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"debbie b" <de...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Well, don't quote me, but one night after a few large ones, some of us
> decided it's a 'circle of life' type thing. Probably because of the
monkeys,
> kind of pre-human, always trying to escape/defeat evil 'the thing in the
> shadows'. Other than that I can't say.

It looked kind of like the now godlike guy and his goddesslike
girlfriend gave birth to a whole new earth-like world.
And then after the credits, there was that bit where he is
alone in a forest watching deer grazing. Suddenly a black
panther growls menacingly and the guy smiles. Was that
supposed to be his dark side surfacing? Did he just
create the panther that instant? Very weird.

> A few other things had me puzzled in the game though.
> In the Ireland bit, when looking for bits of the skull, the fox's den
seems
> a valid direction, but it's not, or is it there for the sole purpose of
> sending the fox to scare the chickens?

There doesn't seem to be anything in that little cave besides
the fox. If you don't scare the fox, I don't think you get that
piece of skull by the chickens. I don't see why not, but
maybe the fox decided to go foraging for chicken, since
it couldn't find any peace at home, and brought the bone
it had been chewing on.

> In the Mayan bit, the object was to bring back worship of Quetzacoatl
> instead of Tezcatlipoca. Now I'm no expert on Central American religion,
but
> Tezcatlipoca didn't exist in Mayan mythology, only Aztec, some confusion
> there, although they got the Xibalba bit right (yes, I watch Discovery
> Channel).

I don't know much about Mayan and Aztec mythology. My dictionary
says Tezcatlipoca is Aztec, as you say. It also says Quetzacoatl is
both Aztec and Mayan. Maybe this was supposed to be some
sort of transition period in the game. The priestess said something
about the neighboring villages all having begun to worship Tezcatlipoca.
The Cryo and Dreamcatcher sites call that level Yucatan, though
Dreamcatcher says your character is a Mayan warrior. The
walkthrough from Cryo calls the level Yucatan and not Maya.
I just downloaded it to check.

> Also, when fighting the Spider Goddess, you're not supposed to be able
to
> save the game after picking up the skulls, but I did, then got thrown
out of
> the web and found I still had the skulls in the inventory.

That's interesting. I wouldn't complain about it though.

> In the China bit, the old man gives over the turtle and a brass plate(in
the
> Dragon Room). The turtle is used, but what's the plate for? Must have
been a
> bit of redundant program.
>

I never figured that out either.

> I guess most games have these odd bits in them -.I thought a second
journey
> around hell only to find the mushroom is 'no longer available, sorry'
was
> quite amusing - I guess the programmers can't get everything right.

hehe. I missed that one.
I thought it was amusing how their version of hell was a sort of maze.
IMHO finding those stars in the jungle was more like hell though. ;�)