![]() I took my time walking through, and was completely taken by surprise when this happened: Then I proceeded to a blue mountain level, expecting another nice, calm stroll. They appear at random, but I was lucky to get a screencap of them both: There were two new enemies in this level: a flying ghost type thing with a trunk, and a bat with a horse skull for a face. The music had a hypnotic, Indian techno vibe to it. Jokes aside, I was quite impressed by the graphics of this level, as disorienting as they were (But I hate those creepy, blank staring statue faces). Maybe this is why the game was so weird – one of the designers was clearly drugged out of his mind! Now that I've explained all that, time for the gameplay.Īfter the Quiz level, I tried the new green temple icon first. Here are the first series of questions, my answers, and Face's reaction: So when the first quiz started I thought I'd record what happened. I have problems remembering things, so I often carry one around to jot things down, and sometimes I doodle in it when I'm bored. Their respective questions were "Do you like Ice Cream?" and "Are you a tough guy?".Īs for the questions in the first Quiz: Luckily, I had a notepad and pen handy. Two of these only appeared once (Numbers #1 and #12), and I suspected they might have been in-jokes from the creator. I'll separate them into two categories: The expressions I understood, and the expressions I didn't. Here are the expressions of Face that I saw while playing. Early on, there were questions that made me think Face was building up to something, only to then ask some stupid garbage. The questions never followed a pattern, Face never stayed on the same subject for more than two questions. His reactions rarely made any sense, and at first I thought they were randomly generated. With one exception, Face's expression changes seemed to have no effect on the game, except for indicating what the game creator thought of your answer. Other times he would ask questions that were either mind-numbingly stupid (Is the Sun hot?) (Is water wet?) or just flat out ridiculous (Does your dog like the President?) and maybe once per quiz, Face would ask you a question about the game. There was no time limit, nor any right or wrong answers.įace has no respect for the player's personal boundaries, and will sometimes ask deeply disturbing and personal questions, For example: (Do you like hurting people?) (Have you ever killed/raped anyone?) (Have you been molested by a family member?) When you answer, the question disappears and Face changes expressions for about eight seconds, then he goes back to neutral and a new question comes up. The music for the quiz levels was a track actually in the game, it's the one that plays when you try to use the "Gh1d0ra" cheat and get sent to an unplayable level.įace asks you twelve "Yes or No" questions, and you move your monster to the buttons for your answer. I refer to the emoticon as "Face" (real creative, I know), and for convenience, I'll refer to Face as the one asking the questions. When you start on a "Quiz Level", you appear on a screen like this:Īs you can see, there's a question at the top, a "yes" and "no" button, and a emoticon in the center. There was one of these per map from here on, and they always appeared near the start of the map. I'm sure you're also curious, So I'll explain the "Quiz Levels" now, since this was when they start appearing. Is it even possible to put a hacked ROM into a cartridge?Īside from all that, my eye was drawn to a new icon on the map: a question mark. Unless Billy had amazing game editing skills, and a serious dark streak to his imagination that he never told me about, he couldn't have made this. ![]() Billy didn't know how to make a ROM hack.Īnd if he did, he'd probably just do something simple and stupid, like replacing all the monsters with crudely drawn genitalia. My immediate assumption was to think Billy did this to pull a joke on me. ![]() Who made this hack? When? How ? And most importantly, why? The "why?" was the question that bothered me most. Which just opened up even more questions. If they could, they never would have gave Roland Emmerich the rights to make a Godzilla movie. Those guys at Toho may be smart, but I'm sure they couldn't see that far into the future. There's no way this game was made in 1988! So much for my theories about Titanosaurus and Biollante. A monster who didn't make his film debut until 2000, appearing in a game made in 1988. I checked to see who the new monster was, and it was Orga. As for how to describe it.have you ever heard the theme from Videodrome? That's the closest thing I can think of it to compare it to. Trance's map music did nothing to ease the tension. I was still pretty shook up from the last level when I started "Trance".
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