/breaking their mind control apparatuses is how they are "rescued" here, in parallel to their game of origin. Maybe Taranza is also being mind-controlled in an act of universal karma and Dedede has to bail him out. That would be sick!

This stuff isn't a series-ruiner by any means, but it genuinely feels like a glitch in the Kirby matrix that the plotlines here are so mismatched. If I were whimsically rewriting the Kirby series, the MKR and Dededetour swap would probably be the first change I'd make. (And, again, I'd like to acknowledge that there are/were probably practical considerations of which I'm ignorant.)

You know how the series could still fix everything, though...? Kirby Fighters 3, BUT this time King Dedede and Meta Knight are the main protags. They get to fight magically-summoned/echo versions of DMK, DMS, Sectonia, King D-Mind, Yin-Yarn... you name it. TOGETHER. As husbands should!!!

[icedragonlizard]

King Dedede and Gooey dynamic interpretation

Ooooh... another dynamic post between two Kirby characters? Yes! It turns out that I actually have a lot of thoughts on how these two characters, enough to where I can create this entire post about it!

At the start, Dedede felt uncomfortable when around Gooey. The reason why Gooey initially made him feel unnerved was because of his PTSD from being a victim of dark matter possession.

It was right around the ending of Dream Land 3 when Dedede first met Gooey, at the same time he first met Nago, ChuChu and Pitch. He was informed by the animal friends that Gooey originated from dark matter, which immediately made him nervous around the little blob.

For a while, Dedede kept his distance from Gooey, as he was afraid that touching the little guy could get him possessed again. Kirby and the animal friends told him many times that's not going to happen and there's nothing to worry about from Gooey. He was able to infer that they were right, but it was perhaps that he generally just didn't want to deal with anything that came from dark matter. That's how bad his PTSD from dark matter possessions was at the time.

It didn't exactly help that Dedede got possessed by dark matter yet again after meeting Gooey, during the events of Kirby 64, which marks his third and final time of experiencing a dark matter possession. Gooey of course had absolutely nothing to do with that situation, though, as he wasn't near Dedede's castle at the time.

Kirby and the animal friends have needed to help Dedede get over his fear of Gooey. Rick, Kine and Coo in particular have been acting like Gooey's dads, so they were the ones that helped Dedede the most in getting to know Gooey more and understand more and more that the little guy's connection to dark matter is no big deal when he's nothing like them, as Gooey means absolutely no harm to anyone.

It took several years for Dedede to stop being nervous around Gooey. He also wasn't the only one who felt uncomfortable around the little blob after being a dark matter possession victim, as Adeleine has largely been on the same boat since she was possessed by dark matter twice. However, once enough time has passed, both Dedede and Adeleine have eventually gotten over their unnerved feelings around Gooey, since their trauma of being dark matter victims started to heal and they've been around the little blue blob long enough to get used to him. They've become friends with him, now!

It was a few years after the events of Kirby 64 when Dedede no longer felt uncomfortable around Gooey, and shortly before the events of RTDL when he started to like the little blob a lot. That was when he started becoming endeared to how silly and goofy-looking Gooey was, to the point he started messing around with him.

Gooey, at first, didn't understand why Dedede (and Adeleine) was afraid of him at the start. For the first several years of his life, he was dumb and absent-minded, although he did slowly become more intellectual as time went on. As he started to become a bit more knowledgeable, he eventually came to understand why the monarch was unsure of him at first when he thought about his connection to his antagonistic kin. This made Gooey feel rather bad for Dedede and chose to be extra nice to him to make it clear that he means no harm, and he became very happy when Dedede started warming up to him.

Shortly before Star Allies, Gooey grew on Dedede enough to the point he now adores the little blob and will protect him. Dedede enjoys patting Gooey on the head and making funny faces with him. He now treats Gooey like he's pretty much one of his waddle dees.

During the events of Star Allies, Gooey even participated in the team that helped free Dedede from the possession of the Jamba heart. That did also help strengthen the friendship between these two!

Dedede now helps other people warm up to Gooey when they also get unnerved by him at first. Taranza is an example of this, as he found Gooey to be weird at first until Dedede helped to convince him that Gooey is a good boy that is very much worth befriending.

