LITTLE BIG ADVENTURE - Part 1

                   Solution by Phil Darke

In LBA you play the part of Twinsen.  Your mission is to save the
planet from the evil Dr.Funfrock.  Before you start playing there
are a few things you need to know. The game itself is excellent.
Graphics and sound are very good and the gameplay is first class.
However it is very hard and some parts will take a long time to
complete. This solution is only a guide and there may well be
other ways to solve a particular problem. One of the principal
weapons in the game is a magic ball and most of the characters
require at least three hits from the magic ball to kill them. In
order to achieve a hit you need to be positioned exactly right and
you may well have to try several times. In addition the target
will almost certainly move after the first hit, so you should try
to position yourself so that in order to attack they have to move
directly toward you in a straight line in order to score more
hits.

The other peculiarity of this game is that there is no save game
option. Instead the game is automatically saved at what the manual
refers to as "INVISIBLE MILESTONES". This works fine except that
you only have one saved game unless you start again from scratch
and use a different name. This means, however that since there is
no indication of where these so called Milestones are you cannot
backtrack to an earlier position if you make a mistake.  There is
one advantage to this save game arrangement which is that each
time you get killed your inventory is saved so that any items you
collected since the last save are added to what was already there.
This means that by going through a particular part of the game
several times and getting deliberately killed you can increase the
items in your inventory. I did this and accumulated over 100
Kashes (money) in the first part of the game, which came in
particularly useful later.

Scattered through the game are a number of Lucky Clovers. These
can restore your health and magic to maximum, but only if they are
held in the Clover boxes, of which there are four, in various
places throughout the game. So a magic clover in a box is
effectively an extra life. You start the game with no clovers and
no boxes so if you get killed before you have collected both of
these items it is game over and restore a saved game. When you
visit Proxima Island for the first time, about half way through
the game you can get a note giving the locations of some of the
Clover leaves and boxes. The note reads:- Locations of several
clover leaves and boxes: There is a box for clover leaves in the
sewers of Citadel Island, and another in the basement of the
Tavern; One clover leaf is guarded by a soldier who is located
behind sandbags. Another is guarded by a clone in the ruins on
Principal Island. Another one is on the roof of the Maritime
Museum. Another is guarded by a Groboclone to the right of the
Teleportation Centre's entrance Another is guarded by a soldier in
front of Funfrock's fortress.  Not mentioned in the note is a box
on the Island to the south of Peg Leg street on Principal Island,
but you can't get there until after your first visit to Proxima
Island. There are also clover leaves in the water tower and in the
Temple of Bu, in the White Leaf Desert. Also you need to
investigate every container; flower pots; rubbish bins; rubbish
pile and cupboard you come across to find useful items such as
money, health points and magic flasks. If you get killed and
restore a saved game check them all again as they will have items
in them, not necessarily the same as the first time you looked.

THE CITADEL

You begin in a cell in the asylum. (F3) Change to aggressive mode
and pace up and down. When the nurse comes to investigate kill him
and jump onto the platform. As soon as it stops jump off and kill
the nurse on the left before he presses the alarm button. Now kill
the doctor and take the key. Go down the steps and through the
gate to the left. Wait until the nurse walks up the screen past
you then go around the corner and attack him before he can press
the button. Go through the door at the top right and search the
locker to get your ID card and Holomap. Go behind the screen at
the top left and take the nurse's uniform. Go to the bottom left
and up the stair. Go through the entrance to the right and kill
the nurse and the doctor and take the key. Exit via the door on
the right and walk towards the sentry box.

When the sentry challenges you change to athletic mode (F2) and
run around the corner to the rubbish dump. Change to discreet mode
and press the space bar.  When the truck drops you off head to the
bottom left and then right and enter the door. Talk to the rabbit
here and examine the chest to receive 25 kashes. Exit the house
and around the corner stand on the drain and press the space bar
to enter the sewers.  Collect the clover box and go back up. Run
around the corner and head to the bottom of the screen where you
find your girlfriend Zoe outside your house.

Enter the house and when you have finished talking quickly head
towards the back of the house and hide in the fireplace in
discreet mode. Zoe is taken away and after she is gone go back
down the chimney and search the house thoroughly to find your
magic ball, cloak and other items.  Leave via the chimney and use
the magic ball to kill the clone guarding the exit. Go north and
enter the tavern.

Talk to everyone here.  The elephant offers to help if you buy him
a drink. Talk to the rabbit to buy him a drink then talk to the
elephant again. Leave the tavern and go to the pharmacy.  When you
enter the pharmacist sounds the alarm. Kill him and leave,
avoiding the elephant. Go back to the pharmacy and take the red
flask. Now go to the port.  Kill the Grobo guard with the magic
ball and take the key. Go through the gate and talk to the sailor.
He will give you a ferry ticket if you go into the warehouse and
move four crates onto the four crosses on the floor. Board the
ferry.

PRINCIPAL ISLAND

This is Dr. Funfrock's HQ and is heavily guarded. Walk up the pier
and kill the two Grobos and the sentry. Now head north, kill the
clone and go as far north as you can. Talk to everyone inside. One
rabbit tells you about the water supply and offers to show you the
censored books if you fix the water supply.  Leave the library and
change to athletic mode and run northwest and then south.

