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The Shadow A guide to Edna's Shadow. Welcome to my guide to Edna's Shadow! Here I'll give you a rundown of what you're up against, your goals, and a walkthrough for each level. Edna's Shadow can be tricky, but if you practice hard, this game can be mastered in no time! There are currently no avatars for this game (sadly) but there are the three high score trophies to obtain. Plus, if the percentage is around 1.0 for your scores, you can easily make 3k a day from this game. In short, Edna's Shadow is a great addition to your favourites! Need to get the game screen up? Click here! Game Goal Edna's had a terrible explosion! A spell she was working with went kablooey, and now she has been separated from her Shadow, and flung to the bottom of her tower! Poor Edna, what can she do? Gather ingredients! The name of the game is Edna's Shadow. You use both Edna and her Shadow to gather ingredients throughout fourteen levels of the game. Once all ingredients have been gathered, she can reverse her mistake and get back to the top of her tower! Playing Field The beauty of Edna's Shadow is that the playing field is easy to work with. Everything is made up of even tiles. Meaning, your obstacles are all in even tiles. Your ingredients will fit in one space, your enemies will, you will, etc. You get the picture! This is a very important fact. Since Edna and her Shadow move at the same time, you need to be able to even them out to finish each level. Having an even playing field to work with is a brilliant advantage, as you'll see later on. It's the key to the whole game! (Not getting it? Imagine each tile is a pixel. Or, imagine building blocks that you line up to make an even square space. Each block is the same height and width. It might help to picture it in a different way.) Your playing field will be made up of even tiles. You won't always have outlines telling you where each tile starts and ends, so you need to rely on the border of the playing field to tell you this. Fences, bone piles, and various other obstacles will provide guides for you. At certain times in the game, you will be presented with big, grey, blocks. These are destroyable with a single zap from Edna or her Shadow, and can be either used as protection, or a nice opportunity for a bonus! (Apple cores hide in these sometimes!) Enemies will also be on the field. Watch out for those roaming creatures and you'll be alright! Your time, score, and extra info is at the top bar of the game. Keep an eye on the time at all times! When your time runs out, so does your game. When the clock hits red, you have 10 seconds to finish the level. There is also a cauldron somewhere on the playing field. This will be your end goal! Controls Edna's Shadow runs on your arrow keys and space bar. The arrow keys move your characters, and the space bar casts a spell that can blast enemies and grey blocks away! But what happens when you move? Edna is attached to your arrow keys originally. This means she will go up, down, left and right according to which key you press. Edna is in full colour, or, 'highlighted', if you prefer. Her Shadow is her exact opposite in left and right movements. If she moves left, her Shadow goes right, and visa versa. Her Shadow is the pale version of her. Tip: I'd recommend focusing on Edna for movement. While you need both to manoeuvre to the best of your ability, Edna is easy to focus on, and will guide you easily throughout. Always keep an eye on your Shadow however. It's easy to forget the Shadow at times, because she can be so difficult to move. Despite being a nuisance, Edna's Shadow is an important player in the game! Ingredients The items you need to gather for Edna's cauldron are a variety of spooky foods, gross foods, and a bag of neopoints. Yes, the neopoints are an ingredient! Once you gather all the ingredients, Edna's cauldron will glow, and you then need to make her and her Shadow touch at the same time. Tricky! Enemies The enemies in this game are time, and those roaming ghoulies that seem to want to foil your plans! If you keep careful, you can walk right past them! (Stay in your own tile!) I however would suggest getting rid of them with a quick zap. You get points for enemies destroyed! Time is of the essence, and each level differs. If you need an extension, type 'edmoretime' for an extra 30 seconds! I wouldn't use this until the later levels though, especially if you're going for a high score. Scoring Ingredients: 5 points each Enemies: 10 points each Apple Cores: (from grey blocks) 5 points each Time: whatever you have left on the clock when the level ends! It will be added to your final level score as a time bonus. Bonuses Apart from the apple cores, there are three extra bonuses that popup randomly throughout each level. They are... The Green Blob: It will freeze all enemies for a temporary amount of time. By my count, after five seconds, they will begin to wiggle (which is your warning) and then the second after will move. So 6 seconds! The Pocket Watch: It will add ten seconds to your time. The Red Vial: It will reverse your movement! So, consider that you're focusing on Edna (as you should be), Edna and the Shadow's roles will be reversed. So Edna will be the Shadow, and visa versa! This lasts until the end of the level, or until you find another vial. Tricky to work with, but have no fear! Just focus on Edna's Shadow instead. Level Overview I play Edna's Shadow on Small and Low Quality when going for a high score. I do this because the lower the quality, the faster it is, the more time I save moving. But if you have a phenomenal net connection, you can do best quality. Try different sizes and qualities to see what works for you! I'll