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sylverlining's review of Know The Secret reminded me that I a few years ago I started playing through the Animorphs Game Boy Colour game and taking notes. I didn't actually get past the first mission, but I got far enough to see what it was like. And use ellipses as punctuation far too much.
So I went back and took some screenshots, transcribed some dialogue, and added some 2010 notes to the 2006 notes. And here's the seamless mishmash of all those things:
A little pre-game background:
When I was eleven, I saw the a preview for this game in a gaming magazine. I was really excited, because it looked like a Pokemon rip-off. I loved Animorphs, and I really really wanted to play Pokemon, so this looked like the most awesome thing ever. I never heard about it again, so I decided it must have been cancelled. I recently (in 2006) found a post in the Animorphs LJ community posting a screenshot and saying that Taxxons didn't look right. Apparently the second mission is really hard. And the game's bad. We'll see.
By the way, I think I would have loved the game if I'd got to play it back then. I was like that when I was eleven.
Published by UbiSoft. That's interesting.
RUNNYFUN!
IT'S GOOD... FOR KIDS!
...
I wish I'd thought to take a screenshot of that.
The music's pretty bad, at least for the title screen. It's just generic Game Boy music, and it seems to be a bit fuzzy.
The story:
There a few ships in shot. I've forgotton exactly what Yeerk ships look like, but the ones that look like grasshoppers are Bug Fighters, I guess, and the blue one in the centre is probably a Blade Ship. I'm not sure what the other one is, it looks like an Andalite Dome Ship to me.
THEY ARE HIDEOUS CREATURES.
The picture of the Yeerk looks more or less the same as the book, except for were it's yellow and the size of South America.
At first, I thought that the "other alien" was a bad tempered emu, but now I think it's probably a Hork-Bajir. Are they normally blue?
WE MUST FIGHT THEM! WE HAVE THE POWER TO MORPH INTO ANIMALS!
And now they have the picture of some Jake-tiger hybrid taken from the cover of Megamorphs 1.
ARE YOU READY TO BECOME AN ANIMORPH?
No.
Pixelated Animorphs, including Ax. Most of them are pretty easy to identify, but Tobias and Marco look exactly the same to me. Maybe Tobias was shunned and one of those is really Ax's human morph.
I didn't take a screenshot of that because I thought it looked like it was taken directly from the book covers.
Hey, the game's not doing anything.
Wait, there it goes. My first mission: save the animals. Of course it looks like I'm playing as Cassie for this. Who else?
So how exactly will saving the animals hinder the Yeerks? Do they keep the animals for target practice or something?
Tobias, who I guess is the hawk sitting on the table, is talking to me. But a sprite is partially covering his dialogue. Terrible programming! It's good... for kids!
I'm not taking another shot of the barn. That's all that's really there.
The sprites are kind of ugly... And Ax looked like a dog until I noticed that he was blue.
I just ran into a bunny or a rat or something. Now Cassie wants to acquire it, for some reason.
...I have to fight an animal to acquire it?! Whose idea was that? It's a mouse! And for some reason I have to be in morph to fight it. What's it going to do, give me rabies?
And I cause the mouse ten damage by screaming in my dog morph. This game makes no sense.
Here's a transcript of dog-Cassie's epic and inexplicable battle with the mouse:
MOUSE TRIES
DODGE..
BUT IT FAILS.
CASSIE TRIES
SCREAM..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
10 HP DAMAGE.
MOUSE TRIES
BURROW..
BUT IT FAILS
CASSIE TRIES
CLAW..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
006 HP DAMANGE.
MOUSE TRIES
FEIGN..
BUT IT FAILS
CASSIE TRIES
KICK..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
014 HP DAMAGE.
MOUSE TRIES
DODGE..
BUT IT FAILS.
CASSIE TRIES
BITE..
CASSIE HAS
TAMED MOUSE
Bite, by the way, causes 20 damage. It always causes 20 damage.
So I've tamed the mouse by killing it. Funny, I thought that only worked in Pokemon. Well, the mouse is still there, but I'm going to say I killed it anyway.
Tobias: Things are bad at the pet store.
Don't the Animorphs have bigger things to worry about?
