6/19/2023 0 Comments Wonder boy charmstone![]() ![]() Once you input it, you’ll be returned to where you were with your current form, equipment, and amount of gold, but no secondary weapons or life potions. This means that it’s up to you to remember to visit the room and write down the password if you’re going to turn off the game. In order to get the password, you visit a certain room in town and the shopkeeper pig gives you one. The game doesn’t just provide you the password after you beat a boss, however. It’s the only way you can turn off the game and return (more or less) to where you were. Three hearty jeers to the password system, also. Finding new areas to explore provides a brief moment of joy, quickly tempered by the emergence of similarly crafted rooms. Monster Land feels less like a world one inhabits and more like a series of randomly connected, super long corridors that happen to have a bunch of monsters in them. While the combat in The Dragon’s Trap is rewarding, West One could have put more thought into the game’s level design. Turns out, ninja aren’t Lion Man’s best friends. You do collect limited secondary attacks from enemies, like tornadoes, boomerangs, and fireballs, but I found them weak in comparison to your trusty sword. Unless you’re right on top of an enemy hacking away at them, you will not touch them with your sword. This can be frustrating, particularly since the hit detection calls for precise attacks. Because your sword is nearly as short as Link’s in Zelda II (that’s very short, for those who haven’t played the latter), combat is almost always an up-close affair, unless you’re reppin’ Lizard Man and his flame projectiles. Ninjas throw stars, then leap into the air before landing and pausing on the ground. Sunflowers and gargoyle heads spew projectiles at you once a second. The enemies approach you with timing-based attacks. While you might initially be flummoxed as to where The Dragon’s Trap wishes you to go, once you unlock an area, the gameplay transforms into strict linear action similar to Monster Land. Blink and you’ll miss the so-called “Mouse Man.” As you progress further and accumulate more transformations, certain rooms will allow you to transform back to previous creatures. You can only inhabit the body of one creature at a time. Finally, Hawk Man can take to the skies and fly over and above the majority of the enemies (don’t get him wet). ![]() Lion/Tiger Man is incredibly powerful and has a formidable downward slice. Mouse Man is small, but he can also crawl upside down and around particular blocks (he also looks nothing like a mouse). Lizard Man is the first of the creatures, and as previously mentioned, he breathes forth fire. Like any good Metroidvania, subsequent transformations give you new powers which unlock previously locked areas of the game. These transformations are at the heart of the game. Every time you defeat a boss, a blue spirit chases you around the room and morphs you into a different being with their own unique powers. Lizard Man is but one of the many creatures Wonder Boy morphs into over the course of the game. ![]()
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