Pico's Bizarre Adventure 2
Pico's Bizarre Adventure 2 is a project in the remix tree, and the twenty-second in the main branch. It isn't part of the main string of projects that largely comprises the main branch, but it is considered a main branch project due to the intentions in creating it.
It introduces Pico, and is the first in the Pico's Bizarre Adventure series of games. fishfritters made it as a parody of common Scratch platformers, using the same engine many platformers do, and actively taking advantage of its bugs. It was later compiled, along with several spinoffs, into the Piconium anthology.
Level guide
See Pico's Bizarre Adventure 2/Level guide.
Summary
Part of Cave Johnson's rant about lemonade from Portal 2 plays, before a captcha appears asking for the player's name. Once they submit it, they start the game: a platformer set in Pico's world where you play as Pico, navigating them away from lava and into blue portals. As the game goes on, the levels get weirder, such as forcing the player to use a bug to clip through some elements, find blue bits other than portals, or move their mouse to rotate a level.
After Pico goes through all the levels, he ends up on a beach with an elevator and a mysterious machine. Anina Arquaz greets him and suggests he climb the mountain to his left, and when he does, he meets Avocado Ian, who tells him what configuration to set the machine to. When he does, he is able to go up in the elevator and leave, prompting the end screen.
Chronology
Pico's Bizarre Adventure series
Remixed from
Remixed into
Trivia
- There were going to be more worlds after Pico went up through the elevator, but fishfritters tired out and ended it early.
- The way the captcha says "Hello" and the player's name in two separate speech bubbles is a reference to 1 GuessingGame, a sample project from Scratch 1.4. In a broader sense, it could also be seen as a nod to new Scratchers who haven't discovered the "join () ()" block used to concatenate text.
- The platformer section is a parody of cookie-cutter Scratch platformers, many of which use the same buggy engine and have few original ideas. fishfritters copied several staples of these projects such as "red is lava", while taking advantage of the engine's quirks such as the clipping bug and its heavy use of color detection.
- The beach section was inspired by puzzle adventure games such as Myst.
- In fact, the clouds in this section were traced from a specific location in the Myst sequel Myst: Riven.
- This project has a long history of being broken. The original Scratch 2 project had some quality to it that made it unplayable online, so it had to be downloaded to be played. Later on, when Scratch 3 came around, the project became just as broken; most levels were playable, but some such as "Stalactites and Stalagmites" were jankier, and the beach scene was nigh-unnavigable (this can still be seen in Pico's Bizarre Adventure 2 but you can use Za Hando in the platformer sections which preserves the original code). The description during this era contained a link to a Scratch 2 file that one could download and play. Eventually, fishfritters made a new project called Pico's Bizarre Adventure 2 - 2020 Redux which fixed it and had an updated thumbnail, making it fully playable online for the first time ever; later the same day, he unshared the 2020 project and moved the changes to the original Pico's 2.
- Anina guiding the player towards the mountain was added in the Scratch 3 update, since players might not have known it was climbable. She was present in the project before, but had no dialogue.
- Anina's sprite is named "dabmaster." This same title would later be used to refer to Clătită the Almighty, although it is unlikely the two are directly related.
Characters
- Mezzacotta characters (thumbnail only)
- Pico
- Killer Queen (depiction only)
- Anina Arquaz
- Avocado Ian
Notes
Instructions
Click on things marked with a "..." to interact with them, if they don't seem to be doing anything when you walk up to them.
Don't worry, you'll know when you've come to the end. The game is beatable.
Notes and Credits
This project used to work in Scratch 2, but then Scratch 3 came out and broke it. Then two years later I finally decided to overhaul it to make it work on Scratch 3. I originally made the overhauled version its own project, but later decided to move the changes over to this project and delete the other one. If you want to play the original version meant for Scratch 2, comment and I'll find some way to share the .sb2 file with you.
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