So I was trying to guess the location before? Every time I opened and closed the map, it took a minute off the timer.
Now, see, that's how they encourage you to actually ask where you are rather than randomly guessing. It takes time for Yoshi to run all the way there from Antarctica and Luigi to wait to see if Yoshi arrives, after all! At least that's what I assume happens when you click the "Yoshi zoom" button. You don't lose time, though, if you just click on that crossed-out circle button. What's weird, though, is that in my copy of the game, if you choose that crossed-out circle button when you've already selected the correct city, Yoshi will arrive anyway, but you still won't lose any time. I think it may be a glitch.
By the way, I always imagined the timer as being in hours and minutes rather than minutes and seconds. Maybe it's because my computer runs the game slowly, or maybe I don't like to imagine Luigi being in such a mad rush.
Haha, I stopped the San Francisco thing ages ago. GOD BOWSER GET WITH THE TIMES
Yeah, too bad there's no way for the dialogue to take into account what order you finished the cities in on each floor.
...why is it casting a shadow on the sky?
Hey, it worked for those big blocks in Super Mario Bros. 3. Plus, they were BOLTED into the sky.
THE SOUTH POLE IS FLOODING! HAIRDRYERS ARE EVERYWHERE! INNOCENT PENGUINS ARE LEFT HOMELESS!
I love how Luigi is way too late to save the world from catastrophic global warming. I mean, if Antarctica is vanishing so rapidly that penguins would rather SWIM TO ANOTHER CONTINENT than just move a little further inland, I think we've got much bigger problems than a few homeless penguins. You'd think someone would try to get Hafta Havit to STOP SELLING THE BAD GUY PARTS FOR HIS DOOMSDAY DEVICE.
It'd be pretty awesome if it was, though. Just look at it! Imagine strolling by the MONA LISA PYRAMID!
...Roy's glasses are also flame retardant, apparently.
That always reminds me of the boss from Double Dragon 2 who disappeared but left his mask behind.
Now I wonder: If Morton were in this game, what would he leave behind? Would his star birthmark peel off somehow? Or just those few little strands of hair he's usually shown with? Actually, IS Morton in some version of the game? I read about an add-on disk that supposedly adds 10 more cities to the game, for those of us who love it THAT MUCH, and I assume that means there would be two more floors with the last two Koopa Kids. Or did the original version of the game come with only 15 cities like the SNES version, and I've been playing the expanded game all along? I'd really like to know!
I THINK you always get the same amount when you return stuff, I know you get extra money depending on how much time you have left when you finish, and I think you might lose money if you get a question wrong or something like that.
I think you can also get a bonus on returning one of the artifacts if you do it in a certain order or something, but I could never figure out how to do it after the first level. The newspaper always mentions one of the artifacts as having a bonus attached.
The NES version's point system is really worthless, though, since there isn't even a timer to affect your final score. The total at the end is always the same!
Ohhhhhhh so it's for RANSOM MONEY, not just to sell the stuff. Okay, that makes more sense.
Yeah, I also figured that's why you get quizzed before you return something: The landmark curators are all paranoid that Luigi is on the Koopas' side (He does wear green, after all), and they think he might give the reward money to Bowser! Although I can't understand why they assume a thief couldn't have done the same amount of research. Oh well.
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Date: 2008-03-06 07:19 am (UTC)Now, see, that's how they encourage you to actually ask where you are rather than randomly guessing. It takes time for Yoshi to run all the way there from Antarctica and Luigi to wait to see if Yoshi arrives, after all! At least that's what I assume happens when you click the "Yoshi zoom" button. You don't lose time, though, if you just click on that crossed-out circle button. What's weird, though, is that in my copy of the game, if you choose that crossed-out circle button when you've already selected the correct city, Yoshi will arrive anyway, but you still won't lose any time. I think it may be a glitch.
By the way, I always imagined the timer as being in hours and minutes rather than minutes and seconds. Maybe it's because my computer runs the game slowly, or maybe I don't like to imagine Luigi being in such a mad rush.
Haha, I stopped the San Francisco thing ages ago. GOD BOWSER GET WITH THE TIMES
Yeah, too bad there's no way for the dialogue to take into account what order you finished the cities in on each floor.
...why is it casting a shadow on the sky?
Hey, it worked for those big blocks in Super Mario Bros. 3. Plus, they were BOLTED into the sky.
THE SOUTH POLE IS FLOODING! HAIRDRYERS ARE EVERYWHERE! INNOCENT PENGUINS ARE LEFT HOMELESS!
I love how Luigi is way too late to save the world from catastrophic global warming. I mean, if Antarctica is vanishing so rapidly that penguins would rather SWIM TO ANOTHER CONTINENT than just move a little further inland, I think we've got much bigger problems than a few homeless penguins. You'd think someone would try to get Hafta Havit to STOP SELLING THE BAD GUY PARTS FOR HIS DOOMSDAY DEVICE.
And I don't remember the Mona Lisa being painted on the side of the Musée du Louvre (if that's what that's supposed to be, anyway), but okay.
It'd be pretty awesome if it was, though. Just look at it! Imagine strolling by the MONA LISA PYRAMID!
...Roy's glasses are also flame retardant, apparently.
That always reminds me of the boss from Double Dragon 2 who disappeared but left his mask behind.
Now I wonder: If Morton were in this game, what would he leave behind? Would his star birthmark peel off somehow? Or just those few little strands of hair he's usually shown with? Actually, IS Morton in some version of the game? I read about an add-on disk that supposedly adds 10 more cities to the game, for those of us who love it THAT MUCH, and I assume that means there would be two more floors with the last two Koopa Kids. Or did the original version of the game come with only 15 cities like the SNES version, and I've been playing the expanded game all along? I'd really like to know!
I THINK you always get the same amount when you return stuff, I know you get extra money depending on how much time you have left when you finish, and I think you might lose money if you get a question wrong or something like that.
I think you can also get a bonus on returning one of the artifacts if you do it in a certain order or something, but I could never figure out how to do it after the first level. The newspaper always mentions one of the artifacts as having a bonus attached.
The NES version's point system is really worthless, though, since there isn't even a timer to affect your final score. The total at the end is always the same!
Ohhhhhhh so it's for RANSOM MONEY, not just to sell the stuff. Okay, that makes more sense.
Yeah, I also figured that's why you get quizzed before you return something: The landmark curators are all paranoid that Luigi is on the Koopas' side (He does wear green, after all), and they think he might give the reward money to Bowser! Although I can't understand why they assume a thief couldn't have done the same amount of research. Oh well.