"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~"""~""" Aliens: Alien 2 FAQ/Walkhrough FDS Version: 1.0 released on the 11th of April 2016 Author: odino http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/47976.html This guide is EXCLUSIVELY available at GameFAQs. .============================================================================. | .========================================================================. | | | TABLE OF CONTENTS | | | '========================================================================' | |============================================================================| | 01.) Introduction | G0100 | | 02.) Basics | G0200 | |----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------| | 03.) Walkthrough | G0300 | |----------------------------------------------------------------+-----------| | YY.) Version History | GYY00 | | ZZ.) Credits & Thanks | GZZ00 | '=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-' =============================================================================== 01.) INTRODUCTION G0100 =============================================================================== Welcome to 'Aliens: Alien 2' for the Famicom Disk System, a game never officially released on this system. It was released by Squaresoft on the MSX and this port was made but then canceled. The MSX version was released in 1987 which gives you an idea about when the port was being developed. The title is from the Japanese movie name which sought a more easy connection to the first movie. Suggestions, comments or errors - tell me about it. Enjoy! =============================================================================== 02.) BASICS G0200 =============================================================================== Controls: ````````` Jump with the A button. Hold UP in the air to do a summersault and thus reach higher ground. Shoot with B. Aim around with the D-Pad. Move around with the D-Pad. Ducking is with down, naturally. Display: ```````` The top of the screen has various useful stats. First there are your items including armor, boots and so on. Below is your health bar which shrinks by a dot each time you get hurt until it is GAME OVER, MAN. GAME OVER! (sorry, could not resist). Items: `````` So the game boosts as lot of cool weapons. Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks... okay, knocking it off, there are only a handful of the weapons from the movie in the game. No knife for close encounters, would have been handy. Boots: Enable you to jump higher. Up to 3 upgrades. Helmet: Protects you from dropping acid. Body Armor: Protects from damage. POW Arm: Makes your attacks stronger? Shotgun: Standard Weapon firing single shots. Twin Pulse: Upgrade to the shotgun firing two shots at the same time. Serbo Rifle Rapid-fire assault rifle. Fire Flame Thrower, second-best weapon in the game Laser: Best weapon in the game. Destroys every enemy in the game with a single shot. M40 Grenade: Grenade you can lob at the enemies. Smart Bomb: Upgraded grenades. 1UP Adds an extra life. Large LIFE Fills your health completely. Small LIFE Gives you a small health boost. Plus LIFE Boosts your max health by two units. Does not recover lost health. =============================================================================== 03.) WALKTHROUGH G0300 =============================================================================== Surface: ```````` Let's get this bughunt started: We're in the pipe, five by five. We're all gonna die man... Jump over the gap, then wait for the facehugger to appear and quickly jump back to the left. Oh, he likes you. Shoot the facehugger (it does not jump over gaps or ledges - best tip for the early game!) at your own will. Remember: short, controlled bursts. If you shoot it close-by you will take damage from the acid blood. Now jump over the gap again and shoot the egg for a pair of boots. Shoot the crawling facehugger along the way. Another egg up ahead so do the same again and jump back after it has hatched. Continue the same way and remember that the facehugger does not even drop down a ledge. The egg from this facehugger contains a power arm. Up next you will receive M40 grenades from the egg but before you pick it up move slowly and keep shooting as a jumping facehugger will approach. If you do it nice and slowly it will be dead before reaching you and the acid will not harm you. Two more will jump at you very shortly. The best way is to just avoid them by jumping high up in the air. They will leave the screen at the left. It is hard for the first time you play so taking some damage here is natural. Jump over the egg and stand in the gap at the right side of the egg instead. Lob a grenade (hold up and fire) and then shoot the egg for a second pair of boots. Next is another egg with a facehugger hiding behind it. Let the second one pop up and run back to the lower ledge. From here you can shoot all three things easily. Anytime, anywhere, man! When you reach the large gap, let the jumping facehugger appear and quickly jump back left to make it fall to its death. Do the same again after jumping up to the second ledge. The third ledge is a little trickier. As soon as you land you will be jumped upon. Quickly jump high in the air to