********************************************* * Solutions for BEYOND THE FORBIDDEN FOREST * ********************************************* * Sent by Decimal Cat * * Found at http://solutions.c64.org/ * ********************************************* I reccomend using an emulator to play this game, so you can save your progress. getting to the demogorgon level and then dying isnt fun. :) When you start the game you'll be in the forest. (The game is in "Practice mode" until you press F7, meaning no monsters will come, so no worries. Use Joystick port 2.) Press and hold down the fire button to adjust your sights--the little bars on the side of the screen move up and down to illustrate the trajectory of the arrow. Firing the arrow is a little tricky. Press to the direction you want to fire the arrow and press the button. Tricky, but you'll get the hang of it sooner or later. Every time you kill a monster the diety will come down and give you a golden arrow. If you die, and you have at least 2 golden arrows, you can be ressurected, but you will lose 2. If you die and all your arrows are lost, you will turn to stone. In the forest, when you've got 4 golden arrows, press F1 to show them (you can do this at any time) and then F3 to descend to the underworld. If using an emulator, save after every successful kill. Now, press F7 to start the mayhem. The first monster you'll get will be the scorpions. They're ground based and pretty easy to avoid, set your sights as low as you can. Try to get into chasing one of them to the right (I'm right handed and right-oriented, so right works best for me) and fire arrows at them. If it turns and comes at you, turn and run, descend deeper into the forest, circle around, and get behind him again. Rinse and repeat. Once you shoot him enough times he'll become pixelated and dissapear, and the golden arrow music will start. Sit back and watch, this is a cool part. :) Don't drop the joystick though, you've got more fighting to do. Next you'll get the orange worms that come out of the ground. Trick here is to keep moving, so you're hard to get. I've never been caught moving by one of these things. Just keep moving at the far front of the screen (archer appearing as close to the screen as possible) and turn to fire at the worms as needed. May take time, but you'll get them eventually. Next you'll get the fly-mosquito-type thing. Set your sights slightly higher then center (about an inch) and fire when it looks like you've got a good shot. FInally, the last thing you'll get are the gorillas. They're the hardest one in this part to deal with. run from them like hell, moving back and forth into the forest to dodge them. fire off a shot when you can, it won't take many on them, probably designed as an offset to how hard they are to deal with. Now descend to the underworld, and part 2. The first thing you'll have to deal with down here is most likely the most annoying part of the whole game--bats. Keep moving, and don't let the bats hit you too much. Dodge into caves when you need to. Don't worry about the black bats too much--shooting at them is useless--you want the red one. He's hard to hit, and all I can really suggest about this part is to just try your best to hit him. THere's just an element of pure luck involved. WHen you're done with the bats, proceed to the far left until you can't go any further, and go into the cave. You'll come out in the Hydra room. Run like hell around behind him for cover temporarily, and line your sights up with his head(s). Run out in front of him and shoot each one of his heads once. Be careful of the fire so as to avoid assuming the role of a hamburger. Once you've done this, his heads will flail like crazy and he'll turn to stone in a few seconds. And you now can move extra-fast. :) Proceed to the right of the screen and you'll end up in the demogorgon's room. Run to the right, and then back. In a moment the demogorgon will appear, but if you're safely behind him he can't do anything to you. Line your sights up with the heart in his chest cavity, run out, and fire. If you're lucky, you'll get it on the first try, if you're not it'll take 2 or 3 or maybe even some lives. Careful of the hole in the ground. Note: When Paul Norman wrote this game, he messed up the trajectory on the arrows a little bit, probably to make it a tad more realistic. The arrow will actually strike slightly BELOW where the sights are, especially at long range. THe reason I waited until now to mention this was because on the other levels it isnt too bad, but on the Demogorgon level it's horrible. Just put the sights up a tad above his heart instead of right on it, and it should work. Make sure you're directly in front of his heart and in line with it when you fire, and don't stand around there too long. When you kill him, the big red spurt comes out of his heart.. and the rest of the ending appears. :) congratulations, you just killed the demogorgon.