Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars
- This article is about the new version of this game. For the old version, see Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars (original)
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| ID # | 585 |
| World | Virtupets Space Station |
| Category | Action |
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Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars is a rail shooter game. Players help Zygorax, a Grundo maintenance worker, defeat alien Evil Fuzzles that are attacking the Virtupets Space Station.
It was featured in the Daily Dare competition in 2007, and in the Games Master Challenges in 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012.
There have been two games with this title. The first one was release on 30 March 2002 and was replaced on 6 October 2005 by a remake with the same name.
How to play
In the game, the player mans an X-Scrub 4000 Walker Bot, a type of mecha or powered exoskeleton. In it, they patrol the hull of the Space Station and must destroy as many Evil Fuzzles as they can.
The player does not control the movement of their Walker: it moves automatically in a straight line towards the next station, shops where the player can buy upgrades and repairs. The player is only responsible for the weapons, using the mouse to target and fire the Walker's megagun. The player can purchase smart bombs and stun bombs from the stations that destroy all the Fuzzles on screen or stun them, respectively.
If a Fuzzle reaches the Walker before the player destroys it, it will damage the Walker's hull. If the walker loses all their hull points, the game is over. Additionally, players must contend with land mines placed in the Walker's path. As they cannot steer the walker, they must also use their weapon to destroy these mines.
Evil Fuzzles tend to attack in pairs, often in addition to a mine. For every Fuzzle the player destroys, they start a bonus score count. This appears as a green box on the Walker's screen. The bonus goes up with every consecutive Fuzzle they kill without missing - if they miss, the combo goes back to zero. Blowing up a landmine doesn't add to the bonus, but doesn't break the combo either. The player claims these points by shooting the bonus score box. Shooting one Fuzzle gives a bonus of 1 x 2, shooting two in a row gives a bonus of 2 x 2, shooting three in a row gives a bonus of 3 x 2 and so on. Destroy ten Fuzzles in a row, and the multiplier goes up to x 3 - that is, 10 x 3, 11 x 3, and so on. The player can see in the top left corner how much longer they have before they reach the station and the level ends - any bonus points unclaimed by then are lost.
At each station, the number of Fuzzles killed are converted into Virtucreds that can be used to buy upgrades. Any unspent Virtucreds are kept until the next station.
Enemies
To begin with, all the Fuzzles will be destroyed by a single shot from your starter weapon. However, with each level, Fuzzles will appear that require an extra hit to destroy.
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| Levels 1 & 2 | Levels 2 & 3 | Levels 3 & 4 | Levels 4 & 5 | Levels 5 & 6 | Levels 6 & 7 | Levels 7 & 8 |
| 1 hit | 2 hits | 3 hits | 4 hits | 5 hits | 6 hits | 7 hits |
Each upgrade to the megagun increases its damage by one - this means that while the first gun will take two hits to kill a yellow Fuzzle and four hits to kill a brown Fuzzle, the second gun will kill a yellow Fuzzle in one shot and a brown Fuzzle in two, and the fourth gun will kill a Brown fuzzle and all weaker in one shot. Whenever a Fuzzle takes damage but doesn't die, its colour downgrades, e.g. using the default gun on a brown Fuzzle will turn it into a green Fuzzle, then a yellow Fuzzle, then a red Fuzzle each time.
The final gun upgrade deals seven times the damage of the first gun, which means it destroys a purple Fuzzle in one hit. However, even the most powerful gun takes two hits to destroy the grey Fuzzles.
Original version
| Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars | |
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| ID # | 128 |
| World | Space Station |
| Category | Action |
| Replacement | Evil Fuzzles from Beyond the Stars |
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The original version of this game was released on 30 March 2002, and interred in the Game Graveyard when the remake was released on 6 October 2005.
The original version plays very similarly to the remake. One difference is that, in the original version, Fuzzles would sometimes appear from the left and right of the Walker rather than from ahead. This gave the player very little time to react to destroy them without the radar upgrade. The player could turn their Walker to face left or right with the b and n keys to check if Fuzzles were sneaking up on them.
In this version of the game, the only land mines that would damage the Walker were the ones directly in front of it. Most land mines could be safely walked past.
Trivia
- The font used in this game is called Seized Future.
External links
- Editorial: #273, #406
- Neopedia: Zygorax the Grundo