avoid the facehugger. The egg below contains a LIFE health boost so if you are now feeling the need you can grab it. The facehugger will cause you damage when exploding but the health boost should be worth it. Not that you can only manage the jump back up if you have both boot upgrades. The facehugger here can easily be shot from the ledge to the right. Stand a little away from the ledge to ensure the acid does not reach you. The egg contains a shotgun ugprade. As you jump over the platforms you will notice two facehuggers jumping at you. The best way to avoid them is to stand on the first platform you jumped to and duck at the right side of it. They will simply jump over you to their death. The next facehugger guards and egg with a small health boost. After a short while (and a few more eggs later) you will see an egg that contanins the Smart Bomb. Continue and let the jumping facehuggers fall to its death. Enter the cave by jumping up and holding UP to summersault on the ledge above. If you do it right you will just be standing on the left edge. A tiny step further will trigger a facehugger which is only avoidable by jumping over it to the left side and back onto the ledge. As you jump over to the next safe area you will have a facehugger crawling down from the ceiling. Shoot it while in the air. You can also make out another one on the ceiling a few steps ahead. This one is best shot when it lands so take a few steps left while it is descending. It gets harder from here. A bunch of guys drop from the ceiling, then you have to duck a couple of facehuggers while taknig the "stairs" up, then you have to try and kill the facehugger below that guards a health boosting egg. The guy on the right is easy at least. Make him pop out and he'll just disappear to the right. The egg holds your third boot upgrade. Step on the lava rock and take the upper path. Two facehuggers will run at you but with a quick step left after they are dead you can avoid their acid drops. The first egg has another health boost. The second egg contains the body armor. The egg below is from what I see not obtainable. Drop off right and just let all the facehuggers run off screen. Take the lower path (top is not possible from this side anyway) and kill the facehuggers that drop from the ceiling. Now you can jump to the top left and shoot the egg for a 1UP! Jump far right and in my opinion it is best to just jump straight up to avoid all enemies each time they want to get you. The jumpers will drop off left and the one from the egg disappears to the right. Egg contains a power arm which should be your second. Enter the door by pressing UP. Level 1: ```````` They have not yet cut the power down here. Inside Level-1 you will have the usual enemies. I will stop giving every play- by-play at this point, the way to tackle facehugger eggs should be understood by now. Enter the first room which has another boot upgrade (you should be max though), the body armor you picked up earlier but either way you can also get a helmet in the top left egg. Exit via the other door. If you jump on the pipe on the top you can make it across to the left and grab the flame thrower which makes all enemies a piece of cake now. ALIEN!! Woah yeah those blue guys start appearing now. As it comes in so fast you want to quickly jump left. It will disappear. The bottom egg has a rapid- fire gun, the top has as mentioned a flame thrower although I think you cannot reach it from down here. The next egg also contains a power arm upgrade. The jumping alien is best avoiding by ducking. Your shots are too weak and the facehugger will get most of the damage anyway. The egg up ahead contains a 1UP but it will take a lot of ducking through this tunnel to get in and out. If you do not need it just take the top section. Soon you pick up the grenades again. Useful for lobbing them at the guys below right now. Follow my directions now. Take the top path and grab the health from the egg. Enter the door. You can actually shoot the aliens poking through the gaps of the wall. Just make sure you stand away far enough for the acid fallout to miss you. Lob grenades at the one below which makes life much easier down there. The blue water actually drops you to death so only stand on the grey areas. Exit via the door. Grab the health extender and shoot the aliens jumping around in the water. They are no threat to you once DEAD. After you land an alien will drop from the ceiling. Jump as soon as you land and it will go beneath you and apparently give up its pursuit... as you arrive at door one another alien will drop down in front of you. this time you want to avoid it by DUCK YOU SUCKER! Now we have the famous 4 doors. Before that let you tell you about the 1UP in the egg on the right. You can get it, and then jump right to the BADASS weapon the laser is. The only problem is that you have to restart the game again and dodge all enemies. Even if your weapon they can hurt you. You also need to ensure you do not pick up ANY other weapons else you downgrade, badly! The largest benefit aside from the best gun you gain from this that you can pick up the health boosters again and making your max health extremely long. Door 1 goes to the beginning of the level. I am quite sure that is NOT where