The dashes are where the letters were obscured by sprites. I know it's obvious what the missing letters are, but I wanted to demonstrate how annoying it is to read.
TOBIAS:
THIN-- ARE BAD
AT THE PET SHOP
GO TA-K TO THE
OWNER. GET SOME
GOOD -ORPHS.
FIND THE PET SHOP IN
THE --LL AND I'LL
CHECK IN LATER.
Don't the Animorphs have bigger things to worry about than the pet shop's money troubles?
NOT- FROM DAD:
I JUST GOT A CALL FROM
THE--ET SHOP. TH-
ANIMALS ARE OUT OF
CON-ROL!
SOMETHING IS MAKING
THE- ACT CRAZY! --HAVE
TO GO CHECK ON OTHER
ANIM--LS AT MY OF-ICE.
SEE YOU LATER, CASSIE
BE --ME SOON!
...Oh. In that case, it has to be the Yeerks.
AX:
OK, WE HAVE TO
GET THE PROCESSORS
BEFORE THE YEERKS
USE THEM. NO TIME
TO LOSE!
This is more out of character than Alternamorphs 2.
There are three other people in the surprisingly cozy and devoid of animals barn. I'm going to try to guess who they are.
Red haired mother looking person: Marco.
Bland guy in green: Jake.
Person wearing Egyptian headdress: Rachel.
The person I thought was Marco was really Jake. He said something about the Yeerks stealing 4 Andalite processors. Apparently they're powerful and the Yeerks can do some evil non-specific things with them:
JAKE:
GUYS! THE SITUATION
IS VERY SERIOUS!
THE YEERKS HAVE
SEIZED SOMETHING
HUGE. 4 ANDALITE
PROCESSORS WERE STOLEN
THESE PROCESSORS
HAVE IMMENSE POWER
JUST IMAGINE WHAT
THE YEERKS COULD
DO WITH THEM!
EVERYONE STAY ALERT!
WE DON'T WANT TO
BE CAPTURED!
Not processors! The Pemalite crystal pales in comparison to processors!
Marco, the bland guy in green, is giving me more game help. Pharaoh Rachel just wants me to know how cool morphing is:
RACHEL:
THIS MORPHING
POWER IS TOTALLY COOL!
MARCO:
REMEMBER THAT YOU
CAN'T SPEAK TO HUMANS WHILE MORPHED
I've just noticed how much Tobias looks like a vulture.
Now I'm fighting a goat outside the barn. I still don't get why I have to fight it.
I killed it. The morphing music is getting really creepy.
Why is my dog morph damaged after I demorph? Why? Did whoever designed the gameplay even glance through the books?
Now I'm fighting a raccoon that looks bigger than the goat.
My first fight with an Emu-Bajir. Which appeared out of nowhere and attacked me even though I was human and not doing anything Andalite-Bandit-ish. This should be fun.
That was surprisingly easy. You'd think a Hork-Bajir would at least be able to injure a dog, if nothing else. Stupid Emu-Bajir. And I got food from killing it. I really hope that's what it was carrying...
TOBIAS:
DON'T MORPH. YOU'RE
NOT ALONE!
It seems I can't morph in the presence of non-Animorphs. That's a nice touch. Morph screen still comes up, though.
Some woman wants me to join the Sharing. I guess that means I'm supposed to assume she's a Controller. But what if she only just joined? She couldn't be a Controller yet. On another note, it's really hard to talk to people while they're walking around. They keep moving.
Why is every door locked? I want to invade peoples' homes, smash their pots, and steal their TMs!
Why am I fighting a dog? I already have a dog morph! What happened to Cassie the person who was upset over killing a termite colony? Now I just have this image of Cassie running around crazily with a blood-stained axe, hacking innocent animals to pieces and laughing. It's... a bit disturbing.
The game does give you the option of acquiring or not acquiring the animals you see, but only after you've beaten them up, and only if you have the maximum amount of morphs already, which I think is six.
Turning into a dog and ripping apart every animal I see! It's good... for kids!
Hah! I morphed when there were people around and got a Game Over! There wasn't even a little animation to show why! Good thing I saved first.
There's like this... quarry in the middle of town. It's got a sign that says "Danger!" over it. But I walked around it it and nothing happened. I really hope it's not supposed to be The Abandoned Construction Site.
Everyone I meet says exactly the same thing:
HELLO!
HI CASSIE!
HOW'S IT GOING!
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
I'M GOING TO THE SHARING TONIGHT! ARE YOU A MEMBER YET?
THE SHARING IS THE COOLEST CLUB! YOU SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER!
What I'm taking away from all this is that everyone but the Animorphs are Controllers, and that the resistance effort is over before it's begun.
The door to the mall is unlocked. It's a Christmas miracle! I guess this is where the pet store is.
There's this kid in the mall who looks like a zombie. Seriously, he's all grey.
The security guards are zombies too. They think I should be in school. I guess they missed all the other kids in the town and mall.
PET SHOP OWNER:
MY SNAKE ESCAPED!
SOMEONE MUST
CATCH THIS SNAKE
BEFORE IT HURTS
PEOPLE!
This one guy's snake escaped, and now I'm fighting a monkey in plain sight of everyone. What was that about not morphing in public?
That was surprisingly hard to beat. Stupid monkey. (I later discovered that the secret is to always use bite, since the dog only has offensive moves, and bite always does 20 damage)
Okay, now I have to fight a mouse, or something. I'll use my monkey morph.
Oh. It's a rat.
That was back to being easy. Now for the other animals. There's a monkey that's actually the right colour, instead of blue like the other one, there's something that looks like a cat, and there's a... squirrel, maybe?
The second monkey was a chimp... If it's a chimp, why does it have a tail?
And the cat was a dog... A strong dog that blatently ripped off Pokemon by using a "super effective" attack on me. I thought it was hick or rick or something, because the font was hard to read, but I guess it's probably Kick.
I tried Kicking the dog, but it wasn't super effective at all. Stupid cheating dog.
I used my dog morph to fight the squirrel that was really a skunk, and now all the evil animals are dead. I mean, tame.
Yes, this is all supposed to be happening in a pet shop.
There's this pool thing with fish in it... At the mall... But I can't get in, even in morph. But I'm glad to see that morphing is used for something other than fighting in this game... I assume.
I tried morphing a few other things, but nothing could get into the pool, so I left it. The monkey moves really really fast.
The door to the stairs is locked or something, I'm leaving the mall.
PET SHOP OWNER:
THANKS FOR CALMING MY
SNAKE. I FEEL SO RELIEVED!
HE CAME FROM
THE GARDENS. MAYBE THEY
KNOW WHY HE GOT SCARED.
As I was leaving, the pet shop owner thanked me for killing this snake that was wandering around, and told me to go to The Gardens... Why do these people look so much like zombie chimpanzees?
The other Animorphs are outside now. I think that's them, anyway. At least Rachel doesn't look like a Pharaoh anymore.
It's them. And they're giving me more unhelpful advice.
TOBIAS:
I THINK WE NEED TO GET
IN OVER THE WALL.
FIND THE RIGHT MORPH
FOR THIS!
RACHEL:
GET SOME FOOD TO
REVIVE YOUR STRENGTH
I SAW SOME AROUND
TOWN.
JAKE:
OK, YOU GOT THE
SNAKE MORPH! NOW GO
TO THE GARDENS!
WE HAVE TO KNOW
WHY THE SNAKE GOT
SCARED - TOBIAS
WILL HELP YOU ALONG.
MARCO:
THE ALIENS ARE VERY
HARD TO BEAT. MAKE
SURE YOU HAVE POWERFUL
MORPHS IF YOU
FIGHT ONE!
I don't know, my wimpy dog morph seemed to work fine...
Crap. I wandered off and got attacked by an Emu-Bajir in chimp morph... My chimp got knocked out, so I demorphed in front of a Controller and morphed dog instead. The game doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this, of course. But I'm still going to reload. When your morph loses all its health, it's gone for good, and I like the chimp.
I used the snake morph to get over the wall like Tobias told me. There was a crack in it, and this helped the snake get over... somehow.
