Monday, November 29, 2021

ZonicTHedgehog plays Tomba! - Part 8 of 17


In this entry, we meet a fortune teller, face our first Evil Pig and get some very useful items.


After you complete the "Where's The Baby Mouse?" and "A Drink For Grownups" objectives, you can go back to the Red Fortune Teller's house to meet the Red Fortune Teller. Talk to her, and she will tell you that she will read your fortune as she is still in training. Talk to her again, and she will tell you that Pink is somewhere really hot, Green is the mansion on the lake, and Red is awaiting a miracle. These are hints as to where to find the Pink, Green and Red Evil Pigs. You'll also complete the "Red Fortune Teller" objective.

Remember the door above the small platforms at Stormy/Phoenix Mountain that required the Large Key Hole? If you enter it with the Large Key, you can get the Red Evil Pig Bag. This completes the "A Stormy Pig Bag" objective. The Red Evil Pig Bag will be in Phoenix Mountain.

If you talk to the mouse at the location where you rode the Phoenix, he will tell you that the Phoenix returned home to Lava Caves and that you'll need to go there to see the Phoenix again. He will also tell you that you will need a grapple to get through the Lava Caves. Thankfully, you can get the Grapple now that you can open the 1,000-Year-Old chests. Make your way to the right from here and open the blue chest that is there. You'll get the Grapple and complete the "A Precious Treasure Chest?" objective. The pirate who is blocking your path here will also be gone from here on out. Don't go to the right, though. Instead, enter the cave above where you got the Grapple and open the 1,000-Year-Old Chest there. You'll get the Green Evil Pig Bag and complete the "The Fire Pig Bag" objective. The Green Evil Pig Bag will be in the Lava Caves.

The Grapple works much like the Blackjack that you start the game with, but it has more range due to acting like a grappling hook and can also be aimed upwards with the Control Pad. You can use it to get on top of the plant above where you just got the Green Evil Pig Bag and climb onto it with Up, but you won't be able to go further due to the flames.

If you go back to Baccus Village and talk to the mouse to the left of the message board near the Red Fortune Teller's house, the mouse will keep crying. Talking to the mouse twice will trigger the "Can't Stop Crying" objective. (You won't be able to do this until after you complete the "Where's The Baby Mouse?" objective.) If you can give him a Healing Mushroom from the Mushroom Forest by using it as an item in front of the mouse, he will stop crying, and you'll clear the objective. He will then tell you if have ever seen a baby Koma Pig and that he is looking for one, and if you can find one, you can give it to him in return for something useful.

There is a 1,000-Year-Old Chests at the ground level of the Mushroom Forest near where you come in from the Dwarf Forest, and it contains a 1-Up. Above this chest on the plant platforms is another 1,000-Year-Old Chest that contains a Mysterious Mushroom. Opening this chest and getting the mushroom completes the "The Mysterious Mushroom" objective. The Mysterious Mushroom works just like an Ordinary Mushroom, but it never runs out and can be used over and over again.

If you keep going left from where you found the Mysterious Mushroom, you'll find a 1,000-Year-Old chest that contains the 1,000-Year-Old Bell. This bell, when used as an item, returns you to the 1,000-Year-Old Man.

There is another 1,000-Year-Old chest in a pit near the entrance to Charity Square. It contains Charity Wings if you open it.

The 1,000-Year-Old chest in Charity Square contains a big gem worth 10,000 AP when collected.

Now that you have the Red Evil Pig Bag, you can open up the door to the Red Evil Pig at the top of Charity Square and leaping towards where the door is. (It's left of where the butterfly cage is.) Jump into the door, and you'll face the Red Evil Pig, also known as the Stormy Evil Pig.

All of the Evil Pig battles require you to throw the Evil Pig in the Evil Pig Bag in order to trap them and break the spell that they have placed in a certain area. In this case, beating the Stormy Evil Pig will break the spell on Stormy/Phoenix Mountain. 

The Stormy Evil Pig will rotate around the windmill in the center either clockwise or counter-clockwise. To beat him, all you have to do is pounce on him and throw him into the opening of the evil pig bag, which is spinning around in the direction of the windmill in the center of the room. If you can do that just once, you'll beat him. To beat the Stormy Evil Pig, you'll need to stand on the large central platform beneath the bag and pounce on the Stormy Evil Pig when he appears nearby. From there, you'll need to toss him towards the opening of the bag. If that doesn't work, stay to the side, and if you can knock him unconscious by swinging around on one oft he poles, so be it. He will throw tornadoes at you that will send you either towards him or into the spikes in the room, but you can avoid that by equipping and using the Jewel of Fire. By beating the Stormy Evil Pig, you'll beat the "A Stormy Pig Bag" objective and break the spell on Phoenix Mountain so it isn't stormy anymore.

The 1,000-Year-Old Chest in the seaside mansion contains a big blue gem that gives 100,000 AP when collected.

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