Video Game / Frogger's Adventures: Temple of the Frog

Frogger's Adventures: Temple Of The Frog is a video game in the Frogger series developed and published by Konami in 2001 for the Game Boy Advance. It is the first of several Frogger games for the handheld, and the first game to use the Frogger's Adventures moniker. The game released the same month as Frogger: The Great Quest and borrows elements from it such as character designs, but is otherwise unrelated.

Frogger's home of Firefly Swamp is dying because the elements that keep the swamp alive have been stolen by an evil reaper named Mr. D, who has scattered the elements across various lands and set up base inside the sacred Temple of the Frog. The Frog Elder Council has tasked Frogger with retrieving the elements and getting rid of Mr. D.

While the game takes place in the same universe as The Great Quest, the gameplay is more in line with the previous Frogger games by Hasbro, being a more adventure-based take on the tile-hopping gameplay established in the original arcade game. Frogger explores a series of locations, hopping around one tile at a time to navigate each stage while avoiding obstacles and enemies. Each stage has a certain number of elemental tokens that Frogger must collect before he will be allowed to finish. New to the tile-hopping games are boss battles, with a different giant enemy at the end of each world that Frogger must either defeat or bypass by clearing different objectives.

The majority of the Frogger games released for the next few years would follow the footsteps of this game, continuing to adapt the tile-hopping gameplay into platforming adventures, but with a modified version of the character design used in both this game and The Great Quest. The following year, the game would receive a direct sequel in the form of Frogger's Adventures 2: The Lost Wand.

Frogger's Adventures: Temple Of The Frog contains examples of:

• 1-Up: Frogger can gain extra lives by eating butterflies he finds around the stages using his tongue.
• Advancing Wall of Doom: The second stage of Ancient Ruins has multiple segments where Frogger has to outrun a massive wave of water that floods an entire hallway.
• All Your Powers Combined: Both Frogger and Mr. D make use of all four elements during the final battle. The first half of the fight has Mr. D use the elements to send waves of attacks that Frogger must avoid, before getting a chance to collect the elemental tokens that briefly appear in the corners and center of the arena. Once the second phase begins, Frogger must step on one of the elemental switches in each corner to activate traps, then trick Mr. D into walking into them in order to damage him.
• Ascended Extra: In The Great Quest, Mr. D was a one-off boss character with little relevance to the story. In this game, he is upgraded to the Big Bad and Final Boss.
• Auto-Scrolling Level: During the segments where Frogger rides a Magic Carpet in Sky City 1, Frogger cannot change the speed of the carpet, which moves forward automatically.
• Big Bad: Mr. D endangers the life of Firefly Swamp by stealing the elements, and also takes over the Temple of the Frog. Frogger's main goal is to retrieve the elements and kick him out.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: One of the most frequent enemies of the game are literal fireflies. As in, flies that are on fire. They fly around in set patterns and damage frogger on contact.
• Boss-Arena Idiocy: The first boss, King Ijnek, spends the entire fight standing atop a trap door. Frogger defeats him by pressing four buttons in each corner of the arena to drop the trap door and make him fall.
• Cash Gate: Frogger needs to collect 50 Frog Coins over the course of the game in order to access the first stage of the Temple of the Frog, and 100 more coins to access the second.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: While this is the first game set in the Frogger's Adventures universe, Frogger uses his design from The Great Quest, and many characters and enemies from that game appear. Later games in the line would do away with the connections to The Great Quest, updating Frogger's design and dropping everything else except for Lumpy and the Firefly Swamp setting.
• Fishbowl Helmet: Frogger wears a glass bowl on his head while he's in Sea Town. It prevents him from using his tongue-whip move, so all butterflies in the world can be collected by simply hopping into them.
• Giant Squid: A huge squid appears in the second stage of Sea Town. Frogger can use its tentacles as platforms to cross otherwise impassible gaps.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: The first stage in each world has three elemental icons to collect, and the second stage has five. Frogger must collect them all in order to be allowed to complete the stage.
• Green Hill Zone: The first stage of Goblin Caverns, taking place in a grassy field with lots of trees and rivers.
• Level in the Clouds: Sky City is a series of structures floating high above the clouds in the sky. Much of the stage is covered in places where Frogger can fall off, and there are segments where he can fly through the clouds on a magic carpet.
• Magic Carpet: The first stage of Sky City has a segment where Frogger has to ride a flying carpet while avoiding obstacles like birds, towers, and electric fields.
• Nostalgia Level: The very first stage, while not directly modeled after the arcade original, is nonetheless the stage that resembles it the most, with rivers that Frogger has to cross by hopping across moving logs.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: Anything that can damage Frogger will cost him a life with only one hit. The one exception is the Sultan boss in Sky City, who merely stuns Frogger on contact.
• Playing with Fire: King Ijnek attacks Frogger using a fire wand that drops fireballs from above.
• Poison Mushroom: During the boss fight with the Sultan in Sky City, collecting the orange gems deducts from Frogger's score instead of adding to it, so he should avoid picking them up.
• Remember the New Guy?: Frogger is sent on his quest by the Frog Elder Council, a group of characters who never appeared in any games before this and would not be properly introduced until the following game, Frogger Beyond.
• Sequential Boss: The final battle with Mr. D is divided into two halves. The first half challenges Frogger to avoid barrages of elemental projectiles long enough to collect all the elemental tokens that periodically appear, while the second half requires him to use those elements to trick Mr. D into walking into traps that Frogger can activate.
• Snakes Are Sinister:
  • Snakes appear as enemies in the Ancient Ruins, possibly as a reference to the snakes that appeared on the logs in the original game.
  • The second boss is Rattlesnake, a giant snake who guards the Earth element.
• Sssnake Talk: The second world boss is Rattlesnake, a snake who stretches out all of his "s" sounds.
  "Missssster D has asssked me to protect the earth element. Thissss is where your quessssst comes to an end."
• Stationary Boss:
  • King Ijnet does not move at all, preferring to attack Frogger from the safety of a higher platform.
  • Rattlesnake doesn't move at all. The challenge of the fight comes from the onslaught of boulders he rolls toward you instead.
• Temple of Doom: The second world is the Ancient Ruins, an old temple out in the jungle full of all kinds of dangers, such as rolling boulders, cannons, snakes, and floodwaters.
  • The Temple of the Frog itself is the final stage, and as such, is also filled with all kinds of hazards, like moving platforms, crushing walls, ghosts, and guardians.
• Threatening Shark:
  • Sea Town has sharks swimming around as enemies.
  • The main boss of the area is a shark named Stripe, who guards a submarine tied to the ocean floor that Frogger needs to return to the surface. Frogger must press the nearby switches in pairs to undo the ropes, but Stripe swims around over the switches to reactivate them.
• Time-Limit Boss: The Sultan at the end of Sky City. His fight is divided into three rounds, and in each round, you have 20 seconds to collect more blue gems than he does.
• Underground Level: The second stage of Goblin Caverns takes place in a rocky cave. Many of the rocky platforms are weak and crumble when Frogger steps on them, and there are dangerous fire spouts in some of the rocky walls.
• Under the Sea: The third world, Sea Town, takes place underwater, where Frogger puts on a diving helmet so he can breathe down there. He also encounters a variety of sea creatures, including jellyfish, sharks, crabs, and a giant squid.
• We Will Meet Again: When Mr. D is finished off during the final battle, he announces "You haven't seen the last of me, Frogger!" This would go on to be his final appearance.

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