Another Emu-Bajir ambushed me in the Gardens, which for some reason has a castle in the middle as its sole feature. The Emu-Bajir killed my snake morph, so I let out the secret of the Andalite Bandits again and morphed a dog. I got "Super Food" as a reward. You know, like a Super Potion in Pokemon, only not.
(My 2010 playthrough ended there)
I kind of like the music inside the Gardens. (hums it) It's the zoo portion, by the way. I don't see the amusement park anywhere.
I'm restarting because a stupid lion killed my dog morph. I can't do anything without my dog morph. What I don't understand is, why am I just allowed to walk into the lion enclosure? And why is it open?
I also can't fight wolves. I got a Game Over. Whatever.
I found some machine in a huge open space, but I can't interact with it.
I just found another one. Maybe it's supposed to be a seat or something.
I found some more food. What would be really cool would be if I knew how to use items. I'll go look it up on the net.
...Oh forget it. I can't find anything. I did find a nice review, though.
Okay, I got a kangaroo morph. It's probably useless, but I'll try it out anyway.
It was useless, and the walk cycle looks silly. It moves its body, but not its head, for some reason.
okay, I killed the wolf this time, and I got a pole that made Tobias talk to me...? This doesn't make sense, but how much of the game does? There are four wave transmitters, he said, but he didn't say what they look like. I remember seeing something in the lion enclosure, I'll go there.
I understand how to use food now. I use it automatically when I get it. Right. I also discovered that apparently, dogs can fight Hork-Bajir better than wolves can.
There's a guy in the lion enclosure and I can't talk to him, possibly because the game is messed up.
I disconnected all the thingies, and now Tobias is talking about how some is in "Oanger". Really, he said Oanger.
Now I need my bat morph. I got rid of my bat morph. Oops. But I continued from the game's last save, so I don't need to start all over again.
And that's the end of my notes. I really hate getting unto unwinnable situations, so I don't think I was willing to continue after that. Stupid morph limit.
This is making me wonder what a good Pokemon ripoff Animorphs game would be like. The first thing I'd do would be to change the method of acquiring things to some sort of mini-game, and get rid of the morph limit. And maybe a time limit on morphs? And allow you to fight as a human.
(Sorry the bad HTML version was there for so long. My Internet's been running slow)
So I went back and took some screenshots, transcribed some dialogue, and added some 2010 notes to the 2006 notes. And here's the seamless mishmash of all those things:
A little pre-game background:
When I was eleven, I saw the a preview for this game in a gaming magazine. I was really excited, because it looked like a Pokemon rip-off. I loved Animorphs, and I really really wanted to play Pokemon, so this looked like the most awesome thing ever. I never heard about it again, so I decided it must have been cancelled. I recently (in 2006) found a post in the Animorphs LJ community posting a screenshot and saying that Taxxons didn't look right. Apparently the second mission is really hard. And the game's bad. We'll see.
By the way, I think I would have loved the game if I'd got to play it back then. I was like that when I was eleven.
Published by UbiSoft. That's interesting.
RUNNYFUN!
IT'S GOOD... FOR KIDS!
...
I wish I'd thought to take a screenshot of that.
The music's pretty bad, at least for the title screen. It's just generic Game Boy music, and it seems to be a bit fuzzy.
The story:
There a few ships in shot. I've forgotton exactly what Yeerk ships look like, but the ones that look like grasshoppers are Bug Fighters, I guess, and the blue one in the centre is probably a Blade Ship. I'm not sure what the other one is, it looks like an Andalite Dome Ship to me.
THEY ARE HIDEOUS CREATURES.
The picture of the Yeerk looks more or less the same as the book, except for were it's yellow and the size of South America.
At first, I thought that the "other alien" was a bad tempered emu, but now I think it's probably a Hork-Bajir. Are they normally blue?
WE MUST FIGHT THEM! WE HAVE THE POWER TO MORPH INTO ANIMALS!
And now they have the picture of some Jake-tiger hybrid taken from the cover of Megamorphs 1.
ARE YOU READY TO BECOME AN ANIMORPH?
No.
Pixelated Animorphs, including Ax. Most of them are pretty easy to identify, but Tobias and Marco look exactly the same to me. Maybe Tobias was shunned and one of those is really Ax's human morph.
