The last of these posts ended with Robert having just reached the entrance of a castle on the northern edges of the island, presumably somewhere in the game's Scotland equivalent going by how there's a Loch Ness analogue right nearby. Said castle had a Yenrab keeping watch over the entrance...
...and even more Yenrab inside. It turns out that the Yenrab have invaded Earth, starting with this castle which they're making into their base of operations.
They're also forcing the human occupants of the castle to load up a ton of supplies for them, most notably alcoholic beverages of all types. But also ketchup, for some bizarre reason, which you'll see a little later on.
Here's another reference to what's going on over on the east coast of the United States (or... whatever the US equivalent is called in this game's world.)
It's too bad I never actually got to the part in this game where the "Nebozu for president" plot actually wrapped itself up -- basically, what would've happened was Enduo and Mejuai's groups would meet up in line for voting (so you'd have Enduo, Nancos, Mejuai, and possibly Julia on your team) and they'd see Nebozu speaking, and realize that something fishy must be going on if Nebozu is running for president. After that you'd have to go throughout the city and track down those that he's brainwashed, knocking them out to break the spell (also preventing them from voting at all, since by the time they'd come to the polling places would've already closed.) Depending on how many you knock out within the time limit, either Nebozu still wins and you have to fight him, or Mr. Chicken ends up winning and you have to defend him from Nebozu. So... you would've had one last Nebozu battle either way, just the situation leading up to it would've been a bit different depending on who won the election.
Apparently the king here tried to fight off the Yenrab and... didn't do so well. They apparently didn't kill him, though, as you'll meet him a bit later.
This is Robert's first clue that the Nebozu they fought on the moon wasn't the real one, though he doesn't quite pick up on it right away.
Apparently a notable trait of all Yenrab is that they
love drinking and getting ridiculously drunk. To the extent where, upon conquering your castle and/or country, they'll steal all your beer (and other booze) first before gathering any other supplies.
They also apparently like eating ketchup. Just ketchup, not even putting it on anything. Ewww.
Also, ketchup has been produced for hundreds of years
as a chemical weapon in this country, according to what this knight dude says. Not sure how that works.
With a name like "McBootie," wouldn't all of him be his ass? XD
I can't remember what this Yenrab was thinking that made him afraid of the other Yenrab killing him. Maybe he thought he could be Nebozu's vice-presidential candidate or something?
Apparently Yenrab don't understand the concept of beds. I guess they just sleep on the ground back up there on the moon.
And here's King McBootie, who's not dead but is holed up in his throne room hiding a key that will unlock a way to escape from the castle in case of emergency (such as if it gets conquered by purple dinosaur monsters.) He gives Robert the key, since he realizes he wouldn't be able to fight his way through the basement himself anyway.
Miniboss battle against a Konimed Yenrab. Aside from that curse draining Robert's HP almost down to nothing, this wasn't that hard of a battle at all, even with only two characters.
And after a bit of a maze-like dungeon area, here's the door that the key opens. Another short hallway later, and...
...we've got a boat!
And apparently pirates stole
this guy's boat shortly after he came back from giving Robert a ride.
Now we're on the European mainland, where there's several cities all located within short walking distance (compared to, say, the US/Canada equivalents.) First of all is Napis, which is "Spain" rearranged but also looks like it'd be a little too close to "penis" if you rearranged the letters differently. Panis?
There's this big-headed green alien hanging out in the inn for some odd reason, apparently not speaking English at all. Or any human language, for that matter.
And here's a stray Yenrab, who got lost when drunk and somehow ended up wandering
across the ocean and into another country. Even he doesn't remember how he did it.
Random fat guy talking about how booze works here, for some reason.
Apparently the two churches back on Naldrie are going to combine together now that one of them isn't being controlled by Buht McPharten anymore.
This guy goes on to say that the Rist High Priest lives in the country of Il Yat -- so apparently, despite "Kartol" being the name that sorta-kinda sounds like "Catholic" (and being the one with nuns, even!) it's actually the Rist church that has the Pope-equivalent -- "Il Yat" rearranges to "Italy," of course, and a "high priest that lives in Italy" pretty much has to be the Pope.
