Wuchtel’s World 1 2.3Mb
Wuchtel’s World is an excellent German made Crillion clone. The aim is to destroy all the plain colored blocks on the screen, within the sometimes very strict time limit for the level. Easier said than done in some levels!
Wuchtel moves (slowly!) vertically up and down automatically, and you use left/right arrow keys to move Wuchtel across the screen. Wuchtel destroys stones of his own color, and there are color-changing swap stones to change Wuchtel’s color. There are fixed obstacles, hard stones that take several or more hits to move or destroy, sliding stones which move when hit (being careful not to block or impede your progress!), key and lock stones to access restricted areas, and death stones to avoid, that make you restart the level.
You may have to investigate the behaviour of some stones as you find out for yourself how to break some of the blocks, which introduces a puzzle element to the game; So for instance swap stones can also be hard stones that take several hits to swap Wuchtel’s color. As this takes time, once you have discovered how some stones work, restarting the level is often the order of the day!
It may also take several or more tries at a level to work out a suitable general strategy and stay within the time limit!
It’s a sort of break-out/break bricks game, but without the paddle, and also you do not lose a life at the bottom of the screen. All four screen edges just act as walls, which Wuchtel bounces harmlessly off. Wuchtel also bounces off blocks, allowing many blocks to be broken at times.
Just play from the extracted files, no install needed.
‘Esc’ key restarts a level and each 100,000 points gets an extra life. Press the ‘Enter’ key to skip the German Intro screens.
It’s an interesting game, with excellent graphics and music.
The game has 15 levels.
Download Wuchtel’s World 1 HERE or HERE
Wuchtel’s World 2 2.7Mb
Wuchtel’s World 2 plays the same and has some new puzzles, but with different backgrounds/music and an extra 50 levels for you to play! - and sometimes very tight time limits!
Again, no install needed, just play from the extracted files. All in all, very good fun!
Download Wuchtel’s World 2 HERE or HERE
{If you use the German download site (second links) - for PC, you need the zip, not jar downloads}
