R E A L M FAQ/Walkthrough Written by TurtleSoupage (TurtleSoupage@hotmail.com) Version 1.0 2/10/2003 ------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS ------------------------ 1. Game Info 2. Review 3. Controls 4. Story/Characters 5. The Bosses - Evil Tree - Statue - Dragon - Demon - Floating Skull - Scorpion - Evil Eye - Space Ship - Sea Robot - Giant Robot - Helicopter - Wizard - Giant Insect Robot - Twin Frog Robot - Giant Cyborg 6. The Weapons - Blaster - Homing - Tri-Gun - Laser - Large Laser - Charge - Chain - Boomerang - Missile 7. The Items - Crystal - Ammo Orb - Armor Shield - Weapon Container 8. Level Walkthroughs - Level 1: The Forest - Level 2: The Cave - Level 3: City on the Sea - Level 4: Airship - Level 5: Tunnel 9. Hints/Tips/General 10. Rumored Cheats 11. Credits/Thanks 12. Contact Info. 13. Legal Info. ------------------------ 1. GAME INFO ------------------------ Game: Realm Platform: SNES Players: 1 Developed By: Flair Published By: Titus Licensed By: Nintendo ------------------------ 2. REVIEW ------------------------ Overall - 75% Gameplay - Realm has great gameplay, with lots of climbing and shooting. Limited ammo creates more need for strategy than most side scrollers. Story - As far as i can tell, there isn't one. Sound - The sound in this game is fair. The background music varies enough to not make you go insane and smash the TV. :) Graphics - The graphics in this game surprised me, a lot. There are a lot of nice touches that bring the game to life. Lighting throughout the levels that changes as if the sun was moving, and slight color variations throughout the scenery give the game a more pleasing feel. Replayability - This is one thing Realm lacks. After you beat the game for the first time, replaying it is almost NO fun at all. ------------------------ 3. CONTROLS ------------------------ Joypad Left: Run Left Joypad Right: Run Right Joypad Up: Joypad Up Joypad Down: Crouch X Button: Switch Weapons Y Button: Shoot A Button: A Button B Button: Jump ------------------------ 4. STORY/CHARACTERS ------------------------ Since i was unable to obtain the original manual for Realm and nothing is explained in-game, i cannot tell you the storyline or any information about the main character. ------------------------ 5. THE BOSSES ------------------------ Evil Tree Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 2/5 The first and easiest boss in the game is the Evil Tree boss. You must defeat both forms of him to pass. His first attacks are balls of light that he throws of of his hands, but those can easily be rendered useless by jumping over them. Defeating his hands is done with little effort if you use the homing gun. After the hands are gone, he will shoot strings of blue light balls at you from his mouth and where his hands used to be. The strings shot from his mouth will bounce over you if you position yourself right, but you will need to jump over the strings shot from his hands. After you destroy his head, the Evil Tree will explode, revealing his second form, the Evil Tree Brain. The brain will bob in and out of the the tree trunk left behind by the Evil Tree, you can only hit it while it is out. It will release red balls into the air that will harm you if you touch them, so destroy most of them before aiming for the brain. The homing gun is best for this. After you destroy the brain, Evil Tree boss is defeated. Statue Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Statue bosses only form of attack is shooting fireballs out of its orb. Avoid going close to it because it will suck you in, and after that, it can easily hit you. Stand far back and shoot it in the head with any gun, but be sure to dodge the strings of fireballs it shoots out of its orb. Dragon Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Dragon Boss has only one attack, flying into you. Avoid it as much as possible, and use a high damage gun such as the Large Laser or Tri-Gun to attack it with. Also, avoid going to close to the ledges of the platforms, because you might fall off. Demon Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 3/5 The Demon Boss has 2 forms of attack, the fireball it launches from its hands, and a lightning storm it shoots from its mouth. As you are running towards it charge up your charge gun to full force, shoot it once and it will fly up in the air and move to the left. Once it lands back down, it will shoot one fireball, then do a lightning storm. Jump the fireball, then run away from him to avoid the lightning storm. Shoot as often as possible while you are doing this. Floating Skull Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Floating Skull boss has 2 forms of attack. It can shoot stars out of its eyes and small skulls out of its mouth. When you first encounter it, attack it for a few seconds, and it will fly up the cave. In the room you are in, shoot the red button. That will activate an elevator rock on the floor that will take you up to fight the skull. Use your Homing Gun to take out the smaller skulls