If you get captured during this part of the game, talk to the
nurse and tell him about a loose stone in the wall, when he enters
the cell kill him. Go to the locker and get all your possessions
back.  Don't try to exit by the door but go through the window.
When the sentry asks what you are doing tell him you are fixing
the antennas.  Change to discreet mode and go round the corner and
sneak past the Grobo. Change to athletic mode and run through the
door opposite. Go up the stairs and walk to the left. There is a
gap on the parapet between a crate and an oil drum. Jump down
here, this brings you close to the pier where you started. Stay
behind the barbed wire, from where you can safely attack the grobo
with the magic ball.

Head south to where you see two rabbits talking. When you talk to
them they run away.  Go into the doorway to the north. Talk to the
girl. She wants you to prove you can be trusted before she will
help you. Go outside and north to where you see a clone coming
down some steps.  Kill him with the magic ball and return to the
girl who will now help you. Go south to where a rabbit is waiting.
Follow him to the locksmith who will provide you with a key to a
gate. Go through the gate and into the shop. Buy a Meca Penguin
and a can of petrol. Leave the shop and go back down the steps.
Go to Peg Leg street and enter the house.  Talk to the girl who
tells you that you need to go and talk to the astronomer. Go back
to the steps near the shop and go to the left and talk to the girl
outside the tavern. She will distract the Grobo who is standing at
the top of the steps. Wait until he follows the girl and then run
up the steps and to the right. Go up the next steps to a grate.
Stand on it and use the action key.

Talk to the astronomer and go down to the cellar. Change to
discreet mode and go through the door and sneak past the grobo
guarding the door. Return to Peg Leg street, walk up behind the
house. Wait until the sentry takes a leak and steal his motor
bike.

Go to the water tower and enter via the grate in the roof.  Pick
up the mushrooms then go and use the red syrup on the water
supply. Climb the ladder to leave and use the motor bike to return
to Peg Leg street. Return to the library and talk to the rabbit
again. After he has tasted the water he will show you a large book
telling you about the legend. Leave the library and go back to
where you talked to the two rabbits. Run north and turn left just
before the two sentries under the camouflage. Jump over the sand
bags and head north avoid the clone and go up to the play ground.
Go south west and kill the sentry. Go past the sentry box to where
you find a green buggy. Use it and go to Port Beluga. Talk to the
fisherman who will take where you want to go.

WHITE LEAF DESERT.

When you arrive jump across the stepping stones to get to the
shore go into the camp and get the key to exit the camp. Go south
into the desert.  Talk to the old man, who will tell you how to
get into the Temple.  Don't forget to check all the vases and
barrels as you go round the temple as you can pick up a lot of
money and health points, and you are going to need 'em.  Jump down
the ventilation shaft and at the bottom go south before the
skeleton wakes. Jump across the stone pillars and go south.  Jump
over the spikes and move to the right, up and left up two flights
of steps.

Turn right and up another flight of steps. At the top of these
steps is a device which is spraying sparks and opposite is another
flight of steps. These steps have a rolling log trap at the top
which is triggered when you start to climb the steps. In normal
mode stand slightly to the right of the entrance to the steps.
Walk slowly backwards around the corner and backwards up the
steps. As soon as you see the log start to move change to athletic
mode and run forwards and around the corner.  Now go back up the
steps and operate the switch at the top.

Go back down the steps and operate the switch at the bottom. Now
run through the gate which opens, avoiding the saw blades at the
end turn left and cross the saw blades again.  Go up the steps and
move the statue along the passage leading down. At the end of the
passage push the statue off the ledge and jump down behind it.
Push the statue along to the left and then down and onto the
platform to the right. Jump over the wall and operate the switch.
Jump back onto the wall and jump from wall to wall to reach the
other switch. Operate the switch then go back and push the statue
onto the platform above the two sleeping statues. Kill the two
statues and operate the switch near to where they were sleeping.
Push the statue onto the plinth to the left this opens another
gate and a passage leading south.  There is another rolling log
here so run like hell till you. Reach the bottom of the steps.
Turn right and jump onto the ledge.  When the log has rolled past
jump over the gaps in the floor and keep running, because there is
another log hot on your heels. Turn left and go through the
entrance. Run past the sparks and saw blade.

Go up the steps and kill the skeleton.  Operate the switch to open
the door. Go through the door and up the steps.  Jump over the
spikes in the top right corner and walk left. Jump onto the
platform and from there onto the wall.  Walk along the wall until
you are opposite the switch. Use your magic ball to operate the
switch. Climb onto the platform and operate the switch. When the
platform stops jump onto the wall and walk along the wall to the
end. From here you can jump onto the wall opposite. Walk along the
wall until you can jump down onto some steps. Go up the steps. At
the top change to athletic mode, turn right and run before you get
hit by a falling rock. Operate the switch and go back and down the
steps. At the bottom change to athletic mode and jump off the
edge.  Start running as soon as you land to avoid another falling
rock.

In the top right corner there is an alcove and you can see a blue
flask, which you will need but don't rush in to pick it up because
there is also a mean skeleton here who you need to kill.  There
are three platforms and three switches. If you remembered what you
were told by the sphero in the library then move the switches
according to his instructions.  In case you forgot move the middle
switch once and the right switch once. You can now climb up the
platforms. Go to the statue and push it back down and onto the
plinth at the bottom. Go through the door and after killing the
two skeletons pick up the book. The exit is at the bottom left of
the screen with yet another skeleton to kill. Exit and back to the
desert.

Talk to the old man. He tells you that you are the chosen one and
that the book will give you the second level of magic, which
allows you to read runes and talk to animals. He also tells you to
return to your home to collect your possessions.  So head back to
the beach and the boat.

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