The Elephant Collection is a video game developed by Wonderful Elephant (founded by John "jmtb02" Cooney), published by Armor Games Studios, and released on November 6th, 2023. It's a Compilation Re-release of ten of Cooney's Flash games starring the unnamed blue elephant, including:
- The first three This Is the Only Level games
- The three Achievement Unlocked games
- Elephant Rave
- Obey The Game
- Elephant Quest
- Run Elephant Run
After 12 years of inactivity since Achievement Unlocked 3, the blue elephant finds himself unable to remember his life, and his wife, the pink elephant, has gone missing. He must go through his old adventures to piece everything together again, and eventually, find his wife once more.
The game features remastered artwork for both original and higher resolution play, as well as having all music and sound effects, originally compressed for the web, be at a higher bitrate and quality. Ads are absent too.
The game can be purchased on Steam right here
. The announcement trailer is here.
The Elephant Collection contains examples of the following tropes:
- Amnesiac Hero: The blue elephant has forgotten everything according to the trailer, and it's the player's chance to help him remember it all.
- Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": The games achievements are referred to as "memories", theming with the blue elephant's amnesia.
- Compilation Re-release: The game contains all of the blue elephant games created by jmtb02 (With the exception of LOOT: The Game, which
jmtb02 admits he just forgot about), now with updated resolutions, uncompressed resources, and an overarching story connecting it all together. - Content Warnings: The game's Steam page warns that the game contains bright, flashing lights that may disturb those with photosensitivity.
- Damsel in Distress: The new intro to Elephant Rave suggests that the pink elephant was kidnapped. In reality, the pink elephant was Dead All Along.
- Dead All Along: Once the blue elephant reaches the roof, it's revealed that the pink elephant has passed away.
- Died Happily Ever After: The blue elephant gets to perform one more Elephant Rave, with the second half entailing his wife taking him to the afterlife as all his friends (and foes) reflect upon them.
- Elephants Never Forget: Inverted; the blue elephant can't remember his own legacy.
- Evolving Music: The hub area's music, "20/20", gains lyrics once the player achieves 24 of the 30 memories.
- Grand Finale: This collection serves as a closure to the blue elephant's story, after 12 years of the series' abrupt absence after Achievement Unlocked 3.
- Honorable Elephant: The blue elephant is depicted in a protagonistic role throughout all of the games, particularly in Elephant Quest.
- Timed Mission: The secret coffee missions in Achievement Unlocked 2 is changed to this to accommodate for the inability to replicate the original way to access them. Now, you must reach the end of the shop to start a coffee machine, then return to the player's home and drink out of the water bottle, which is now filled with coffee. This teleports them to the coffee screens, now having a limited time to stay there.
- Time-Passage Beard: The blue elephant sports one when emerging at the top floor.
