Poison ====== Written by Donncha Ryan donncharyan@hotmail.com Ver 1.1 Changes - Added this readme.txt file Added "Press X" to scroll. Story ===== --------STORY--------- In the village of Carduna lives Tirlock. His village is on the brink of extinction. The evil warlock, Elexor, has locked most of the people in his castle and poisoned the water to finish those he could not capture. Enter his castle and collect the keys that will free your town folk. Each level contains a temporary cure, but in order to cure yourself you must find Elexor. So that he could not be reached, he made the path through his castle out of magic stones. Each stone requires a spell to be executed to allow the stone to appear. You have discovered the spells. Square,Triangle and circle to fill in the red, green and blue stones. Good luck. How to Play =========== You start off at the bottom of the castle. You have no weapons and your health is decreasing. (You are poisoned). The idea is to get to the top of the screen where you will find an antidote (a white + pink bottle). This will refill your health. Controls : DPad Left - Move Left DPad Right - Move Right X - Jump R2 - Rope (You can only use this when you are not jumping) Hit this while standing under grey blocks. If you are in reach of the blocks, the rope will catch on and drag you up. L1 - Throw knife. (You must pick up a box of knives first). Use these to kill fireballs or blades. L2 + DPad - Use when you can not see where you are about to jump, or if you want to see above or below you. Select - Pause (Select again to quit). Poison ====== You have been poisoned. Do not waste time or you will die. Hitting off obsticles futher damages your health. OBSTICLES ========= Fireballs - Fireballs will further damage your health, but can be eliminated using a knife. Blades - Blades cause more damage than fireballs. They can also be eliminated using a knife. Getting on the Grey Blocks above you ==================================== In order to hoist yourself up to the grey blocks, stand underneath one and hit R2. If the rope hits a grey block, it will catch on and pull you up to it. Filling In the Blocks ===================== The idea is that there are three types of unfilled blocks : RED, GREEN AND BLUE. You cannot stand on these unless they are filled in. To fill them in you must press the appropriate button just before landing on them. For example, to land on an unfilled Red block, jump towards it and before you land, hit the square button. This will cause the block to go completely red, and you can land on it. Each colour has its own button that must be pressed before landing. RED - SQUARE GREEN - TRIANGLE BLUE - CIRCLE Getting Started =============== You start off at the bottom of the screen. Run to the right avoiding the fireballs. Just after the fireballs, on the ground, is a box of knives. Walk through it to pick it up. Just after this you will see a grey platform, just above you. Stand underneath this and hit R1 to pull yourself up. Face yourself left. You see a series of red blocks that are not solid. Use the X button to jump towards the first red block. Before you land, hit the sqauare button. The red block will becode full, and you will land on it. If you did not hit the square button in time, you will go through the block, and must start again. When you sucessfully land on the red block, jump again to the next red block. Again, before you land, you must hit the square button to fill in the block. The block you jumped from then becomes unfilled once more. Continue on up jumping onto blocks and pressing the apropriate button to fill in each block. Grey blocks are always safe to land on. Finishing the game. ================== You must find and defeat the evil wizard. Once defeated, you can make your way to the exit. You will receive a summary of how you did. You will be told how long you took to finish the game, and how many keys you collected. You may find it relatively easy to finish the game, but can you finish the game and collect all the keys. Remember that the fireballs may have keys hidden behind them. BONUS GAME ========== SNAKEY- This is a version of the old classic game snake. You only have two controls here : Left DPad - Turn snake head left. Circle - Turn snake head right. When you start, the snake will move forward automatically. Using Left and Circle, steer him towards the egg. Once he has eaten the egg, his tail will grow in size. Avoid hitting your own tail or any wall. You will find this bonus game by finishing the first level, and returning to the instructions option. One of the pages therein will give you the cheat to access this bonus option.