I didn't take a screenshot of that because I thought it looked like it was taken directly from the book covers.
Hey, the game's not doing anything.
Wait, there it goes. My first mission: save the animals. Of course it looks like I'm playing as Cassie for this. Who else?
So how exactly will saving the animals hinder the Yeerks? Do they keep the animals for target practice or something?
Tobias, who I guess is the hawk sitting on the table, is talking to me. But a sprite is partially covering his dialogue. Terrible programming! It's good... for kids!
I'm not taking another shot of the barn. That's all that's really there.
The sprites are kind of ugly... And Ax looked like a dog until I noticed that he was blue.
I just ran into a bunny or a rat or something. Now Cassie wants to acquire it, for some reason.
...I have to fight an animal to acquire it?! Whose idea was that? It's a mouse! And for some reason I have to be in morph to fight it. What's it going to do, give me rabies?
And I cause the mouse ten damage by screaming in my dog morph. This game makes no sense.
Here's a transcript of dog-Cassie's epic and inexplicable battle with the mouse:
MOUSE TRIES
DODGE..
BUT IT FAILS.
CASSIE TRIES
SCREAM..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
10 HP DAMAGE.
MOUSE TRIES
BURROW..
BUT IT FAILS
CASSIE TRIES
CLAW..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
006 HP DAMANGE.
MOUSE TRIES
FEIGN..
BUT IT FAILS
CASSIE TRIES
KICK..
SUCCESS! CAUSED
014 HP DAMAGE.
MOUSE TRIES
DODGE..
BUT IT FAILS.
CASSIE TRIES
BITE..
CASSIE HAS
TAMED MOUSE
Bite, by the way, causes 20 damage. It always causes 20 damage.
So I've tamed the mouse by killing it. Funny, I thought that only worked in Pokemon. Well, the mouse is still there, but I'm going to say I killed it anyway.
Tobias: Things are bad at the pet store.
Don't the Animorphs have bigger things to worry about?
The dashes are where the letters were obscured by sprites. I know it's obvious what the missing letters are, but I wanted to demonstrate how annoying it is to read.
TOBIAS:
THIN-- ARE BAD
AT THE PET SHOP
GO TA-K TO THE
OWNER. GET SOME
GOOD -ORPHS.
FIND THE PET SHOP IN
THE --LL AND I'LL
CHECK IN LATER.
Don't the Animorphs have bigger things to worry about than the pet shop's money troubles?
NOT- FROM DAD:
I JUST GOT A CALL FROM
THE--ET SHOP. TH-
ANIMALS ARE OUT OF
CON-ROL!
SOMETHING IS MAKING
THE- ACT CRAZY! --HAVE
TO GO CHECK ON OTHER
ANIM--LS AT MY OF-ICE.
SEE YOU LATER, CASSIE
BE --ME SOON!
...Oh. In that case, it has to be the Yeerks.
AX:
OK, WE HAVE TO
GET THE PROCESSORS
BEFORE THE YEERKS
USE THEM. NO TIME
TO LOSE!
This is more out of character than Alternamorphs 2.
There are three other people in the surprisingly cozy and devoid of animals barn. I'm going to try to guess who they are.
Red haired mother looking person: Marco.
Bland guy in green: Jake.
Person wearing Egyptian headdress: Rachel.
The person I thought was Marco was really Jake. He said something about the Yeerks stealing 4 Andalite processors. Apparently they're powerful and the Yeerks can do some evil non-specific things with them:
JAKE:
GUYS! THE SITUATION
IS VERY SERIOUS!
THE YEERKS HAVE
SEIZED SOMETHING
HUGE. 4 ANDALITE
PROCESSORS WERE STOLEN
THESE PROCESSORS
HAVE IMMENSE POWER
JUST IMAGINE WHAT
THE YEERKS COULD
DO WITH THEM!
EVERYONE STAY ALERT!
WE DON'T WANT TO
BE CAPTURED!
Not processors! The Pemalite crystal pales in comparison to processors!
Marco, the bland guy in green, is giving me more game help. Pharaoh Rachel just wants me to know how cool morphing is:
RACHEL:
THIS MORPHING
POWER IS TOTALLY COOL!
