Version 1.5 5/27/02
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Athena: World of Forest
An In-depth Walkthrough
by The Lost Gamer (
[email protected])
Copyright 2002
Table of Contents:
001. General information
002. Story
003. Characters
004. Controls
005. World of Forest Walkthrough
006. Weapons
007. Game Genie Codes
008. Credits
001-General Information
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This is a walkthrough for the first level (The World of
Forest is its official name) of the Nintendo Entertainment System
(NES) game called Athena. It doesn't seem to be related to
the Greek goddess Athena in any way, shape or form, which is
kind of confusing. If you have any questions, comments,
concerns or anything like that, just e-mail me at
[email protected], but have the subject be
either "Athena FAQ" or blank, so I don't accidentally delete
it. If you want to copy part of this FAQ, ask me via e-mail
and I'll let you, just so you won't be breaking any laws.
Let's start this FAQ.
Thanks to Kalavera with his help dealing with the game
genie codes.
002-Story
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According to various Anti-Athena websites, the story is
this: Athena is bored, so she's going through all these
worlds looking for something fun to do. Jeez, what a lame
plot.
003-Characters
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Athena: Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, but none of
that really is mentioned in the game. It seems more like
the producers had to have a name, so they just chose Athena
to make the title (that's how the name Mario came about).
Boar man: This is a soldier with a boar's head. He carries
a pink golf club as a weapon and does three damage when he
hits you. (That's awfully strange, how can someone hurt
an immortal? But upon recalling Homer's The Illiad, book
five, you should remember this is possible).
Hydra: A green thing that moves from right to left to hurt
you. It looks like a blob thing with a mouth. It leaves
hearts after it dies, which heal Athena's wounds.
Blobs: These are small green blobs. They come out of trees
and move left to right to hurt you.
Nutshell: It falls from a tree and rolls fast at you. Jump
to dodge. Well, that's this enemy in a nutshell.
Trojan horse: A warrior with a horse's head. It carries
a sword.
Archeus: An archer who walks on the ground or pops out of
trees. He says hello by shooting arrows at you.
Corn Starch Monster: A fat monster the color of corn starch
parades left and right, holding a pink golf club.
Tree-sias: The boss of the World of Forest.
If anyone has the manual, could you please send the real
names of the bad guys in (I made them up, and based them on
Greek mythology). Like I do whenever someone gives me info,
I update and credit you for it.
004-Controls
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A button The A button allows you to jump; there are two
types of jumps, big ones and small ones.
B button The B button attacks.
Up Up allows you to climb up vines
Down Down allows you to climb down vines
Left Left allows you to move left, but you can't go
left and see stuff that is off-screen.
Right Right lets you move right, and this is the
direction you go to see stuff off-screen.
Start Start pauses the game.
Select Select takes you to a screen where it shows
some of the things you've gotten so far. I
don't know why the things that end up there
end up there, so don't ask.
005-World of Forest Walkthrough
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Walk right and you'll run into a boar man. It takes two hits
to kill him. Go right all the way to the stump. Along the
way, you'll meet some more boar men. Kill them. I believe
there are four boar men in all. The second one should drop
his pink golf club after you kill him, so pick it up. Use
it to kill the third boar man (now it takes one hit, not two).
The third boar man should drop a blue mallet. Grab it and use
it to kill the fourth boar man, who leaves behind a sack of
money. It doesn't matter if you got the money or not, you
should just have the blue mallet by the time you reach the
stump.
Jump right over the stump and kill the boar man. If you
didn't have the blue mallet, you should get it off this
guy. Use the mallet to destroy the six blocks under the
platform. The upper left hand block contains money, and
the upper right hand block has a green helmet. If you have
the blue mallet, you destroy one block with one hit, but if
you have the pink golf club, it takes two hits to break a
block.
Go right some, and destroy the two blocks that block your
path to the vine. A hydra pops out of the top platform, so
wait for it to fall down and kill it if it comes near. After
it dies, it leaves hearts, and three blobs come out of the
tree. The blobs come out in groups of three. Of the blocks
yo can destroy here, only two are of any importance: The one
to the left of the vine (destroy it using your helmet by
jumping under it (it leaves a ball and chain weapon)), and
the right-most cracked block (it leaves green body armor).
Get the ball and chain weapon first, it destroys four blocks
at a time. Go right to the mushroom.
Just to the left of the mushroom are four blocks, dstroy the
upper right hand block for a green shield. By getting this
shield, the nutshell that falls from the tree should pass
right by you, if not, jump over it.
Right past the mushroom is a platform. It has a tree with
blobs that come out on the top, two vines and some blocks
on the bottom. The two blocks with tings are the second and
fourth ones from the left, the second one should have a rake
thing, and the fourth has money. Don't get the rake thing,
it demotes your weapon to a lower damage class. I recommend
that you go right, and climb up the first vine, which causes
the blobs to miss you, and you to be on top.
Go right. You'll run into trojan horses. As for the blocks
in this area, two matter. The upper right hand block in the
small foursome has something, and the block directly between
two unbreakable blocks. Don't fall through the hole in the
ground here. Just kill the horses, and keep going right.
Go right to the mushroom.
What do you know, they repeat the same place with a different
background to make it seem different. What place do I mean?
The place right by the nutshell. There's another one in this
tree, and of the blocks under the tree, the second and last
from the left contain things. Keep going right and you'll
into an area with lots of blocks, and the return of boarmen.
Of all these blocks in this area, only three have a point.
