User:Heart-8thNote-Interrobang

An interrobang is one of those ?! or !? things that usually expresses incredulity or just someone excitedly asking a question, in case you didn't know. And you probably shouldn't have. I think it's kind of stupid that there's a name for it. Anyways, the name isn't quite just three random words, it's a reference to Geno, a character from a video game, if you couldn't tell by the location and occupation boxes. Or at least it was supposed to be. I later found out that the star is actually a heart. But it's close enough, I guess. If you haven't ever played Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars or just don't remember (it was only mentioned once, right after you beat Bowyer), Geno is just the name of the doll that [ Heart ][Eighth Note]!? is inhabiting. Anyways, the usual profile stuff:

I'm a student, I don't actually live in (on?) Star Road, if you haven't guessed. I live in California, near Sacramento.

I play a lot of video games, the piano, chromatic harmonica, and most mallet instuments (Xylophone, Marimba, Glockenspiel, etc.), although the only songs I have memorized for any of those are from video games.

I watch a lot of shows, and I definitely like MLP, but outside of the brilliant puns, I don't really know why. I have a little bit of experience in Eagle Claw Kung Fu and Kickboxing, but no formal training in the latter, just some pointers from someone who has.

I also like art, although I'm still pretty bad at it. I only recently realized that the whole Practice Makes Perfect thing might apply to it, and have since made some pretty dramatic improvement, but given where I was at before, that really isn't saying much. I mostly just doodle Kirby and Megaman characters, cause they're the easiest to draw.

Anyways, everything after this is just some ramblings about video games and some other stuff, so read on if you're bored, I guess.

Anyways, everything after this is just some ramblings about video games and some other stuff, so read on if you're bored, I guess.

So yeah, back to Mario RPG, it's an awesome game. You should play it. It might be the nostalgia goggles (I've been playing/ watching my brother play it it since I was four), but I think it's one of the best RPG's out there. Probably one of the best games ever made. It's got some pretty clever dialogue, a pretty cool, albeit simple story, lots of interesting characters, most of whom are unfortunately not in any other games (like Geno, the guy I got my name from), and some great music, composed mostly by Yoko Shimomura, who also did the Street Fighter II and Kingdom Hearts music. So you should definitely get it if you haven't. If you're taking the time to read this, you probably don't have anything better to do, and it's like eight dollars on the Virtual Console. If you have the money and a Wii or SNES (although it's pretty expensive for one of those) you should go buy it right now. There's nothing else very important here, besides a few more game suggestions. Honestly, I'm only typing it because I'm waiting for my hair to dry before I go to bed, And while I'm on the topic of hair, I just want to say that afros require a lot more maintenance than people think. If you sleep on your back for 8-10 hours a night, the back gets all flat and you look like you've got a really bad looking razor cut going on. The same thing happens if you sleep on your side, too. There's just no avoiding it. And they retain water for hours! And if you try to towel dry it, it'll look awful and you'll have to pick it out again! And that's really hard to do if you don't have a mirror, cause if it's asymmetrical it'll probably look terrible. Still, it never does get in your face while you're doing stuff. That's pretty nice. So yeah. I'm wearing a Majora's Mask shirt right now. It's pretty cool. Just got it yesterday. You should play that, too, if you haven't. It's an awesome game, and I think it's ten dollars on the VC, but I could be wrong on that. Still, I think it's better than Ocarina of Time, but that's debatable. Still, the story is (maybe) way deeper, if any of that stuff people say is true. I like to think it is. [There's gonna be some spoilers past here. Nothing too major or late game, though]

