michi.nu: Instructions for To Hell with Johnny

Instructions
Contents

1. The basics
2. Scoring
3. Difficulty and extras
   - Difficulty levels
   - Awards
   - Bonus stages
   - The Mall
   - The Game
   - Void
   - Heaven
4. Accessibility
5. Appendix

## Difficulty and extras

### Difficulty levels

There are four difficulty levels in the game. In two you play as Johnny, in two as Brianne. The difficulty affects nearly all aspects of the game:

- fall speed
  This increases with rising difficulty, forcing you to jump on more platforms to survive. Time spent in each stage is not affected.
- traps
  The frequency of traps differ between the difficulties. Some traps are rare on very easy but common on very hard and vice versa. The effect of the traps also varies: rollers are a minor nuisance in very easy but you'd be unwise to move against them in very hard, platforms break with less warning as difficulty increases, the otherwise dangerous coffins are nearly harmless in very easy while growing spikes only ever appear in the higher difficulties. And so on.
- items
  Item distribution changes as well. On the lower difficulties you'll find plenty of healing and might have a hard time finding the nastier items. On the higher difficulties the situation is reversed and you could find yourself dodging death at most every turn.
- damage
  Monsters, traps, debris - everything deals more damage in the higher difficulties. This makes a few of the traps that are merely cosmetic in very easy positively lethal in very high, sometimes changing the entire way you must approach a stage.
- bonus
  Due to damage being nearly impossible to avoid in the higher difficulties the platform bonus counter isn't reset until it passes the halfway mark when playing high or very high.
- debris
  The devils chasing Brianne aren't nearly as dangerous as the debris falling around Johnny. In fact, all they do is distract. Sometimes that is enough.

The two Brianne difficulties, very easy and very hard, become available once you buy the game.

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### Awards

The game has an achievement system to reward skill and persistence. As you reach certain milestones you get award stars to mark your progress. During a game you'll hear a sound and a star will flash in the upper left corner when this happens.

As you receive your first star an awards option appears in the title menu. Go here to view your collection of stars and to see the requirements for the rest. If a star spins it means it's new since the last time you looked.

Collect enough stars and you will unlock additional bonus games or stages. These too become available in the awards menu.

### Bonus stages

The first time you complete the game on each difficulty level you are rewarded with a bonus stage that becomes available in the stage selection menu. Each bonus stage offers its own kind of challenge. Show enough prowess and a harder version is unlocked.
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#### The Mall

There's nothing better after a long and exhausting fall than some serious recreational shopping. And what do you know, Hell sports the biggest shopping mall in the afterlife; two hundred floors packed full of shoes, bags, phones, jewelry - stuff that no self-respecting girl can ever have enough of. It's not all gloom and doom in the netherworld... or is it?

##### How to play

Outwit the excessive security and collect all the luxury items on your way down to the exit. Watch out for the heavy, spinning fans above. Miss an item and the ceiling descends a bit, bringing the fans that much closer. For each consecutive item of the same kind you take, its score will be double the last. Additionally, each item you take without a miss increases the score of the next. Grab the keys to unlock red trapdoors. Can you reach the exit?

##### Hard mode

Unlock hard mode by safely reaching the fiftieth floor.

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#### The Game

Runners try to avoid you as they run for the goal. Tacklers aim to stop you before you reach the goal. A grabber will steal one of your balls before legging it.

Relive the glorious final between the Burgerham Rednecks and the Abaddon Blueballs in which Johnny single-handedly massacred the opposition in the final minutes of the game, leading his broken team to unexpected victory and possibly drawing the ire of forces unknown.

##### How to play

Gather as many balls as you can and run for the bottom of the screen and the goal. Stop the opposing team's runners from reaching your goal. Should you be pushed out of the screen you'll lose all collected balls and suffer a humiliating loss.

##### Hard mode

Crush the Blueballs! Don't let them score a single goal while you score at least ten.

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#### Void

Abandonment, loneliness - there is nothing quite as deadly. How long can Johnny survive the emptiness without going mad and, anyway, what's the point?

##### How to play

Jump from platform to platform in an effort to last as long as possible while darkness falls. Each new platform you land on nearly doubles the score of the last. Catch a sun to brighten the void for a bit, but know that this also resets the platform score.

##### Hard mode

Score at least 5 000 points from a single platform to unlock hard mode.

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#### Heaven

Little is yet known about this stage, probably because few, if any, are those who've reached it.

##### Hard mode

Escape with at least five balloons to unlock hard mode.

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