Prickly Pearanoia

''"Scream in agony on..." ''- intro textPrickly Pearanoia is the thirty second level in Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Bread) by PunchingPlayerPenguin.

Level Overview
Prickly Pearanoia is a desert level with the cave palette. Most of the map is covered in cacti making movement very difficult and requiring the player to understand the different cacti hitboxes to avoid getting hurt. Ants peppered around the map including the red variety which move as fast as the player and take 20 hits to destroy make navigation even more difficult. On top of that, the player must grab at least 3 skeleton keys to get all the neighbors, one of which is inaccessible without a ghost potion, and another is inside a snakeoid, which combined with the tight spaces and the ants, makes this by far the hardest level in the entire hack.

Design
Note that due to the levels strange design, it's difficult to accurately describe the map.

The player starts the level in a clearing surrounded by cacti. South of this is a rock formation with the number 7 victim nearby. Below the rocks is victim number 3 with a key nearby and a purple ant spawn. A pandora's box is below that across a ravine, requiring the player go around.

To the left of the starting position is a house with the number 9 victim in it and a bazooka beneath it. To the left of it is a couple of red ant spawns.

In the top left corner of the map is an area with three houses and a large rock. The left house contains a skeleton key, the middle one contains victim 8, and the rightmost one contains a martian bubble gun which is very useful in dealing with the ants. The space above the middle house is good for fighting the snakeoid. Below the rock is the number 6 victim, with the snakeoid close by.

Trivia

 * This level is infamous for being by far the hardest level in the entire hack, and being needlessly difficult in a hack meant to be easy. This level nearly made Joseph K. give up on even playing the hack.