The Micro User
1st March 1985
Published in The Micro User 3.01
Poor Felix - he's under attack yet again
Felix Meets The Evil Weevils is the third episode in the rather hectic life of our hero Felix, the other two being Felix And The Fruit Monsters and Felix In The Factory.
Once again an industrial setting has been used and the scene is constructed of several levels of conveyor belts connected by numerous vertical pipes.
Felix is chased around the scene by weevils which increase in number with each new screen.
To destroy a weevil Felix must collect a can of insecticide and squirt it at the pursuing nasty.
At various points around the screen there are mutation cham bers and should a weevil enter one of these it mutates to become a purple superweevil.
These devils are twice as fast as the common or garden green weevils and are immune to the ball bearings.
The ball bearings? Yes, not only must Felix kill the weevils but he must avoid the constant procession of ball bearings that fall from the top level and follow the direction of the conveyors falling down any pipes they may encounter.
Letters are placed randomly around the factory. Collecting them all to spell the word BONUS gives you a further 1,500 points. Oxygen cylinders will also appear from time to time and these must be collected to replenish Felix's ever decreas ing oxygen level.
One final object is the conveyor control lever. Having acquired this little device one can change the direction of the conveyor belt by pressing Shift.
Having been a fan of Felix In The Factory, I was not disappointed with this latest adventure.
The characters are colourful and detailed and the fluidity of the crawling movements as the weevils make their way around the factory is excellent.
My only complaint about the game is the title Micropower have chosen. There are no actual weevils - long-snouted beetles - in the game, just a number of green and purple caterpillars.
Maybe Felix Meets The Evil Green And Purple Caterpillars didn't sound right.
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