Part 4: More Wilderness
Ariane then walks out of the mushroom forest to Adam's hut in the middle of the desert. Adam explains that the light comes from florescence of heated gasses towards the ceiling of the underground, which is I think the explanation they used in the book so we'll let that one pass. But then Adam blurts out this statement on why the mushrooms are so big:
"It's a congenial climate, no parasites – it's the evolution of species [sic]!" The speech actually says, "a species" so I didn't notice the typo until making this review, but still. There are probably lots more grammar mistakes I just didn't catch, but I make mistakes too, so meh.
He also claimed there are no natural parasites (or predators either, I'll infer). Boy I'm glad Adam the hermit is putting Darwin in his place. You don't need predators to breed the superior race, in fact they're detrimental to the process! May I inform you that this guy is the grandson of a famous scientist? I'm sure he's made his grandfather proud with his acute understanding of biology!
So we give him the crystal, and he gets all creepy again.
"Why thank you! What fine workmanship! Ariane, you are welcome in my hut!" I am sort of afraid to go in his hut. But that's where you see the magic mushroom visit and blatantly steal a few important items, so you have to go in.
Well by now we've gotten a few snippets of information from the surface. I guess the center of the earth has wi-fi… everywhere. See for yourself:
For those of you who want a wireless national network... just go to the center of the earth.
Continuing the game, go further and now you're in jungle. Mushrooms to desert to jungle; this place has a weird climate. There's a thin wall of foliage blocking your way which Ariane alerts you to with this comment:
"That's impossible." If you mean keeping your sanity while playing this game, then you are absolutely right Ariane.
What she means is you have to use your machete from the army dudes to get through it, so whack through that like there's no tomorrow.
See, look at how much of a difference that made? Grab a leaf, you'll need it soon.
Go through the leaves to see…
Disappointingly, it doesn't eat Ariane and end this terrible game. And look, Ariane is bored.
Go over to the right and make a homemade firecracker out of this log and random inventory stuff.
Luckily, you happen to have everything you need to make a bomb: colored pigments, a black powder pear, vines and a leaf. Combine it all and what does it look like to you?
That's right, what they were smoking when they made this thing. Light it with your lighter and magically the log acts like a cannon, propelling the explosive towards the T-rex (instead of all over the place, like it should). If you notice, the timing was off for me; the T-rex runs away before the explosion.
Off to the right, what do you see?
The dead dinosaur's baby, trying desperately to get some food. So what do you do when you find an orphaned baby dinosaur? Exploit its labor for transportation, of course.
Lure the dino into the cart by using the fruit for bait. The poor thing runs on a treadmill that hauls your weight plus the weight of the cart. Way to have a heart, Ariane.