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A lot of the story in this game is told through stuff like figurine descriptions, Elfilin's dialogue, and the credits sequence. In addition to the regular cutscenes and stuff of course. Which makes it kinda easy to miss stuff tbh. What has been shown so far in this playthrough, the story mode credits show several images of Kirby & co happily spending time with the Beast Pack members including former bosses like Clawroline. The general implication being that, now that the final boss was defeated, you all can be friends now. Some of Elfilin's dialogue mentions this too. Then, Elfilin talks about how Clawroline nursed him back to health and how he'd really like to help her in this. And then when you are inside the rift portal thing, Elfilin has a couple of lines of dialogue on the level select saying things like "this feels like when I was absorbed by my other half (the main story final boss)" and "be careful, this place feels like it's made of strong psychic energy", implying that the story final boss and it's psychic powers have something to do with this weird place Stuff about the phantom bosses is sorta explained in figurines, but we haven't unlocked those yet. But for the most part "stronger copies of the story bosses, probably with a different color palette" are a common thing in modern Kirby games. Gameplay wise they're just there to be harder boss fights for the post game. But especially in this case, they're intended to be understood as a different entity than the boss they are based on. Later figurines we get will spell it out explicitly too, that the phantom bosses are not the same creature as the character they're based on

Well, no one playing one handed with a drifty controller, anyway lmao

That sounds like a very good way to not get confused about what each character is capable of. That's a reason I often give Kirby sword and similar type abilities in this, since they play at least close enough to spear and I don't have to think as hard

Admittedly it helps that I know what needs to be done, even if it takes me a few tries to get it 😅

@@Batronyx Yeah, needle feels almost impossible lol

That would be a fun level! Lol

Totally! It's really interesting stretching your skills a bit and seeing if you can be more than one character at once

@@Yirggzmb it would be magolor

I'm glad you enjoyed! It's been a lot of fun pushing my skills like this.

You're right on both counts about Elfilis. The part you're remembering is a harder version of the boss, exclusive to the hardest version of the arena. Suddenly debating the wisdom of doing a True Arena run like this 😂

The blue stars are such a wonderful addition! In pretty much every game older than this, if you wanted to reset something like this and it wasn't a case where there was a two way "puzzle room" door, pretty much the only option was throwing yourself in a hole and hoping the respawn point was before the things you wanted to redo lol And Space Ranger is super cool. Hard to not like zappy lasers and big balls of energy

Lol! Well I might be on a list, but good luck getting me from inside that cage... 🤭 (I'll try to go back for him. I'd like to get all the lil guys if I can. That section I always mess up first few tries though)

Lol the fun thing about recording these in batches is that I have absolutely no memory of saying that, but absolutely believe I did 😂 And I have not, yet, made a frosty ice hat, but I agree it needs to happen

The camera is 100% designed for single player, and when you're just Kirby it's really not as jarring. Kirby is always more or less centered and the camera's goal is to show you where to go/what your objective is. But as soon as Bandee is in the mix, it can be pretty disorienting. Because the camera doesn't take him into account at all. From what I hear, even just being a true player 2 can be a challenge because of that. Trying to be both players is a bit mind bending lol

Possibly, but I'm not too fussed about exact pronunciations of game characters. The games don't generally have voice acting, and "Elfilin" is the localized name anyway. I think the romanization of the Japanese name works out to roughly "efillin". Meanwhile none of this looks like names anymore.

@@Yirggzmb I was calling it "Elefin" more like elephant without the T, getting the middle syllables swapped. And I agree, "Name? What?"

It's probably the coolest looking ability in the game too. There's another sword evo, and it's also really cool, but it's hard to beat the bat wings and upper caliber attack lol

Hahaha maybe! Not sure where I'd put it though lol

It's been a lot of fun doing this. Challenging, especially on bosses, but fun. And your set up for M&L sounds fantastic. That really does feel like a game that would be great 2 player

Ohai! lol

It's funny how your brain fills in stuff like that lol But yeah, everything is just happening in it's own boss area, unless they don't have one. Meta Knight gets this, and minibosses get a much smaller but similar themed one

Admittedly the level isn't that bad when you're only controlling one character, but this was the first level I played after a good few weeks of not. And even a solid twenty minutes of running warming up in town does not get you fully back into the groove lol And Clawroline is in the arena, but she's just one of many and while I think she's cool she's not particularly stand out compared to some others. So it's probably easy to forget her.

Yeah, that's around the point I started falling off Minecraft video creation. Still a great game. I just find it a bit challenging to record anymore

Yeah, it really would be fantastic

As it turns out, I do love Wise Waddle Dee 😏🤭

Mm, nothing terribly specific. There's some really cool ones of the different bosses at least

I can never remember when the town updates 😂 It's at certain levels of Waddle Dees saved, but beyond that I got nothing lol

It's always interesting to see how people approach harmless enemies in games. Mario Wonder has sleeping goombas, Kirby's Epic Yarn has a pair of Waddle Dees snuggling under a heart made of beads (the currency in that game), etc. It's very easy to just kill because you can, so I like to make a point not to

Yeah! That's exactly what they are!

I think there's still very small pockets of people out there playing! Being able to relatively easily make and share custom stuff for the game was huge for longevity

This game is very very old. The only LEGIT way to get it is to maybe check eBay or somewhere that sells used old computer games to see if they have it. It's not available officially anymore (the company that made it went under twenty years ago) so really it's just a case of hunting or down the same way you need to hunt down any other really old game

Hi! So Phin and I used to play on the same Minecraft server together. It's been several years since I've had the chance to talk to him, but the last time I did he was just busy with irl things. Work, family, etc. Nothing bad, just things that tend to get busy and make doing TH-cam hard.

​@@Yirggzmb thanks. I was also wondering the same thing as @christan13579

It's been several years since we've talked, but the last time we did he was just busy with irl. Family, work, etc. Nothing bad, just stuff that takes up time and makes doing TH-cam hard. I can only assume the same is still true

Last we spoke, he was busy with irl stuff. Nothing bad, just family and job etc