Bonkheads Mac/PC Playthrough [HQ]

FACEBOOK :   / danielsgamevault   ------- My longest video on Youtube - 3 hours of trolling :)) ------- Bonkheads is a platform game very similar to the popular Mario Bros. Arcade. It was released on both the Mac and the PC. The MAC version was released by Aspyr and the PC version by 1AM. The two releases are not completely identical, as the PC version lacks some features of the Mac game, such as network play, so if 2 players want to play the game, they have to share the same keyboard, or connect a second keyboard to the PC. Another feature of the Mac version is the ability to design your own custom levels using the included "Bonkreator" tool. On to the game itself: like Mario Bros. Arcade, you take control of two brothers: two trolls named Grag, the green troll and Thog, the blue troll. In single player mode you can only play as Grag. In a 2-player game you each conTROL a troll at the same time :)) The trolls can bump into each other and even stand on top of one another. This gives you the option of playing either cooperatively and help each other out as a team, or competitively, where you try to sabotage and kill the other as much as possible, by pushing them into hazards and snatching 1-UPs before they do. There IS a way to play as just Thog in a 1-player game too, by holding down the "~" (tilde) key while clicking on the 1-player option, but it only seems to work in the PC version, that's why I couldn't play as Thog in the Mac version here. I guess one way to play as Thog by yourself would be to start a 2-player game and just let Grag die, since the game doesn't end if one troll runs out of lives, but it's pretty stupid having to do that. I really think there should be an option to select who you want to play as in a 1-player game - something like "select character" or "choose your hero". It doesn't matter at all who you choose, because outside their different appearance, the two trolls are identical. The goal is to eliminate all the living critters scurrying around each level. Contact with any of them kills you instantly and you have no weapons to attack or defend yourself with, unless you count the dynamite box. There are 12 different worlds, each with a different themes and there are 6 levels per world, the last level being a boss fight. Once you finish all 12 worlds in order, you go through all of them AGAIN in random order, for a total of 144 levels to clear ! Quite a lot ! Every 6th level you fight a boss character, which involves bumping them from underneath several times to finish them off, like all the other pests. The bosses are Shrew-Man-Chew the rat sorcerer, T. Wrecks the dinosaur and D. Evil the Devil himself. Each boss shows up 4 worlds in a row, so you fight Shrew in levels 6, 12 and 18 (worlds 1,2,3,4), T.Wrecks in levels 24, 30 and 36 (worlds 5,6,7,8) and so on. Every time you encounter them they're faster, more aggressive and take more hits to defeat. Like in Mario Bros. Arcade, there is a "POW" block, in this case the TNT box, placed somewhere random on screen, which knocks out all the pests on screen at once. Be careful, because the explosion also wakes up any creatures that were already knocked out prior to hitting the box. Critters that are not touching a platform when you hit the TNT box will not be affected, so if there are a lot of them that hop around like raptors and bees, chances are the explosion won't get them, so you'll have to do it the traditional way. You can hit the TNT box 3 times in a row before it disappears and must be replenished. You refill the TNT box when one of the trolls collects a gem called "Blastidian", a green gem with a stick of dynamite on it. You don't find these lying everywhere so use the dynamite sparingly ! You uncover gems by bonking random blocks. Other gems you come across are: "Adrenalin" a blue gem with a rabbit symbol which temporarily makes the troll who picks it up run faster "Tranquilium" a red gem with a turtle symbol which slows the pests down for a while "Densidian" (the only gem with a negative effect) a blue gem with the symbol of a black scale weight on it. It temporarily makes your troll heavier so he can't jump as high (unless you grab it in the underwater stages - it makes no difference then, because water makes you float when you jump) "Moolamite" a yellow gem with a dollar bill symbol which grants the troll 5k points (10k points gives you an extra life, by the way, so grabbing another gem like this gives you a 1-UP right away) "Resurrectite" the blue gem with a "1UP" symbol - self-explanatory Amazingly, even though the game is nothing more than 100+ levels of more or less the same screen just with different colors and layouts, there's only one soundtrack and you're doing the same thing over and over again, the overall fast-paced nature of the game and the sheer number of different level layouts keep it from becoming boring, especially if play with a friend. Try it, I guarantee you will be hooked !