Curse of the Pumpkin Prince is a pair of Minecraft adventure maps.
The Curse of the Pumpkin Prince: The protagonist is a friend of the great wizard Senros J. Majek, who, in order to prove his superiority, has recently killed the Pumpkin Prince, a spirit keeping the land safe from evil monsters. The protagonist takes it on themself to bring him back to life.
The Pumpkin Prince 2 is the sequel, but is very different. In it, the Pumpkin Prince sends the hero(es) home through a portal, which malfunctions and strands them in Cloud Cuckoo Land. They must then find their way home.
This series contains examples of:
- Attack Its Weak Point: The guy in the maze in the second map is immobile, unarmed, and dies in a few hits, but hides behind defensive walls, so the actual challenge is to hit him through the small gap while fending of all the monsters that keep showing up out of nowhere.
- Elemental Motifs: Three of the chambers in a certain area of the first map are Fire, Water, and Earth themed. Which is referenced in the second map, where you have to play through very similar themed areas. In a facility that manufactures them, no less.
- Eye Scream: Father Brey seems to have an unhealthy obsession with eyes.
- First Town: Greenstown. You spend the beginning of the first map wandering around it and protecting it from monsters, and the second is all about getting back to it and freeing it from Senros's rule.
- Flunky Boss: Both the guy in the maze and Senros from the second map send wave upon wave of monsters to harass you while you try to kill them.
- Gainax Ending: The second map: After killing Senros, the protagonist takes his place as Evil Overlord, and punches out the narrator when they claim this isn't how the story is supposed to go.
- Gotta Catch 'Em All: Collectable gold nuggets (worth 1 point) and Ghast Tears (worth 10 points).
- Hub Level: The facility/factory/temple/whatever it's called serves this role for a chunk of the second map, as you're forced to test out the various challenges connected to it.
- Kill It with Fire: You are required to burn through wool barriers several times in the first map.
- Mooks, but no Bosses: Only in the first installment... Though second has a grand total of two bosses (which are both more like rushes of mooks protecting non-combatant targets).
- Multi-Mook Melee: The Pumpkin Garden, the well, the maze, and Senros's castle all throw increasingly powerful waves of a large variety of mooks at you.
- Noob Cave: The first map has you descend into a few very short caves during the Greenstown section as a sort of warmup for combat and puzzle solving.
- Planet Heck: A large part of the second map is set in the Nether.
- Postmodernism: The second map is quite Postmodern: It seems to parody the cliches of adventure maps, including itself, revels in its utterly nonsensical plot, and breaks the fourth wall several times. And let's not forget the time you visit a facility that manufactures levels for adventure maps.
- Random Events Plot: The Pumpkin Prince 2. Ostensibly the protagonist is trying to get home, but apart from that, everything that happens along the way is complete randomness.
- Sequential Boss: Senros, the final boss of The Pumpkin Prince 2, has two phases, but they're both quite similar: a giant room, four targets to hit, and lots of flunkies.
- Shielded Core Boss: Senros in the second map, in both his forms. The first has you running around pouring Water on four Lava Fountains to blow him up, the second has you shooting four targets on the walls before he becomes vulnerable.
- Underground Level: Most of the first map is underground.
- Where It All Began: The first map starts in Greenstown, while the second has you return to it at the end for the final dungeon and boss.
- Womb Level: One section of the second map has you drive down the throat of a giant snake.
- Zerg Rush:
- There are several rooms in the first map overloaded with Monster Spawners.
- The Pumpkin Garden hits you with every mob in the game at once.
