Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.


Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Medievil 2 (2000)

This is the popular follow up to the original Medievil game. This time, the main character, Dan Fortescue, is out and about in London and other places

Summary

-The main character, Daniel Fortescue, is back from the dead. This time he's taking on a vicious occultist named Lord Palethorn in a dark and twisted version of Victorian London

Info

-Here you also go around collecting chalice cups just like in the first one

-There will be items you have to collect related to missions in each level

-The weapons are mostly the same from the first game. You do get both a thin sword and broad sword, and the lightning bolt and magic sword. But here, you have new weapons such as a blunderbuss, machine gun and more

-Here you have the ability to remove your head and put it on one of the little random hands that are walking around. To do this, approach one of the little hands until you see a blue bubble and hit the triangle button along with L1 on the left side of the controller to put Dan's head on a hand. This allows you to explore small areas Dan can't normally access

-After each level, you'll go to the Professor's Lair. Here you can choose levels, like the World Map did in the first game

-Instead of the Merchant Gargoyles from the first game, here you encounter a character named The Spiv. As you near him, you'll hear him saying things like "Psst" or "Hey". He'll beckon you to come closer and here you can replenish any ammunition or other weapons

Levels

The Museum

-Essentially a video game version of the British Museum

-After collecting the Chalice here, the weapon issued to you will be the Cane Stick

-The basic goal is to get out of the museum. You'll find new weapons along the way, such as a Pistol in a glass case

-The main enemies here are miniature bony dinosaurs, knights who break out of cases



Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

-The giant dinosaur skeleton you saw in level 1

-To defeat the Tyrannosaurus Wrecks, run up his tail and attack his brain. He'll throw you off and you just repeat the process

Kensington

-The posh area of London but in a Victorian time

-Some of the items you'll collect here will be a Town House Key, a Depot Key. Using the Town House Key, you enter the home of the man behind these dark events, Lord Palethorn. Winston, the Professor, will tell you to look for clues and head over to the museum to investigate a suspicious event happening

-The Hammer will be your prize for collecting the Chalice

-The Chalice will be inside a train car that can be summoned via ringing a bell



The Freakshow

-A carnival sideshow filled with freaks out of your worst nightmare

-The enemies here include Imps, Bearded Women, magicians who can summon dragons

-Your prize for collecting the Chalice will be the Crossbow

-The boss level for this level is the Elephant-Bot. Attack the Imp controlling the bot at the back, and it will destroy the elephant

-The Chalice will be on a shelf near some trampolines


Greenwich Observatory

-All things naval here

-There are puzzles here that need to be solved to proceed. One of the outbuildings has a puzzle involving the Roman numerals I-IV that involves water. There will be switches to lower it or raise it. Once the correct combination has been found, a drawbridge will lower

-Collect the Chalice to get the Axe

-The Chalice is on the end of one of the ships in the dry sea bed

-The boss level here will be Dogman and Mander. A man with the personality and mindset of a dog and the other is a Praying Mantis. It's best to charge up the Hammer and let loose with the shockwaves to create maximum damage

Kew Gardens

-A lush garden inside a massive greenhouse

-There will be Pumpkin Monsters here. Just like the Pumpkin Monsters you encountered in the first Medievil game, in the levels Pumpkin Gorge and The Pumpkin Serpent, they are here too

-Here you must save the innocent visitors from the pumpkin monsters. Use Antidotes you pick up after killing the pumpkin monsters to cure the people. Once the monsters have been vanquished, the people will jump and down cheering. DO NOT KILL THE PEOPLE! They will lower your Chalice

-Use the various valves you pick up to install on the various valves within the building. This will turn on the sprinklers and allow flowers to bloom. This will allow you to jump on the flowers to access new areas

-Collect the Chalice here to get Bombs

-The Chalice will on a high branch near the ceiling

Dankenstein

-A sort of video game version of the story of Frankenstein

-The Chalice will be on a platform near the train tracks. AVOID THE TRAINS! There are trains running along the tracks periodically and they will hit and damage you if you are in their way

-The main mission here is to build a monster with assembled body parts. There will be monsters with the body parts you need. Attack the monsters to get the body parts. Once you get the body part, get it back to the Professor

-He will build a monster and, with some clumsiness that would not seem out of place in the film Young Frankenstein, the Professor trips and falls, dropping the head, which proceeds to smash into pieces

The Iron Slugger

-It's a boxing level. Use your knowledge of boxing to knock out the Iron Slugger. Use typical fighting moves like overhead chop, jaw buster until the Slugger starts losing limbs. Make sure he loses limbs before you do to win

-Beat this level to get the Broad Sword

Wulfrum Hall

-A Gothic Victorian manor infested with vampires

-Collect the Chalice to get Lightning

-After ringing the doorbell, the doorman opens the sliding door open just enough to reject your entrance

-This manor has puzzles to solve. Most of them involving placing coffins into sunlight, since you're working with vampires

-The Chalice will be in a room with a locked door


The Count

-Count Dracula

-Use the mirrors to reflect the light he fires back on him. Once the windows have been opened, use the natural sunlight and reflect it on the chandelier to destroy him

Whitechapel

-The iconic neighborhood in which Jack the Ripper haunted

-Collect the Chalice here to get the Blunderbuss

-In one area, where a club is, you need a suit, beard and Membership Card. Head to the cemetery and look for a statue of a man named Isibod Brunel. Hit a switch nearby to turn on lights. The lights will be red initially. Solve the puzzle to turn the lights white. Take the Beard and Membership Card. By now, you should already be suited up

-Watch out for the police, called Peelers here. They will assault you with their nightstick

-The Chalice is located in the cemetery you enter the level in

-When you enter the club, you'll talk to a woman near a piano, who will tell you what Professor Winston's assistant Kiya is up to. She'll give you a life bottle and tell you to hurry to the clock tower



The Sewers

-The underground sewers of London

-Collect the Chalice here to get the Magic Sword

-Here you encounter creatures called Mullocks that look like turtles

-Here there are puzzles to solve, including rearranging pipes to access new areas. You must also rescue five women trapped as prisoners


Time Machine - The Museum

-You head to The Museum to collect parts of machines to help Professor Winston build his time machine

-Solve puzzles to get these pieces

-No Chalice here

Time Machine - The Sewers

-Back to the sewers

-No Chalice here

-Here the Mullocks will try and hurt you if you steal their Time Stone. After that, the Mullocks will try to hurt you throughout the whole level

-After defeating King Mullock, go into his hut and get dressed up like King Mullock. Head to the boatman that you visited the first time leaving the sewers

Time Machine - The Ripper

-Now time to take on old Jack the Ripper

-Use the Good Lightning to infuse Kiya with life while the regular Lightning can do damage to the Ripper

-After saving Kiya, Dan will get strong armor from Dan of the past and future coming together. Visit Winston at the Professor's Lab to get the most powerful weapon in the game, the Gatling Gun

Cathedral Spires

-A monstrously huge castle

-No Chalice here

-The Shadow Demons from the original game also appear in the level

-One of the goals here is to find the souls of 12 angels

Cathedral Spires - The Descent

-The inside of this castle

-No Chalice here

-Solve puzzles as you make your way through the castle

The Demon

-The first fight you encounter are Lord Palethorn's two assistants Dogman and Mander. The same two you fought at Greenwich Observatory are back, and stronger than ever!

-The final fight will be a large blue demon summoned by Palethorn using the last page of Zarok's magic spell book

-Once you defeat the Demon, the game is over