OFFICIAL HOBOMON MERCHANDISE. And yeah, this is apparently that very same hobo who appeared in several towns in the first half of the game, always on the run from the gangsters who were trying to catch him in a Hobo Box and use him for Hobomon battles.
This guy sells robot parts, guns.... and randomly the Loud Buzzer item that cures sleep.
And this school is just really, really messed up in pretty much every way. It's the only school that appears in the game, too.
And apparently one of its teachers is a
zombie. Not sure how that works.
This guy here seems to be the only one of the teachers who's
not awful in one way or another. Well, him and the zombie, anyway. The zombie probably just
smells awful.
Here we have the pervy, possible-child-molester sex ed teacher...
...and the nun who teaches religious classes, forcing her beliefs on the kids...
And there's this pervy old dude who talks about how the teachers drunkenly hump in the cafeteria when the kids are away.
This guy, who randomly has a unique walking sprite
and portrait, gives you advice for increasingly high amounts of money (10 konju first, then 100 konju, and so on.) I vaguely remember a plan for a game where he was the main character -- apparently he was named "Baka" there, after the Japanese word for idiot -- but I can't remember anything about that game at all now.
And here's a dog/cat supplies store, with a name spoofing PetSmart. I don't think it's possible to actually get Sarah the cat to join you in what I got finished of this game, but this is where you'd go to buy kitty items for her if it was. And also dog food and leashes and doghouses, which are useless since there's no dog character in the game.
The penis statue returns, this time not randomly hidden up in the mountains somewhere. This one doesn't randomly give you 1 EXP every time you talk to it, though.
That tower visible on the world map is inaccessible, as a lot of it got busted up by meteors. I wonder if this pirate was the guy who stole the boat from the guy in Naldrie?
The only way to go from here is north through a cave, which is sandy and has a reddish sort of tint to it for some odd reason.
Oh, and there's Goatsu there waiting for you.
And for the first time it's revealed that Goatsu and company are members of a group known as the "Arkolo," which means "invasion" in Khurbyish. This is basically this game's equivalent of the Swarm, except only Bridget (known as Burije in this game) from the usual Swarm is present and every other member is some random monster-thing.
This part seems to take place
after Mejuai's encounter with Goatsu (as that was the first time he copied Deathio's rhyming summon spells) but before Enduo and Nancos came across him in the Kuarudo caves (hence his "having somewhere else to be" and summoning a monster rather than fighting Robert himself.)
And here is the first ever appearance of the Jamu Frog, which in this game uses a recolored version of a sprite from some obscure Japanese shooting game. The Jamu Frog in my current version of things is a powerful Moronism being that has the ability to incite mindless rioting in entire groups of people. It also doesn't have a smaller frog riding on its head anymore. XD
On the other side of the cave, just past a section of road that Obesius apparently really hated for some odd reason, is... yep, another city!
And that other city is Hohhohhoh (European version, not Canadian version), the home of French people. Including this
French ninja -- there's actually two French ninjas roaming around town here, oddly enough.
The bar here has different music than those in most of the other towns, and has four identical pompadour-ed guys all saying the same thing about the dancers.
And then there's this fat French chef over in the corner who... says it a bit differently. XD
And this guy, who apparently has no interest in watching ze shluts dance and shake their booties, but
does comment on how everyone else is busy doing just that.
Apparently "swimming in somebody's pool without their permission" is a capital offense over in Hohhohhoh.
This house has a really bizarrely lopsided roof which doesn't look like it's physically possible.
Apparently that's a "mutant roof" according to this guy. And his house was apparently built by
crackheads. Also, he randomly doesn't have an exaggerated French accent like everyone else around here.
This side of town is apparently where all the weird and creepy French people hang out. There's a French vampire (which drink expensive red wine rather than blood), a mysterious cloaked guy who hisses about how good French bread is, and a fat lady admiring a column while reminiscing about... um... penises. I didn't get a screenshot of that one, but after she says that, Robert backs away from her, obviously a bit freaked out.
The castle is not open to tourists (or wandering Booger Fighters with robot buddies), just like the one back in Whale.
There's some new critters in these parts. Well, the Yikkith-A isn't new, but the Freaky Fungus is. The Freaky Fungi are based on a weird fungus that my sister and I found growing in Clifton Forge back around 2003-2004; apparently they're called "elegant stinkhorns" and they look pretty much just like the fungus sprite here.
