The second chapter in Brad Borne's epic tale of a man with righteous pants is here, and it is spectacular. The Fancy Pants Adventure: World Two is a Flash platform game focused on high-speed acrobatics, like a hand-drawn Sonic the Hedgehog. Twice the size of the original Fancy Pants Adventure, World 2 is one of the most ambitious, audacious Flash games out there, bursting with thrills, imagination, and whimsy. It even comes with its own motto — "Be fancy" — and that is probably the best advice you'll get from a video game this year.
Move left and right with the arrow keys and press [S] to jump. Press [down] to slide mid-run or roll down hills. You will encounter big black spiders and snails, and these can be dispatched by bouncing on their heads or sliding into them. But enemies are rare. Most of your time will be spent charging around in a gleeful trance, exploring the exaggerated physics of the Fancy Pants universe.
The game is best played supersonically. "Be fancy," the game tells you, and you obey, pirouetting off the heads of spiders, performing superfluous backflips over mountain peaks, wall-kicking up the sides of buildings. Even standing still, Fancy Pants Man is loose and restless, his arms slack, his magnificent hair bobbing with internal rhythm. He yearns to be fancy, to hurtle recklessly through the air, to play golf with a snail shell, to trip through the treetops like an extravagant ninja. He's the Zaphod Beeblebrox of stick figures, always halfway through his leap before he thinks to look, so cool you could store a side of meat in him for a month.
And the level design accommodates his whims, presenting you with grand curling cliffsides to sprint up, and platforms at just the right height to keep you running after a solid wall-jump. You can always slow down to hunt for secrets or murder a few spiders, but the lovely part of this game is that you can play as smoothly or as choppily as you like. You will be rewarded for searching thoroughly, but there is always an impressive line through each level, a speed-run that rewards you in pure blink-less satisfaction. That's the kind of thing that makes gamers into super-fans, recording their best times and posting them on Youtube.
Analysis: In some ways, World 2 shows the strain of its ambition. The graphics are much more detailed in some areas than others, and at the time of this writing, the music and secret trophies are still not included. Hours after its first release, the gaming public found dozens of bugs (most of which have been fixed). The lack of new enemies, the inconsistency of the art style, and the overall brief playing time suggests that the Fancy Pants Adventures are not yet all that they could be.
But what's here is fantastic. The background artwork bristles with humorous doodles. The bonus levels are fully-realized worlds unto themselves. Running upside down and shooting yourself out of cannons is exactly as great as it sounds, and the main character has the charisma and responsiveness to make it all seem easy. If the game is short, it is because there is no waste. As soon as a level runs out of ideas, it ends. And with cheerful disregard for narrative transitions, the door you open in, say, a desert, leads directly to, say, a futuristic cityscape.
It is a work of passion and escape, the game equivalent of a beach holiday in Mexico. Treasure it while it lasts. Be fancy. Play The Fancy Pants Adventure: World Two.
(Update: Music and bonuses have been added!)
OH man I guess I'll be trying without a walkthrough up! Cheers!
Finally! I can't wait to sink my teeth into this game!
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Finaly
OOOkay, I'm having a difficult time trying to play on a Mac laptop... what is a "jump key(s)"?
I found it - the "s" key! Of course!
hehe a jump key(s) means a jump key (i.e. the "s" key) ("s")
i had a weird bug in the second level in which i kind of bounced off the floor in one part and started running on the ceiling! when i tried to jump off the ceiling, the flash player froze up and i had to quit! :/ this game is definitely real neat, the physics can be kind of frustrating sometimes but on the other hand they're fun and fluid and far better than what one would expect from a flash game. looks like a sizeable improvement over the first, i will certainly be coming back to this one a few times.
My computer/browser doesn't like the game, I'll try tomorrow on another. But I'm wondering:'Ain't there any music during the game?' If not, it feels really empty :( especially on titlescreen.
ending was weird What no boss???!!!!?!?!
i'm not getting anythign but a grey screen with a picture that says "be fancy"
nowhere to click, no amount of keyboard mashing works, no loading signs...
WTF?
im so excited. finally, its released! now i need to stop shaking and set my hands on the arrow keys....
confused - that's the loading screen. The game is quite large, you'll need to be patient.
It would appear that the snail shell moves about as fast as you do; instead of trying to position yourself under the arrow at the top of the screen, just keep running!
Am I supposed to free the little boy from the king bee??? Nothing I try to do seems to affect them. Are they wallpaper?
Awesome! I've played every version of both games, and the official World Two is finally out! Can't wait to start playing. :)
#1, I reached level 6 and at the end, found
a sign with a "blog entry" from the Angry Rabbit, next to a door. The door led to the credits, game over!!
Huh????? #2, twice, at different points, the game froze. #3, There was no music and I couldn't find an option to turn it on or off. Otherwise it is a really nifty game!! Yay!!
Don't know if it was just my computer but the game kept lagging pretty bad....making it frustratingly impossible to play. =/
Why does it keep opening a second window with the original game in it? If I wanted to play that game, I would, I don't know... decide to play that game?
(And no, it's not because I went in the "Play World 1" door.)
i got the black pants… do they have any special abilities or are they just another color?
ps… you get them by getting the shell in the hole with the black pants flag like thing…
Can't talk, must play!
