Written by: Lord Gelgothia March 23, 2002. If I catch you stealing my work I will get Conan to go over to your place and chop you into bite sized bits, this is my original work and I ask you not to steal it, thank you. (C)2002 Lord Gelgothia Conan: The Mysteries of Time (C)1990 Mindscape INTRODUCTION ======================================================================= Conan the Barbarian has always been a franchise just about as mighty as Conan himself. He had books, movies and even his own animated series made for him and eventually, this hellspawn of a game. Why write a FAQ on Conan? Well, this game was an utterly horrible hunk of garbage. But the biggest problem with it is how easily you can get lost if you don't know what your doing. One day I spent 2 hours dying continuously going back to the Cerberus and jump kicking him. This FAQ is the help people who are lost. Is this game worth buying? God no! Actually if you ever come across this game I suggest buying it JUST to send it to the moon. CONTROLS ======================================================================= Here is a simple list of the controls you will need to know in order to play Conan. A = Chop B = Stab Up = Jump Down = Leap A+Down = Duck A+Up = Jump Kick Pause = Menu Select = No use Sound simple? It's not really, it's actually really, REALLY HARD! LEVEL 1: HELL ======================================================================= Enemies Skeleton - Basically he walks around and stabs you with his sword, he continuously respawns and takes upwards to 8 hits to kill. Items Dropped: Sword Imp - Little flying green monkey thing, this guy will fly towards you and attack you, there is really no way to dodge him. Items Dropped: Fireball, Health Orb Satan - Satan Appears after you cut the skeleton off the wall, he will fly around and shoot fireballs from his pitchfork, after you kill him be sure to take his pitchfork when he drops it. Items Dropped: Pitchfork Cerberus - Cerberus waits at the end of the stage and shoots fireballs from his mouth and tail, he can only be killed by the pitchfork. Items Dropped: Nothing Walkthrough When you start the stage you will be at the top row of platforms, jump to the other platform on the top row and fight about 3 skeletons until one of them drops the sword. After you take the sword it may help you to kill a few imps with it a get the fireball attack. Now that you have the fireball and the sword go right until you see a skeleton chained to a wall. Equip the sword now and cut the skeleton off the wall and fall where it lands, equip your fireball and use it to kill Satan. After defeating Satan he will drop his pitchfork, go over to it and duck on it to pick it up. You now have the pitchfork, so go back up to the top row of platforms and go right until you reach the Cerberus. This guy is probably the best drawn character aside from the skeleton dragon in the entire game. Equip the pitchfork and simply throw it at him and he will disappear in a puff of smoke. Very craptacular. Now that you have killed the Cerberus go right until you reach the end, however if you feel it is necessary you can go right until the two rocks form a small gap with a visible platform underneath, if you go down there Satan will return and you can once again kill him and steal his pitchfork. LEVEL 2: THE DESERT ======================================================================= Enemies Imp - The same Green Monkey from stage one who you cannot avoid. Items Dropped: Fireball, Health Orb Centurion - A Roman soldier who will charge at you with his sword, unlike the skeletons in stage 1 this guy goes down in 1 hit. Items Dropped: Nothing Mirage - A mirage of a beautiful woman, if you pass her she will turn to a giant snake and kill you automatically Items Dopped: Nothing Walkthrough This stage isn't exactly rocket science. If you get lost in this level though I won't blame you because Mindscape found some way to make a level that's just walking from left to right extremely hard to figure out. Walk right and kill Roman Soldiers until you meet with a beautiful woman calling you over. At this point you must go over and hack at her with your sword about 20 times until she stops calling you, then pass her. If you do not kill her first she will turn to a snake which faces away from you when you pass her and you will automatically die no matter how far away you are. After defeating her go right until you meet a Centurion statue in the background, if you want you can cut it down and get the mirror which will be useful in the next stage, keep going right until you are finished and that's it. LEVEL 3: MEDUSA'S DOMAIN ======================================================================= Enemies Imp - Once again you fight this asspain of an enemy, same as usual. Items Dropped: Fireball, Health Orb Medusa - She stands in one spot and fires lasers from her eyes, she takes 1 shot with the sword and her lasers can be deflected with the mirror you got in the last stage. Items Dropped: Medusa's Head Hydra - The best drawn enemy in the game, and actually surprisingly well drawn at that. It appears as a skeletal dragon with 3 heads who breaths fire. Defeat each head individually and he'll die. Medusa's Head also makes matters easier. Items Dropped: Nothing Walkthrough This level is much like the first expect instead of floating rock islands we have platforms floating in blackness that looks like space. Jump along the platforms and try to kill the imps if they attack you. At the 5th or so platform you will begin to see Medusa. Equip your mirror and approach her, if she faces you hold A cause she'll fire a laser that kills you in 1 shot. The mirror will deflect the laser. Now when you reach her equip the sword as quickly as possible and just give her 1 hit and her head will fall off. You can pick her head and use it. After jumping across several other platforms, you will come across a top and bottom row of platforms, take the bottom row where the Hydra is and use Medusa's head on it. This is will do a number or maybe kill it depending on how skilled you are, now equip your fireballs or sword and attack while it's mouth is open and ready to spit a fireball. Repeat this until all 3 heads are dead and then go past him and then you are finished the level. LEVEL 4: THE VIKING SHIP ======================================================================= Enemies Viking - He acts similarly to the Centurion, he charges at you with his sword. Dropped Items: Nothing Crow - The "boss" of the level. Just a single black sprite who is hard to notice that flies over your head and causes a lightning bolt to kill you instantly. Simply chop him out of the sky. Dropped Items: Nothing Walkthrough This is the shortest level in the game, not only is it only about 2 