Where did people get the proof again that that portrait actually WAS Fungus Forest? I can't remember...

If i remember right rare said it themself. It was something like: "If we had to include the level we would still be working on the game right now, but we kept it in as a painting". Can be wrong tough.

Hatrick! I am pleased to see you bring up the Ice Key chamber wall topic, I had been thinking about that, and wondered why no one seemed to have looked further in to things like that.

I still think the large "Big Clucks" in Click Clock Wood are odd. The way certain ones result in a cut scene...?

Really? To me it seems that there was no random pattern at all with the Big Cluckers Cut-Scenes. It was just the first one each time you came into the world, right? However, it does seem silly that only those Baddies have such a cut-scene. I wonder why? Do the skeleton worm-things do that in MMM? How about the ugly worm-things from CC? I don't really think it's SnS related, though. However, nice observation, guys!

I can confirm that the Chompas don't have an animation. It's just the Big Cluckers.

Is it the first Clucker you kill that has the animation or is it a specefic one? I always kill the same one first everytime. My cousins are leaving later today, so I'll start looking again.

It's always the first one you kill each time you enter the world. Nothing special.

Yeah...that's what I was thinking. Nice analysis, though. (Thanks, Upsilon...)

We don't know that it isn't anything special yet though however, do we? I might write up to Rare and ask that as a question, along side some other questions relating to Rare games.

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In BT, I cant get the chosen one cheat to work, cheato keeps telling me thats not a cheat. Can anyone get the chosen one cheat to work in BT? The chosen one cheat might do somethign useful.

It's a long time since I've played BT, but isnt the "chosen one cheat" a proven hoax? I thought someone had found the entire codelist, and the chosen one code wasn't on it...

That would make sense. I've discovered something about Grunty's lair in Tooie. It will be hard to explain without a screen shot, but there are repeating patterns on her wall. I've seen 3 faces of the same thing, it looks like a pumpkin with sharp teeth. Its got eyes too. I've also seen another image that looks like an imp, but I must just be going crazy. I'll try to get a screen shot.

Edit: That was not the best theory, but maybe it can prove something. Those same pictures are there on the walls of GL in BK, which means that it is very likely that rare re-used the original lair. Just something I noticed.

Hey, I guess they just thought it would be nice to show a cutscene of the parrot comically dying. Call me sceptical, but I seriously doubt that the solution to any mystery lies within this oddity.

Maybe, in the beta version, if you visited the Springtime area and killed a certain Big Clucker, it would fall out and smash Gnawty's rock. Then, you could go into his house and find...something. I dunno.

Isnt there already a way to smash Gnawty's rock in the spring? I've heard of it but I dont know how.