2/3/2024 0 Comments Wild 9 main character![]() Tactical Suicide Boss: Karn would be unbeatable if he stopped using his grab move.Funny enough, Wild 9's own "Drench" would be re-used as the end credits theme to Messiah.Justified in that the game's other music was composed by Tommy Tallarico. Recycled Soundtrack: MDK "Facing The Inevitable", "Grenich Time", "Vengeful Alien", "The Enemy Among Us" and Earthworm Jim "Falling" all make a reappearance here.Power Up Mount: Beast Engine, who can roar at enemies, and pick them up in its mouth.Packed Hero: If Wrex manages to stand under one of the countless mook spawners throughout a level as it's closing, he'll be packaged up into a brand name soup can, only able to hop around and cry for help (untill the game boots you back to the last checkpoint).She's basically Pamela Anderson if she was made of diamond. Fanservice: Crystal, at least by 32-bit standards. Metronomic Man Mashing: If there isn't any environmental hazards in the area (spikes, Man Eating Plants, gears, electrical fences) you can throw mooks into, you can simply use your electrical whip to bash captured mooks repeatedly into the ground until they fall apart.Marathon Boss: Karn isn't very difficult, he just takes a long time to beat. ![]() Infinite 1-Ups: Crateropolis has a hidden 1-up right at the beginning.and the quit/continue function preserves your life count and respawns all items.Despite apparently having a "face the size of New York", when you actually fight him he's only about ten times as tall as Wex himself, and is basically all face. Gameplay and Story Segregation: Big time with the description of Karn in the manual and on the box.Free-Fall Fight: Outpost Anom and Balor combined with Bottomless Pits.He seeks revenge on Karn for this, and the destruction of his kingdom. While away from the castle, Karn's bio-engineers captured him, turning him into a hulking beast with amazing strength and speed. Forced Transformation: Volstagg, the team's strongman, was once a prince, heir to a kingdom on his home planet.This includes gumming up grinders, putting out fires, making pathways over spikes, or riding up to a higher platform. Cruelty Is the Only Option: Often a puzzle or obstacle can only be overcome by jamming enemies into it in some fashion.Conveniently, he finds a new one at the end of nearly every stage. Almost every level begins with Wex walking away from the smoking, sparking wreckage of a hoverbike. Drench is one of the more dangerous levels in the game with all its' deadly water.The last 2/3 of Crystal Mines is one big Escort Mission.but if Crystal dies, you don't lose a life, you just get sent back to the checkpoint.But as useful as he is in the stage he's found in, he's still in that suit. And I Must Scream: Nitro is allergic to literally everything, and even when he's inside his protective suit, his allergies can still manifest themselves in an explosive sneeze.All There in the Manual: The manual goes into detail about the characters and their motivations, and better describes the plot.The Alcatraz: Gulag combined with Tailor-Made Prison for the captive: Nitro.After the End: Craterscape is the remains of a huge city Karn conquered and destroyed, and there are no signs of life there other than his minions.Action Bomb: Nitro is a strange example in that he only causes explosions, and doesn't exactly explode himself.This allows you to move them around, but most importantly, smash them against the floor, drag them along the ground, toss them off cliffs, put them inside death machines, decapitate them, lop them in half, jam them into moving fans, shove them into huge grinders, get them caught in gears, impale them on spikes, shove them inside death machines.īasically, the game lives on Video Game Cruelty Potential, and revels in it. The most unique feature of the RIG, and the game in general, is its ability to pick up enemies. With it, Wex can pick up and move objects, activate certain machinery, swing from it like a rope, and fire missles and grenades, provided he's picked some up. But that's just All There in the Manual.Īt its core, Wild 9 is about a guy named Wex with a rather unspecified weapon called the "RIG", an arm-mounted tractor beam-like electric lasso thingy and is the only one capable of using it. Led by Wex Major, user of the "RIG" and "Great Champion", they fight against the tyranny of Karn and his minions. The only ones left to oppose him are the Wild 9, a group of orphaned, teenage mutants, all with their own special abilities and talents. The game is set in the distant future, and the evil Karn has taken over the Andromeda Galaxy. Their idea was to make a game similar to Earthworm Jim, which they mostly succeeded with on the gameplay and atmosphere. Wild 9 is a 2❝ action platformer developed by Shiny Entertainment for the PlayStation and released by Interplay Entertainment in 1998.
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