Wednesday, April 22, 2020

PrinceWatercress plays Gex (PS1) - Part 2 of 15


The first world is over already, but it's not going to get any easier from here on out.

Tomato Soup


If you see a blue console below a TV, it's a VCR. That means that there is a VHS tape in the level, and if you pick it up, you'll get a password after clearing the level (unless you're on 3DO, then you'll be able to save your game). The one here will be at the very end of the level, but they will be in more out-of-the-way places later in the game.

There are two new enemies. The first is the killer tomato that bounces forward and splat rather nicely when they are killed. The second is the gargoyle that flies back and forth and spits a fireball downwards every so often.

The spike pits with the skeletons in them are instant death.

At one point, there is a background wall maze, and you'll have to hit cameras to open a path to a flea power-up. It will also be over a pit of instant death water.

Disco Inferno


Unlike the other levels, there is a second remote, and it looks different from all the skeleton head remotes you've picked up so far. Unlike those remotes, this one opens up a whole new 

The torches are fire demons that will pop in and out of the torches every so often to throw a fireball at your current position.

The blue firefly gives you an ice breathe. Firing the ice projectile will encase the enemy it touches in a block of ice. If you attack the block of ice, you'll destroy the enemy, but if you leave the enemy be, it will revive.

Interestingly, if you use the ice breathe against the torch enemies, you'll instantly kill them from a distance instead of freezing them.

There are instances in this stage where some platforms hanging off the edge of a floor will crumble when you stand on them, so don't be on them for long.

There is an area with three 1-Ups that is seeming unreachable. You have to jump into the water to the immediate left to fall through a fake wall to get there.

As long as you're walking on the breakable walls, you can't destroy them. If you do a tail whip while holding the Control Pad towards them while on them, then you can break them...and that an lead 

Spin-n-Puke


We found both remotes, and if we use the different-looking remote that cycles the color spectrum, we'll open up the next world automatically. But we still have one more skeleton remote, and if you use that, you'll suddenly create a bridge to a TV. None of that was ever there before. This leads to the level boss.

The area will scroll back and forth while skull heads rotate in a pile in the background. You'll then see what looks like the girl from Poltergeist summoning skulls around here. Hit her while avoiding the skulls, the spike pits on the ground and a crushing death at the hands of the level design itself. There are health pick-ups as the area scrolls back and forth, but there's only a few and you need to preserve your health here, as you only have three hits.

After hitting the girl floating in the center of the screen three times, she turns into a zombie and starts projectile vomiting to the sides. You obviously want to avoid the vomit as you hit her three more times. After three more hits, she dies and leaves a remote for the next world. Grab it to end the bonus level and get a password. If you have any health left at the end, you'll get extra lives based on how many hit points you have left. Sadly, you cannot replay boss levels.

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