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Bumping, sorry if too soon.
I'd have some additional questions - What tropes would you recommend to search through to find the green monsters? They were just a head, mouth, maybe eyes, and two limbs resembling legs that they were flying by. Now I recall, for some reason they reminded me of a chefs' hat. What tropes could it fall under?
The same goes for the mud-spitting mud monsters (the asking for tropes, not the characteristics).
Thank you in advance!
Edited by Vicky125
I don't know any of the answers (apologies) but the trope names for 'head with limbs' are Waddling Head and Cephalothorax. Also see Octopoid Aliens, Our Monsters Are Weird, Green and Mean, Sickly Green Glow
For mud monsters see A Sticky Index and specifically Muck Monster. I guess the spitting is similar to Super Spit
Edited by mla
Could the Harry Potter game you mention be the console adaptation of Prisoner of Azkaban?
About the Jake Marshall theme, it's surely done to sound like classic Western movies soundtracks like the Sergio Leone ones - heck, the last few notes of the flute melody before the track loops is just the leitmotif from The Good The Bad The Ugly!
Number one fan of characters that appear only once and ultimately were a recurring character either in disguise or trying a new image.
Number 3 is surely the Czech show Hodina Pravdy. Taky jsi z Ceska? :)
Edited by JohnBenccsonn
I think the Harry Potter game you're thinking of (at least in your second paragraph) might be the Goblet of Fire video game; there's a level in the Forbidden Forest where you can fight various creatures, including Bubotubers, Dugbogs, and Erklings, which might be the 'mud monsters' you were remembering. (I'm most inclined to think they were Bubotubers, since they were mud-like and launched mud/slime at you, but they were plants, not animals).
mIa: I've already checked the Cephalothorax trope, and will the other ones. Thank you!
Phantom Dusclops 92: It was a PC game, not a console one. Thanks for the suggestions regarding the theme, though! I'll check it out.
John Benccsonn: From Slovakia. And thanks! Pozriem na to:)
Obiwanlivesforewer 2: Interesting... I'll look into it once I read the books. Thanks!
Edited by Vicky125
Again, I have some games I'd like to find:
1.) This one I played in 2007-2011 or so. It featured a human (probably, he wore a hide or something brown) walking through a miniplanet/island like a maze, finding keys. There were huts, “health”-restoring food, and possibly barricades to open/close with the keys. The enemies were alienish, of Shrek-like green, damaging the character by hitting him. They were flying by their legs/limbs resembling ones. Their tongues were hanging from their mouths. They creeped me out as a kid.
The game was probably 3D, or the camera had different angles depending on the direction the character went.
2.) A HP game. I know little about HP universe. It might’ve been one game, or separate ones, but probably the same series. There was Harry, maybe Ron and Hermione too, and a teacher or a villain - at the top of a tower, magic-dueling with each other and/or a monster. The player used a magic wand, and I think there were obstacles to remove/destroy, too.
In a forest/swamp, the characters met hostile clumps of mud resembling melted snowmen which damaged them by spitting mud. However, my sister, who has read the books and seen almost all the films, says there are no mud monsters in HP. So what could it be? Please, try to answer with as little spoilers as possible, I’d like to catch up and read the books someday.
3.) A TV game (2005-2008 or so). The contestants, families (not sure if always), accept a challenge to learn a skill/try something new in a week/two. One episode featured basketball tricks, another controlling a toy plane. The winners won a car. There was always a shot of it standing in a garage/behind a curtain, surrounded with packs of mineral water bottles, “for your health”. Not sure if it was a Czech/Slovak show, or translated.
4.) Any ideas why Jake Marshall’s theme (Ace Attorney, case 1-5 (the bonus one)) could sound so familiar to me? Like composed of two melodies I’ve heard before somewhere - the one at the start, and the flute melody, starting after a few seconds. Could it be from a Scooby Doo game (the “wild west” one), or something else entirely?
Any suggestions are appreciated :-)
Edited by Vicky125