See, the premise of the theory is that Link, just when the game starts, has gotten lost in the Lost Woods as a result of being dragged around by the Skull Kid and then chasing him further in. And in the last game there's this Kokiri girl who says that anyone who gets lost in the Lost Woods without a fairy will become a Stalfos (Skeleton warrior guy). One of the more compelling pieces of evidence regarding this is the fact that, at some point, there's this really weird transition thing and, afterwards, the Skull Kid, who was just a second ago running away from you, is now all superpowerful and not scared of you at all. Also, the first thing the Happy Mask Salesman says to you is "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?". Anyways, after that there's all this stuff that some people believe to be Link struggling to deal with his premature death and the fact that he never had a chance to truly grow up througout the journey. I do think it's significant that everyone you turn into (including the deku, that sad looking tree was the deku butler's son) died a premature death and needed to "heal their soul" with the Song of Healing which supposedly lets them pass on while also creating a mask that, when worn, lets you turn into them. When you turn into them, there's also a weird, kind of demented looking cutscene (The deku's eyes get all bloodshot, the Goron's eyes are black and look closed, and the Zora's eyes become big black holes with extensions that look like cracks or something radiating from them) and a scream of either pain or fear. You should look it up, it's actually a little scary. But I think it also kind of supports the whole thing about their premature deaths. Also there's this thing where the five places you go to represent the five stages of grief, but I don't really get that part. The place you're in is called Termina, though (from terminate, meaning to end), so I really think there's some truth to it. Also, nearly everyone in Termina has a counterpart in Hyrule, which was of course just laziness on Nintendo's part (To be fair, character models took a long time to make back then. They still do.) and I think one of the manuals actually called it an alternate demention. I believe that Majora, present in this whole world (That I believe he created) is the reason that people turn to Stalfos, and Link is trying to fight his fate by facing the seemingly inevitable doom caused by the moon crashing into the Earth. He uses the Song of Healing on other's who have already met their fate and cannot accept it (also, I think they might be Majora's previous victims), but he never uses it on himself. Other people think that fighting Majora is really him accepting his fate, but I think he is fighting it to the end and [I lied, end game spoilers coming up, but nothing you probably wouldn't have guessed after playing the game] he ultimately succeeds. The Skull Kid suddenly remembering him and the Mask Salesman's weird disappearing thing are him returning to reality, I think. So more on that thing I said earlier about the guys you into maybe being Majora's previous victims (Both Zora's Domain and the Goron Village have entrances directly into the lost woods) who haven't been able to accept their fates and try to cling to whatever weird half life they can hope to have in Majora's world. Maybe they've sort of created identities there (a patriarch, a rock star, and a butler's son) from what they wish they could have been in life (the deku might have had some family issues or something, I don't know), but they're still unable to distance themselves from the whole death thing. Link doesn't really seem to do that, although he's looking for Navi and he pretty much immediately gets a fairy companion after entering Termina, so maybe that's the only change he wanted. The Song of Healing sort of allows them to let go and accept what they can no longer change. Things were different with Link, though. See, the way I think it works is that Majora traps his (its?) victims in Termina, a world he has nearly complete control over, where they are confronted with a seemingly completely inevitable fate. I mean, what's a kid with nothing but a sword, a shield, and a horse which he lost a little while ago going to do about the moon crashing into the Earth? Once they die in that world, they become Stalfos in the real one, who I guess will eventually serve whatever purpose Majora is making them for, but the three have sort of left their spirits there (Darmani and probably the deku remained as ghosts and Mikau dies right when you get there, making him the last victim, probably, assuming there's any truth to this) because they wouldn't accept that they're already gone. The difference with Link is that he's the Hero of Time, and using his Ocarina, has some control over things too, mostly the power to go back in time so that he has as much time as he needs. So yeah, that's my theory. I've obviously put way too much thought into this though. I'm still not even sure I believe that the developers intended half of that stuff. But anyways, play it for yourself, it's really fun, albeit kind of dark (Far moreso than Twilight Princess. That one only looked dark). There's tons of sidequests too. And a little tip if you haven't already beaten it: try to get all the masks. There's twenty in total, although you could have just counted the spaces to find that out. Something cool will happen at the end if you do. [No more spoilers past this point (probably)]

And speaking of theories, I've got another one about Kirby. Two, actually, but the second one's not really a theory so much as me arguing a point that the developers have almost confirmed themselves. The first is about Kirby himself. Now maybe I'm just a glass half full kind of guy, but I've never liked to think of Kirby as a well intentioned cannibal rampaging through Dreamland eating just about anyone he comes accross. The way I explain it to myself (and I really doubt the developers have really thought very far into it) is that nearly every enemy you encounter is a clone of sorts. We've seen that nearly every boss can just create minions out of thin air, and Kirby even does it in Super Star. If he's just eating/killing everyone he comes accross, then who's he protecting? I think the real Dreamland Citizens are elsewhere, probably because of all the evil clone minions (who move very mechanically, by the way. Although, this being a video game and all, that's not a very valid argument) hanging around. In some of the backgrounds, you can see village/town looking things, especially Return to Dreamland, which is probably where they actually live. The minion guys just seem to die and then get remade almost immediately, too. Also, we've seen that Kirby's stomach is essentially a wormhole that can copy the abilities of whatever enters it. Any non clone he eats will just pop up right behind him, or a little farther away. So yeah, they're just mass produced minion bots (but not actually robots in the traditional sense. Organic robots kind of. Like in Mass Effect or something. Well, actually the traditional sense is the condition of being a serf. It's supposed to be an old Bohemian term from the 15th century or something. But you know what I mean) based off of real entities, like the single Waddle Dee that rolls with Kirby sometimes. Also, you never see two friendly Dreamlanders who look the same. There's only ever one Bronto Burt or Waddle Dee around at a time, but as enemies, there can be dozens in one little area. I think the real citizens are probably somewhere off screen, which sounds kind of flimsy, I know, but it's like Mega Man. You know there are humans somewhere, but you never see them cause they're not important to the gameplay. Anyways, that other thing was just the assertion that King Dedede is totally not evil. Sure, he's kind of selfish and can definitely be a jerk sometimes, but ultimately he's never done anything truly evil. The only bad things he's ever done are stealing food and I think stars(?) one time and trying to prove that he could beat Kirby if he wanted to(Super Star Ultra). Most of the time when you fight him he's being posessed by something. And then the other times he's actually being good. Like, save the world good, which far outweighs mischievous/selfish antics evil. Also, if you count the games in which he is good and compare them to the games in which he's willingly evil, there's more on the good side. And one last game to play, you should definitely get Kirby's Adventure. It's super fun, and it's got the coolest last boss fight EVER, and it was made like 20 years ago. Actually, make that two. Get Kirby Superstar. It's the best Kirby game and probably one of the best games ever made, and it'll run you thirteen dollars if you get Kirby's Adventure too. Two awesome games for thirteen dollars, how could you not buy them? Unless you don't have a Wii. That's excusable I guess. But then buy an NES and a SNES and get them. Great games. Anyways, my hair seems sufficiently dry (Don't you hate sleeping on a wet pillow? I forgot to mention that earlier) so I guess I'll go to sleep now. If you've actually read all this, Congrats! You just learned about some awesome games that you'd better buy, that is, unless you hate fun or something. But if you either have all of those or are REALLY broke (And I'm talking single digits. There's no excuse otherwise), then you've probably wasted however long it took you to read this. It probably made you dumber too. Sorry about that. But yeah. Good Night! =)