This game is great, but absolutely full of bugs (and I don't mean the snails and spiders! :p)
I was doing great and even managed to get the snail shell to the top of one of the levels and in the golf hole, but I eventually opened a door in one of the bonus rooms and was taken to the select level page, but it just froze there.
I'm quite upset at losing those hours of gameplay. :-(
This game is AMAZING!! I found the boss (the evil bunny) very challenging. The different worlds were so much fun to explore. I wonder how long it took Brad Borne to create the game?
Are Neddo and I the only ones having a problem here? I can not stop the game from loading and then immediately switching over to the first game. I can NOT get to this one no matter what I try. :(
Neddo, I had the same problem. Since the game has invisible platforms (heck, even in the "meh" room, in the middle of the springs up a bit), my guess is that it's a bug, and he didn't mean to do it.
It's a shame, more beta-testing would've found these bugs easily.
dumb question, I know, but where's the "extras" room?
wired, there should be a boss, after the level with the rope at the bottom.
Caya, after your point #1, there should be a boss level. Credits? That's wierd, if I'm not mistaken, I saw them in the beginning. for your point #3, the game has no music, except when you die and one other thing I can't recall.
me, they have no special abilities. It's just a different color.
D, I will agree with you, the game definately has a lot of bugs. Try reloading the page, then going back to Level Select? I'm not sure what to tell you.
Great game, quite extensive levels with lots of space for free roaming.
I have experienced a few bugs, with shell going through walls, and me being unable to wall jump on a wall I had done it on before, as well as an outline of an arrow sign that looked like it should have been coloured...
The snail physics are also a bit awkward, but hey.
Little things like that aside, it's a great game. I just got to the boss and then got a game over, so now I have to see if I can get there again.
Cheers all : )
I really wish this had been tested a lot more, because the movement is so fluid that it's a joy to just run and roll and jump around, but with all the bugs it's just too much of a mess for me to enjoy.
Fortunately, I didn't lose my game's progress when I restarted after the crash.
Been finding other bugs since - getting stuck in walls where I shouldn't be and not being able to wall jump on a wall that previously allowed me. The latter cost me all my lives, but I figured out that to fix it you just need to wall jump against a more straight forward wall and it should 'remember' how to wall jump again. Weird.
Anyway, does anyone know how I can change my pants? Lol, I should have unlocked the pink ones, black ones and another colour.
What on earth do you mean there is no boss???!?!?!?! You get to fight the angry rabbit at the end! And there is no extras room... i don't think... and no, you can NOT free the guy from the bee queen. Its just wallpaper.... just like you can't free the cow from the flying spider...
There was a bug involving the door to the boss when the game was first uploaded. It's fixed now. Keep up, people ;)
great game. however i am unable to fin the room where you change you pants. can any one help with that
D, according to the armorgames description, it's in the extras room, but there is no extras room, so I'm not quite sure what to say (maybe it's the other author's names in the level select room?)
Neddo, i could not agree with you more. Seeing as we've waited over a year, a week or more wouldn't have made a difference. I guess since he gave us a preview of a level which seems to be the only bug-free level, he didn't take into account the other levels. Oh well.
Finished the game AND collected all the fancypants! The purple ones were by far the hardest and took me ages to complete.
Great game - I had a lot of fun playing through it. The boss was good fun too once I realised
that I needed to hit him once he was dazed!
I really enjoyed kicking that crazy angry bunny for some reason.
Shame about the bugs in the game, because it would have been flawless without them!
nerts, I got as far as the level where the beta test was, but Mr. Pants wouldn't come out of the door! I don't think it was frozen, because the snail crawled off the screen while I was waiting.
I found a bug in the game. On the moving platforms level(right after the level released as a demo back in december, and right before the one with the cacti background), there's the platforms that move up and down. When you jump off of the second up and down one, there's one that moves left and right. The first time I jumped on it, a bunch of poof/dust graphics appeared around my feet for a second, the platform didn't move, and I got bumped off the platform to a place about 1/4 inch down and left from the platform, so I was standing on air, but not falling. I pushed the right arrow key, and then I fell down. When I jumped up again, the platform worked right.
I'm not sure how to report this to the author, and I'm hoping he reads the comments here.
Aside from the bugginess people seem to be reporting, it's a nice game. I like the golf aspect of it, though I haven't managed to get any in the holes yet.
Hmm... found random bug/glitch/crazy thing. And i haven't even started the game yet FWEEEeeeee...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y174/dataran/hehe.jpg?t=1199956717
Seemed a little short to me, but I just burned through the game to beat the boss, I didn't explore or try for the pants. But that's how I played World 1, and I remember it taking a little longer.
I didn't notice much in the way of glitches, just a little lagging in the gameplay, but that was due to my computer more than the game, I think. Great game, I guess my only complaint is its length.
Great artwork.
I've found a nice little thing, when you duck fast repeatedly fancy pants guy soon starts headbanging, doin the corna...
its great but i only got a few levels in before the 5 minute load got really annoying everytime i died or got to a door is anyone else have trouble like this?
I'm running into this problem where the screen that the game is loading in keeps scrolling up or down when i hit the arrow keys, anyone have a fix for this?
Ashiel what you found is just an added secret, if you move into the middle of that invisible platform, Mr Fancypants will do something.
where is that screenshot from of the city scape? I want to go to it.
Great, smooth, detailed game!
Something funny:
If you repeatedly and rhythmically duck, as if banging your head to your favorite rock song, Fancy Pants will hold out his fingers in the well known "ROCKIN'!" position.
Funny, but useless.
Here are some tips:
The game has a lot of snail "golfing." there are 6 of these (in the main levels) and get harder as they go. They unlock different color pants.
The color of pants does not matter. They are just cool. Specially the light blue :) ...
The bonus levels are fun. They are not nessecary and sometimes difficult... Try them out, but expect to spend a good ammount of time on some...
By the way... at the bottom of the page it says that there is no music because it isn't completely finished...
If you lean the character up against a wall,
he puts his shoulder to the wall & holds up one hand like a gun, like he is Super Secret Agent FancyPants......
I still find the background/foreground combination quite dizzying at times, I do wish that background-be-still button had been implemented :-(
I'm going to have to play this again :-D
Right now i'm hating world 4 for the snail golf.
I've done every level up to 4, and i refuse to go past it... until i get the snail. But it ALWAYS falls down into that beginning area with the loop and circle. Its virtually impossible to get it out of there. Help anyone?
I can't figure out how to get to the points on the top right part of the midnight forest secret stage! There are three branches I can't reach. Does anyone know how to get there?
BTW, the snail golf on level 3 is driving me batty. I'd hate to see what level 4 is like.
beat it. Can't find the spot to do the 'pant suit' change...
I'm sorry, but I have no reason to believe that the snail golf is possible on Level 3. None. None whatsoever. I've tried EVERYTHING I could possibly think of. Nothing works. Either it's because the shell will NOT go where I want it to go (or where it should go), or because I don't have enough space to work with, or simply because all of the platforms are too far away.
well, I managed to get the shell as far as the first purple ledge. I haven't managed to get it any higher yet, though. the trick is to park the shell between the cannon and the wall, fire yourself out of the cannon, and land right on top and a little to the left of the shell. That should pop it up high enough, and if you hit it at the right angle, it should veer right just enough to actually land on the ledge. So far I've been knocking the shell off before I can get it any farther.
Octochan, I first managed to do it your way; a few more similar high-dive stomps are needed to get it all the way to the top, and it requires a great deal of precision. However, it's also possible to kick it up onto the long greased platform (where you go if you aim the cannon left) if you play around on the green hilly area enough. Then you can simply kick it up through the floor.
For level 4, Ashiel, don't let the shell fall off the floor where the snail starts, or you'll have to reset the level. Instead, you have to
nudge the shell to the left, kick it to the top of the steps there, and then get it over the greased hill. You have to be quick on that hill to block the shell from bouncing back past you. Once it's past there you can let it fall, everything funnels easily to the hole after that.
Snail 3 (like the demo world) is doable... just very hard.
The small curve... right before the hill... Try and get it up there.
From there, do a Flying stomp *jump up and slam straight down* on the snail shell... to pop it up to the Grease slicked rail there.
When your lucky enough to get it up there... Jump in the cannon, aim it all the way left... And fire. As soon as you hit the oil slick... hold down... to slide, and thus, knock the snail shell up onto the final area...
from there, its just a matter of punting it to the whole.
At least thats how i did it. Hope that helps.
I finally beat it... and got the snail golf for all 6 levels... just can't find where to change the pants colors.
To Ashiel's glitch:
After playing around with that, I came to a point where, while standing still, Fancy Pants would do this:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l213/Chaos618/moar.jpg
Also, after jumping on any spring, holding the right button down while "clicking to resume" would make Fancy Pants teleport, because of the thing.
I don't know what Yemp is referring to, though.
Is there supposed to be background music?
I get sound effects, but no music.
Should there be music? :/
Someone know how to get past negativeOne?
I've finished all six levels as well as the 5 bonus rooms, and gotten all the pants. I found level 4 to be the easiest one to get the pants in, level three was a pain but once I figured out that
you need to use the cannon and land on top of the shell to get it onto the first ledge, then drop down from the chain onto the shell to bounce it up to the next ledge
all was good from there.
Also, it was a total pain to get out of the level 6 bonus room (Negative One) you have to
go back to the entry door, it just takes jumping in just the right place to start your wall jumps
I have yet to beat the rabbit though, he's damn hard.
The snail golf in world 3 (the black pants) is actually fairly simple once you know what to do.
Near the start of the level, there's a spring on the ground that doesn't seem to have any purpose. You need to gently kick the snail shell until it comes to rest just to the left of that spring. Then jump on the spring and land right on top of the shell. This should bounce it straight up where it will land on a small platform with a door to one of the bonus levels. If the shell doesn't come back down at you, you did it right. Now make your way over to that platform - use the cannon and aim off to the left to reach the long oily platform, then cross the short rope. Once you're there, jump on top of the shell again to pop it up to the platform above. You'll need to make your way through the rest of the level to reach the shell again, but once you're there, you can just putt it into the hole. Now you have cool black pants!
Okay, rabbit is beaten and I got my ice cream cone back. I finished the game over the last two days, closing and then re-opening the window when I wanted to play. Had I done the entire game and gotten all the pants in one play through would I have gotten a different ending? As it stands, I got all the pants and opened all bonus rooms (that I know of) so I guess I'm completely done. Or am I?
How I got the pants for level three:
Get the snail shell up to the upper section of the purple platform. If you slowly walk it all the way past the cannon you can jump while you're next to it and it will pop up to the short ledge above. Just jumping up beneath it each time will get it to the next level, kill the spider above and then get the shell up to that level.
Go down to the cannon and angle it a bit to the right, land on the right side of the shell so that it pops up and to the left, onto the platform above.
Now use the spring to get you up to the chain thing and dangle over the shell, now fall on it, again just a bit to the right of it so that it pops up and slightly left onto the platform above.
From there it should be pretty straight forward.
But level two shell was the hardest for me.
Again, I just used the standing next to the shell and jumping technique. It took me a LONG time to get this one, probably longer than level three.
For some reason the fancy pants don't carry over into the next level, strange.
Where exactly is the "extras" room? I liked the blue pants.
Well that's disappointing. It loads, and there's Mr. Fancy Pants, in a little screen with doors labeled "Start Game", among other things. And nothing happens! Clicking does nothing, the arrow keys to nothing, the S key does nothing, they keypad does nothing.
Sigh.
This game is the best in terms of pants.
I asked this above but didn't get an answer, does anyone know where the screen shot from the review is from? I can't find that level, I don't know what I'm missing because I'm at the end of the game.
Brad provided us with a preview build early last month. I believe the screenshot was taken from that.
If you have a really great screenshot we can use, I'll update the post and put yours up there instead, and credit you with it in the review.
Wasn't this already posted on the site?
[Edit: Posted, yes; reviewed, no. Now that it is, we're done here. -Jay]
Oh Jay, i was trying to figure where in the game the screen was from. But I found it!
Love the site.
I have to say, in light of all the bugs that this game had upon release, I'm rather glad to see that the review isn't a one-sided "This game rocks my fancypants"-kinda thing, but actually stays critical. Kudos for that.
And am I the only one who thinks the snail shell golf has almost nothing to do with golf and is so much more reminiscent of football? XD I mean, replace the hole with a goal, and you have headbutts, backward flip kicks and some other fancy football tricks (yes, I totally made those names up).
both pic links are not working
[Edit: Thanks! I'm not sure how that happened, but it's fixed now. :) -Jay]
When playing the beta versions, I feared the pure runningness of the game would be gone. Not so. Fancy Pants is back, with more of the same. Which is good. Instead of trying to inject new elements when the game was not ready for them, Mr. Borne has perfected the elements of the last game. Mr. Pants gets some serious vertical in this game, running along the ceiling when he needs too. Looking forward to seeing the music added.
Mr. Borne has added the Snail "Golf" for challenge, which should please those quipping that the game was too easy. It took me multiple tries to beat the boss as well, which was pleasing. What shall we look for in World 3? There is much that can be added, but how many toppings can you have without losing the flavor of the ice cream. The answer is, I don't know. Start with the ice cream and build up.
By the way, love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.
Ok, I cant seem to find the door for AfroNinja's bonus level. A clue please?
also
OMG I loved Adam Phillips's level. So very brackenwood and extra awesome for everyone. Luis's was extra gorgeous eye candy too!
Sorry, but I'm going to have to ask again:
There is a mention of music in the credits, but the game remains silent except for sound effects. Is there supposed to be background music like there was in World 1?
I'm going to wait until the bugs are fixed and the music is implemented before I enjoy the game. A game like Fancy Pants Adventures doesn't come around too often and I want to play it at its full potential the first time around.
Ezrabbit: there's no music. It says so on the page under the game itself, so it's not just you.
it wont let me play it on armor games. when i click the game it dosen't show a play screen.
where do you switch pants?!?!
Did Brad Borne's relatives build the Ford Pinto? Because this game is sure fun but badly put together, yikes.
Hey. Great game. NegativeOne's bonus is really confusing: is there no exit?
Here's a bug: It seems like, on World Six, if you haven't wall-jumped yet, you can't wall jump off the rope; so you can never get up that long central column in the level. You have to go back to a place where you can stand on solid ground, wall-jump there, then go back to the column and wall-jump from the rope (if that makes sense). Try it out. Kind of obscure one.
Also: The boss battle has bugged out on me a few times (after getting injured, I lose the ability to jump on baddies -- I'll jump but go right "through" them, but then they hurt me).
Still: awesome fun, thanks.
I take back the part of my last comment about not-walljumping-until-you-get-to-the-rope (it doesn't seem possible) -- maybe it has something to do with killing the spiders on the rope? Or something? All I know is that 75% of the time I do the level, I get stuck in a state of walljumplessness until after I go back to the lefthand platform and walljump from solid ground.
is this a glitch or some secret passage?
I found something out about the shell.
I've seen this happen in level 2, where on eh oily slopes, the shell when in front of you picked up the spiral/health things. In other words, I think the shell can pick up the Spiral items that you see everywhere.
is level one impossible? i get it to the ramp the the hole but when it goes by it's self: it misses the jump. and when i kick it at the ramp: the shell gets over powered, hits the wall, and goes over the hole! i REALLY need help on level ONE
Reece:
Do a slide kick to kick it up instead of straight forward.
Slide kick - run fast then press down to slide.
You can also jump up in the air and press down when you hit the ground.
You can also roll on hills by pressing down.
Slides and rolls also damage the enemies.
I got all six pants, but i don't know where the "extra" room is.. does anyone wanna help? =]
Really need help on negative one's level. A little help, please?
I'm still wondering where that scene with the buildings (the picture up there) is. I haven't found it. Which level is it in, at least? Thank you-
I loved the Adam Phillips place. That was really awesome!
Sorry, few other thoughts- #1, What is the purpose of the little invisible platforms in the "Hey!" room at the beginning? Just for fun? #2, There is an invisible passageway hidden amongst some "dirt", I completely forget where. I couldn't find another room from there, the character just walked around and then jumped back up to the regular floor. I don't get it. #3, It would be helpful in the "Hey!" room if there was an option or something to be able to open those links differently. They come up as popups, and I'm not interested in allowing popups for all of Armor Games or whatever it is just for those links, it's too much of a hassle.
Those are all just thoughts. It's a GREAT game!!
Haha, loved this game! Did anyone else see the
skeleton on level 5 eating the ice cream?
I loved it!
To finish the evil rabbit off,
Stay 1 cm away from him and run the other way if he is going to hit you. Then when he jumps up high, run around to avoid the spiders, then crush them together with the snail. Then use the snail shell to hit the evil rabbit, and jump on him.
Yay!
P.S. I love your site Jay, it is totally awesome. I started coming here in 2006 when I was 11, its totally addictive!
Yes I'm the same person ><
To quote Eirik, anyone know how to get past negative one? I am totally stuck!
You know a fun minigame?
See how many times you can backflip without stopping.
I've waited ages for this to come out!
This game is awesome!
The only thing I don't get is I don't know how to get to the Extras menu!?
I know it's pathetic but can someone plz explain!
I am searching for the door to the "afro ninja" level. Can anybody explain the way to that Level?
To beat rabbity final boss:
Avoid his jump attacks for a while. This is the easy part, so try not to get hit. He will eventually jump off the stage to drop spiders and a snail. Kill the spiders, then hit the rabbit with the shell. Ram into him while he's stunned, then avoid his jump attacks some more. Now comes the hard part. Every time you hit him (he has 3 health points) he will drop 2 more spiders from the sky (resulting in a pattern of 1, 3, 5, in addition to the snail and rabbit) Kill the spiders and snail as quickly as possible, then finish off the rabbit. You win!
where is the bonus level in level 5
can someone please tell us where the extras room is!!! PLEASE!!!!
There is no Extras Room or Extras Menu, or anything like that yet. There will be an Extras Room in the future. It's planned. It's in the works. We'll update the review when the music and trophy room are put in.
For negative ones level, I think the only way to complete it is to go out the entrance, hence the "levels the other way chief" comment.
Hmmm....interesting.
I haven't had a chance to catch up with JIG for a few days, so I didn't play FPW2 until today. There are a couple of changes.
A lot of the bugs mentioned have been fixed (all of them, maybe?). Best of all, music and sound effects are now working.
Level 3 snail-soccer-goal-ing was quite easy. I don't know if they've changed the level or if I just wasn't smart enough to know how hard it's supposed to be.
Om.
he's added music now
either that or i'm hearing things.
but now it takes forever to load.
Seriously folks, try doing a search of this page before asking about the Negative One level. I and others have already told you how to get out of it.
Something is wrong with Luis's level in the new build. I beat it very easily yesterday, and now it seems like the first platform is too high to reach.
1. How do you beat NegativeOne?
2. Where is the Extras Room?
Ignore what has been said about Negative One's world previously, they changed it. Now you can open the door on the "island" to leave the world, but the trophy is behind another door elsewhere in the level. Before you had to go back to the beginning of the level, not anymore. I'm happy now that I have all the pants and all the trophie's. Very fun game.
Also, they eliminated the first spring in world 3, so the super easy way to get the snail shell up to the top is gone....bummer.
Thanks to the music and bug fixin's, a good sequel just got slightly better. (I liked playing my own music over the game when there wasn't any music of its own).
The snail golf was a fun little extra, in both finding the snail and kicking it to its destination (unless that meant kicking it up an incline with a ceiling; either it bounced off it and went backwards, or you hit the shell back up and slid back down the slope).
The other major gripe about level 4 (possibly my favourite, actually) was that the bonus stage was hard to find:
When you flew out of the pipe and jumped from bar to bar, did you see the ledges on the wall to the left, instead of jumping on the two platforms to the right? You can climb up those ledges.
Out of all the little in-jokes, the ones I liked the most were the signs you catch glimpses of when you take huge leaps, like the one in level 2. (And if you looked at the background with the "Secret Spidey HQ"? It looks as if one of the spiders is playing Fancy Pants on his Wii browser.
Incredible game. Fast and fun with wicked looping runs and jumps, and then the depth to go back and finish the pants and trophies.
LOVE the super ninja level
IF YOU CHANGE TO THE PURPLE PANTS THEN NEW SIGNS APPEAR IN THE BACKGROUND, AND NEW SWIRLY THINGS (OR HAS THE GAME BEEN ALTERED SINCE I DID THAT LEVEL?)
as far as i can tell there are no glitches left in the game as of today
my quibble is with getting the black pants, try and try again i just cannot manage to get the snail to the hole! please help!! its my last pair of pants needed!!!!!!
Okay, I had been playing this game at work but last night I started a fresh game at home and played it from start to finish in one sitting. I ended up with all the pants, all the trophies unlocked, 15 lives and a score of 1268, and I beat the rabbit on my first try. Very fun 30 or so minutes.
I love this game. Currently just having fun with it. Am I the only person who thinks that Fancy Pants is Parkour personified? Awesome game.
I'm enjoying this game so much.
I got 5 pants at each level and 6 trophies at each room.
However....where is the hole to get 6th pants?
(The color of the pants is between blue and purple in the "Trophies + Colors" room.)
Please tell me anyone who get all 6 pants.
Hey, me again. I beat the game in 10 and a half minutes! Also, is there anyone who can get the black pants? Frankly, I'm stumped.. By the way, AWESOME website, Jay!!
LOL, if you press down repeatedly, fancypants acts like he's at a metal concert!
>black pants
at level 3...
There is a canon on the right of the field.
When you enter the canon, lean it left, and fire, you can go to the oily floor.
The key to get black pants is to kicked up the shell to the floor
if you hit the peach block multiple times in a short period you can get it off the screen, but dont get stuck in the air
i already beat the game the first day it came out, getting the pants and bonus rooms...for everyone else, if you want to change your pants color, go to the top menu screen and go to the platform on the left....not so hard now, is it? (unless your computer is terrible, of course)
I love this game! The ending fight is hard though...
GREAT GAME ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
guide to black pants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6CY4iSoIM
how do i get to the afro ninja secret level?
Wow, thank you for the background-be-still button :-)
What melovearmy said. I can't even find the afroninja level...WHERE IS IT!?
In the bonus level of the purple pants level, there is a large tree all the way to the right. JHas anyone been able to get the snails out of that tree? It seems that there is not a way up there...
I.P. Freely has a good question...i beat the game as well but i can't seem to get to the top of the tree in the Adam Philips level...is there any hint?
Trophy locations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcVIQSE79U
alright guys...about the adam philips tree...i FINALLY got up it...it's a crazy hard jump...what you have to do is start on the ramp/branch below (the one you have to use to get to the trophy area)...run and jump at the "Y" created between the trunk and the ramp/branch(at the top of the small hill) ...it's a freakishly small invisible platform you're jumping up towards (at the only place you seem to be able to get close to when just trying randomly) and i kept falling off it before i finally was able to jump to the main branch (it helps to keep tapping jump when you're in the air)...hope that helps you guys...sorry i can't make a video of it, but yeah...it's possible!...(awesome game btw)
I figured out where afro ninja is... and its HARD!!!! onlvl 5 when you come out of the tube, jump on the launcher and when you are on the top ledge, jump as far as you can left, and grip the groove on the wall. let yourself hang and then keep jumping up. you will reach the door.
the level itself is one of the hardest. you hav to be an exellent wall climber. if you make one false ove you ge sliced. i only just got into it. i'll update when i beat it.
Two questions: where to find door to hidden trophy room at level 5 (huge level, IIRC to Afro trophy room)? How to pass Brackenwood trophy level to get a trophy?
level 4 snail walkthrough
get the shell on the sluge below the walljump and then jump on it to pop it up and then put it in the hole
I'm so stupid. I got the black pants on level 3, and then I went into the city place and got the trophy, but I don't know where to go now. Anyways, what I'm saying is, How do you get to lvl 4?
(I don't mind spoilers)
On the adam phillips tree level..
I know the theory behind getting to the higher branches (thanks, Aierdre), but I can't do it. Can someone specify where the invisible platform is in relation to.. something?
but yeah, amazing game.
(FPM facebook = http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7736564265 )
to get to level four-
fire yourselff from the cannon
squash the spider and get on the spring
work your way along the top rope, then along the top of the purple. (watch out for spiders)
go down the purple ladder of bars, then bear left. get on top of the purple square, then jump from one spring to the next, right to left. the door is above the third (far left) spring.
alright here's a pic i made of the approximate area the "invisible platform" is for the adam philips tree. sorry for the low quality, but you get the idea i hope.
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=adamphilipshelpzr3me3.jpg
keep in mind that's a close approximation. the position the guy is in is also not the way i got up to it, i just did jumped there so i could get a good picture of the spot. good luck!
im stuck on lvl 4 where you have to get to the secret room. can anybody help me? plz plz plz!?
Heres the sure fire way to get to the tree tops on the Adam Phillips level... basically
on the "gap between the trees" area after the loop - run up the branch and rather than jumping over the gap... jump straight up as high as you can... then roll into a ball.. heading down where you just came from.. then at the best time jump while still in the ball position... and usually if you have enough speed and jump at the right time... youll make it every time...
http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fancypantsxk4.jpg
How do u do the AP lvl wi the trees i don't get the rolling into a ball part...
haha! thanks Dirk. that's a WHOLE LOT easier...to think i actually got up the other way!....*feels like an idiot now*
One cool thing I noticed was when you pressed the down arrow key really fast many times.
Look at what he does.
I cant beat the part on lvl 4 where you have to jump up walls from rope please help!
can anyone help me find Luis' level? ive got everything else
Thank you Dirk! Those swirls have been mocking me for far too long; time to go show 'em who's boss! :)
to get past negative1, run past the spikes and drop just before you crash into more vertical spikes, from there you will be hanging on a ledge : drop down onto a another ledge a&d go onto a cannon point the cannon as far LEft as possible from there you will find yourself at a door :the trophy uis there then the rest is ismlpe go back through the door and jump off the ledge then climb back up to the door to go to Level 5/6 again and get your ice-creamy prize back
Good Luyck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I feel like an idiot, but I can't figure out how to end the first level. I got the blue pants, but don't know what to do from there. I see the door at the top of the wall, but don't know how to get there, or how to get the swirly things that are up really high on the left side of the screen. Help!
I need help finding the secret room, and where is the
door under the dirt that someone mentioned?
It only seems to be able to load a bit after the 'F' in 'be fancy' in the loading screen...Aww :(
anybody else notice the glitch where when
you press down repeditively fancy pants starts to put up his hand in the rock & roll symbol?
On level one, any advice on getting the swirlies that go up off the screen above where the snail lurks? I mean, I guess you could bounce the shell up that way, but how to keep it on the slanted platforms to do it? I've tried climbing back up the entrance you fall into to start the level, but can't get the wall jumping to work there. Other suggestions?
likephilshead - There is a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy thing in there! OMG - :O! Where?! Please someone say!
how do you get past level 6 i cant seem to get anywhere after i jump on the spiders when im hanging on the rope
okay, great. i figured out how to get the black pants =D
frist, you want to get the shell on the red curvy thing near the entrance to the map. this can be done by standing under the curvy ledge with the shell next to you and by jumping.
next, go to the right side of the map, where you'll find a cannon (YAY!) point all the way to the left and fire away! you should land on a slicked up platform. make sure to jump a bit so u sat on the platform. next move (or slide) all the way to the left of the platform SLOWLY, so that you hang on to the edge at the left end of the platform. fall down and perform a kick on the shell. that should send it flying really high! (and to the level where it needs to be) then get all the way up there. (that would be by going all the way to the right, and around the top). kick the shell in!
too glitchy. the demo was WAY more fun than the end product.
Sigh, I really want to play this, but I'm one handed. Darn jump button being on the other side of the keyboard. More games should have key config options, it can't be that hard.
To everyone who's asking-- the door under the dirt can be found in the desert level with the super secret spider hangout-- I think it's level five. It's way up high, and you should see it when you have a fresh game. It's easier to find. There are lots of swirls underneath it. It's just a fun little thing, I don't think it's a glitch, he just decided to put it there.
Two-- I beat the whole game, but I can't get up the midnight tree. I tried Andreire (?) and Dirk methods-- I couldn't get either to work. Anybody else have another way, or someone know something to help me get up there?
Thanks
Your link to the first game's review is broken.
Thanks, Peter. Fixed :)
I finally figured out myself how to get the high swirlies by the snail on level one. It's kind of obvious once you've done it:
you let the shell roll down to the bottom of the slanted levels, then jump on the spring launcher beneath it. You hit the shell on the way up and launch it into the swirlies.
So easy, I'm ashamed it took me so long!
I just encountered the oddest bug. Somehow, after battling the rabbit a bunch of times consecutively, Senior Fancy Pants is hovering about, my snail's head is squashed, but the snail has not transformed into a snail golf ball, and the rabbit hops about without doing me any harm. Very bizzare.
This game's awesome... is there no way to save, tho?
Well, I never expected to spend 30 minutes playing golf to ry andwin some magenta pants, but there you go.
ok, i beat the game in a straight shot. it took me about 4 hours. even the final boss: 1 try. but i went back and realized i hadnt beat the level 5 extra room. I think its name is afroninja, so i went back and searched level 5 for 3 HOURS and couldnt find a thing. I have no idea where it is. please help with the afroninja level. i just need to know where it is, not how to beat it, but i really have no idea where to find it PLEASE HELP. post a comment telling where t is.
I love Adam Phillips's bonus level! You should explore it hard. I mean it. I could find 226 points there. How about you? :)
Fancy Pants 2 is so nice! Snail golf is something I liked the most. I regret watching some tips.
I'd love to reset data in this game and start over. Too bad I can't... yet...?
No matter how pathetic this sounds...I get stuck in level two where the green lines are in the door.Please help!
it was a pretty cool game fancy pants 2 is so funny!
It took me forEVER to figure out how to wall jump, even with the instructions. I'm still not sure how I would explain it to someone else. Watching someone's YouTube video of Level 3 helped me figure it out.
Love this game, even though I can't get the snail in the hole on most of the levels.
Aethelind, if you mean the level where you fall off the green lines and die a lot, there isn't really a trick to it, it's all timing and momentum.
For the first lines, just back up to the end of the line, run towards the next line, and jump right before you hit the end. For the lines with the slippery black "oil" on them, jump as soon as you see the next line appear.
I CAN'T beat the Afro Ninja one... I've never had problems wall-jumping in the previous ones but in this level I just can do it! Arggggggg
How do you get to the door marked "LuLu" in level 5(?)? I've tried jumping from the platform to the door and always end up missing. I tried sliding up the oily wall and that didn't work either.
I LOVE this game!
beat the entire first world and now the 2nd (xcept the pants color golf ball stuff) my fave game!!! =D
cant wait till world 3
How to get to LuLu...
you have to slide up the wall. try to hit it as low as possible, and jump when you get close to the door. eventually, you'll get there. eventually!! and don't give up!!
I love this game. Brad Borne is a geinus I must say. May I hope he shall come out with 3 soon. Jay if the number 3 comes out, put it on the website.
does anyone know what that candle is for on level five? it is above the skull with the ice cream cone. thanks
thanks so much allie. I finaly got up to lulus level.
I love it how you can press down repeatedly and ur little fancy pants dude does the rock & roll symbol with his hand, He's doing a head bang lmao...so cute XD
Hey! They've updated this game with some new twists! Check it out!
help!! I can't get past the first bit on lvl 4 where you are sprung and have to jump. i've got to the second spring but can't get any further! help on this would be much appreciated!
thanks! :)
love this game it is totally awesome!
LOL! Kill a rabbit just for an ice cream cone. If I were him I would have just given up and buy some ice cream cones at the supermarket, to have at home. Rabbit can't get him there.
Okay, I've tried hitting the wall very low to slide up to Luli's, where exactly should I run into the wall,and which direction should I jump once I am almost as high as the door? I spent good 20 minutes doing this one part of the game.
There's a glitch on the desert level where it gets stuck and makes you abandon script and have to start over. Kinda hard to avoid too.
Heres a pic of where:
sorry. Here's the link: http://villagephotos.com/members/viewimage.asp?id_=23184560
I noticed some people were have trouble getting to Lulu. There's two ways. One is you slide up, but that's really hard to time. The other is the platform to the left of the level. Get up to a full run and the jump about 3 or 4 steps away from the edge of the platform. If you jump from the edge you hit the overhang, but if you jump a little ways back you go just underneath it and grab onto the ledge with Lulu. It takes some practice, but once you have it down you rarely miss.
You should make the game two players so kids and their friends can play together.
Since so many people need help with the Alfro Ninja Level, here is how you do it:
When you start, run right and wall jump up. When you are almost at the top, hold up and wall jump up and grab the pipe. at the end wall jump up again. Squash the bug, and go down the pipe. Now run up and when you are almost at the top, JUMP! Hopefully you will land on a platform thats is going down as soon as you touch it. Jump to the next platform until you get your TROPHY(YAY!)
Me again. To get to the Alfro Ninja Level
go to level 5 and do as usual till you are shot out of the pipe. After springing up, jump on the ledges that are were the squigles are. From there, it's easy.
I can't get past the level where you have a trampoline and you have to bounce all the way to the top. How do you do that? I can never bounce high enough.
lv. 5 ?
Well THAT should be easy.
Black Pants :
Get the shell on the curve before the hill, jump on it from the highest point, and, if the shell doesn't come back at you, go to the cannon, aim it all the way left, and fire. As soon as you hit the platform, hold down. After you get to the end of the level, kick it in.(the hole is on the left.)
Kate,
Simple. USE THE SLIPPERY WALL!
hey i know where the afro ninja level is!!! You know the green slippery level... well near the door ther is a ledge. It is like impossible to jump high enough, but it must be there!! If anyone gets high enough to get up there, tell me how you did it!
I rule at this game. It's so good, but I got all but 2 colours so:
lv.1
go up 1st ramp, flip backwards, land on platform. Jump up until you see snail. Jump on snail. Kick right hard. Get snail onto ramp and kick. Ball goes in hole + you get teal shorts.
i dont know how to get the black pants help me PLEASE!
I'm an amateur at this game and I can't figure out how to beat the level where you have to jump and slide on the oil slicked walls to get to the top. Any hints?
This is so awesome. I can't wait to play it!
How about you?
How do you get yellow pants? Please tell.
i love this game!!!
I finally got all six of the trophies without any help! Afro Ninja's level was hard...I just beat it. There are only two more colors to unlock, and then I've entirely beaten the game!
i have played game but b4 but i cant get the black pants on lvl 3
@ Kate and Paul and anyone else having trouble with the jumping up up up of lvl 4 like I had:
Hit the last spring and slam your body against the slippery wall, you'll slide further than you can jump.
this game is AWESOME!!!! so much better than the first!
Yea, this is kinda nice. I mean It's really nice. But you never told me where all those little golf holes are. Tell me,please, or I'm going to a different website! All you tell is "Oh my this is so awesome! Play it! What? Oh, well no you read the title wrong. It's not a walkthrough!" Tell me how to get through!
I'm stuck on the level where you have to jump on one spring with grease on the narrow walls. I know, lame. I stink at this game.
The game was good... i had 10 lives. i was trying for 12. i had 3 levels left to finish the whole entire game. THEN Fancy got stuck in a cactus on level 4. the whole game spazzed out and Fancy died. poor us!
How to get fancy his pants. The locked ones.
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