![]() Now that the Simpsons family has escaped the steam bath, switch to Marge and recruit the four citizens standing outside Skybucks. Now switch to Homer and have him inhale the helium from the canister on the right side of the steam baths and hover over the same wall and step on the second switch, opening the gate. Use Bart's cape to ride the current up, then sail over the building on the right to a switch on the floor. Have Lisa interact with the meditation statue and use Buddha's hand to freeze a dolphin, then drop the resulting ice cube on the burning coals in the center, creating an air current. Objective: Get the Simpsons out of the steam baths Once over, turn around and pull the switch to open the gate, letting the other Simpsons through. Take down the space aliens that attack first, then have Homer ball-boost near the top of the staircase to sail over either side of the fence. Turn around to find a giant staircase with a closed fence at the top. Objective: Open the gates to the steam bath Flip the switch to open the gates and reunite the Simpsons family. Grapple to one more cloud from here, then make a flying leap and glide to a switch visible on the far side - you should barely make it. From here, jump to the nearby cloud moving up and down, then leap from it when it's at its highest point to the stationary cloud above. From there, grapple to the cloud, then to a second one beyond. Have Bart navigate around the fence by running through the house on the left, then drop to the walkway below and look for a platform extending from the walkway. There are two gates ahead which prevent most of the Simpsons from getting past, so you'll have to work your way across the clouds to a switch that Bart can flip. With Shakespeare down, the gates leading into Heaven will open, and the remainder of the Simpsons family will join you - nice! Shakespeare will then appear on a different cloud - target him like before and repeat this until he's down for good. Run up and punch him while you have the chance. He'll fall to the ground after a few shots, stunned. We finally did it.The best way to tackle Shakespeare is to use fire Bart's slingshot perpetually while strafing around Shakespeare to avoid his return fire. Not believing what we saw, we turned on our old PS2 and replayed the whole game again for that last mission. Why were the arrows coming in so slow? Where were the many rounds? And why did it look so easy? What we watched and what we remember playing were two completely different things. We watched the mission on YouTube together trying to jog our memory of it. ![]() With that shame hanging on our shoulders since 2008, we recently spoke about this game and how this last mission drove us both to the point of despair. What was wrong with us? To say we were embarrassed would be an understatement. When I asked my brother how many tries it took for his friend to complete it, he looked at me straight-faced and said he completed it first try. Stuck on this single mission, it got to a point where my brother went to his friend's house, taking our memory card with him and asking his friend to complete the challenge for us. It didn't.Īs with most of our time playing games together, there were tears and tantrums, and I'm sure one of us (probably both) threw the controller on the floor a few times - earning us a telling-off from our mum - out of frustration. We would repeatedly try to get the buttons right, tapping the controller aggressively hoping that this torture would end. Well, for eight-year-old me and my brother, who was nine, it was difficult. ![]() There are three rounds and after each round it gets faster, and if you mess up even once you have to start again. To pass this mission, players must use the arrow keys in a challenge that resembles one of those arcade dance machines. It was the mission against God that had me and my brother on the brink of meltdowns. ![]() Sure, we defeated the two-headed dragon that resembled Aunt Selma and Patty, going up against evil dolphins, and even Futurama characters. We thought we'd get through it with no bother - even with our lack of gaming skills at the time. The first mission as Homer was a piece of cake, literally. When we first started this game, we found it easy. The game follows the Simpson family - Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie - who learn they are part of a video game and are each given powers to beat Matt Groening, God, and even killer dolphins, in order to save Springfield. After much hype and talk from our friends and cousins, my brother and I stopped at nothing until we got our hands on it. The Simpsons Game first came out in autumn of the previous year. It was the summer of 2008, after much pestering our mum finally caved and bought us the new Simpsons game on PS2. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |