This is the Only Level
Observe this failure of an elephant. It is tiny. It is blue. It has forgotten every level of this new platform game by jmtb02 but the first. An animal known for its memory can't remember anything about the game it's starring in but a single configuration of blocks and spikes. This is it. This is the only level. What a failure of an elephant.
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09:31:97.5 and 59 deaths.
Wow. Here I thought I'd be going into a game which would be very short because of its one level only, but would be some kind of nod to experimental gameplay or a statement about games as art or something. I mean, there had to be a reason why anyone, especially jmtb02, would make a game that consists of only 1 level and is over in half a minute.
Well, I think this is yet another awesome game by John. He certainly took me by surprise. And you've gotta love that elephant! He might as well make it his new mascot. XD
That's an awesome review.
That aside, Achievement Unlocked was one of the very few out of this whole onslaught of games trying to poke fun at certain gaming conventions (e.g. Free Will) that I thought actually did it well, i.e., was fun as well as all postmodernly clever. This is the Only Level feels like a sequel, and is almost quite as fun.
This is the Only Level WALKTHROUGH
Hit Play. Hit "Play or continue level one." It's jmtb02, you can't take that for granted.
Stage 1
Use the left-right arrows to walk and the up to jump. Hit the button to remove the wall, then go through the pipe at the lower right. Don't hit the spikes. Hereinafter referred to as "the usual."
Stage 2
Now the left-right keys are reversed, and jump is down. Do the same thing.
Stage 3
Look carefully at the pipe. There's no wall. So DON'T hit the button; that'll make the wall appear! Just proceed to the pipe.
Stage 4
My eyes! The arrows do nothing! Just click the mouse wherever you want to go; you can drag the elephant to the pipe, or just click on it if you're speedrunning.
Stage 5
Low gravity! Do the usual stuff and don't hit the spikes. Probably you don't want to jump up when you're directly under any spikes.
Stage 6
You bounce off everything here. Do the usual. It may take a little aiming to get into the corner with the pipe.
Stage 7
You can't jump, but the spikes are launching pads. Head to the lower-left spikes and use that to get you up to the button. Then leave.
Stage 8
There are two colors of surface. One color will kill you if you stand on it. Don't stand on it. Do the usual.
Stage 9
Left-right movement tracks your mouse. Click to jump. Do the usual. (Note that if you die, your mouse may not be aligned vertically with the elephant, because it won't be in the same place when you restart. Shouldn't much matter.)
Stage 10
Unless you hold down the right arrow, you will be blown to the left. Hold it down to inch forward; jump only when you're at the edge of a platform. I find that I have to let the wind blow me back to the platform just below and to the left of the button and jump up from there. Oh, and do the usual.
Stage 11
You can't move left in this stage. Do the usual without moving left. If you happen to find yourself in a place where you can't go anywhere and can't even die, hit the panic button.
Stage 12
You can't jump in this stage, but there's no wall, so hold down the right arrow for victory.
Stage 13
Alternate the left and right arrows until you're done. If you find a way to die at this stage, let me know.
Stage 14
You only get one jump per life. Use it wisely, to get to the level with the button. (You can make it from your starting point or from the next platform.)
Stage 15
The button again does nothing. Refresh the browser window, or close the tab and then reopen it (I haven't actually tried that). Hit Play. Hit "Play or continue level one." The wall is gone now; just head to the pipe.
Stage 16
Jump on the button five times, then leave.
Stage 17
The twist to this stage seems to be that there's no twist. Just do the usual.
Stage 18
The blocks collapse as you stand on them. Get to the blocks above the pipe, wait till you fall through, then scurry through the pipe, quick-like.
Stage 19
Movement is very herky-jerk on this stage, but do the usual. If you're having trouble with any jump, hold down up and right and that should do it.
Stage 20
Do the usual. You can't see what you're doing, but do it anyway.
Stage 21
Gravity goes down when you're in between vertical stripes and up when you aren't. The jump button works though, so do the usual and don't float up into any spikes.
Stage 22
There's an invisible wall to the right of the button, so jump up over it. Otherwise, the usual.
Stage 23
Controls: F is left, T is jump, H is right. Now do... the usual.
Stage 24
Hit CAPS LOCK to lower the bar. Then go through the pipe. I don't think the button does anything.
Stage 25
The wall goes up and down periodically of its own accord. Stand next to it and go past it when it's down.
Stage 26
Just walk through the wall, ghost-fashion.
Stage 27
Go to the menu, then the credits page, then hit the helpfully labelled "Main Menu, and Unlock Stage 27 for me" button. (This can be done at any time.) When you return the wall's gone.
Stage 28
Do the usual, in extreme close-up.
Stage 29
Once you hit the button, you have to go to the pipe as fast as you can before the wall goes back up. I think holding down the right button will work.