Nowadays, Dedede welcomes Gooey to visit his castle any time he wants. He even lets the little blob sleep inside the castle sometimes. Gooey has multiple different places that he sleeps at, including inside Kirby's house and in the forests of Dream Land with the animal friends. Dedede's castle adds another place for him to sleep at.

Dedede even sometimes playfully calls Gooey nicknames like 'blue gumball' or 'little rascal' (he also calls Kirby that lol) to further show how much he's grown to love the little blue blob. He's willing to act like a very fun uncle to Gooey, and he of course appreciates that.

Gooey also experiences Dedede's big tight comfy bear hugs. Even though Gooey may not have the best texture for a hug, that doesn't matter for Dedede since he's wearing soft comfy clothes, which also make his hugs feel all the more comforting for good little Gooey.

There's become a point where Dedede even starts to project his feelings of Gooey onto other people. He sees and treats Gooey like a precious boy, and he believes everyone else should also see and treat Gooey like a precious boy, and anyone that doesn't is being a dummy.

So, yeah... that basically wraps up my dynamic for these two guys! Dedede was initially wary of Gooey because of trauma from being a dark matter victim, but then he warmed up to Gooey and grew to adore the little guy a lot! Gooey really is a lovable little thing, isn't he? He's not that much different from Kirby in that regard. Gooey can and will grow on you as far as other characters in the Kirby cast are concerned, and King Dedede is the biggest example of that.

Thanks for reading if you did! Stay tuned for more Kirby headcanon posts.

[cyonofgaia]

reggiebear_ Weekly Art Prompt #3 - "Award"

What's one way to be presented some Energy Spheres as an award to you? Defeating Sphere Doomers!

Sphere Doomers are spectral bird-like entities crossing Another Dimension. If you defeat them, you'll be awarded with Energy Spheres. Maybe you can complete your collection!

Made on June 1, 2023 for the reggiebear_ Weekly Art Prompt.

[dededaio]

Something funny I thought about. People in the Kirby fandom often joke about how Dedede's design is inconsistent, maybe to the point that HAL legit doesn't know how to draw him.

Earlier this year, Shinya Kumazaki briefly talked about constant Dedede redesigns in one of the RTDL Deluxe interviews. He talked about how design changes are often necessary because Dedede's role often shifts from game to game. Most recent design might be the first one that is genuinely versatile in most roles they want to put him in (even then, it's debatable if it will stick around for more games, even if I hope it will.)

And then it hit me. Dedede is a Kirby character that arguably changed the most from his initial introduction to the present. There are other cadt members that went through massive character development, notably Magolor, but a lot of it feels more... Intentional? Magolor started out as a "friend" to begin with. Bandana Dee became a first-class fighter on par with Kirby and co, but he was introduced as an underdog that tried his best, he merely started actually achieving that.

King Dedede was introduced as an antagonist, Bowser to Kirby's Mario. But he outgrew this role, even though nothing hinted at him being anything more than that at first. And despite few hiccups along the way, it stuck. No matter how much he gets possessed, his changes stick around.

Intentional or not, he's the character in Kirby series that represents change the most, and, funnily enough, his often changing design only adds to this. He's a dynamic character, a dynamic personality. Too dynamic to be contained by just one look.

[forgottenkirbyfacts]

forgotten kirby facts 61 - dededes hammer in fighters deluxe has a name:star rod hammer dedede custom (slightly lengthier as "star rod-model hammer-dedede custom" in japanese.)

(miiverse archive) (miiverse translations)

[pinkestmenace]

I'm having Mirror World thoughts again. I generally don't see the Mirror World as a reverse copy of Dream Land. I don't think that if a child is born in Dream Land its counterpart just pops into existence too. I mean, if mirror counterparts have somewhat twisted or exaggerated versions of the original's personalities they would not have the same lives as the originals. They wouldn't have the same jobs, hobbies, homes, partners and consequently wouldn't have the same children. I mean, it's possible, but it would take some kind of bizarre quantum entanglement or something to make these people live out completely railroaded lives identical to the originals. Then again, it's said the Mirror World was peaceful until Dark Mind's corruption. Maybe the mirror counterparts used to be very similar to the original before that aggravating eyeball messed things up.

