Game:

Banana Prince (1991)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 7:06

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[Complete All Quiz Worlds]

I forgot to explain the different rooms you can enter:
Melon Cannon: For 30 rings, you can travel to the Quiz World, no longer accessible once all 4 Quiz worlds are finished
Pink Haired Girl: Instantly Heals you completely with a kiss
Bunny Girl: Bet 20 rings and you get double back if you correctly chose that the next roll you make is either Big or Small
Storekeeper: Selection of 4 weapons to purchase, can only buy one thing per visit
Vending Machine: Buy either a single Banana, a Bunch of Bananas or a Surprise
Hula-Hoop Girl: The rarest room, for 100 rings, you can instantly skip the current world and start on the next one. So far I've only found this room once, and that was in stage 1-3.

The entire factory is very reminiscent of Metal Man's stage from Mega Man 2.

The bubbling Tomato lava shaves off an entire Banana, so be careful.

In the 3:06 room, I decided against using the left-side shortcut, since it'd be more interesting via the normal route. The shortcut requires the wise old man twirl to break blocks in the way. The room is filled mostly with what I believe to be Green Onions and Prickly Fruit... I think...

Stage 3-3 to me is the MOST difficult stage in the entire game, simply because of the ladder obstacles at 5:15. This also brings to light the awkward jumping physics, in which the Banana Prince jumps like he is an elevated tissue such that it is more vertical than horizontal in gained distance. So in this regard, you literally have to position the Prince on the very bottom, right-most edge and then make the jump to the other ladder. Screw up even a little and you plummet into the giant pit. To make matters worse are the incoming flying Eggplants (I think...) and shorter ladders. I quit this game more than a dozen times just because of this segment alone; it was that DAMN hard, and although I got better at it, it still is too unforgivingly difficult for the wrong reasons. Even after you get to the end of that stage, you have to know to quickly grab the angel item to gain invincibility and plant a beanstalk to the ladder because jumping there normally is extremely difficult due to the lack of reach of the ladder and the close perimeters of the platform ceiling it's next to.

Strangely enough, we battle a Succubus as the boss. Maybe a precursor to Morrigan Aensland? or actually Lilith due to the color palette of the sprite? In any case, it is a bizarre fight as the succubus doesn't suggest ANY food themes, which is disappointing. The bats she summons look more like food than she does, sorta like Onions. Killing them yields pick-ups (even Angel items) which makes this boss fight essentially a guaranteed victory.

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