After getting this game as a kid on the month that it came out, it took me a while to get to this game until I was reminded it existed. Now it's time to make a blog series on this one.
The Haunted Woods
When the game begins, Porky Pig will be reading through a holiday brochure for an upcoming vacation before falling asleep. Once he drifts off, he starts having a haunted holiday nightmare, and that is when the game begins.
You'll be in front of Porky's house when the game begins. The weather for the level will be different every time you play, so you may get Christmas like I did, or you may get rainy water, foggy weather, good weather or even snow. Some things, such as messages on signs, will change along with the weather, so keep an eye out. Anyway, press Start or go to the right to enter the level.
The Control Pad lets you duck and move around. B lets you jump and holding X while moving your thumb around with the Control Pad lets you move the camera and look around in more open sections of the levels.
The ball and chains will swing around, while the bats will have pre-determined flying paths. The bats can be jumped on; the ball and chains cannot. The leprechauns will do various things, such as move around, spawn infinite pairs of green shoes out of a serving tray
The cupcake are like coins; you collect 100, you get a 1-Up. The cakes just give you points. The pudding pops are 1-Ups.
By leaping into the swinging chains, you can grab on and swing over pits. Thankfully, the spike pits do not instantly kill you. Jump forward and press B to jump off at the other side.
The flashing red X is where Porky can plant a pennant. This serves as a checkpoint you'll come back to if you die at any point.
The box with the up arrows on them are like springboards. Daffy will scare Porky Pig with his Dracula teeth, causing Porky Pig to soar high into the air and potentially to other areas.
The fruit basket lets you throw fruit at enemies with Y or A, assuming you are using the default controls.
Some branches have edges that will fall down you place your weight on them.
The cauldron with feet will shoot fire upwards, though you can still jump on it if you time it right.
You'll need to jump off an enemy to get into the door near the end of the second area, but when you reach it, press Up while in front of the doorway to enter. You'll be in a spider web with spider enemies that move back and forth and can be easily defeated. You can also find a few hearts for health and a few 1-Ups here. You have four hearts, and collecting hearts or 25 cupcakes will refill one heart. If you lose all your hearts, you'll lose a life.
Flashing cupcakes make a sound, and if you collect all the cupcakes in the line in order, you'll get surprises. At the end of the second section, you can get a punch drink, and if you go down and get it, you can float upwards with the punk drink. Float upwards for two extra lives and a heart, as well as a secret passage with even more health.
Regardless of how you leave the second section, you'll be going up a tree. Keep going left and right to go around the tree, and be ready to jump from one platform to another. The two-headed crows flying around will make it easier to get to other places. If you find a hole in the tree, press Up to enter it.
The second to last section of the level before the boss has you in the treetops. Use Up and Down to climb up and down the ladders. Once again, be careful near the edges of branches, as some of them can fall down and take you for a tumble. You can find a lot of pick-ups if you look around, but be careful while exploring so you don't fall into a pit and die.
If you hold Down on a slope, you can slide down it.
Near the end, you'll find another punch drink. Use the Control Pad to control Porky while he is floating.
The final section will net you a bunch of cool stuff if you can somehow collect all the cupcakes in order. If you fall, watch out below, even though landing on a platform is still pretty likely.
The boss is a ghost that flies around in a figure eight pattern. When he stops in the center and takes off his hat, jump onto his head to hit him while watching out for the ghosts that come out of the top hat that he takes off. When he loses all of his hit points (which are on the right side of the screen, as with every boss in this game), his eyes turn red. Stay away from them as they fly away.
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