floating around the large main skull, then use the Chain Gun to finish off the main skull. Beware, after you defeat him, multiple skeleton warriors will appear out of nowhere to avenge his death. Scorpion Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Scorpion bosses only have one attack, a lunge with their barbed tail. To avoid this, stay in the water until they attack. Then, jump back onto the land and shoot them with your Homing Gun, and jump back into the water before they attack again. Repeat this process until the Scorpion bosses are defeated. Evil Eye Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 4/5 The Evil Eye Boss has 2 different forms, and 1 attack for each form. His first looks like a big ball of jelly. You will notice that there are 3 platorms sticking out of the wall to the left of where the Evil Eye is floating up and down. Shooting these platforms will cause them to fly out of the wall and shoot towards the Evil Eye. Time your shots well and the platforms will hit the Evil Eye. Be sure to avoid his Lightning Bolts. Once you have hit him enough times he will start to blink from orange to green. After that his jelly coating will wear off. Use your Tri-Gun or Chain Gun to finish him off. Beware of his lightning field attack, jump from platform to platform to avoid it. Space Ship Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 2/5 The Space Ship boss has 2 forms, and 1 attack with each form. The first form is the whole Space Ship. It will shoot dual lasers out of its nose. Avoid these and use the Boomerang gun to attack it. It will explode and only the nose will be left. Use a heavy damage gun, such as the charge gun, to eliminate it. It will shoot a lightning field out of its nose, avoid this by staying to the left or right of it. Motorcycle Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Motorcycle boss has 2 forms of attack, bombs and fireballs. To avoid these just manuever your boat back and forth with the left and right joydpad buttons. Use a high damage gun such as the Missle Launcher to defeat the Motorcycle boss. Sea Robot Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 3/5 The Sea Robot boss has 2 forms of attack, fireballs and floating mines. To avoid being hit by the fire balls, stay far to the left before he shoots them, and move back towards the right underneath them as they are in the air. To disable the floating mines charge your charge gun completely, jump, and shoot them. Use your charge gun to shoot the Sea Robot as often as possible. The Sea Robot Alternates between fireballs and floating mines. Giant Robot Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 4/5 The Giant Robot has 4 forms of attack, a flamethrower, strings of fireballs, missiles, and a lightning gun. To avoid the flamethrower/lightning gun/missles, stand on the highest box and jump. To avoid the strings of fireballs, stand right beside the Giant Robots legs. Whenever you are standing beside his legs, shoot up to damage him. Otherwise, stand on the first box and shoot horizontal. After you destroy all of his weapons besides the missiles, you will have to shoot the man operating the Giant Robot to defeat it. Use a high damage gun such as the missile launcher to defeat the Giant Robot. Helicopter Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 1/5 The Helicopter boss has 2 forms of attack, bombs and a claw. Avoid both the bombsand the claw and use your Charge gun to defeat the Helicopter boss. Be careful not to fall off of your Mini-Plane while fighting. Wizard Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 3/5 The Wizard boss has 1 form of attack, his twin dragons. To avoid the twin dragons, duck down in one of the holes, and jump right before they hit you. Use your Charge Gun(fully charged) to attack him whenever you have a free moment. 10-12 fully charged shots defeat the Wizard boss. Giant Insect Robot Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 2/5 The Giant Insect Robot boss has 1 form of attack, its lightning balls. It will trap you inbetween its legs for the entire battle, randomly shooting out lightning balls at times. Dodge the lightning balls by jump/running back and forth. Use a rapid fire gun such as the Chain Gun to defeat the Giant Insect Robot boss. Twin Frog Robot Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 3/5 The Twin Frog Robot boss only has 1 form of attack, its giant green lasers. To dodge these, simply stand under neath each of the robots as you attack it. After destroying one, it will fall, and you will have to destroy the other. Giant Cyborg Boss ------------------------ DIFFICULTY 3/5 The Giant Cyborg boss has 3 forms, and one attack type with each form. The first form is The plain Giant Cyborg, and its only attack is its flying blades. To Dodge these, simply jump as they fly towards your feet. Use your Charge Gun (fully charge) to shoot at it. Eventually, the Giant Cyborg will turn bright red. Then, it will use its gun. To dodge the bullets of its gun, you will have to stand directly under