Resource centre for ZX Spectrum games
using Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy game engines
Archive of the
Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy Yahoo! Group
messages
|
|
|
|
|
Message: 3024
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 06/10/2002
Subject: Re: Finishing JSW games / Monstrum!
dm_boozefreek wrote:
>I don't agree. I am a purist, and I say you have only completed a JSW
> It doesn't really matter if the ending doesn't really work.
> I finished it without the penknife guardian in "The same but
> different and the female in "Oops I did it again" and all Willy
> does is fly to the right at a million miles an hour reach the
> toilet and freeze. This deosn't really matter to me.
game when you reach the toilet. That's when I record my finishing-
time (I'm in the middle of compiling a table of my finishing-times
for JSW48 games, but that's another story). Strictly speaking, games
such as JSW III are impossible to complete.
I completed Monstrum! last night with a finishing-time of 10:31 am
(this was on a real Spectrum, with infinite lives and the so-called
pause-bug-fix disabled).
I have to say, if I compiled a list of my favourite JSW games,
Monstrum! would probably be very near the top. It's hugely
atmospheric, very neatly put together technically, and its linear
nature is a welcome departure from the branching factor of most JSW
games (if only I had the hours to explore strangel properly! ;-( ).
Rooms such as "Norman Crocodilidine" and "The True King of Ireland"
go to show that even minimalistic, iconic rooms can sometimes impart
a great atmosphere!
> As soon as he starts running you know you've finished it anyway.No! You still have to control Willy to the bog! Although I can't
think of any released JSW games which exploit this deliberately, you
can hold Willy back from his toilet-run by pressing right. This could
be used to avoid guardians, and is exploited in Goodnite
Luddite to avoid a horizontal pseudo-wraparound guardian, and these
wraiths that keep appearing and disappearing (technically, they are
instances of a vertical guardian with a velocity of 0).
--
Andrew Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/
P.S. Goodnite Luddite is 59/64 as of today! :-)
|
|
|