Still. I like treating it as its own self contained space. The landscape is different from Dream Land, after all. If someone looks into the Dimensional Mirror it does spawn a copy of them. But this doesn't happen often since it's so high in the sky. Everyone else is either a descendant of someone who spawned as a copy or just naturally lives there.

I wonder if there would be a difference in how the Mirror treats spawned copies and born Mirror Worlders. Why did Dark Meta Knight shatter after his Amazing Mirror boss fight when the common enemies just poof? How did he return and why didn't he shatter in Triple Deluxe? (Other than being smashed alongside that mirror in a questionably canon side mode.) Does the mirror treat him differently because the original is still alive or is something else going on? Shadow Kirby doesn't shatter, he just poofs like a regular enemy in the Amazing Mirror. In Kirby Fighters (2) he explodes, but still doesn't shatter. He does keep coming back, though. Maybe he respawns in the Central Circle just like the player Kirby and CPU's do? Questions, questions. I don't think we'll be getting any official answers to those.

Back to the Mirror World itself: it has access to space through Candy Constellation. It's entirely possible there are other Mirror Worlds with Dimensional Mirrors out there that you could travel to. Of course entering the Mirror spawns a copy of you, so it's not a consequence free shortcut.

Who knows, maybe on those other worlds their Dimensional Mirror is in a more accessible space and interacting with your counterpart is more normalised. Those worlds could be a lot more entangled.

[desultory-novice]

I find it hilarious that kirby doesn't know how to read or write. Yet he completely understands the concept of money and how it works!

So... I had a lot to say about the "Kirby can't read" thing?!?

See, this struck me last time I saw someone bring up Kirby can't read as proof Kirby is a very young child. (1) Speaking broadly, we as a species tie age/intelligence to reading level, which, by my reckoning, is a holdover of the school system. (:cough: That or callous systems of oppression to deny various people rights based on things like money, land, freedom, gender, religion, race, etc :cough:)

A Kirby who can't read must be a Kirby who hasn't gone to school!

But wait... ..."School??"

[continued below...w/ pictures!]

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Is there even "school" in Dream Land? Waddle Dees seem to get put to work serving the king or guarding treasure or swinging happily across train tracks ("Oh my god, he's got airpods in! He can't hear us!") pretty much from the moment they make their first "Wanya!" In fact, Wise Waddle Dee seems to have become "wise" because...he found a book? Now, he was able to read it, but how long did it take him?? Can the other Waddle Dees read? Was Delivery Waddle Dee (?) taught to read by Wise Waddle Dee? How long did it take them to acquire this skill? They've all been there for X amount of time...

If Dream Land and Popstar as a whole has no mandatory schooling -public, private, or otherwise - can we really judge intelligence or age based on the same things we judge them on in the real world?

Another thing that made me question the logic of age = schooling was, amusingly enough, deciding to finally check out a rather FAMOUS episode of the anime...

A shame that the, erm, "feel good" ending leaves a bitter taste in the mouth now.

Anyway, the reason I went to watch the whole thing in the original Japanese was because I spotted something of interest and had to confirm it for myself...

King Dedede (at least in the anime) can't read either!

Now, Anime King Dedede also has cartoon human teeth (?) drives a ridiculously sized car everywhere, and abuses his gay snail second-in-command for "comedy" + a lot of other things we very much doubt of our beloved game Dedede. He's also portrayed as comically dumb. A little sad that the anime uses lack of literacy as an indicator that "Oh, look! He's embarrassingly stupid!" (That whole episode was Escargoon's fault. Not that I blame him, given the way Dedede treats him, but you really couldn't have just read the book aloud?!)

Anyway - because I'm me and I love to overanalyze insignificant or discarded tidbits and try to find clever ways to re-apply them in various canon - I thought about this and considered, "Yes, indeed! Why WOULD Dream Land have traditional schooling?! Why would anyone without a specific interest in books have any need develop the skill of reading in this world?" What is there TO read, even?

