Author Topic: SMB2: The boss in most level, what's it? Birdo or Ostro (Read 16855 times)

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #15 on:** March 27, 2007, 03:52:22 PM »

Bottomline: You just bumped a 2 year old topic.

BooDestroyer · « **Reply #16 on:** March 27, 2007, 03:53:54 PM »

Yeah, I'm so not-hardcore now because of having something to say about something. Search function, anyone?

Bottom line: You posted just to say that.

MaxVance · « **Reply #17 on:** March 27, 2007, 04:05:11 PM »

GAH! It's not a bump if the person contributes to the topic, which BooDestroyer did do.

Quote from: BooDestroyer on March 27, 2007, 03:51:04 PM

Bottom line: instruction manuals suck. For any game, they're often full of crap, weak, and incorrect on many things. Don't trust them.

I think they've been getting better over time.

The Chef · « **Reply #18 on:** March 27, 2007, 04:10:19 PM »

I think they're worse now.

The artwork usually stinks compared to the old ones, and most of the time the game contains a tutorial that's actually more informative than the manual itself. It's even worse if the manual is in black n' white.

MaxVance · « **Reply #19 on:** March 27, 2007, 04:16:33 PM »

Perhaps that's because no one reads the manuals. But this is a catch-22 in that if gamers do not read the manual, the publishers don't feel motivated to make the manual good, which causes less people to read it. But I've already brought up this issue.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #20 on:** March 27, 2007, 05:32:57 PM »

Quote from: BooDestroyer on March 27, 2007, 03:53:54 PM

Bottom line: You posted just to say that.

Yeah, I did. Mabey I should just shut up about bumping, because obviously my definition of bumping is way different than your's Max, and in my opinion, he could have said that without bumping up a 2 year old topic.

MaxVance · « **Reply #21 on:** March 27, 2007, 08:13:24 PM »

Just so you know, I use the definition in the rules.

Quote from: Deezer

No bumping for the sake of bumping. Bumping is posting in an inactive thread for the sole purpose of moving it to the top of the list.

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #22 on:** March 27, 2007, 10:17:53 PM »

Oh, so that means I can go bring up some old topics now? That's great! <sarcasm>

I'm just going to stop complaining about it. I mean, there' not much I can do about it, and rules are rules, so whatever.

Anyway, Birdo is a girl. I am sick of people telling me she's a transexual or whatever it's called.

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #23 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:13:28 AM »

A Japanese individual sent this to us last year, but we haven't gotten around to adding it to the site:

Quote

It's stated in your interesting website that Birdo is female, but it's
a common sense among Japanese Mario fans that Catherine is a male. I
think it'd be nice if you add some information about that on your
website, like what you did for Vivian. I was surprised to read that
he's now female in the English versions....
For reference, have you read the description for the Catherine trophy
in SSBM in Japanese mode (which is written by that computer-game-savvy
Mr. Sakurai himself)? It says "Jibun wo onna-no-ko da to 'omoi-konde'
ori", which roughly means "Catherine 'erroneously' thinks him/herself a
girl". "Omoi-komu" technically means just "to believe", but this word
tends to be used to indicate suggestively that the belief is wrong. In
this context the word is in quotation marks, so it is clear for native
speakers that it is being used in that sense.

The SMB2US manual was directly translated into Japanese for SMUSA, including the Birdo quote; so, in fact, it can be very important what goes into those things, jokingly or not.

BooDestroyer · « **Reply #24 on:** March 28, 2007, 12:20:22 AM »

The real question is: are WE Japanese?

The Chef · « **Reply #25 on:** March 28, 2007, 11:36:00 AM »

No, but they are. I like the while "tranny" thing. It makes the Mario universe seem a little more "out there".

BooDestroyer · « **Reply #26 on:** March 28, 2007, 02:05:31 PM »

Prince Peasley sure is something of that nature.

The Chef · « **Reply #27 on:** March 28, 2007, 05:46:03 PM »

Nah, Peasly is what the Japanese would call a bishoujo. Which is known to us as a "prettyboy".

PaperLuigi · « **Reply #28 on:** March 28, 2007, 06:09:48 PM »

Ugh, I hate prettyboys. Yeah, some have a fighting nature, but all of them are just too wimpy to me.

BooDestroyer · « **Reply #29 on:** March 28, 2007, 06:29:08 PM »

No that's bishounen.