screens long, but it also plays the title music. If you do not have a seizure from the continuous flashing in the background, than most likely you will get pissed off when you get struck by lightning 50 plus times in a row. This happens because a crow flies over your head and causes a lightning bolt to hit you in the ass, so when you see the completely black sprite flaying towards you chop like a madman until it is dead. Now your onto act 5. LEVEL 5: THE FOREST ======================================================================= Enemies Giant - A big, tough giant who walks up to you and punches your lights out, use daggers against him to kill him quickly. Dropped Items: Red Health Orb Goblin - In replacement of the Imp present in the first three levels we now have a type of blue goblin who hops up to you and throws knives, if you kill him you will get his Dagger which is used to kill giants and the Dragon. Dropped Items: Dagger Will o' the Wisp - These enemies do not actually hurt you but are a pain the ass nonetheless. They drag you along the map and drop you as another one of it's buddies do the same thing. They can only be killed by the torch. Dropped Items: Nothing Dragon - Similar to the Cerberus in stage one this green monster stands in one spot and breaths fireballs. To kill him you must use the dagger which you get off the blue goblins. Dropped Items: Nothing Walkthrough This is similar to stage 2, just walk from left to right cutting up everything you come by. Eventually you will come across a witch being burned at the stake. She does not actually do anything so I can only assume she's there as a decoration, or perhaps they added her as a reason for why a torch is lying nearby. The torch is a weapon you will need for later in the level, but unfortunately it's hard to get a hold of since wisps are continuously pulling you away from it, if you get your hands on the weapon use it to kill the wisps and then continue on your trek to go right. You will later meet with a dragon who stands there breathing fire. Use the dagger on him and he'll die, allowing you to move along and finish the stage. LEVEL 6: THE AERO CASTLE ======================================================================= Enemies Thunder Warrior - A guy who looks like he's a mix between a samurai and a knight, he is the most imaginative enemy (excluding the bosses) in the game. He magically appears out of nowhere and fires lightning bolts in 6 directions and then goes away. Dropped Items: Nothing Whelp - Another replacement for the imp. This guy looks like a baby dragon so I decided to call him the Whelp. He will charge at you and breath fire or fly around like the imp does, he also drops the fabled Brown Healing Orb when he dies which restores your health to 100%. Dropped Items: Brown Health Orb Castle Guard - He comes in and out of the castle throwing a boomerang at you. He seems to be extremely hard to kill since each time he goes in the castle his life restores. Just avoid this guy. Dropped Items: Nothing Walkthrough After alot I've trouble I've FINALLY figuered it out. What you what to do here is simply kill the castle guards. You jump from platform to platform until you reach the side of the castle where the guard is going in and out of the castle. The first one is extremely hard, if you have the pitchfork from level 1 this will be easier. If you have the pitchfork simply throw it at one of them, if not you must continue a tedious pattern of hitting his as he goes in and out until he is dead, if your lucky one of the thunder guys will kill one of them for you. When the one on the top is dead the gate will remain open, jump in and your done the level. LEVEL 7: THE PYRAMID ======================================================================= Enemies Mummy - What's a pyramid without a Mummy? Well, this guy acts similar to the skeleton but he's stronger and faster. He appears out of the doors and a few hits kill him, he also drops a weapon I call the Eye of Ra. Dropped Items: Eye of Ra Anubis - This guy is tough, at first he simply gives you a bow, and later he'll start shooting lasers at you like a madman, defeat him with the Eye of Ra when the time comes. Dropped Items: Holy Cross Walkthrough This is by far the most complex and intricate level in the game, first you must go right, defeat the mummy who pops out of the door. After that you will come across two paths, first go up, break the pot in the far corner and get an urn. After that take the down coarse, go left, beat up some more mummies and break 3 more pots and collect the urns within, you can also defeat some more mummies until one of them drops the Eye of Ra, which will help later. Now go back up and head right, do not fall in any of the pits afterward, when you reach the end of the hall you'll see a dog thing I called Anubis. Now that you have all 4 urns he will attack you by continuously firing eye lasers at you, if you have the Eye of Ra equipped you must fire back until he dies, he will drop the Holy Cross which will allow you to jump super high. Jump up two platforms nearby and enter the door, your done. LEVEL 8: THE FINAL BATTLE ======================================================================= Enemies The Pharaoh - The Pharaoh attacks by shooting lasers at his eyes, use your Axe to take him and as well as destroy the lasers Dropped Items: Nothing Walkthrough This is the final battle of the game, here's what you do... First of all go to the part at the center of the room where there are 4 small platforms next to some urns. You must now place each of the urn items accordingly... On the Top left platform place the 3rd urn. On the bottom left platform place the 4th urn. On the top right platform place the 2nd urn, on the bottom right platform place the 1st urn. At this point the Axe should fall from the sky and land in front of you, pick it up, equip it and go right where you will face off with the Pharaoh. Like all bosses in this game he stands in one spot, just keep hitting that attack button and you will eventually get him, once he's dead you are ready to see the ending... THE END ======================================================================= After you beat the Pharaoh you will be treated with the worst ending ever made. In a blue screen it simply says "Conan the King" as it shows a picture of Conan holding his axe as the title/level4/final battle theme plays. It's amazing isn't it? Not only did you get suckered into thinking that for some reason, by some twist of fate there would be a good reason why Conan is running around like an idiot. But instead all you get is a blue screen with "Conan the King" written on it. If you beat this game without the cheap save/load trick I used, I'm pretty sure you have to be the best video gamer in the universe.