MARCO:
REMEMBER THAT YOU
CAN'T SPEAK TO HUMANS WHILE MORPHED
I've just noticed how much Tobias looks like a vulture.
Now I'm fighting a goat outside the barn. I still don't get why I have to fight it.
I killed it. The morphing music is getting really creepy.
Why is my dog morph damaged after I demorph? Why? Did whoever designed the gameplay even glance through the books?
Now I'm fighting a raccoon that looks bigger than the goat.
My first fight with an Emu-Bajir. Which appeared out of nowhere and attacked me even though I was human and not doing anything Andalite-Bandit-ish. This should be fun.
That was surprisingly easy. You'd think a Hork-Bajir would at least be able to injure a dog, if nothing else. Stupid Emu-Bajir. And I got food from killing it. I really hope that's what it was carrying...
TOBIAS:
DON'T MORPH. YOU'RE
NOT ALONE!
It seems I can't morph in the presence of non-Animorphs. That's a nice touch. Morph screen still comes up, though.
Some woman wants me to join the Sharing. I guess that means I'm supposed to assume she's a Controller. But what if she only just joined? She couldn't be a Controller yet. On another note, it's really hard to talk to people while they're walking around. They keep moving.
Why is every door locked? I want to invade peoples' homes, smash their pots, and steal their TMs!
Why am I fighting a dog? I already have a dog morph! What happened to Cassie the person who was upset over killing a termite colony? Now I just have this image of Cassie running around crazily with a blood-stained axe, hacking innocent animals to pieces and laughing. It's... a bit disturbing.
The game does give you the option of acquiring or not acquiring the animals you see, but only after you've beaten them up, and only if you have the maximum amount of morphs already, which I think is six.
Turning into a dog and ripping apart every animal I see! It's good... for kids!
Hah! I morphed when there were people around and got a Game Over! There wasn't even a little animation to show why! Good thing I saved first.
There's like this... quarry in the middle of town. It's got a sign that says "Danger!" over it. But I walked around it it and nothing happened. I really hope it's not supposed to be The Abandoned Construction Site.
Everyone I meet says exactly the same thing:
HELLO!
HI CASSIE!
HOW'S IT GOING!
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!
I'M GOING TO THE SHARING TONIGHT! ARE YOU A MEMBER YET?
THE SHARING IS THE COOLEST CLUB! YOU SHOULD BECOME A MEMBER!
What I'm taking away from all this is that everyone but the Animorphs are Controllers, and that the resistance effort is over before it's begun.
The door to the mall is unlocked. It's a Christmas miracle! I guess this is where the pet store is.
There's this kid in the mall who looks like a zombie. Seriously, he's all grey.
The security guards are zombies too. They think I should be in school. I guess they missed all the other kids in the town and mall.
PET SHOP OWNER:
MY SNAKE ESCAPED!
SOMEONE MUST
CATCH THIS SNAKE
BEFORE IT HURTS
PEOPLE!
This one guy's snake escaped, and now I'm fighting a monkey in plain sight of everyone. What was that about not morphing in public?
That was surprisingly hard to beat. Stupid monkey. (I later discovered that the secret is to always use bite, since the dog only has offensive moves, and bite always does 20 damage)
Okay, now I have to fight a mouse, or something. I'll use my monkey morph.
Oh. It's a rat.
That was back to being easy. Now for the other animals. There's a monkey that's actually the right colour, instead of blue like the other one, there's something that looks like a cat, and there's a... squirrel, maybe?
The second monkey was a chimp... If it's a chimp, why does it have a tail?
And the cat was a dog... A strong dog that blatently ripped off Pokemon by using a "super effective" attack on me. I thought it was hick or rick or something, because the font was hard to read, but I guess it's probably Kick.
I tried Kicking the dog, but it wasn't super effective at all. Stupid cheating dog.
I used my dog morph to fight the squirrel that was really a skunk, and now all the evil animals are dead. I mean, tame.
Yes, this is all supposed to be happening in a pet shop.
There's this pool thing with fish in it... At the mall... But I can't get in, even in morph. But I'm glad to see that morphing is used for something other than fighting in this game... I assume.
I tried morphing a few other things, but nothing could get into the pool, so I left it. The monkey moves really really fast.
The door to the stairs is locked or something, I'm leaving the mall.
PET SHOP OWNER:
THANKS FOR CALMING MY
SNAKE. I FEEL SO RELIEVED!
HE CAME FROM
THE GARDENS. MAYBE THEY
KNOW WHY HE GOT SCARED.
As I was leaving, the pet shop owner thanked me for killing this snake that was wandering around, and told me to go to The Gardens... Why do these people look so much like zombie chimpanzees?
The other Animorphs are outside now. I think that's them, anyway. At least Rachel doesn't look like a Pharaoh anymore.
It's them. And they're giving me more unhelpful advice.
TOBIAS:
I THINK WE NEED TO GET
IN OVER THE WALL.
FIND THE RIGHT MORPH
FOR THIS!
RACHEL:
GET SOME FOOD TO
REVIVE YOUR STRENGTH
I SAW SOME AROUND
TOWN.
JAKE:
OK, YOU GOT THE
SNAKE MORPH! NOW GO
TO THE GARDENS!
WE HAVE TO KNOW
WHY THE SNAKE GOT
SCARED - TOBIAS
WILL HELP YOU ALONG.
MARCO:
THE ALIENS ARE VERY
HARD TO BEAT. MAKE
SURE YOU HAVE POWERFUL
MORPHS IF YOU
FIGHT ONE!
I don't know, my wimpy dog morph seemed to work fine...
Crap. I wandered off and got attacked by an Emu-Bajir in chimp morph... My chimp got knocked out, so I demorphed in front of a Controller and morphed dog instead. The game doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this, of course. But I'm still going to reload. When your morph loses all its health, it's gone for good, and I like the chimp.
I used the snake morph to get over the wall like Tobias told me. There was a crack in it, and this helped the snake get over... somehow.
Another Emu-Bajir ambushed me in the Gardens, which for some reason has a castle in the middle as its sole feature. The Emu-Bajir killed my snake morph, so I let out the secret of the Andalite Bandits again and morphed a dog. I got "Super Food" as a reward. You know, like a Super Potion in Pokemon, only not.
(My 2010 playthrough ended there)
I kind of like the music inside the Gardens. (hums it) It's the zoo portion, by the way. I don't see the amusement park anywhere.
I'm restarting because a stupid lion killed my dog morph. I can't do anything without my dog morph. What I don't understand is, why am I just allowed to walk into the lion enclosure? And why is it open?
I also can't fight wolves. I got a Game Over. Whatever.
I found some machine in a huge open space, but I can't interact with it.
I just found another one. Maybe it's supposed to be a seat or something.
I found some more food. What would be really cool would be if I knew how to use items. I'll go look it up on the net.
...Oh forget it. I can't find anything. I did find a nice review, though.
Okay, I got a kangaroo morph. It's probably useless, but I'll try it out anyway.
It was useless, and the walk cycle looks silly. It moves its body, but not its head, for some reason.
okay, I killed the wolf this time, and I got a pole that made Tobias talk to me...? This doesn't make sense, but how much of the game does? There are four wave transmitters, he said, but he didn't say what they look like. I remember seeing something in the lion enclosure, I'll go there.
I understand how to use food now. I use it automatically when I get it. Right. I also discovered that apparently, dogs can fight Hork-Bajir better than wolves can.
There's a guy in the lion enclosure and I can't talk to him, possibly because the game is messed up.
I disconnected all the thingies, and now Tobias is talking about how some is in "Oanger". Really, he said Oanger.
Now I need my bat morph. I got rid of my bat morph. Oops. But I continued from the game's last save, so I don't need to start all over again.
And that's the end of my notes. I really hate getting unto unwinnable situations, so I don't think I was willing to continue after that. Stupid morph limit.
This is making me wonder what a good Pokemon ripoff Animorphs game would be like. The first thing I'd do would be to change the method of acquiring things to some sort of mini-game, and get rid of the morph limit. And maybe a time limit on morphs? And allow you to fight as a human.
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