Description
I loved Wonder Boy 3 the first time I played it and I still love it. Some time after completing it, I got Wonder Boy in Monster Land and I was somewhat disappointed - it couldn't live up to its sequel. But... when I got to the end and realised that the two games directly lead into one another, I realised what a touch of genius that was, a crossover rarely seen since. That's not to say it's not a great game, just a little old-fashioned.
The hardest part of the game is its final stage, a castle maze where taking the wrong turn will almost always take you far back in the maze. It's deeply infuriating but after a while, I had commited the route to memory :) Sadly, it's fallen out somewhere over the last 10 years or so, I had a hard time getting to the end this time, even with savestates :(
Note that due to its nature, the final level map is HUGE. I've marked on all the loop-backs, which took ages. It also overlaps itself in a few places - you have to follow the green arrows, all the others are loop-backs to various degrees (the redder the more severe).
Brief game guide
Read the story in the game. This game rocks!
Controls:
- L/R = walk
- D = magic
- 1 = sword
- 2 = jump
- Pause = status
City of Wonder Land
Valley of Peace
Wizard's Castle
City of Baraboro
Mam Desert
Pyramid of Sphinx
Pororo Islands
Village of Cacti
Floating City of Tonnovia
Ice Castle
Undersea Kingdom of Catfish
Labyrinth of No End
Updates
- 21/9/2009
Merged some maps, added missing tile columns to most.