give instructions on what to do in each level. Most importantly, I'll give written and drawn guides on how to get to the cauldron correctly! Movement guides are shown in red, with various other colours dotting up here and there. They will be explained though! Level 1  That little skull scroll isn't there throughout game play. It opens up before each level to give you tips, and explanations. I just tried to get the screenshot before I started playing. Level One is really simple. Go towards the middle, go up, and then go around gather the ingredients. Essentially it should be left, up, right, (slightly down), up, left, down, left! There should be no problem getting Edna and her Shadow to touch the cauldron! If you get out of sorts, just use the sides and bottom around the cauldron to even yourself out. Two for the price of one! This technique is easy to master and is useful for destroying two grey blocks instead of one with only one effort, and getting two lined up ingredients with one effort. Simply align yourself in the middle of them and then touch the ingredients, or make a zap for the blocks! Simple, no? (It also works with enemies!) Level 2  Level Two introduces enemies! Go up and around to get the items. The bat will be moving most likely towards the Shadow, so try and zap it with the Shadow! Either way, get rid of it, get the ingredients then go up and get rid of the ghost. Get those ingredients, then go to the cauldron! It's very easy. However if you get disoriented, just go to the top of screen, move to the right side until Edna stops (and her Shadow does on the other side) then move in again. All matched up! Enemies constantly move. They won't stay in the same place. Level 3  I've heard people have trouble moving on with this level, and I can understand why. It really introduces the challenge of moving evenly around obstacles. The first thing to do is to go into the middle bottom part and get the ghost. Then move out, and go through the bottoms of the little dips to get the ingredients on either side. You will have to hit all three squares there! One side has two on the opposite side of the other! Move up from there, and don't go left to collect the ingredients! Instead, hit the top, move left to get the enemies, get the ingredients then go back around and down. The last two pieces will be on your way to the cauldron. If you're perfectly even you should be fine, but if not, just go to the cauldron, go up, then down again. Level 4  This level is the first level where Edna and her Shadow are separated (sort of) and it also introduces bonuses such as green blobs. Start off by focusing on the Shadow. Remember that if you need to go right, hit the left arrow key. Get rid of her enemies first! Then, focus on Edna to get the bottom ingredients before moving up to get her enemies and ingredients. Use the Shadow to get her items, then go to the cauldron. Lining yourself up is very easy here. Just go towards the middle wall and touch it, then go down until you reach the bottom, then back up again. Unlike my drawing shows, it can be done at any height there. That's just for reference. You can move through the cauldron! If Edna or her Shadow dies, just move through the cauldron to get to the other side. Level 5  Hm, time to rely on obstacles to give you an eye of where you are! Clear out the level of items (I start by using Edna first) and then finish near the top. You are now going to use that top little crevasse to even yourself out (circled in yellow). Go inside the crevasse with both Edna. Hit the top of it, then spread out so you are beside each other. I like using Edna on the right. Move down until you hit the bottom of it, then align yourself like I have down in the picture. Now, hit the bottom arrow. Once you hit the cauldron (if you have aligned yourself correctly) you will finish the level. Having a hard time getting up into it? Put one Edna inside the crevasse, then manoeuvre the other one until she is where the green dot is. Then, from there you can safely move her out, and up into the proper position. And yes, you may find this easier to do without an Edna in the crevasse. It's really your choice on how you can swing them around. Brainy! This level introduces the Brain Tree enemy! The Brain Tree is very odd, it moves, then freezes, then moves, and freezes. It doesn't seem to be affected by the Green Blob! Eerie! Level 6  Level Six introduces the blocks that can be blasted away! Each block you remove may have the chance of leaving an apple core behind as a bonus. Each core is worth 5 points, and can be picked up even if you only have one Edna available! As shown on the screenie, there are two ways to find yourself in the correct position. Indicated in red is when both Edna's are inside the radius of the squares you need to move to. Just move Edna to the right, and hit the right arrow until the Shadow is correct! Then hit the left arrow to move in. Many times it won't be this easy though, so you'll have to even up using obstacles. (Useful if you mess up the first method too.) See where my Edna's are? One is pressed against the lower left, the other has been stopped by the block to the right if they are uneven, as they most likely will be in this case. All you have to do is go up until both stop moving, then go in. Even if the Edna's are even, it's easy to use the same method. (You don't have to hit the block with the right Edna if you can't. Just stop right before it.) Level 7  To finish this level you will have to use your judgement in one of two ways. The first way is done in red, where you have Edna 1 pressed to the left of the cauldron, and have to inch Edna 2 to the right of it. The second way is shown by the Edna's on screen. Move your Edna's down until the