I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game: The Picture Book

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In the Year 200X

On his 15th Birthday...

A child left home...

On his dangerous and epic quest

To become The Guy!



I WANNA BE THE GUY: THE MOVIE: THE GAME: THE PICTURE BOOK: THE TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Introduction
2. The Road To Tourian
3. The Devious Plan Revealed
4. The Great Escape
5. The Skyscraper of Doom and Couches
6. The Great Bowser Ass-Kicking
7. The Clown Car, Part 2
8. The Spiky Climb
9. The Realisation
10. The Choice
11. The Tetris Effect
12. The Happy Fun Dreamland
13. The Cave of No Return
14. The Glitchiest Boss Fight
15. The Upper Path
16. The Spectacular Super Punch Out Surprise
17. The Hateful Moon
18. The Ghosts and the Ghoulies
19. The Big Boss
20. The Castle of Vania
21. The Goddamned Dracula
22. The Road to The Guy
23. The Return of the Moon?!
24. The Big Lie Revealed
25. The Castle of The Guy
26. The Labyrinth of The Guy
27. The Labyrinth of The Guy: The Part Two
28. The Labyrinth of The Guy: The Downward Spiral
29. The Labyrinth of The Guy: The Right Paths
30. The Labyrinth of The Guy: The Continuation
31. The Tower of The Guy
32. The Guy
33. The Fight of The Guy
34. The Credits of The Guy

I WANNA BE THE GUY: THE MOVIE: THE GAME: THE PICTURE BOOK:THE INTRODUCTION
What is I Wanna Be The Guy?

Perhaps the words of a random IWBTG forum member summarise it best:

Originally Posted by Finale

I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game's many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.

Using a multiroute layout not unlike a Metroidvania, the game grants a degree of deadly exploration, without those extraneous upgades meant to make life easier. The game provides players with a choice in terms of their deathrate, thanks to a variable difficulty setting that changes the number of save points from frequent to nonexistent. IWBTG is open to all players; knowledge of videogaming history is optional, and may not help against the frequently ironic and always sadistic deathtraps located herein. And so, the question is left up to you...

Do YOU have what it takes to be The Guy?

Available from here along with its partially completed sequel, I Wanna Save The Kids, it is possibly one of the hardest games you will ever play.

It will be shown in picture form, since that cannot hope to capture the full cruelty of I Wanna Be The Guy.

Now let's see the full epic story of why you WANNA BE THE GUY and how you go about doing it.



Magnificent

So let's start.

After the title screen is the game select screen. It is unlikely to kill you.



On the left you can see my original game. I AM THE GUY by the way.

Let's start a new game on the easiest difficulty: Medium.

This takes us to the first room. Behold it, in all its glory!



Not very impressed I see? Perhaps I should tell you more about this room.

The areas of floor I've marked in red will kill you. Try to avoid them.



How could a perfectly innocent floor kill someone you ask?



The Kid is dead! I hope you're happy now.

To begin, we simply have to choose a path.

1: The Upper Path
2: The Lower Path
3: The Secret Path
Choose now!