Ancient Cheese

The Ancient Cheese is the third level in Pizza Tower, and the third level of the Tower Realm.

It's an ancient ruin featuring within a cheese-made land with remnants of some sort of civilization left behind.

Enemies

Mechanics

Transformations

Ball

Gimmicks

Cheese Block
Bomb
Stupid Rat

Collectables

In the second room, being right on the floor next to Pepperoni Goblin.

Located in the fifth room, the player needs to roll through Breakable Blocks to get to it.

Located in the first room of second section of the level, being right on the floor.

In the third room of third section of the level, located on the platform with ladder next to it.

In the room right after Pillar John room, being right on the floor.

Gerome is located in the hidden room, accessible from third room, entrance to which is in upper left corner of the room behind Breakable Blocks. The door to the treasure

is located in the third room of the second section. The player needs to super jump in the place right before where ceiling goes downward a bit.

Secrets

In the second room, in upper left corner. The player needs to run into the wall at Mach 3 to break Metal Block.

In the second room of the second section of the level. The player needs to throw a bomb at Stupid Rat to get to it.

Located in the Pillar John room, the player needs to roll through Breakable Blocks to get to it.

Trivia

In the SAGE 2019 Demo, The Ancient Cheese's first rooms use a beta version of "Theatrical Shenanigans", which existed as early as the Earlytestbuild, 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.
This level is most likely a play on the fact that cheese is a very ancient food, dating back to roughly 1615 BCE.
It's the only playable level from the SAGE demo to not get its own holiday-themed level.

Gallery

Regular sprites

Background #1. Dark orange sky.
Background decoration #1. Moving white cheese aroma.
Background decoration #2. Pillar with pizza skull, Pizzaface statue and pizza goblin-like being statue.
Background decoration #3. Bunch of pillars and ruins of buildings.
Background decoration #4. Pillars and ruins.
Background #2. A dirty yellow sky.
Background decoration #5. Brown clouds.
Background decoration #6. Some ancient rocks.
Background #3. A green cheesy sky.
Background decoration #5. Some background cheese.
Background decoration #6. A cheesy landscape.
Background #4. A red sky.
Background decoration #7. Remnants of an ancient civilization with a scared Peppino statue.
Background decoration #8. Statues depicting a large pizza and some peanut butter.