
************ LOO ISLAND (wip version) SECRETS GUIDE *************

Written by TITIMASTER 2002.

- Hi everybody. If you get some trouble trying to scape from LOO
ISLAND then here is your guide. It will help you completing your
quest.

PARTS OF THIS GUIDE:

1) Useful advices.
2) Items list.
3) Enemy list.
4) Final Bosses list.
5) How I do to...?
6) Secret areas.
7) Bonus levels.

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1) USEFUL ADVICES.

- Difficult areas use to be easyer if you follow those
  advices in most of cases. Eventually you can find
  some areas that make you think "this is impossible"
  or "#$%#&%# creator of this #%%#&% game!". If you
  read those advices, you will think "WOW!!" or
  "This trap is very original" ;)
  Loo Island is not easy, so be patient. Game makes
  funny and surprising as you reach advanced levels.

- First of all, dont try to jump if you dont walk
  before. Maybe Mario or Sonic can do it, but you cant.
  Turning in the air is not easy, dont you think so?
  Most of times you will fall to the sea. Thats because
  you jump before running. Youve been warned.

- Learn to make lower jumps, simply hitting the jump
  key/button. Some zones are specially difficult if
  you press jump all time. You can be killed by the spikes
  of the roof of Earthworm Cave.

- Take a look at those green posters which sometimes are 
  difficult to interpretate. One of them is a ball and
  one arrow. That means you have to run to avoid be
  squashed by a giant rock. Other is an arrow making
  a jump to something. That means you must jump from one
  diving board to reach next area. The third  poster is 
  which has the word "DOWN". That means you must press 
  down to crouch if you dont want to be killed. The last
  of the posters is a bit hard to stand at the beginning.
  Two arrows and one "scrawl" in the middle of them. That
  means you can reach the other side  if you "ride" in
  one of the whirlwind of "Windy Forest". (See manual to
  know how the whirlwinds work).

- Remember that you can return to a cleared stage when
  you want. It is importan for one reason: you can take
  items, specially transformations. Then you can exit
  from the level pressing scape key.

- Sometimes you see an impossible jump to the other side.
  But if you see some gems floating in the air thats
  because you can jump over invisible blocks. When you
  walk over one of them, it appears, but dissapears when 
  you fall or jump from it, so be careful and remember
  its place, cause normaly you must walk over it again
  if you collect all of these gems. In fact, theres a
  secret bonus level in Windy Forest, over an invisible
  floor.

- Some enemys are difficult to see. The flowers (in Windy
  Forest, again) can be hard to see because of its color. 
  Just walk slowly, with caution. See "Enemy List" section.

- Dont try to find Magic Portals as you clear stages. 
  Better complete the game and return to first stages. Get 
  more than 50 gems and search for those portals. See 
  section "Bonus Levels" to know where exactly are them.

- If you play a cleared stage and you are going to die, 
  press scape to exit from there. For example: if you
  fall to the sea.


- Continue always. If you dont continue, gems and score
  return to zero.




2) ITEMS  LIST.

- Gems: Red gives you 250 points and add 1 to your gems.
        Green ones give you 500 and add 2 to your gems.
        Dont try to get all them. Score is not important
        in the WIP version, and although magic portals
        need 50 gems to be entered, the magic keys are not
        implemented yet. See "Bonus levels" section.

- Treasure box: add 1 live. In some cases levels have more
        than one live. Suicidate and get those lives. Be
        careful: when you clear a level, lives dissappear
        from it.

- Golden Icons: Use normal body to do short jumps with
        great preccission. Be careful when you get other
        bodys because those are a bit faster. If you get,
        for example, the bird body, you may fall to the
        sea because you get used to jump with normal body.
        Whith the normal body you must run most of times.
        Use bird body to plain and eventually doing long
        jumps. Some zones cant be cleared without this
        body (see "How I do to..." section for more info).
        Use speed body to make very long jumps or to scape
        from some final bosses (see "Final Bosses list").

- Magic Star: take it and youll be untouchable for the
        enemys. Be careful: this not protect you from be
        killed by traps or falls.


3) ENEMY LIST:

- Conus: Annoying enemyes, they appear at the beginning of 
        the game. Not hard to squash them, but they dont 
        get killed this way. You must push them to the sea 
        once youve squashed them to the ground.

- Crab: Be careful with its pincers. Jump over it when it
        walks, but not when it claps.

