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Welcome to the plus edition of Mystery of the Four Artifacts.
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SO WHAT'S NEW, AND WHAT'S NOT?
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+ The new version of the pack, being relatively shorter, consists of 17
main levels (21 with revisits), loosely based on the original map design of
the non-plus edition.
+ The tilesets almost remain the same with slight improvements and new
palettes.
+ With most of the gameplay is now renewed, apart from the story and the
main objectives, MO4A+ offers new game mechanics with newly invented
objects, enemies and pickups.
+ Thanks to the JJ2+ features, the non-linear nature of the pack was
executed in a much more organic way with the player being able to save
her/his triggered objects
and essential pickups with extendable checkpoints.
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THE MAIN OBJECTIVE:
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The story remains almost the same. Jazz and Eva's daughter Ela was murdered
by Devan Shell. Merlin and his ward, Bonus offer to use Devan's time
machine to go back in
time to save Ela. Unfortunately the machine has some parts missing: Four
mysterious artifacts (aka Time Freezers), each hidden in four different
ancient empires. Jazz/Spaz/Lori,
guided by Bonus, are now back in action, visiting ancient empires,
collecting each four artifacts, to get the time machine work, and save the
beloved princess.
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AREAS:
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Just like in the previous edition, the pack consists of 4 Empires: Aztec,
Ancient Arabia, Atlantis, Tibet (plus a training level in the Earlong
Castle).
Each empire has a main area which opens the gates for the sub areas.
Each empire contains 3 platin tokens, scattered around the map. They must
be collected to open the gates of the temples, which contains the Time
Freezers.
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NEW KEYS:
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Hold TAB and hit Q/W/E: Since most of the areas require character specific
moves to beat, this key will help you to quickly switch between Jazz, Spaz,
and Lori.
-For 1.23 users, The game shall be beaten without Lori.
Hit UP: To pull or toggle swtiches.
Hit T: To interact with allies in order to obtain some clues and find out
more about the story.
Communicating with other rabbits will help you to find your way or solve
some puzzles. Try not to avoid them.
To control some extra characters in certain areas,
Use W,A,S,D: to move.
Hit 0: To fire.
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SETUP:
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Extract all the files into your Jazz2 directory.
Unpack "asc addons" folder unless you already have the files in your
directory.
Extra necessary downloads:
- Jazz1 Enemies v.05
https://www.jazz2online.com/downloads/7811/jazz-1-enemies/
- Kangaroo
https://www.jazz2online.com/downloads/7572/kangaroo/
- MLLE Editor
https://www.jazz2online.com/downloads/7291/multilayer-level-editor-v216/
- MLLE Weapons
https://www.jazz2online.com/downloads/7966/custom-weapons-mllecompatible/
- SE Weapons
https://www.jazz2online.com/downloads/7759/-/
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SETTINGS:
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+ The game only works properly in 800x600 resolution.
+ Playing in 8-bit might cause unpleasant views. Highly recommended playing
in 16-bit.
+ Selecting a certain character won't matter much, since you will be able
to switch between them whenever you like.
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POTENTIAL BUG NOTES:
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During the beta testing, which was thoroughly performed by Violet CLM,
certain bugs have been spotted, some of the bugs Violet has experienced
never appeared in my system.
This means unexpected errors might occur during the game. So if you
encounter any bugs, please don't hesitate to contact and I'll do my best to
fix them.
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Hope you enjoy this update.
