LEAFLET

HOW TO PLAY

• ←→Run along the garden, or use A and D
• STICKDrag the stick at bottom left to run. Push further to run faster
• SPACEJump. Hold it in the air to glide like a sail
• JLeaf-slap whatever is in front of you
• KSpit a water drop. It costs one drop
• ESCPause. P works too
• IIThe button at top right pauses

Water. Your six blue droplets at top left are your water. They drain in the sun, faster in the hot compost and slower in the rain. A spit costs one drop and a hit costs water too. Drink hanging droplets, catch the drips, touch a firefly or splash into a puddle to refill. When you run dry you curl up and start again at the last checkpoint with three drops.

Warm wind is drawn as marigold curls. Hold jump inside it to ride up. Stomp enemies from above when a slap will not do.

Ten levels, one whole day: First Light, Morning, Late Morning, Golden Afternoon, Late Afternoon, Sunset, Dusk, Night, Small Hours and Dawn Rain. Each ends in a bottle cap of water: jump in. Beat a level to open the next. CHOOSE A LEVEL on the title screen lists only the levels you have beaten, to play again.

Centipedes run fast: stomp the head, a slap only stuns. Spiders drop on threads under ledges, so time your pass. Slugs take two hits and their slime makes you slide. Bats loop, and at night they swoop.

Five bosses wait at the end of their levels: the Grumpy Old Boot in the Morning, the Giant Centipede in the Golden Afternoon, the Garden Spider at Sunset, the Moth Queen at Night and the Big Rain Slug at Dawn Rain. A grass wall closes behind you until each one is beaten. Slap them, spit at them or land on top, and dodge what they throw.

The family is caged. Grandpa is in the Boot's arena, your Twin with the Giant Centipede, Mum with the Garden Spider and the Baby with the Big Rain Slug. Beat the boss and the cage breaks open. Everyone you free walks behind you from the next level on.

Costumes: each boss unlocks a set of Halloween costumes for the family: Pumpkin Patch, Creepy Crawlies, Spooky Classics, Night Fliers and Monster Mash. Wear them at once, or pick them later with DRESS UP on the title screen.

Difficulty is set on the title screen. Easy: water lasts longer, hits hurt less and bosses go down sooner. Medium: the garden as it grows. Hard: the sun bites, hits hurt more and bosses take longer.

Fastest rescues: your time for the Morning level goes on a top five board, one board for each difficulty.

Options on the title screen turns sound on or off and has SOUND and MUSIC sliders. The same sliders are in the pause menu.

BACK TO THE GARDEN

PUMPKIN PATCH

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