/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8441716
The fact that Adeleine would've known to paint the Animal Friends confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was supposed to be Ado from Dream Land 3, right? Honestly, my impression from reading the whole shabang is that keeping them separate characters requires so much pretzel-logic it isn't funny.

>>8212336
The whole Adoleine thing is the most retarded fake 'mystery' in all of the series, unless Kumazaki is planning to fuck with the canon by revisiting Ado as Adeleine's long-lost twin or self-portrait come to life or some shit then there's no reason for the artificial vagueness, literally the only people who thought/wanted them to be different characters were weird 2000's fanfic authors who believed Ado was a boy.

>>6968217
What is this screenshot supposed to be? Kirby 64 assets?! I thought that wasn't in it!

>>6220541
[2/2]
>Oh yeah, that's right, an important side note: Adeleine in Kirby 64 literally uses Ado's design from old manga, just under a name change. Not only that, but the manga - an officially licensed product, canonicity be damned - treats them as the same character and introduces mannerisms to Ado that would later be given to Adeleine. When Kirby Star Allies free DLC releases, people notice that while Adeleine isn't listed as being from Dream Land 3; however, no one makes a big deal out of that at the time since she's paired with Ribbon and Gooey is claimed to be from Dream Land 3 instead of Dream Land 2, so prominent roles are mentioned instead of strictly debuts. Adeleine also has a move called "Ado's Painter", but this is more like "Ado-Painter" in Japanese it doesn't appear to be vaguely referring to another character. Dataminers find that Adeleine is referred to as "Ado" in her texture files, and is the only Dream Friend to use a name shortened from the playable "Adeleine" folder (said texture files are slightly renamed in the recent Switch eShop game but still refer to "Ado" for short, suggesting they knew), besides Bandana Waddle Dee who just reuses the enemy textures. This, among other discoveries, cement the fact that current developers think of Adeleine as Ado.
>Some German Tumblrite named Kaialone breaks this vow of silence and goes on a spree on various websites, posting blogs about how the design document was misinterpreted. Despite acknowledging nearly all the evidence to the contrary, Kaialone insists that Ado and Adeleine's "ambiguity" MUST be treated separately, which is an act of overcorrecting that lacks self-awareness.
>The only way to convince this schmuck is to wait for the Ado/Adeleine post to come out on the Japanese Kirby Twitter's Dedede Directory, and hope HAL won't reiterate the bullshit "gee, they MIGHT be the same but we dunno, it's not like we're the fucking developers" schtick.
And that's where we are now, sorry for the tism.