CARNEVIL BOSS GUIDE

By Squall Strife

squallstrife420@hotmail.com

Copyright 2000 Squall Strife

Aah, CarnEvil. This wonderful game stands out as my all time favorite arcade 
shooter, yet I see a disturbing lack of recognition and FAQs for it. Come 
on, how can you not love a game where you can blast evil Christmas elves 
into bloody chunks? ^_^

Now, writing a full FAQ/walkthrough for an arcade game would bedifficult to 
say the least(Will someone turn those other machines down! Aaah! Youre 
splashing your milkshake on my notes!)  but its not like CarnEvil really 
requires a lot of strategyexcept for the bosses, which can be quite 
difficult. And so, I bring you this guide. Enjoy!

This guide assumes that most of you, like me, select the stages from left to 
right, which are Haunted House, Rickety Town, Freak Show and Big Top. If you 
play in a different order, just skip ahead to the boss thats smashing you.

BOSS #1  HAMBONE

Location-early in the Haunted House
Description-Big guy in an iron mask with a chaingun arm
Difficulty: Easy
Death sequence-Falls over

Hambones pretty easy. Just shoot him in the chaingun. While hes wiggling 
his arm in pain, blast him in the chest and head. If youre a good enough 
shot, he shouldnt get too many hits on you. And if you get the Shotgun 
powerup, its over. Just blast away and dont even bother with the arm, and 
hell be toast in seconds. But hes not quite ready for the grave yet.

BOSS #2  HAMBONE THE REVENGE

Location: midway through the Haunted House
Description: Same as before
Difficulty: Easy
Death sequence-Again, falls over

Again, a pushover. Use the same tactics as before. Blast him in the gun and 
then the chest and head when hes in pain, but this time, his gun fires 
exploding skulls, which you can fortunately shoot out of the air if youre 
quick.

BOSS #3  EVIL MARIE

Location: End of Haunted House
Description: Aristocratic ghost with a bloody neck
Difficulty: Hard
Death sequence: Blasted out of the air and is impaled on a pointy monument. 
I think she says something, but Im not sure what it is.if anyone knows, 
please email me.

Evil Marie is HHHHAAARRRDDDD. In fact, shes probably the second toughest 
boss after the Baron himself. Her weak spot is the scar on her neck, but 
this is very hard to hit while shes mercilessly swinging her axe at you. 
Hit her two or three times and shell fly ahead and fly back and forth while 
throwing axes at you. Dont bother trying to hit her, just blast those axes! 
Shell use these two patterns for a while, and when you wear enough health 
off, her defense weakens and you can hit her anywhere.

After shes fluctuated between these two patterns and her health is down to 
about an inch, shes hover in the air charging up energy blasts. Shoot her 
as fast as you can (you can hit her anywhere now) because you cant stop the 
blasts. Shell probably get one off, but you should be able to destroy her 
before she does another one.

BOSS #4  KRAMPUS

Location: End of Rickety Town
Description: Green-suited Santa Claus with talons and antlers
Difficulty: Hard
Death sequence: Stumbles backwards saying Oh no, oh no, oh no! and 
collapses.

Krampus is pretty tough. His slashing combos are pretty much impossible to 
avoid getting hit by, so just try to bloody all of his parts-especially his 
chest, since you can expose his heart, a major weak point.

Krampus has three main attacks. Slashing with his claws, swinging his bag 
and throwing hot coals out of his bag. His coals can be shot, his bag can be 
deflected if you shoot it enough, but I dont think his slashes can be 
avoided. Just aim for the bag when he says Lets see what I got for YOU! 
and be ready to shoot projectiles when he says How about a nice lump of 
coal!

BOSS #5  EYECLOPS

Location: Midway through the Freak Show
Description: Two headed, eye-studded cyclops with a Cockney accent
Difficulty: Medium
Death sequence: Falls backwards with a cry of BLOODY ELL!

To kill Eyeclops, youll have to shoot out all of his eyes. This is easier 
said than done though, as hes got eyes studded all over his chest and arms 
as well as the two on his heads.

