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Level 1 provides examples of:

  • First Installment Wins: The next two levels are considered more creative and advanced, but the first one is the most iconic, and has the most speedrunning presence.
  • Paranoia Fuel: The "Worried about nothing" stage. There are no traps, but you've come so far you're probably expecting there to be one.
  • That One Level: "Heavy Highwind, Here" is the hardest stage of the level. A heavy wind blows leftward, meaning it's difficult to move right, and not moving right will result in the elephant getting blown back. You can't hold right from the start, or you'll just drop onto the spikes directly after the starting ground.

Level 2 provides examples of:

  • Fridge Brilliance: "Run Donkey Run". The games have you mostly playing as a blue elephant. The stage in 2 has you play as a red donkey. The colors are the opposite of the Democratic and Republican political parties; the Democrats use the color blue and have a donkey as their symbol and the Republicans have an elephant as their symbol and use the color red.
  • That One Level:
    • "Corpse Shot". If you forgot about the panic button, that is.
    • Another contender is "Freefalling", which has the elephant freefalling while you try to guide it past the spikes to the goal. Let's just say that if you make it through this stage without feeling the urge to rip all hair out of your head, you are either an amazingly good player or a liar.

Level 4 provides examples of:

  • Only the Creator Does It Right: This is the only TITOL game not created by jmtb02 (Instead being created by Iriysoft), and is also heavily disliked by the series fans.
  • Replacement Scrappy:
    • The green walrus replacing the blue elephant is one of the main issues people have with the game.
    • The removal of the "But..." messages at the end of each stage, being replaced with random one-liners usually consisting of references, was also heavily derided
  • Scrappy Mechanic: Each stage has three switches instead of one, which are hard to turn in a linear fashion, and will switch off with even a slight movement.
  • That One Level:
    • "I'm Batman"'s gimmick is that the walrus descends slowly, and can be brought back up with the jump button. If it touches any walls, it will die. Having to maneuver through the blocks to touch the switches, without touching the ground the switches are on, is extremely difficult.
    • "Indiana Walrus" replaces the jump with a grappling hook move, which is very finnicky, breaks easily if it crosses a block, and can only be shot out in a 45 degree angle upwards.
  • Unexpected Character: It was definitely a surprise in the ending to see not only the hedgehog from Hedgehog Launch, but also King Hamster from Achievement Unlocked 3. Even more so considering that jmtb02 ironically had no involvement with this game.

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