Ancient Cheese
Ancient Cheese is the third level in Pizza Tower, and the third level of the Tower Lobby.
It's an ancient ruin featuring within a cheese-made land with remnants of some sort of civilization left behind. The level's titlecard shows Peppino in the midst of these ruins, looking at a large purple statue of himself.
Enemies
This level contains the following enemies:
Transformations
- Ball — initiated by getting kicked by Pepperoni Goblin enemy
Gimmicks
- Cheese Block
- Bomb — thrown by Pizza Box Goblin and spawned by Enemy Spawner
Locations
Toppins
Mushroom
In the first room of the key path, below a bridge of Cheese Blocks.
Cheese
In the first room after the Key Door, under a platform with a one-block passage, blocked by Breakable Blocks.
Tomato
Out in the open in the first room after the Box of Pizzas, directly where the player would naturally progress to.
Pineapple
In the room right after Pillar John, directly where the player would naturally progress to.
Tower Secret Treasure
Gerome
In a hidden room, behind a Fake Wall in the top right corner of the second Key path room, on one of the platforms.
Treasure
In a room after the second Box of Pizzas, in the top right corner, behind a Fake Wall, indicated with 4 Pizza Points. The Tower's Secret Treasure present in the level is a peanut butter jar.
Secret Eyes
Secret Eye 1
In the first room of the Key path, behind a Metal Block in the top left corner of the room, indicated with a Stupid Rat's face.
In this secret, the player needs to use Cheese Blocks to get across, as well as maintaining speed to break a Metal Block at the end.
Secret Eye 2
In the room directly after Tomato Toppin, behind a Stupid Rat.
This secret contains a Bomb that the player needs to move across a small series of platforms to get rid of Stupid Rat at the end.
Secret Eye 3
Right after Pillar John, in a secret passage with a one-block opening.
This secret consists of multiple one-block passages, blocked with Breakable Blocks, as well as a Metal Block at the end. The player needs to maintain momentum to pass through each passage.
Pizza Tower Guy
Pizza Tower Guy
Located in the room directly after Tomato Toppin, near the room's entrance. The player must reach this area within a minute in order to see him. He disappears upon approach.
Chef Tasks
This level has the following Chef Tasks:
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Thrill Seeker Finish Ancient Cheese without getting hurt by an explosion. |
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Volleybomb Kill a rat using a bomb dropped by an enemy in Ancient Cheese. |
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Delicacy Make more than forty one sets of cheese platforms crumble in Ancient Cheese. |
Music
Level's soundtrack:
- Mr. Sauceman – Theatrical Shenanigans
- ClascyJitto – Put On A Show!
ClascyJitto – A Secret Under The Debris
Trivia
- In the SAGE 2019 Demo, Ancient Cheese's first rooms use a beta version of "Theatrical Shenanigans", which existed as early as the Early Test Build, along with the "Funiculi Funicula". This was presumably a mistake, as the updated version used later was posted onto Mr. Sauceman's SoundCloud and YouTube channel not far from the demo's release.
- Also notable in the SAGE Demo, the second half of the level uses a song called "Theatrical Mischief" instead of "Put On A Show!".
- It's the only playable level from the SAGE demo to not get its own holiday-themed level.
- Despite having a final name in the SAGE 2019 Demo, it was temporarily called Ruin in the PT_Eggplantv15 build.
- Level's title is most likely a pun on Ancient Greece and the fact that cheese is a very ancient food, dating back to roughly 1615 BC.
- Per above, level's design is full of references to ancient and classical arts, such as the giant Peppino statue in the titlecard parodying the Thinker, background arts resembling Acropolis, and decorations having images of Peppino and other characters as Greek painted pottery and Archaic reliefs.
- Before version v1.0.594, the escape time limit was 2:50. The update extended the timer by ten seconds, bringing it up to 3:00.
Gallery
Regular sprites
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Background #1. A dark orange sky.
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Background decoration #1. A moving white cheese aroma.
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Background decoration #2. A pillar with pizza skull, a Pizzaface statue and a pizza goblin-like being statue.
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Background decoration #3. A bunch of pillars and ruins of buildings.
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Background decoration #4. Pillars and ruins.
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Background #2. A dirty yellow sky.
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Background decoration #5. Brown clouds.
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Background decoration #6. Some ancient rocks.
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Background #3. A green cheesy sky.
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Background decoration #5. Some background cheese.
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Background decoration #6. A cheesy landscape, with background objects that may be spelling out "LOL".
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Background #4. A red sky.
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Background decoration #7. Remnants of an ancient civilization with a scared Peppino statue.
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Background decoration #8. Statues depicting a large pizza and some peanut butter.
Tiles
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Tileset #1, It is used in the first section of the level.
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Tileset #2, It is used in the second section of the level.
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Tileset decoration, It is used to decorate the level.
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Tileset #3, It is used in between sections, Mainly the second and thrid sections of the level.
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Tileset #4, It is used in the fourth section of the level.
Hub assets
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Ancient Cheese's level gate, an old stone archway held up by two columns.
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Level gate background. A dark orange sky with pizza monster statue.
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Level gate background decoration #1. Purple bricks with vines.
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Level gate background decoration #2. Purple pillar.
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Level's icon on Pizza Granny sign.
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Level's title card.
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Level's name in Chef Tasks room.
Scrapped sprites
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Background decoration. The ruined ruin walls.
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The image above the level's entrance in Blue Block Land, depicting a panicked Peppino alongside a Bomb and Cheese Block.
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| Tower Lobby | |||||||
| Western District | |||||||
| Vacation Resort | |||||||
| Slum | |||||||
| Staff Only | |||||||
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