When he charges you with his twin swords-sometimes accompanied by a shout of 
Hey man, do you appen to ave a crumpet? the only way to stop him is to 
pop one of his eyes-youll know by his yell of AAAGGH! ME EYE! Just 
aim-carefully-at his arm and chest eyes after you take out the two head 
ones, and this freakll soon be poppin into a jar.

BOSS #6  JUNIOR

Location: End of the Freak Show
Description: Giant deformed baby
Difficulty: Easy
Death sequence: Stumbles into electric grid, fried to a crisp, falls apart

Aaah, Junior. While quite easy, he is perhaps the most disturbing video game 
enemy of all time, topping even the Burner from Parasite Eve II-well, *any* 
enemy from PEII, really-or the SunofaGun from Chrono Cross (violent shudder)

Juniors simple. Just blast away like a lunatic and bloody all of his body 
parts. Unless youre a REALLY quick shot or you have two players, you 
probably wont be able to destroy all of his vomit attack, but fortunately 
he only does this lovely attack once.

Eventually hell start hurling toys at you. These are much more slow moving 
and fewer in number than Evil Maries axes though, so you should have no 
trouble blowing them out of the air with one or two well timed shots and 
then going back to the baby blasting. Just keep blasting him until he goes 
into the electric grid, then watch the fireworks.

BOSS #7  UMLAUT

Location: End of the Big Top
Description: Demonic flying jester head
Difficulty: Easy
Death sequence: Slowly shatters while screaming something that sounds like 
Save me! Again, if anyone knows what it is he says, feel free to email me.

Yes, you finally get a crack at this annoying little bastard, and hes not 
too hard if youre patient and a good shot. Shoot him as he flies around, 
and when he says I havent had a bite all day! or Just dropping by for a 
bite! hes getting ready to do his only attack, a swooping bite. If you 
shoot him anytime during this attack, hell be knocked back and wont hit 
you.

All in all, an easy battle. But the real challenge is up ahead..

BOSS #8  BARON VON TOKKENTAKKER

Location: End of the Big Top
Description: Evil circus ringmaster
Difficulty: Hard
Death sequence: Blasted back into zeppelins propeller and chopped into 
kibble

When you first see this wicked ghost, hes summoning Umlaut and your shots, 
though they draw blood, cant hurt him. After Umlaut is out of the picture 
though, the Baron himself will appear and take you on.

You know, for some reason this fight has always seemed really dramatic to 
mewhat with Tokkentakkers shouts of Submit to me! Obey me! You cannot 
destroy me! and his teleporting all over the zeppelin

Anyway, dramatics aside, this is a very hard fight. Tokkentakker will 
constantly summon skeletons (fortunately they go down with two or three 
shots) to distract you while he takes aim with his blunderbuss. Like 
Hambones chaingun, Tokkentakkers blunderbuss fires bullets, so you cant 
shoot any projectiles-if he fires, you WILL feel it. However, just shooting 
him once will cause him to lose his aim-if you yells Hold still! hes 
trying to get a bead on you. Shoot him!

After about half his health is gone, Tokkentakker will say How about some 
fireworks? and send rockets at you. This is extremely hard, because you 
have to shoot the rockets (if you dont want to die, that is-the rockets 
pack a serious wallop) and blast Tokkentakker as well. Hes a bit like the 
Emperor from House of the Dead 2-and like the Emperor, the best way to 
tackle him is with two players-one shooting the rockets, the other blasting 
the crap out of Tokkentakker. However, if youre playing by yourself, youll 
just have to pop rockets constantly and just shoot Tokkentakker when you see 
an opening between launches. Unless you have lots of quarters, that is-then 
you can just blast away to your hearts desire. ^_^ Fortunately, hell stop 
summoning skeletons once he starts the rocket barrage.

After you blast the last ounce of his health away, Tokkentakker will fly 
back into the propeller, gloriously exploding into a spray of meaty chunks! 
Hes got an awful lot of blood for a ghost, doesnt he?

After that, just sheathe the shotgun and stand proud. A winner is you!