are flush with the bottom, then move one to the right and inch the second one to the left until she hits the point I've shown. Then move in, and up! Curious as to how I even managed to get them both in that area? To get them there, use the Edna closest to the cauldron and put her in red Edna 1 position. Then, using the principal of the opposite movements (I prefer using the Shadow as the moving one for this) twist and shift her until she is down with your Edna. It might take a bit of extra movement to get them into position for way 1, but once you get into it, it's pretty easy. Level 8  Level Eight is almost like a freebie level. You have plenty of time left over, and it's real easy to move around! If you're a seasoned player, try using just Edna to move around outside the box. It's quicker to get back in that way. If you can't manage it, just keep an eye on the Shadow, or whichever Edna you aren't actively using. There are lots of enemies here! Move around the screen collecting items, and getting out the enemies. Then go back into the box. If you're having a hard time getting them both in at once, just put one in, move her up, then freely manoeuvre the second Edna in. Once you have them both inside, hit the top, then spread out to the sides like shown. Move in, and voila! Easy peasy! Level 9  I dislike this level a lot. It's rough, even for a seasoned player, because of all the opportunities to die! The real key here is removing ALL of the grey blocks and enemies. Once you've gathered all the ingredients, the cauldron is glowing, the enemies are gone, and the blocks have been dusted, put your Edna's together and move them to the very top of the screen. Once they're even, move down and put one Edna to the right. Then shift, carefully, until you have your Edna's where I do. The next part is important: move them together FIRST before moving down. Because if you don't, you'll get out of whack, and there isn't a lot of time to correct mistakes. And yes, there is such a thing as being too close together. But if you find you are, just shift out a bit! Level 10  Whoo! As you can see with the screenie, I was pretty close to losing on this level when I screenied it! Level 10 is tough because there seems to be no way to even yourself out! Or at least that's how I felt the first few times I lost at it. That was until, I noticed the grey blocks. Play out the level but DON'T get rid of the grey blocks on the right hand side of the starting area. At least not the one the right Edna is at. Once you are ready to go to the cauldron, go inside that area and press against the top to even out, then go down, and position yourself according to where I have. Move in, and you're done! Level 11  Urgh. Tricky! This level is longer than the previous ones! You will have to use the 'D' key on your keyboard to move the screen down, so you can get to the bottom. Be careful, and move quickly! I find this level tricky, however I have found one way that seems to work well to even yourself out. If one Edna is farther from the cauldron than the other, move the significant one you're working with into the crook like so. Then, using obstacles as guides, shift the second Edna so she is in the square that would be on the left side of the cauldron. The right Edna would already be there. Then, move up, hit the top obstacles to even yourself out, and move down again! Level 12  This level is really simple. Complete everything and move down the screen to the bottom. The very last grey block near the cauldron is something you NEED TO KEEP. Don't blast it! Press your Edna's flush against the top obstacles, then move the one to the inside of the grey block (inside being that facing the cauldron) and keep holding your key down until the other Edna hits the wall. Then move in, and voila! Simple! Level 13  Level Thirteen has great opportunity for lots of bonus points provided you get a lot of apple cores from the grey blocks! However, if you're just looking to finish, gather all your stuff and go into the little block squares. Don't get rid of them all! Leave it so you fit around the cauldron when spread out. Even yourself out on the top or bottom, and move into the cauldron. Simple! Level 14  Final level of the game! No enemies, just lots and lots of blocks, and very few ingredients. The theory is the same as the last level, but this time, you might need to use just obstacles or just your own eye to make sure you even yourself out correctly. THIS is why you keep the 'edmoretime' code. Because the longer time you have, the more blocks you can get rid of to get that high score! ...So, what now? Er, bye bye? No, I'm kidding! There is much more to do. Practice! Play daily and get better at the game if you're going for a high score. Or, find your daily 1k level that you can play 3 times! You'll probably find yourself new techniques, and new ways to get around things. I constantly am, but honestly, I forget most of them! That's why I listed the techniques I did, because those are for me, tried and true. If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. As well as tips, and any extra suggestions you can think of! Questions will go into a FAQ section, and tips and tricks will have a place of their own. And do you have a new method for finishing each level? Tell me! Give me the instructions, and I'll try it out. If it's easy and useful, I'll put it up! Full credit of course! Speaking of credit, don't take any of this! I'd appreciate if you wouldn't copy any of the images, or text used on this guide. Stealing is ugly, and wrong! You can contact me by neomailing the account giggilogalmewmew. Linking  Linked from...  Created on March 20th, 2008 Last Updated: 10/18/11 |
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