Stage 30
The level disappears as you progress! Meaning you have to do the usual much as you did for stage 20.
And you're done!
My in-game video shows 3:55 with 0 deaths. My best time is 2:59.57 with 0 deaths.
Although someone has already posted a vid response with 2:46.x, which basically does exactly what I did in my 2:59... just did level 10 much, much better.
2:38-2:40 is, imo, around optimal. Then again, when I first did 3:55 I thought 3:35 would be optimal. So who knows.
PS - You guys are going to love this... jmtb made this entire game in a day. He had another project he was working on from Mon-Thurs, then scrapped it because it was lacking originality and direction. So yesterday, he did this.
-Tass
haha, I had 113 deaths XD Because sometimes if I get stuck, walk into the spikes on my left to kill myself, but then if I don't let go fast enough, then i'd walk into the spikes right beside the starting platform =P And when I'm frustrated, I randomly press things while I think and the poor elephant keeps walking into random things =P And to be honest, I just suck at anything that involves spikes and cliffs =( Took sooo long for collapse even after I figured out what they wanted me to do.
But the ideas behind this game is genius and the music was awesome XD
You do the heroic Sir Elephant a terrible disservice by your yellow journalism. How many of you would intrepidly traverse such a hellish corridor of identical rooms, dealing at every turn with altered gravity, matter, and other important things?
Clearly, whatever lies at the end of the rooms is too important to risk. Hence the sending of Special Agent Elephant.
How typical of civilians to scoff at what they do not understand. Mr. Elephant's extraordinary powers are no exception, but really, you shouldn't be surprised. No one less than a trained superbeing could get through this alien hell-maze.
Watch how he runs, not "totters." In fact his running is quite athletic, even for an elephant. His jumping ability is truly super-proboscidean, and super-human as well. Recall that before Superman flew, he leaped great heights.
As to your unsubstantiated guess that Super Elephant is tiny, I must note that we have no indication of scale. He could have shrunk himself, a la the Atom, to navigate tiny ducts between rooms; or, he is normal-size and the rooms and ducts very large.
Finally one must note a power most important to the completion of his mission: his survival of death, in the mode of Mr. Immortal. But just as his leaping has limits, so must this power. Surely he fears his next death will be his last. Bravely, he soldiers on.
Yes, Special Agent Super Elephant will not fail to rescue the damsel, retrieve the disk with the plans, or blow up the enemy powerplant! I would have liked to see that part, though.
Your correspondent, signing off. Thank you.
Dear Elephant,
You are your own being and should not let other's harsh comments sap your confidence.The reviewer says that you are without purpose, but what greater purpose is there than that of bringing joy only by use of a web browser?
And as for the traveling by pipe comment, remember that when it becomes trendy for elephants to traverse by plumbing, you took those first few steps bravely and in defiance of the prejudices of the time.
Being named a failure should not at all deter you in your future endeavors, for success is essentially subjective. You have more than proved your worth and as such, you thoroughly deserve to be called an Elephant.
Signed,
The Wooly Mammoth Clan
Had to stop on Stage 9. I have a terrible mouse that does not do what I tell it to, so I ended up more than doubling my death count in just that one game. It was actually kind of funny to see all the elephants come out of the tube and hit the spikes to the left of it rapid-fire. It was an elephant death gun.
My walkthrough
Stage 1
Use arrow keys to play. Right is right. Left is left. up is a jump. Down doesn't do anything right now. Just jump onto the red button. Then go to the pipe in the lower right hand corner. That's the normal.
Stage 2
Left and right are reversed. Jump stays the same. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 3
Do not hit the button. Just go straight to the pipe.
Stage 4
Click and drag the elephant to the pipe. If you're doing a speedrun just click the pipe.
Stage 5
You jump until you stop pressing the up button. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 6
It's the normal only bouncer.
Stage 7
You can't jump. The spikes are jump pads.
Other then that do the normal.
Stage 8
One color kills you. The other color doesn't. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 9
The elephant does what the mouse dose. Click to jump. Other then that do the normal.
Stage10
Hold down the right arrow key or be blown backward. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 11
You can't go left. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 12
Just go straight to the pipe.
Stage 13
Alternate hitting the left arrow key then the right.
Stage 14
You're only allowed one jump. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 15
The button doesn't do any thing. Just refresh the browser page. Then click play or continue level one. That opens the gate. Just go to the pipe now.
Stage 16
Do the normal. Only hit the button five times.
Stage 17
Do the normal.
Stage 18
The floor collapses after you stay on it for two seconds and the gate is a wall.
Stage 19
Movement very weird in this stage. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 20
You can't see anything even the gate. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 21
Gravity goes up when You're between vertical strips. Down when you're not. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 22
There a invisible wall. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 23
T=jump. H=Right. F=left. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 24
Hold down caps lock to open the gate.
Stage 25
The gate opens when it wants to.