The one directly under the vine, the third block below that
(this one has an enemy, so don't get it), and the block
directly one down and to the left of that one, which has a
nifty device that resets the time. Just get the timer (the
block under the vine has a rake). After getting the timer,
or not getting it at all, jump to the top of the platform and
go right to the stump on it.
To the right of the stump is Archeus, and some of his
boar-ing buddies. But they're not boring, they're red for
some reason. Anyway, Jump right over the stump and go right.
Just keep going right here, killing all the enemies (the
ground is nice and level here). A little right past the
mushroom is a hole in the ground. Fall down it (like you
could do anything else).
You end up in an area with a corn starch monster and a lot
of blocks. Only four blocks in this entire area have
something in them, no other ones matter until you go up the
vine I tell you to. These blocks are: the second block to
the left of the scond curved block from the left (a block
that is missing the bottom right hand corner), the block to
the left of the first cracked block to the left of the vine,
the block to the right of the upper-most cracked block, and,
a block to the right of all of these, the block above the
upper right hand block in the first foursome.
After or if you get these blocks, go right. Stay on top of
the platforms, but beware because Archeus is hiding in the
tree. Jump over his arrows, (if you go right without
stopping, he should only have time to fire one). Keep going
right, staying on top, and killing the boars and Trojan
horses. Like I said, none of these blocks has anything in
it, so just ignore them. Eventually, you run into a corn
starch monster, who is parading near a vine. Jump and climb
the vine if you don't want to fight to monster. If you do
want to fight, kill it and then climb the vine.
This is the last area you'll be in for this level, and
four blocks have things in them that are near you. Only one
is worth the effort, two have rakes which demote your weapon
(there is NO WAY you want that because you are near the boss),
and the third has money. Big whoop. Well, the one that has
something worth it is to the left of the cracked block above
your head. The two rakes are 1) one block up and one block
left of that and 2) one block up and two to the right of
that. The money is to the left of the cracked block under
the unbreakable block.
Get the good block if you want to, and climb up the vine.
Go right and jump right over the gap. In the foursome of
blocks, the upper right one has a rake. Right past it is,
what do you know, the repeating platform. The blocks under
it that have stuff are, from the left, the first, second,
and fifth. Don't get the fifth after getting the first and
second, because it will demote the equipment you get from
the first and second blocks (sort of like the rake). Right
past the platform is...the boss.
Tree-sias wasn't hard at all about the first five times I
fought him. I managed to beat him without getting hit once,
but now, for some reason, I can't seem to pull it off.
Here's what he looks like:
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He's a big evil tree. My picture doesn't show it, but he
has big mean eyes. He snaps his two roots up and down to
hit you if you are close, and shoots red fireballs at you.
The fireballs come from his mouth, and land in an arch
formation.
Here's what to do: Run right up to him, and jump when you
reach his roots. You should jump right through the roots
and be at the trunk. Here, the fireballs are deadly because
they have little distance to cover before hitting you. When
you're at the trunk, press B to use your weapon. That's it.
One hit, yes, one hit, kills him. Tree-sias explodes into
two pieces.
A block containing the letter K inside it falls down. Hmmm,
I wonder what it's for? It's obvioiusly important; it shows
up in the screen when you hit select. Anyway, go right and
jump into the small area in the cliff. Walk right across
the green stuff. Athena will automatically jump and the
screen goes blcok. You then will go to the second level,
the world of cavern.
Okay, you need to know how to beat the world of cavern. You
can go to the in-depth FAQ on that, or my full FAQ on it to
learn how to beat it. See you there!
006-Weapons
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Feet
Pink golf club
upgrades to blue mallet
Ball and chain
Blue sword
upgrades to yellow sword
upgrades to red sword
upgrades to fire sword
Green Vine waves
upgrades to blue vine waves
upgrades to yellow vine waves (fireball)
Bow and Arrow
Information about each:
Feet (weakest weapon in game)
Pink Golf Club (weak, it takes two hits to destroy a block)
Blue Mallet (One hit to destroy a block)
Ball and Chain (Strong, destroys four blocks at once, but
cannot destroy blocks beneath Athena)
Blue Sword (can't destroy blocks)
Yellow Sword (Two hits to destroy a block)
Red Sword (shoots out a red laser that moves all the way to
the end of the screen, destroy enemies and blocks
in its way)
Fire Sword (destroys about six blocks in all directions,
seen as the best weapon in the game)
Green Vine Waves (can't destroy blocks, weak).
Blue Vine Waves (can't destroy blocks, stronger)
Yellow Vine Waves (shoots out a vine like the laser of the
red sword, but you're better off killing
boar punks in the world of cavern than
trying to upgrade this (it takes less
time))
Bow and Arrow (Bad weapon, only needed in order to beat the
boss of the World of Ice)
007-Game Genie Codes
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If you're not using your NES, put these in the screen that
pops up when you press F6. Freezing the timer and extra
lives is good, but what has to be the best is the don't
take any damage after the first two units. With that and
the freeze timer, there is almost nothing to stop you
from winning this game. If you have a problem with the
no damage code, Kalavera tells me that this is because of
problems with certain roms.
AEKNLPZA Start with 1 life
IEKNLPZA Start with 6 lives
AEKNLPZE Start with 9 lives
GZUZLISA Don't take any damage (after first 2 units)
AXKNYOGA Start with energy boost
AAULLYPA Freeze timer
YASVAYIA Start with extra time
GASVAYIA Start with less time
008-Credits
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This FAQ is copyright of The Lost Gamer, 2002. If you want
to use any part of this FAQ, ask me first (instructions under
general information)
