I'm kind of avoiding this for spoiler potential, I want to see stuff on my own. So I offer just this simple little thing: On the level that said "Give Santa something he likes that he doesn't have here already" I dropped in Mrs. Claus and got the Star.
I went through the tutorial and got to the first actual mission where you had to give two of the four people an item that they could use. I chose "spoon" for the chef, and instead of dragging it to him, I double-tapped it, equipping it on myself. Then I clicked on the chef, thinking I'd give it to him, only to have Maxwell start beating the chef with the spoon. As I was beating the chef, the cop got angry and went all Rodney King on me. I ended up killing the chef, the cop killed Maxwell, and I had to restart the level, yet I felt no sense of losing in that instance. This game is absolutely awesome.
OK so at the start i summoned a ghost, and i could not kill it. I tried chain gun, t-rex, kraken, god, and more. so i brought up an ooze and a slime to fight my ghost but they could not kill each other, a mine finally took out the ooze and slime. I tried a soul but that created a new ghost. I tried an exorcist but he got scared, and the necromancer was their friend. so I tried the necronomicon and was able to turn the ghosts in to my undead playthings. they will protect you aslong as you hold the necronomicon, but if you turn to many things into the undead the necronomicon turns into one of the undead, and your newly created army will attack you.
also if you summon "me" the blue maxwell will take items of of other people. he stole a vampire hunters sword.
@sanyo: I also prefer them because if a jetpack touches water, it shorts out and can no longer used. Wings, as far as I know, can get wet still work.
My absolute favorite thing to use for flying though, is a Pterodactyl. It doesn't have a limit to how long it can fly for, like the jetpack and wings, and its small, compared to the Helicopter and UFO.
@spaceghozt: I found that using a pterodactyl is one of the easiest way to fly things around. I lifted that bus out of the water no problem with it and some rope.
One of my favorite solutions was in the level where you have to wake the boy and feed the girl. After waking him twice with an alarm and alarm clock, I still needed to wake him two more times for gold star. I was kind of surprised that both shooting him with a pellet gun and tasering him counted.
It's hilarious the way this game counts things as proper solutions sometimes. Thankfully, there are only a small handful of levels where it's a bit unclear on what exactly they expect of you to count the win, or you know what they want, but can't quite envision how to piece it together.
i typed in "timeshare" and then clicked on the building, and some old dude popped out. Then i filled it with cats.
the best is just summoning random stuff and seeing what it looks like and how it interacts. For example a liger actually looks different from a tigon. they both fight.
The "black knight" looks different from a regular knight and is aggressive toward everything, but dies very easily.
for some reason devils cant kill priests either, but they rip up angels. the interactivity is endless!
Well, found a copy today (new, at a local game exchange, weird, huh?) and have been messing with the sandbox for a couple of hours now. I loved it up until the point that I spawned the inevitable:
Pirate VS Ninja. The pirate somehow cheated and hacked the ninja to death, leaving only a small ninja star behind. The pirate then left me alone as if nothing happened. As he turned, I picked up the star and avenged my stealthy friend and threw the star into the pirate's scurvy back in retaliation. I then sat and pondered why this game hates ninjas. I then spawned a sad panda to ponder with me.
Any game that garners this much fun-value by letting people craft their own experiences so they can tell stories later on is awesome... these experiences are few and far between. One of the only other games that let me do this was L4D.
Bravo 5th Cell, you guys have earned so much respect.
I've started to notice a bit of a problem; this game was not made with me in mind. Sure, I can lord my abilities over the oafs, yokels, hicks, and otaku (which I summoned) with my hot pink griffin-drawn limo, but so many things I've typed in haven't been available.
Sure, it's fine that "alchemist" summons a wizard, and that when dropped on something "magic" will freeze it into a giant ice cube... but if there's magic, why no alchemy? Both lead and gold exist in the game, after all. I appreciate babe, super model, and girlfriend being three different entities... but is it at the expense of ufologists and ufo hunters? If I can give an anal probe to a Martian and leave it alone with a yokel, why can't I include someone whose only interest is said Martian?
I beat the farm level in world one on advance, by simply summoning the same animals with different names (IE: Rooster, cock) I also summoned an alpaca for the farmer to ride.
I think my favorite thing I have done, thus far, was the Prison Break Out level. I tried summoning every manner of paranormal being, and just moving it from cell to cell.
I remembered, though, that the witch turned all the people into frogs, and ate them!
So I proceeded to make a witch, and let her eat the prisoners first. After she ate the third, she passed out, so I let her sleep it off. After that, she took care of the cops, and that was the end!
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Termites.
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agh-- I can't believe I didn't catch this. You're right, it has termite.
I needed them to chew up some wood for me.
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also if you summon "me" the blue maxwell will take items of of other people. he stole a vampire hunters sword.
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Also, my most summoned item would have to be the jetpack.
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My absolute favorite thing to use for flying though, is a Pterodactyl. It doesn't have a limit to how long it can fly for, like the jetpack and wings, and its small, compared to the Helicopter and UFO.
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It's hilarious the way this game counts things as proper solutions sometimes. Thankfully, there are only a small handful of levels where it's a bit unclear on what exactly they expect of you to count the win, or you know what they want, but can't quite envision how to piece it together.
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the best is just summoning random stuff and seeing what it looks like and how it interacts. For example a liger actually looks different from a tigon. they both fight.
The "black knight" looks different from a regular knight and is aggressive toward everything, but dies very easily.
for some reason devils cant kill priests either, but they rip up angels. the interactivity is endless!
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Pirate VS Ninja. The pirate somehow cheated and hacked the ninja to death, leaving only a small ninja star behind. The pirate then left me alone as if nothing happened. As he turned, I picked up the star and avenged my stealthy friend and threw the star into the pirate's scurvy back in retaliation. I then sat and pondered why this game hates ninjas. I then spawned a sad panda to ponder with me.
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Bravo 5th Cell, you guys have earned so much respect.
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Sure, it's fine that "alchemist" summons a wizard, and that when dropped on something "magic" will freeze it into a giant ice cube... but if there's magic, why no alchemy? Both lead and gold exist in the game, after all. I appreciate babe, super model, and girlfriend being three different entities... but is it at the expense of ufologists and ufo hunters? If I can give an anal probe to a Martian and leave it alone with a yokel, why can't I include someone whose only interest is said Martian?
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I remembered, though, that the witch turned all the people into frogs, and ate them!
So I proceeded to make a witch, and let her eat the prisoners first. After she ate the third, she passed out, so I let her sleep it off. After that, she took care of the cops, and that was the end!
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I let all the prisoners go free, slapped on the old invisibility cloak, hit the blue switch, and let them have at each other.
I killed the remaining police officer with the mech. Overkill maybe?
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"Josh".
Who the hell is that, and why does he get summoned?