Stage 26
Beat the stage as if the gate isn't there.
Stage 27
Click menu then credits then main menu and unlock stage 27 for me then play or continue level one. Now the gate is open.
Stage 28
It's close up. Other then that do the normal.
Stage 29
Do the normal.
Stage 30
Make one move then the stage goes black. Other then that do the normal
Stage 31 undefined walkthrough (THERE IS A STAGE 31 BTW!)
1. Complete the game.
2. Click "Armor Games".
3. Click "Play or continue level".
4. WHO WAS RIGHT!? Anyway 4. Just mess around.
5. Go back to menu.
6. Erase the game.
7. Go back to the game and look at stage.
8. Celebrate the day for the ever first person to beat Stage 31 undefined.
Stage 32 undefined 2 walkthrough.
1. Repeat the previous walkthrough 1-3.
2. Slap yourself for thinking there was a Stage 32 undefined 2.
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Walkthrough Guide
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This is the Only Level WALKTHROUGH
Hit Play. Hit "Play or continue level one." It's jmtb02, you can't take that for granted.
Stage 1
Use the left-right arrows to walk and the up to jump. Hit the button to remove the wall, then go through the pipe at the lower right. Don't hit the spikes. Hereinafter referred to as "the usual."
Stage 2
Now the left-right keys are reversed, and jump is down. Do the same thing.
Stage 3
Look carefully at the pipe. There's no wall. So DON'T hit the button; that'll make the wall appear! Just proceed to the pipe.
Stage 4
My eyes! The arrows do nothing! Just click the mouse wherever you want to go; you can drag the elephant to the pipe, or just click on it if you're speedrunning.
Stage 5
Low gravity! Do the usual stuff and don't hit the spikes. Probably you don't want to jump up when you're directly under any spikes.
Stage 6
You bounce off everything here. Do the usual. It may take a little aiming to get into the corner with the pipe.
Stage 7
You can't jump, but the spikes are launching pads. Head to the lower-left spikes and use that to get you up to the button. Then leave.
Stage 8
There are two colors of surface. One color will kill you if you stand on it. Don't stand on it. Do the usual.
Stage 9
Left-right movement tracks your mouse. Click to jump. Do the usual. (Note that if you die, your mouse may not be aligned vertically with the elephant, because it won't be in the same place when you restart. Shouldn't much matter.)
Stage 10
Unless you hold down the right arrow, you will be blown to the left. Hold it down to inch forward; jump only when you're at the edge of a platform. I find that I have to let the wind blow me back to the platform just below and to the left of the button and jump up from there. Oh, and do the usual.
Stage 11
You can't move left in this stage. Do the usual without moving left. If you happen to find yourself in a place where you can't go anywhere and can't even die, hit the panic button.
Stage 12
You can't jump in this stage, but there's no wall, so hold down the right arrow for victory.
Stage 13
Alternate the left and right arrows until you're done. If you find a way to die at this stage, let me know.
Stage 14
You only get one jump per life. Use it wisely, to get to the level with the button. (You can make it from your starting point or from the next platform.)
Stage 15
The button again does nothing. Refresh the browser window, or close the tab and then reopen it (I haven't actually tried that). Hit Play. Hit "Play or continue level one." The wall is gone now; just head to the pipe.
Stage 16
Jump on the button five times, then leave.
Stage 17
The twist to this stage seems to be that there's no twist. Just do the usual.
Stage 18
The blocks collapse as you stand on them. Get to the blocks above the pipe, wait till you fall through, then scurry through the pipe, quick-like.
Stage 19
Movement is very herky-jerk on this stage, but do the usual. If you're having trouble with any jump, hold down up and right and that should do it.
Stage 20
Do the usual. You can't see what you're doing, but do it anyway.
Stage 21
Gravity goes down when you're in between vertical stripes and up when you aren't. The jump button works though, so do the usual and don't float up into any spikes.
Stage 22
There's an invisible wall to the right of the button, so jump up over it. Otherwise, the usual.
Stage 23
Controls: F is left, T is jump, H is right. Now do... the usual.
Stage 24
Hit CAPS LOCK to lower the bar. Then go through the pipe. I don't think the button does anything.
Stage 25
The wall goes up and down periodically of its own accord. Stand next to it and go past it when it's down.
Stage 26
Just walk through the wall, ghost-fashion.
Stage 27
Go to the menu, then the credits page, then hit the helpfully labelled "Main Menu, and Unlock Stage 27 for me" button. (This can be done at any time.) When you return the wall's gone.
Stage 28
Do the usual, in extreme close-up.
Stage 29
Once you hit the button, you have to go to the pipe as fast as you can before the wall goes back up. I think holding down the right button will work.
Stage 30
The level disappears as you progress! Meaning you have to do the usual much as you did for stage 20.
And you're done!
Posted by: matt w | August 8, 2009 2:24 PM