Bonkheads playthrough (longplay)

(review) Bonkheads is a platform game based on the popular Mario Bros. Arcade. It was released both for the MAC and the PC. The MAC version was released by Aspyr and the PC version by 1AM. The two releases are not completely identical, as the PC version lacks some features of the MAC version : the network play feature is absent from the PC version for instance, meaning that 2 players have to huddle around the same keyboard, or connect a second keyboard to the PC. Another feature of the MAC version is the ability to create your own level packs using the included "Bonkreator". Just like Mario Bros Arcade, you take control of two troll borthers : Grag (the green troll) and Thog (the blue troll). In a 1-player game you take control of Grag only. In a 2-player game, each player takes control of one troll at the same time. There IS a way to play as Thog in a 1-player game, by holding down the "~" key while selecting the 1-player option, but it only works in the PC version. Thog is my favourite and since I play alone, I can't use him in the MAC version. One strategy to play as Thog would be to select the 2-player game and just let Grag die, but it's pretty stupid having to do that. I feel there should have been an option to select who you want to play as in a 1-player game. It doesn't matter anyway, because besides the different colour, the two trolls are identical. Your goal is to clear all the pests from each level, then advance to the next one. There are 12 worlds, each with a different theme to it, with 6 levels each (the last one being a boss battle) making up a total of 144 levels to clear. Once you finish all the worlds in order, you go through all of them once again in a random order. The 6th level of each world has a boss you have to fight, which involves bonking them from underneath like all the other pests. The bosses are : Shrew-Man-Chew (a rat sorcerer), T. Wrecks (a dinosaur) and D. Evil (the devil himself). Each of them show up at the end of 4 worlds in a row, so you fight Shrew in levels 6, 12 and 18 (worlds 1,2,3,4), T.Wrecks in levels 24, 30 and 36 (worlds 5,6,7,8) and so on. Every time you encounter them they get faster and more agressive, obviously. Like in Mario Bros Arcade, there is a POW, in this case TNT box, which will knock out all the pests on screen. Be careful because it will also wake up any pests that already were knocked out at the moment of the explosion. You can hit the TNT box 3 times in a row before it disappears and must be replenished. You refill your TNT box when one of the trolls collects a gem called "Blastidian" (a green gem with a stick of dynamite on it). You uncover gems by bonking random blocks. The other gems are :
- "Adrenaline" a blue gem with a white rabbit on it which gives you a speed boost
- "Tranquilium" a red gem with a turtle on it which slows the pests down
- "Densidian" (the only gem with a negative effect) a blue gem with a black scale weight on it, will keep you from jumping at full height (unless you grab it under water - makes no difference then)
- "Moolamite" a yellow gem with a dollar bill on it will reward the troll that collects it with 5000 points (grabbing a second one will give you an extra life)
- "Resurrectite" the blue gen with "1UP" on it will give the troll that collects it an extra life
Overall, the game is addicting, fun and fast paced, especially when you play it with another player. Try it, I guarantee you will be hooked. All the footage was recorded in one sitting, making this my longest youtube video so far (3 hours and 12 minutes).

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[PixelGuts]

This is amazing.