frogatto/frogatto — Issue #26: Tongue length powerup can be used to bypass lever-gate in Plagued Mine
Author: ssokolow
Created: 2012-02-10 02:23:26+00:00
State: open

In the Plagued Mine level, Frogatto can retrieve the key behind the lever-controlled gate without opening it if he has the tongue-length powerup.

This was actually a pleasant surprise, but feels unintentional. (I discovered it when I got frustrated looking for another key to match what I didn't realize was a purely decorative keyhole on the lever gate. I only realized it was a lever gate later.)

In this case, the most polished-feeling solution would probably be to modify the tongue code so that Frogatto can grab the key, but the key still can't pass through the grate when the tongue has it and gets dropped. (Thereby giving the impression that the tongue fits through the holes in the grate but the key doesn't.)

(In SNES Mario games, having a porous obstacle either block Yoshi's tongue or render it, for all intents and purposes, intangible was something I always found dissatisfying. Given the processing power we have now, allow a tongue to pass through AND affect things on the other side in a non-puzzle-breaking manner would be one of those little trifles that, as Michaelangelo said, make perfection.)