HINTS FOR THE GAME "SHADOWCASTER"

BY ORIGIN!!!!

Okay, first off, this is a great game... There hasn't been a game engine developed

since the original WOLFENSTEIN that I liked as much... I'm not saying SHADOWCASTER'S

game engine is easy or perfect, but it the combined effect of smooth scrolling and

point and click interface go great with my LOGITECH TRAKBALL! I must admit however

that I wouldn't want to play this game with a mouse or joystick... TOO cumbersome!

The graphics are great!!!! Not to be outdone!!! Truly the best graphics I've seen

this side of CDROM... The bad thing about that however, is that once you play the

game, other game graphics seem pretty lame... more later...

LEVEL ONE - LAND OF THE MAN-EATING PLANTS! - YOU START OUT THE GAME WITH

A TWO LEGGED MYOPIC CREATURE RUNNING TOWARD YOU... CLICK ON THE FOOT ICON AND

THEN HOLDING THE CURSOR AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN (FOR THE BEST AGGRESSIVE STANCE)

KICK THE EVER-LUVIN' CRAP OUT OF THE THE GUY... HE WILL DECINTEGRATE INTO A PUDDLE

OF SLUDGE IF YOU KICK HIM LONG ENOUGH...

NEXT GO TOUCH THE OBELISQUE AND GAIN THE POWER OF THE MAORIN... NOW CHANGE TO

MAORIN... JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT... CHANGE BACK TO HUMAN AND GO FIND THE POD

PEOPLE... LITTLE SQUAT RED TULIPS THAT STAND UP AND BITE YOU (REMEMBER LITTLE SHOP

OF HORRORS) WELL IMAGINE TWENTY AUDREY 2'S.... JUST KICK THOSE PLANTS INTO

SEED PULP (AND REMEMBER TO COLLECT PLENTY OF SEEDS.... AT LEAST 6...)

PICK UP WHAT EVER YOU FIND ALONG THE WAY...POTIONS, WANDS, WHAT NOT... BE SURE
TO KEEP CHECKING YOUR MAP TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE COVERING EVERY INCH OF LAND...

AFTER YOU'VE KICK THE CRAP OUT OF ENOUGH PLANTS... GO TO THE ACID POOL...(FIND IT

ON THE MAP) NOW DROP A SEED-POD FROM A BEATEN POD CREATURE ONTO THE ACID POOL..

NOTICE IT EXPLODES AND SPREADS OUT? YOU MAY NOW MAKE A PATH ACROSS THE ACID POOL

BY DROPPING SEED-PODS IN FRONT OF YOU AS YOU GO!!! YOU WILL WANT TO PROGRESS

TO THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER OF THE ACID POOL... THERE ONCE YOU REACH DRY LAND YOU
NEED TO

CHANGE TO YOUR MAORIN FORM AND USE YOUR CAT-SIGHT.... YOU WILL NOTICE IN FRONT OF

YOU THAT THERE ARE PRESSURE PLATES ON THE GROUND... DON'T STEP ON THEM!!!!!!

THEY WILL LET LOOSE A HORRENDOUS FIREBALL VOLLEY THAT WILL WIPE YOU OUT!!!!

CAREFULLY NAVIGATE AROUND THEM TO THE OTHER SIDE..... CHANGE BACK INTO HUMAN FORM...
AND

NOW TAKE OUT THE SHURIKEN (PROUNOUCED "SURE I CAN") THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE PICKED UP

ALONG THE WAY...

YOU WILL COME TO A SPLIT PATH WITH THREE SEPARATE FIREBALLS IN FRONT OF THEM...

ABOVE THE FIREBALLS FLOATING IN MID-AIR ARE THREE " BLUE-EYEBALL THINGYS"

(I HOPE THAT'S NOT TOO TECHNICAL) HURL YOUR SHURIKEN REPEATEDLY AT THE "BLUE EYEBALL

THINGYS" UNTIL THEY EXPLODE... ONCE YOU HAVE DESTROYED ALL THREE THEN YOU CAN

GO KILL THE TWO-LEGGED CREATURES THAT ARE BEHIND THE FIREBALLS... BE CAREFUL!!

THEY SHOOT LIGHTNING BOLTS FROM THEIR HEADS!!!!

ONCE THEY ARE DEAD SEARCH AROUND FOR A LITTLE WHITE STATUE HEAD... PICK IT UP..

DROP THE REST OF THE SEED-POD THINGYS AND TAKE OFF... YOU NOW NEED TO FIND

THE FLOATING CHEST!

USE YOUR SHURIKEN ON THE FLOATING CHEST AND IT SHOULD DROP OUT A TRIAGLE KEY...

ONCE YOU USE THE TRIANGLE KEY ON THE WATER FOUNTAIN-THINGY (IT HAS A TRIANGLE

KEY ON THE SIDE OF IT) YOU CAN WARP TO THE NEXT LEVEL....
I HAVE NEARLY FINISHED THIS GAME AND AM MORE THAN WILLING TO POST MORE HINTS

FOR IT BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE RESPOND... I'M NOT TYPING MY LITTLE FINGERS OFF FOR

NUTHIN!!! IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE HINTS FOR THIS GAME OR "RETURN TO ZORK" OR

"PRIVATEER" OR "THE LEGACY" OR "ALONE IN THE DARK" JUST DROP A NOTE TO ME

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