you want to go. Door 2 also goes to the beginning of the level. That is where we want to go to of course - NOT! So this one is out too. Door 3 is the way to go. Door 4 goes back to the beginning of the level as well in case you had not guessed so already. After you made up your mind about the doors (DOOR 3!!!) let us continue. If you want to fill your health, kill the two Peeping Tom aliens and drop down to find a booster in the egg. They're coming outta the walls. They're coming outta the goddamn walls. Let's book! Jump back up and go through the door to the... BOSS: ALIEN QUEEN You can only hurt the queen at the head. You accomplish this by jumping high and shooting at the highest point. The queen appears to first not move at all but then after a few moments it will move closer and you actually have no way to avoid its attack but duck and take less damage. The queen does not always walk all the way to you so you should have enough time to reduce her health bar. After she dies you do not even have to avoid her acid sprays. You also start the next level with more health. Level 2: ```````` The level starts with a few eggs containing the usual facehuggers as well as a shotgun and two pairs of boots. Continue through the doors (careful as there are some aliens in the walls). When you get to the huge bunch of doors you want to take the central one. Go along the path and ignore all doors until you hit the very last one at the far right. Take the next door after some odd maneuvering. All the eggs here give you life back. Ignore the next few eggs and just head through the door. What was that? Oh, that alien must be hunting the other marines that you ditched before going on a one-woman show to destroy the queen. Some of these guys run into the screen so fast that if you try to shoot them they will still splatter you with acid so try to jump over them. The ones dropping from the ceiling are generally easy to kill without hurting you. The last jump to the door is a little tricky as it involves banging your head while making the chasm and the fall is deadly... BOSS: ALIEN QUEEN What, again? Oh, how original. Anyway, the strategy is the same as before so please scroll up. Don't forget to shout "Get away from her, you bitch!" at the screen. Level 3: ```````` The level is extremely straight forward, as in you just have to WALK FORWARD. Ignore all the doors for now. You do need to jump over gaps and actually the placement of the eggs with facehuggers has become tougher, yet they give you plenty of health boosts along the way. They mostly come at night. Mostly. Remember that you can walk on the pipes and that you can let the facehuggers run off screen to never come back (assuming they found other victims or just fell down into The Abyss [James Cameron reference *rimshot*]. After a while you see something new - another colonizer or perhaps another marine, could be mistaken for a man. Naturally, not very alive. It won't make any difference if it was a soldier. And there is a twist - you get to face a new enemy: the mutant colonizer! Just kidding, there is a chestburster coming from its, well, chest! Same deal as the eggbursters, they just run around and try to hurt you. So these new types of enemies will start being more normal from now on. After the second guy still continue right rather than going through the door. At the very end you get to take a door to the... BOSS: ALIEN QUEEN That's great, this is really f..... great, man. Same deal as before. IQs just drop sharply for boss battle innovations. Level 4: ```````` So this looks a little different. As you walk along you will not notice much different though. At the end there are five doors. Take the top left door. [Note to self: can I take the top right door and skip the next paragraph?] This is interesting: There is an alien hanging down just to the right. You can see three eggplant looking things and you will notice one moving. Shoot it from afar. A little further right there is a chestburster coming from the background too. Kill the alien above the door and continue right. Kill the background chestbursters and then make a giant leap right to the lower door which leads you to the next area. Take the top right door this time. This part is a little tough. Jump on the single ledges as you make your way across. Kill the alien before dropping down and then take the door to the next part. This is just a straight line with aliens attacking you frequently. At the end is the last door to the final boss. BOSS: ALIEN QUEEN AGAIN! After three times you should get the idea... *insert Aliens quote here* Enjoy the short ending. Now to wait seventeen days for rescue. Nuke the site from orbit. Now go to sleep and don't dream. Sleep all the way home. =============================================================================== YY.) VERSION HISTORY GYY00 =============================================================================== v1.0 First and probably final version (11th of April 2016) =============================================================================== ZZ.) CREDITS & THANKS GZZ00 =============================================================================== GameFAQs for hosting this file. for the game. 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