- Monkeys: They are innoffensive, but its coconuts can hit
        you in any moment. They cant be killed. Advance
        with deccission and most of times youll get lucky.

- Worms: The easyest enemys. Squash them with no problem.

- Scorpions: Stupid scorpions. They act in the same way as
         worms, but they appear in specially dangerous 
         zones.

- Animated Flowers: They are a bit hard to squash cause of
         its size. Its not easy to see them cause of its
         color.

- Slime Worm: The same as worms, but a bit harder to see 
         them cause of its color.

- Bats: Avoid them. They move fast, so is difficult to kill
         them before they hit you.

- Eagles: They appear in the boat zone, in Loo Bridges. 
         Avoid them for not to fall into the sea to visit
         Little Mermaid :)

4) FINAL BOSSES LIST.

- GIANT SQUID: Wait for him running from one side to other.
         When bubbles stop appearing he jumps to the ground.
         Hit him in this moment, but be quick, because he
         will attack you with ink balls. Five hits should
         finnish him. Repeat the same process when he returns
         to the sea. Bird body suggested.

- LAVA DRAGON: Hard enemy. He appears from the lava slowly 
         from the right or from the left side of the screen.
         Hit him in the head (exactly in the horns) quickly.
         You can do 3 hits if you stay over him without 
         moving. Then, he throws a fire ball against you. 
         Jump to avoid the fire ball. Then he returns to
         lava. This is important: if he appeared in the right
         side he will attack you from right to left, but
         if he appeared in left side he will attack from left
         to right. Run (not walk) in the opposite direction
         he appeared, and then, start again the process.
         You have to hit him ten times. Bird body suggested.

- GIANT WHALE: Just run avoiding stone blocks. The hardest 
         part is that where you must jump into three platforms.
         Wait for a coordinated movement of that platforms and
         advance as faster as you can. The rest depends on you.
         Use speed body or bird body to make this easyer.

- GIANT BIRD: Hardest enemy of this WIP version. He will clap
         his wings making you go back to some spikes on the
         wall. Run to avoid this. When he start to fly you 
         should be near the resort for one reason: the bird
         throws you some giant cherrys. Avoid them moving fast.
         The first to fall keeps in the ground, and the rest
         dissapear. Use that one to defeat bird, pushing it
         to the resort. The giant cherry will jump to the
         head of the giant bird. If you stay near the resort
         may be cherry falls directly on the resort, making this
         job for you. DONT STAY NEAR THE SPIKES or the cherry
         could fall there, so youll cant push it later.
         Two hits and the giant bird will go away. 

- KING RABBIT: Its a race between you and him. If you lose you
         wont die, but you cant pass to the next level and 
         your gems dissapear. Use speed body to win the race. 
         ITS IMPOSSIBLE to win without this body, so return
         tho one level where the speed icon appears (for exmpl,
         the lava dragon level, where the three icons are).
         Just RUN! RUN! RUN!... but BRAKING is very important, or
         you will lose something more than your gems.

- GIANT ALLIGATOR: The most exciting level (including the Whale)
         is this one. The stage is prepared to be cleared if you
         dont stop too much. All icons appear at this place, so
         you start with the normal body but at the middle of the
         stage you can get the bird body (highly recommended).
         a bit further is the speed body. Use it but dont run
         at fastest speed, because this level has a lot of traps.


5) HOW I DO TO...?

- If in some levels you pushed ALT-X in a desperated action, 
  and then you had been tempted to delete the game and, if it
  wasnt not sufficient, you made a "format c:" to eliminate all 
  about this game, or in some cases you thrown the monitor
  out the window or crashed the keyboard with a baseball bat, then
  this is your section. Here I explain how to pass through some
  zones that seem impossible, alive. Some courses dont appear. 
  Those levels are the final bosses. Here we go:

- Course N0: nothing special.
- Course N1: You must use bird body to plain at the end of this 
              course.
- Course N2: make a long jump with the speed body.
- Course N3: use bird body to take the gems over the sea at the
              end of the level, just before the Final Boss.
- Course N4: nothing special.
- Course N5: you have to fall in the first blocks, but do it
              without jumping. Just walk over it. Then do a 
              short jump to the other block, but I said a SHORT
              jump, or youll get killed with the spikes.
              A nit after the end of the course theres a platform
              moving in circles. Jump over it when it comes to you.
              As before, make a short jump. 
- Course N6: In the beginning there are two platforms moving up
              and down. Jump over them in the falling. When you
              are over them, press down for not to get killed with
              the spikes. Take your time to pass from one to 
              another.
              In the bats zone you have to fall to the left side
              where a live is. Then jump to the other side with
              care. When you go up theres a stone ball. Scape
              from it and once down you have to jump over the first
              stone block to avoid the stone ball. The rest is easy.
- Course N8: Here you must jump many times over a diving board.
              Do it in the right top of it.
- Course N9: Use the normal body for not to fall to the sea trying
              to go over the floating stone pillars. Be careful if
              you get the magic star. Its there to make you
              advance with deccission, but dont do so. Be careful.
              The checkpoint is over some stone blocks. Touch it
              using the moving platforms. If you dont touch it
              you must start from the beginning if you fall later.
              Theres a diving board near to the end of the course.
              Jump from the palm tree with the normal body or a bit
              after it with the bird body. Dont press jump or
              the diving board wont work well (see manual). If you
              can, get the speed body in the falling, becuse the
              next level is the Giant Whale, and youll need to run.
- Course N11:The boat stage is certainly difficult, but after some
              tries you will do it. Stay in the left side of the 
              screen, and when you jump press right. Then return to
              the left quickly. Theres no tricks in there.
- Course N12:Use whirlwinds to reach the other side. 
- Course N13:Jump to the whirlwind when it goes right, else youll
              find your death. Be careful with the scorpion of the
              other side. Then you have to go from platform to
              platform trying to avoid the second whirlwind. Remember
              that the whirlwinds only takes you in the upper part of
              them. Use the diving board tou reach the checkpoint. 
              Then jump over one of the whirlwinds. Once in the other
              side youll see a lot of gems floating in the air.
              Jump over them and an invisible block will appear under
              them. In the end of the course theres another whirlwind.
              Avoid it walking over the lower platforms.
- Course N15:use speed body to avoid giants walking, but be careful
              with the spikes of the walls.
- Course N17:use the lianes to cross river. At the end youll need 
              the bird body to cross the wood spikes. This body is
              over the tree near this zone, and a checkpoint too.
- Course N18:use woods to cross the river. After the first liane
              there is an extra life. If you get it you cant return
              if you dont use an invisible block. Search for it.
              Theres a part where you find two lianes and some
              crocodiles. Walk over the crocodiles because the lianes
              are not correctly programmed and they dissapear at any
              moment. I recommend the normal body for this.
- Course N19:nothing special.
          
  
6) SECRET AREAS.

- At the 1st course (0) you find the letters FDV written with some
  stone blocks. Those letters are the initial letters of my real name :)
  You can get the treasure box jumping in the right side of the "V".
  An invisible block will appear.

- In the 3rd course (2) you can see some gems floating over the sea.
  Fall and get them. Youll see ;)

- In the 6th course (5) get the gems under the spikes (at the end, where
  a platform moves in circles) simply pressing down.

- In the 7th course (6) after scaping from the stone ball and go up you
  can get the treasure box posted where the stone falls. Jump over
  the wall with the speed body. With him you can jump over the screen
  (like in Mario Bros) in way of the right. There you find three lifes.
  Keep walking to the end of the level, or return to the left and fall
  where a platform moves from one side to another, but do it just in the
  middle, or you will fall to the lava. There you find a magic portal 
  (only if you have 50 gems, of course).

- In the 9th course (8) walk over gems which float over the water and 
  youll find an invisible block, always. In one of them theres a magic
  portal. Be careful: the invisible blocks are only just under the gems.

- In the 13th course (12) the first fall after the first whirlwind is 
  not a fall. All of it is filled with invisible blocks. There is a magic
  portal that appears only with 50 gems at least.

- In the 18th level (17) in the beginning jump all that you can to the
  right. There is an extra life and some gems. 
  Jump over the tree when you see the first waterwall. Continue to the
  left without fall and youll find some reward.


7) BONUS LEVELS.

- You have 30 seconds to get all gems of the screen. This bonus level
should be different in each magic portal, but is not implemented yet :(
but this is useful to have many tries at the same bonus level.

Follow this way: Go up, right (you fall), right (and get all lower gems)
up (in the first way up) down (in the second) return up and then go right, 
fall to the final way up and go up.