Then there's Pwibbschnitzel, a ridiculously tiny town that fits entirely on one screen and has no open houses, just a few wandering NPCs.
This town over in the forest, on the other hand, is a bit more significant...
It's Woobleheim, the home of Woobleheimer beer! Being a German spoof-city, there is of course a bar, and it is of course
ridiculously huge compared to the bars in other towns. And heavily populated by random NPCs of all types.
There's the drunk priest...
...dwarves, who apparently able to survive on beer alone...
...drunk witches who use magic to get less drunk while still being able to drink massive amounts of beer...
...and Nancos' bandanna-wearing hippie lookalike, who Robert initially mistakes for Nancos herself. This is based on a true story -- there was one time in the early Dabney years when I saw someone who looked almost identical to the person that Nancos was (very loosely) based on, wearing vaguely hippie-ish clothes and a bandanna. As far as I'm aware this was not actually the person Nancos was based on, just someone who looked a lot like her.
There's also a super drunk Yenrab who's practically begging the bartender to give him more beer, even though he's got a blood-alcohol content that is physically impossible.
And apparently Robert is slightly older than the rest of the cast -- after the 3-year time skip, he is now twenty-one years of age and thus legally allowed to buy some Woobelheimer Beer!
And of course, here's a guy who says exactly the same phrase as the "I'm practicing my German" guy from earlier in the game.
The name "Woobleheimer" actually goes all the way back to my elementary-school years. I had come up with the word "wooble" around this time (which later led to the name of a blob-creature that lives in the K'hyurbhi Desert, the Woobler), and a friend commented that it sounded like it could be the name of a beer -- "Woobleheimer," to be specific.
I think Uggy Barfoo was the first time "Woobleheimer Beer" actually made an appearance, though I know the idea had been bouncing around in my head for a while before that.
Inside this cave: the results of wandering around in the cave when you're drunk, three of which are clearly visible in this screenshot.
Yep... apparently a lot of people get lost in this cave due to wandering into it when they're drunk.
It turns out that, if not for the chef who sells it being drunk enough to get the legal age wrong,
anyone among the playable characters would be able to legally buy beer here. XD
This Yenrab isn't just some random drunk, as it turns out. If you have beer on you when you talk to him, he'll ask you to give him some.
And if you give him a whopping
ten bottles of Woobleheimer Beer, he'll actually join your team.
He's significantly weaker than Robert or Fredd, but he's got a pretty useful array of attacks, including psychic blasts, Cheese Breath, and the ability to go berserk.
There are actually three playable Yenrab programmed into the game, but only Crunk here actually shows up during the parts of the game that I got finished. I can't remember what my plans for the other two (named Junk and Gunk) were going to be, but Junk belongs to the weaker Ruasodin subspecies and Gunk is an ordinary Madasi Yenrab that only berserks rather than having a bunch of other techniques like Crunk does.
Heading south from Woobleheim, you start to run into a bunch of random Ancient Greek-looking temples... which have all been pretty much completely wrecked, with the entrances blocked off by rubble.
Apparently the temples have been recently torn down after Obesius arrived in the area, and this hobo doesn't know why.
He
does know that a wrecked temple full of un-drank beer is a nice place to live if you're homeless, though. XD
Apparently Obesius has settled down in the city of Regeek (which of course is an anagram of "Greek"... with an extra E for some reason), ordering the people to bring him loads of food while he just kind of sits around being lazy and eating all the time.
Seems like he's convinced everyone that he is the "God of Obesity"...
...and because none of the other gods are present, he's also been able to convince the people of Regeek to tear down all their temples and worship only Obesius.
Obesius has also been babbling on about being a "mighty dragon" despite not actually being a dragon at all. He's a little crazy in that way. Like most humans, however, the people of Regeek haven't seen an actual dragon, so they don't know any better.
Since this post is getting pretty long, I'm going to end it here and leave the battle with Obesius (and the surrounding events) for the next -- and last -- one. That'll also give me plenty of space to fit Joguo's super incomplete solo segment of the game, and also to talk about what I had planned for the game but never got finished.
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