PrinceWatercress plays Daffy Duck: Fowl Play - Part 5 of 6

The abundance of bottomless pits and the lack of invincibility frames can really make this stage miserable.

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Stage 5: Plateau

Prepare to do a lot more jumping here compared to the second part. Also, whenever you die from falling into a pit, you start back at the current section, and the enemy selection that you have for the section you died in changes. Compared to the previous stages, you now have three sections to play around with, and they all look different this time around.

The rocks will bounce up and down, and while you can jump on them when they are about to hit the ground and ride them, it can be a tad difficult at times to time it due to the bouncing being pretty fast. The scorpions will move back and forth and will come at you if you get close enough to them.

The vulture acts as a platform. Jump on it to get to the other side; do not bomb the vulture with dynamite.

The cacti need to be destroyed with the dynamite in order to get rid of them. When destroyed, they also leave a smaller, spiky ball. You'll need to destroy it or jump over it.

The big bat attacks much like the regular, smaller-sized bat, and while it is easier to throw dynamite on top of it, you're better off avoiding it if you can.

The boss battle here is made amazingly difficult by the fact that Bugs Bunny flies around in the background before showing up to drop a bomb. You'll also have two cacti to destroy; the first one is easy enough to blow up and then jump over the smaller ball that comes out of it with, but for the second cactus, you'll need to blow it up, then get near the right edge of the platform before that cactus and duck so the smaller spiky ball that flies out doesn't hit you.

All the while, you'll still have to deal with Bugs, and in order to avoid the bomb that he drops, you have to move back as soon as you see it come down. You have to simultaneously blow up the cacti and avoid the smaller spiky balls that shoot out and avoid the bombs that Bugs drops from his plane at the same time, and the geography of the boss stage containing short platforms that barely give you enough room to avoid the bombs does not help. Also, don't be surprised if you get hit by a bomb, land by a pit, and then suddenly fall into the pit, all the while losing two or three lives at once because the game's lack of invincibility frames suddenly makes doing this even more nightmarish than it should be.

Once you somehow make it to the treasure chest, it's on to the final stage of the game.