(Helpful road signs? All visual!)

My interpretation, at least, is that game Dedede is intelligent, if flawed. Still, he builds robots! He's good at chess! But these "smart" things are no indication he's good at reading or writing.

The note sent to Kirby in Kirby Fighters 2? We don't know Dedede wrote that. Meta Knight, who can read (...or so we assume?!?! Maybe That Book Meta Knight Was Reading on the Knoll in the Opening Cutscene for Return to Dream Land and Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a picture book!) might have written it for the two of them. Although... this puts another funny, twisty idea in my head!

We gather that, regardless of Kirby's need to read, Kirby has terrible handwriting, as implied by Kirby and the Forgotten Land. (Planet Robobot as well as various merch shows us that Kirby's not all that good at art, either.) Which is excusable, since they're writing with little nubs! Meta Knight has nubs too, but he covers them with (magical?) gloves that somehow give them better grip??

With these pseudo-hands, Meta Knight MUST be better at both letter writing and art than Kirby! Except... do we know that for sure...?

I point you to a certain Star Allies picture where Meta Knight's mirror duplicate, Dark Meta Knight, is drawing peacefully alongside Adeleine, Ribbon, and Daroach. Adeleine aside, the rest are, y'know, decent! ...Except Dark Meta Knight, who is TERRIBLE. Maybe even worse than Kirby! But...if Dark Meta Knight draws as badly as Kirby, and Dark Meta Knight is Meta Knight's mirror world duplicate...

Do you see where I'm going with this...?

(I blew out all my art skills on Apologies. Take this Kirby Meta Knight tier scribble...)

Just imagine, King Dedede boldly dictating the duo's letter of challenge to Meta Knight for the knight to write down... horribly! And King Dedede, who can't read, has no idea it's written in "Nub Scratch," nods happily that their "flawless" letter should be sent to Kirby immediately! Meta Knight, who cares about his image, does not clue him in to the truth. Neither does Kirby, who couldn't read it even if it were legible. Meta Knight's bad handwriting remains a secret that goes with him to his probably very cool-looking grave!

...

As for how money fits into the low-literacy world of Kirby, it's not hard to imagine King Dedede being responsible for that! The man loves his shinies! Assuming he wasn't born with a king's robe and crown on him, we have to accept that he dressed himself that way because he likes it! He likes being/looking wealthy and in charge. He likes gold. Maybe not as much as a certain rat, but enough.

And what is a kingdom without its own currency? ...Or maybe all those treasures in the Great Cave Offensive came with price tags and Kirby's just dutifully reporting the numbers to us?

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(1)Young/Child Kirby is fine, btw! Honestly, some more modern content, like the concert, have been skewing in a young Kirby direction, with Kirby needing to take a nap in the middle of the show due to how late it was. As an old school fan, I still prefer my Kirby to be something unfathomably old (yet forever young at heart) or something cosmic beyond our mortal concept of age while still somehow able to be a friend to all... but that's a Dess-Lore thing!

(2) Of course, Kirby (and by association, Meta Knight) aren't natives to Popstar - Kirby being a wanderer carried on a Spring Breeze - thus, Dream Land's lack of an education system wouldn't affect whether the two know how to read or write. But I believe the same "Why does reading matter on their planet of origin?" / "Why would they have such a system?" COULD apply to them as well.

...For the humor of it, if nothing else!

[shoppncart]

Kirby Final Bosses #1: King Dedede | Game: Kirby’s Dream Land (1992) (and others, see below) | (Next >)

First in a series of pieces where I want to draw the Final Boss from every Kirby Game, starting of course with King Dedede! The great king known for capping off games like Kirby's Dream Land, Kirby's Pinball Land, Kirby Fighters Deluxe... a lot of spinoffs actually. He's fun trying to get down a design for, since it changes so much you're always free to kinda mold him in your own specific way.

Dunno if I'll follow a certain schedule when making these, it's just a fun little side project, but hey keep your eyes out for future drawings in the series!

Here's all the games where I'm counting Dedede as being a final boss by himself - no big bad machines or allies helping him out. If you notice a particular title being missing, that means I'll draw its final boss separately!