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Message: 2315
Author: filsoft_2000
Date: 29/06/2001
Subject: Willy vs The Vampire Lord
I had a play of Willy vs The Vampire Lord a
couple of weeks ago and discovered that it wasn't
possible to complete the game. Here's why (and some
suggestions as how to fix these faults):-
It is not
possible to collect the righthand item in "The Roots of
Mourning" as the conveyor shares the same attributes
(colours) as the nasty block. This causes the conveyor to
kill Willy upon contact. Simply change the attributes
of either the conveyor or nasty block to rectify
this problem.
It is not possible to collect the
items in "The Dank Underground Garden" as you cannot
walk onto the conveyor; you can only fall onto it
which causes willy to go right. Either change the
direction of the conveyor or add a platform of two blocks
or more to the end of the conveyor to get around
this.
BTW, it is not possible to get to "The Roots of
Mourning" from "The Dank Underground Garden", nor is there
any use in you exiting left from "The Dank
Underground Garden" to "The Roots of Mourning" as nasty
blocks prevent you from going anywhere useful. Was this
intentional? As it stands it is a Promised Land
effect.
Willy dies indefintely if he enters "Aliens Prepare 4
Attack". I haven't had a look to see why this is (most
probably a guardian colliding with something).
When
I had collected all the items I could, I had a
quick teleport round and discovered the room "On top of
the house". The item at the end of the flag pole is
still there - is this intentional? Is this room
reachable in the game?
All of the above faults are
easily correctable. The following is sadly not unless
you have done some hacking:-
Would I be right
in thinking that you would like the player to go
left from "Dank Passage to the End" when 'Maria' has
vanished? This is not possible unless you have hacked out
the code which makes Willy run to the right when all
the items are collected and Willy is anywhere at the
far left of the equivalent of "The Master
Bedroom".
If you have poked it out then well done! What was
the poke? Whilst I'm on the subject of pokes, how did
you change the vertical and horizontal position of
the 'toilet' (now the cobweb)?
If the ending
sequence hasn't been tampered with the Willy will run to
the right a few blocks and then fall down the hole
and get stuck. :-(
AFAIK, the update hasn't
corrected these faults too...
Regardless of the
above, I feel that Willy Vs The Vampire Lord has a
strong atmosphere. The new graphics are on the whole
attractive and there are some very nice rooms and ideas in
the game. I really like Willy's suit of armour; how
he manages to jump around in that I don't know!
;-)
Phil
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