Snow Bros Stage 83

[Mandy Geise]

Every 10 floors you will face a boss. Bosses are much stronger that normal bad guys. Your snow shots won't hurt them (but they will give you 10 points per snow shot). They will also create constantly new bad guys to come after you. Your strategy then will be: to turn the little guys into snow balls and though them at the bosses.

You must know that there is no evil pumpking in the bosses floors, instead, when your time is up (exactly 120 seconds) you will simply pass onto the next floor exactly as if you had defeated it. (Thought you won't get any points). This is however, not a recomended tactic by any means, as they all can be easily destroyed if you follow my adviced for each one. Also, each of them has a different amount of hits, as you will see.

The easiest of all, this guy will stand 6 hits before opening a lot his mouth, falling to the floor and die. He is predectible, because he always does the same, and thus, we can make a little infalible strategy. I have marked a yellow and black zone on the picture above, simply don't move from there and you will be safe. Throw all the snow that you can to your right and when you have a snowball, push it to the giant lizard. This technique works 100% of the times, is very straight forward.

In fact, it is so simple after you learn the trick, that I use this screen as a PowerUps mine and score booster. Once you master the basics, you can go to the bottom of the screen and make snowballs to your left, throwing them at the little buddies as they come down. Eventually you will get the PowerUp that you were mising and some extra score. (If by floor 10 you are still missing a power-up! Which I hope you aren't, unless you are working your way though one of the Snow Bros Doors)

I don't have a 100% proved method for passing those birds, (yet), so from game to game I improvise the shots. This is due to the fact that the don't follow a fixed pattern, and thus is difficult to came up with a strategy that works 100% of the times. If you have a well-proven technique for those brids, please let me know in the forum.One piece of advice is: stick to the bottom, don't climb. When you climb you get closer to the birds, thus giving you less time to void them when they go down.

As with all the doubled bosses (a boss which is in fact two monsters) it is always a good strategy to concentrate on one first until is defeated and then go for the second. This is common sense and a good overwall strategy for multiple oponents (divide and conquer!). However, in this particular boss I wouldn't advise it too much, it could be dangerous. If you can reasonably git the same bird all the time do it, but don't force it. Don't waste precious seconds crossing the whole screen to hit an injuried bird because it doesn't worth it.

Simply shoot snowballs as fast as you can. Also, avoid bouncing snowballs again other snowballs: one will always hit the wall and thus, be lost. It is better to thow them one by one at a bird. If you stick to the floor, out of the 6 eggs you will only use 2. However, the tradeoff is that you can't miss a single one of those two shoots.

Finally, those birds can stand 3 hits each one. Which means that if you are very skilled, the second time they came down you can get rid of one of them. Originally they are yellow, and after each hit they will change color following this pattern: yellow, pink, blue and then gone after one more hit. Once they are featherless and flying away they won't kill you even if they touch you.In short: two birds, 3 hits each, a total of 6 hits to clear the stage.

To make it all worse, apart from the three little bad guys that will be your ammo once turned into rounded snowballs, those heads also spit walking flames that are completely invulnerable to your snow. ( Yes I know that snow is made of water and that water puts off fire, but the poor programmers didn't attend good schools and didn't know that. We can't blame them. Maybe they were raise in a very hot country and know very little about how snow actually works )

But fear not my friend, those two heads have a dirty secret: they don't detect your presence! (just look at their eyes, they look so stonned they wouldn't see a truck even if they were hit by one. I wonder what the programmers where up to while writing this game. Kids, don't use drugs, they waste you). Because they can't detect you, they will always move around following the same pattern. With a little study, we can find a weak spot.

Note that on the top corners there are two cracks through the snow. The left one only throws one little bad guy at a time, while the right crack throws two of them. Your objetive is to get up there, on the right of the crack and turn every little guy that pops by into a snow ball and kick them down as fast as you can. You really need to kick those snowballs fast in this floor or you are gone. You do have enought time to kill the right head before it comes up and hunt you. However, it will get the 7th and last hit just in front of you, so don't even miss one snowball or you are history. If you follow my instructions closely, you can defeat those two heads time after time, 100% guaranteed. You just have to learn to perform the little trick with extreme acurracy, to the second. Or better said, to the pixel.

