Tonic Trouble (Game)

Tonic Trouble

GAME » on August 31, 1999

Game Boy Color (Platform)Nintendo 64 (Platform)PC (Platform)

A 3D platformer and sibling game to Rayman 2: The Great Escape, starring a clumsy purple alien who is trying to clean the mess he made on Earth.

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Overview

Tonic Trouble is a comedic sci-fi fantasy 3D action-adventure platformer developed by Ubi Soft Montreal and published by Ubi Soft Entertainment for the Nintendo 64 (Platform) in North America on August 31, 1999 and in Europe on October 24, 1999, with a Windows PC release in both regions on December 1999. One of the earliest games from Ubi Soft Montreal and considered a sibling project to Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Tonic Trouble follows a limbless purple alien named Ed, who must scour Earth (Location) to retrieve a canister full of strange liquid (which is mutating the planet) he accidentally littered down from the mothership he was stationed in. As he's fighting mutated vegetables and other creatures, as well as the forces of the drunkard Grögh (who is using the canister to rule the world), Ed gains a variety of new gadgets from a mad doctor to help him on his quest. Rather than generic popcorn, certain PC versions of the game feature tie-ins with different food brands, with the North American release tying in with Newman's Own brand of popcorn, the UK and French release tying in to Nestlé Crunch chocolate bars, and the Italian release tying in to Nestlé Lion brand of chocolate bars. An early PC version, known as Tonic Trouble: Special Edition, was included in releases of certain graphics cards in 1998-1999, and feature numerous differences with the main game, such as different level design, enemies, and a behind-the-back third-person camera (with tank controls similar to Croc: Legend of the Gobbos). It later received a handheld adaptation for the Game Boy Color (Platform), developed by RFX Interactive (Company) and published exclusively in Europe in 2000. While it includes the same story, this version plays like a 2D side-scrolling platformer instead. It is also one of the few games to have Ubi Key (Concept) support for unlocking bonus content.

Gameplay

Tonic Trouble is similar to the Rayman series, where you travel around levels eventually concluding with a boss battle after which the level concludes.

Characters

' Agent Ed' : Ed is an alien; good but a little bit stupid. He has to repair his disaster. He is voiced by David Gasman.
' Suzy' : She is the daughter of the Doc and Ed's girlfriend. She is helping Ed in his adventure.
' The Doc' : Once free, the Doc helps Ed to go to Grögh's Castle to get his can back by inventing a machine.
' Grögh' : Grögh is the main antagonist of the game, he is now the master around the world and Ed must stop his reign.
' Agent Xyz' : Another character who helps Ed; this is a newspaper guy who explains to Ed how to get through his adventure.

Story

The premise of the story is that Ed the main protagonist finds a weird liquid substance which in turn he decides to drink, but it tastes terrible. So Ed throws the strange liquid away, after which it manages to come to earth where it is stumbled upon by a man named Grögh. Grögh comes to enjoy the power (making man made or organic objects come to life) of this strange substance. Ed’s superiors find out about this and order Ed to travel to earth and bring back the substance with the help of a scientist and his daughter, Doc and Suzie. Ed eventually navigates his way to Grögh’s castle where he defeats him and obtains the substance.

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