The Four Golden Crystals

The Four Golden Crystals

Modded episode	Keen 1
Protagonist	Commander Keen
Author(s)	Unfleexable
Status	Beta
Release date	2003-01-28
Homepage	Unfleexable Software
Number of levels	16
Secret levels	2
New gameplay?	No
New graphics?	Yes
New levels?	Yes
New sounds?	No
New music?	No
Download	newest
Vote	3.00 (2 votes)

The Four Golden Crystals is a Keen 1 mod produced by Unfleexable and is the first and only episode of a planned trilogy known as The CartoonRealm.

Although all levels are there and it's possible to complete the game, the creator said he doesn't consider it as finished. The mod suffers from its poor level editing and isn't much fun to play.

It also contains a number of characters from the modder's comics and has odd, cartoonish graphics. It is one of the earlier mods and is reminiscent of ShadowKeen1 and 2 in that its creator has not yet got the hang of 16-color graphics.

Story

As taken from the in-game story text:

3 years ago, Mortimer McMire swore to destroy the universe, but he actually planned on destroying the Earth just to get young Billy scared, but this time, he means it, and he has discovered over 6 billion planets in the galaxy, Imaganiene V MMIII, and had discovered that all of the planets are actually people's imaginations on each individual planet.

Mortimer McMire, being unsuccessful at finding his own planet, found somebody else's planet, and what did he see? Little cartoonish characters running around in tall buildings and simple graphics roaming the place.

Mortimer, picking up his Neutraliser, swore to destroy the planet if the characters had not obeyed him, And he has been successful, unaware though, some characters betrayed Mortimer and wanted to fight for good.

Commander Keen, was listening to some alien sitcoms (again!) and Commander Keen was getting bored, so he was changing the channel, and he heard Mortimer's voice! He said to Keen, "Hey Captain Clown! Drag your hide over to Imaganine V MMIII, and look for the planet Karudmahlgolilah because, my little friends are going to destroy the Universe!"

"What?!" gasped Commander Keen, and he jumped into the Bean-With-Bacon Megarocket quicker than it takes to learn to say "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

And when Commander Keen made it there, a ghost and a small grey creature ran over to the young hero. The ghost said, "My name's Silly, but forget the intro, Mortimer McMire is going to destroy our planet soon". "And the Universe!" the cute grey creature added. "By the way, my name's Zoodle" he continued.

"You need to get four golden crystals to create a Monstiece!" said Silly. "But why?" wondered Keen. "Because you can create a Putie and he can fight by your side!" said Zoodle. "A Putie?" asked Keen, "What's that?" asked Keen. "Well, for a guy that has an I.Q of 314, you sure are dumb!" said Silly. "Hey! I'm just new to this crazy planet!" whined Keen.

Actors

• 
  Commander Keen

  Commander Keen replacement.
  
• 
  Unnamed actor

  Garg replacement.
  
• 
  Sate-Ac

  Tank Robot replacement.
  
• 
  Silly

  Yorp replacement.
  
• 
  Sohgalp

  Vorticon Guard replacement.
  
• 
  Zoodle

  Butler Robot replacement.
  

Items

• 
  Plain Brown Beadd

  100 points.
  
• 
  Green Beadd

  200 points.
  
• 
  Plain Brown Beadd (with bow)

  500 points.
  
• 
  Blue Beadd

  1,000 points.
  
• 
  Gold Beadd

  5,000 points.
  

• 
  Golden Crystal

  Four of these are required to finish the game.
• 
  Keycards

  "Keycards" used to open doors.
• 
  Neural Stunner

  Five extra shots.
• 
  Pogo Stick

  Pogoing allows reaching otherwise inaccessible places (obtained upon entering the first level).

Levels

• 

  1: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 37,900

  Ammo 0

• 

  2: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 3,100

  Ammo 4

• 

  3: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 67,400

  Ammo 2

• 

  4: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 4,500

  Ammo 0

• 

  5: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 5,200

  Ammo 1

• 

  6: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 65,100

  Ammo 1

• 

  7: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 6,800

  Ammo 8

• 

  8: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 8,000

  Ammo 8

• 

  9: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 29,200

  Ammo 0

• 

  10: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 0

  Ammo 10

• 

  11: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 10,000

  Ammo 0

• 

  12: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 6,800

  Ammo 1

• 

  13: Unknown level name

  Required? Yes

  Points 0

  Ammo 0

• 

  14: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 90,000

  Ammo 0

• 

  15: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 17,500

  Ammo 0

• 

  16: Unknown level name

  Required? No

  Points 6,800

  Ammo 1

• 

  80: Karudmahlgolilah (world map)

  Required? Yes

  Points 0

  Ammo 0

• 

  81: Ending

  Required? No

  Points 0

  Ammo 0

• 

  90: Title screen

  Required? No

  Points 0

  Ammo 1

Technical Information

• Part of the unfinished The CartoonRealm trilogy
• Graphics: custom graphics by Unfleexable, with some taken and resized from the Galaxy games
• Levels: 16 levels, 2 secret levels, 1 world map
• Tools used (incomplete list): CKPatch
• Known bugs: When the game is supposed to say "To be continued...", it instead says "Scor" and cuts off the text box quite a bit. The point values for the Green Beadd and Plain Brown Beadd with the bow are swapped in the in-game help text.