Don't just start climbing up as the show starts, you must wait until it is your turn. When the left head is over the X mark, (marked in the picture) facing left, then is your turn to climb to the shooting-like-hell position. You should be there in five jumps, I have marked them on the picture. Watch out for the first 3 bad guys, the blue ones, they will get to you while you wait, don't let them touch you! (They smell very bad)

It really looks like the right head is going to get you, but if you are fast, it won't. I can't! There is no time! This is a 100% efective way of passing this novice-nightmare boss. Simply practise it until you are confortable with it.

Those are the final bosses, the stoneheads guys that took your girlfriend last night. Unfortunately, I don't have a proved method for clearing this floor, as the bubble ball they shoot are random and thus, you can't prepare a detailed strategy on advance.

Focus on one head first. This wasn't very important in the birds at floor 30, but it is vital on this floor. Once you have defeated one, it will be very simple to finish off the other. The stone at the top stops falling at some point, thus giving you all the time in the world to kill the head that is left. Do your best to kick the snowballs in the same direction until one stonehead is gone, the take your time to finish the second. Watch out for the bubbles, the snowballs can bounce on them. Sometimes, you have to kick left a snowball that you want to hit the right stone head, it all depends on the bubbles around. Very Tricky.

If you get caught inside a bubble don't jump, it won't help, simply throw snow until you break the bubble an fall free... to get into the bubble just below you, as it usually happens if you don't fall to the side.

Sometimes it may be useful to ride a bubble, it can help you get out of some ugly fire (or even to cross it to the other side if you are skilled enough). Let it be a personal decision, don't let the bubble decide when you are going to ride one. It may look funny the first time, but the spikes on top are not.

Of course, ride a bubble to get a PowerUp that you need. Specially the blue one, as you are in floor 50 and by this time your throw snow finger must be (ironically) burning. Get the blue drink, save some finger.

Arm yourself with patience, each stonehead will take 10 hits before collapsing. To help you keep track of how many hits they still have left, you will see 3 small flames appearing in their foreheads. (Yes, thow snowballs at them to make them burn! Definitely, the programers were high on something while writing all this) The patter goes as follow: 4 hits to see the first flame. 6 hits for the second, 8 for the third flame and when it gets it's tenth hit, the stonehead will collapse.

Finally: Simply kick a few more of those snow balls and get back your poshy girlfriend. Oh, she may be just hanging above you wearing a skirt, but do not let that distract you. Thats exactly what the stoneheads pretend by hanging them up there without underwear. Don't fall for it, don't let them trick you, stay focus, sharp as a blade, for it will be soon over. Just once last effort.

Snow Bros.[a] is a 1990 platform arcade video game originally developed by Toaplan first published in Japan, then in North America by Romstar and later in Europe. Starring the eponymous snowmen twins Nick and Tom, players are tasked with travelling through 50 stages, throwing and building snowballs, jumping on and off platforms to navigate level obstacles while dodging and defeating monsters in order to rescue the princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi from captivity.[1] Although first launched in arcades, the game was later ported across multiple platforms, each one being created by different third-party developers and featuring several changes or additions compared with the original version. Conversions for various microcomputers were in development but none were officially released to the public.

Snow Bros. was met with mostly positive reception from critics and players alike, earning an award from Gamest magazine and gaining a cult following since its initial release. In 1994, a sequel titled Snow Bros. 2: With New Elves was released by Hanafram, serving as the last game by Toaplan prior to their closure. The rights to the title are owned by Tatsujin, a Japanese company formed by Masahiro Yuge. A modernized version of the game titled Snow Bros Special was developed by CRT Games and published by Daewon Media Game Lab and Clear River Games for Nintendo Switch, and was released on May 19, 2022.

Snow Bros. is a platform game reminiscent of Bubble Bobble and Tumblepop, where players assume the role of snowmen twins Nick (P1) and Tom (P2) through 50 increasingly difficult stages, each with a boss at every tenth stage that must be fought before progressing any further, in an effort to rescue twin princesses Puripuri and Puchipuchi from captivity as the main objective.[1][2][3][4] The plot summary of Snow Bros. varies between each region and version.[2][3][4][5] In the NES port, King Scorch cursed princes Nick and Tom by turning them into snowmen, while he also captured the princess twins Teri and Tina, leading the brothers to defeat the king to save their land.

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