the gun. Then, shoot up with your fully charged Charge Gun to defeat this form. After that, the Giant Cyborg will turn into a floating Torso of the Giant Cyborg. Its only form of attack is its lasers. To dodge these attempt to stay underneath the floating torso. Use any weapon you have to defeat this form. ------------------------ 6. THE WEAPONS ------------------------ NAME FIRE RATE DAMAGE Blaster Pistol Average Low AD350 (Homing Pistol) Average Low TR1 (Tri-Gun) Average Average VFR750 (Laser Gun) Slow Average LC-30 (Large Laser Gun) Slow High NA750 (Charge Gun) Slow Low-High 6SX750 (Chain Gun) Fast Average BR600 (Boomerang Gun) Average Average SA500 (Missile Launcher) Slow High ------------------------ 7. THE ITEMS ------------------------ NAME APPEARANCE USE Crystal: Golden Crystal Releases other items when shot Ammo Orb: Flashing Orb Increases ammo with selected weapon Armor Shield: Golden Sheild Increases armor 1/2 Shield Point Weapon Container: Metallic Tube Contains whatever gun is labeled on it ------------------------ 8. LEVEL WALKTHROUGHS ------------------------ (Tips on how to beat the bosses are located in the Section 5.) LEVEL 1: The Forest ========================= You will begin by running out of a cave into the forest. Immediately jump up a few branches of the tree you are standing under and grab the AD350, otherwise known as the homing pistol. Start moving right while defeating the swarms of Bat Demons that dive down upon you. You will reach a large tree stump, shoot it until it explodes and pick up the TR1, otherwise known as the Tri-Gun. Keep running right, when you reach the third tree climb up until you reach a wooden platform. Head left by jumping across the floating skull platforms. Climb the first tree you see to reach another wooden platform. Head right across the bridges while facing off against multiple Winged Demons. Eventually you will reach the Evil Tree boss. After defeating it, fireballs will begin raining from the sky. Carefully make your way down the brances of the trees. Once you reach the bottom you will be faced with the Statue Boss. Once you're past the Statue you will have to make your way through a series of floating skull platforms. Each platform has its own button, stand on the platform and shoot the button to move the platform 90 degrees until you line it up to jump to the next platform. You will have to be wary of the Tree Golems, because they will attack you if you come to close. Once at the top, you will have to cross another series of floating skull platforms to reach the Dragon boss. When you jump on the first platform a Homing Gun will fall from the sky just to the left of you. When you jump on the fourth platform a Large Laser Gun will fall just to the left of you. Once you cross all the platforms you will face the Dragon boss. After Defeating the Dragon you will go ride down an elevator type machine between two trees. As you go down, the tree will come alive in certain spots and shoot fireballs at you, use your Homing Gun to take them out. Once you reach the bottom head to your right and you will fight the Demon Boss. After you beat the Demon boss, you have beat Level 1. LEVEL 2: The Cave ========================= You start out on a floating wooden platform. Once you jump into the cave, shoot the red button to get rid of all the water blocking your way. If you jump into the water without shooting the button, you will drown. After you shoot the button a rock will come out and you can ride it down. Once you reach the bottom, make your way to the right until you reached the giant chained up lizard. Defeat him (which isnt hard, considering he cant attack you at all, hehe), and the cave will start to fall in around you. Hide under the rock overhang until all the boulders have fell, then make your way back to the left. One of the waterfalls will now have a rock on it that will take you down even further into the cave. Once at the bottom, head to the right. Watch out for underground geysers and worms that will break through the surface and harm you. After you pass the worms, you will reach a section of cave many holes. The water level will rise and fall and you must jump across the holes while staying about the water, otherwise you will take damage. The higher points will remain above water so run and stop on each one of those. Once you pass that section you will encounter the Floating Skull boss. After defeating the Floating Skull boss continue to your right until you see another red button, shoot it. This will active another rock elevator which will take you back down into the cave. Hop onto the purple Crawler, as it takes you across the cave, use your Homing Gun to shoot the various enemies hanging from the ceiling. Once the Crawler stops, jump onto the land to fight the Scorpion bosses. After this you continue going right and you will find yourself face to face with the Evil Eye boss. After you defeat it, you have beat Level 2. Level 3: City on the Sea ========================= Once you begin, head to your right. To get up to the second level of the city, jump onto the small ledge on the side of the farthest building to the right, and jump up. Run left, once you reach the farthest building, climb up the ledges and there you will have to fight a statue mini-boss. He throws lightning bolts, but is fairly easily dispatched with any high damage gun. Continue to your right and you will see a huge Bat Statue mini-boss, defeat him with your homing missile. The building he was on will explode, sending enrage bats flying out to attack you. Continue right to find 2 crystals, collect the items from them and retrace your steps back to the building that exploded. Climb up it to face another Statue mini-boss, then walk across the bridge to your right. The Space Ship boss will start to attack you. Evade its attacks and keep moving to the right. Eventually the Space Ship boss will shoot the ground out from underneath you, and you will start to fall. While you are falling, you will fight the Space Ship boss. After defeating the Space Ship boss and landing back on the ground, continue to the right. Jump into the boat, and you will begin to fight the Motorcycle boss. After defeating the Motorcycle boss, continue right in the boat while facing off against the many enemies that fly down from above. Stay on the right side of the screen, because most of the enemies come from the left. Eventually you will encounter the Sea Robot boss. Once you reach land, run to the left. You will reach a series of elevators, take them up. Then, continue going right until you reach a broken building. Climb up it and continue right again. You will reach a hole, go down it and continue right again. Here you will face the Giant Robot boss. After defeating the Giant Robot boss, you have beat Level 3. Level 4: Airship ========================= As soon as you start the Airship level, climb to the top of the airship and begin running right. Watch out for the lasers that shoot from the ground. Once you reach the end of the ship, jump down 2 levels. Take out the gunner on the right, you will have to crouch and shoot to hit him. Continue down and jump into the Mini-Plane. As you are flying you will be assaulted by many Jetpack Men, use your charge gun to defeat them. You will reach another Airship, climb to the top and run right. Once you reach the end, climb down two levels and board another Mini-Plane. As you are flying, you will face the Helicopter Boss. Once you defeat the Helicopter Boss, you will have to climb aboard the last Airship in this level to fight the Wizard Boss. After you defeat the Wizard Boss, you have beat Level 4. Level 5: Tunnel ========================= As soon as you step off of the first platform, begin moving right. Go down the second elevator. Continue right until you reach a ledge, then jump off. Run to the right after that, and go down the elevator. Continue right until you fight the Giant Insect Robot Boss. Continue to the right after defeating it. Watch out for the lasers coming out of the ground. You will reach a series of ledges, drop down them and continue right until you see an elevator. Go down the elevator, drop down the ledge to your right, then run left. Ride the machine through the tunnel, then go up the blue light beam and continue to the left. Go up another blue light beam and then go to your right. Collect all the crystals then head back and ride the machine back through the tunnel. To your right will be an elevator, take it all the way to the top of the level. Then, continue right to face the Twin Frog Robot Boss. After defeating the Twin Frog Robot Boss, the platform you are on will begin to fall. Once you hit the bottom, you will face off with the Giant Cyborg Boss. After beating the Giant Cyborg Boss, you have beat Level 5, and all of Realm! ------------------------ 9. HINTS/TIPS/GENERAL ------------------------ - Every Golden Crystal will release Ammo Orbs/Armor Shields/Extra Lives when shot multiple times. - Your score is displayed in the Bottom Center portion of the screen. - Your lives are displayed in the bottom left of the screen. - Your health is located at the top left of the screen. - Your weapon status is located at the top right of the screen. ------------------------ 10. RUMORED CHEATS ------------------------ This cheat code does not work, but has been rumored to. Cheat mode: Hold Up + X + B + R + Start at the title screen until the screen fades. Unlimited energy will be available during the game. Press Start + Select during game play to jump to the next level. ------------------------ 11. CREDITS/THANKS ------------------------ GameFAQs.com - For hosting this! Flair - For creating a great game! Viewers - For reading this FAQ :) ------------------------ 12. CONTACT INFO. ------------------------ If you have any questions/comments, these are the ways you can reach me. Email: TurtleSoupage@hotmail.com AIM: TurtleSoupage ------------------------ 13. LEGAL INFO. ------------------------ This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. COPYRIGHT 2004 ZAC MEADOWS