Pizza Time

Template:Infobox eventPizza Time is an essential feature to the gameplay of Pizza Tower.

It is activated once the player rams into or attacks Pillar John.

Gameplay

Pizza Time is normally the main requirement to opening a level's Exit Door and completing the level. Once Pillar John has been slain, the level immediately turns into a mad chase back to the beginning. A timer, varying for the level, will start ticking down, indicating that the player must escape as fast as possible. John Blocks will also switch states (With some doors being becoming blocked by John face in some levels). John faces spit out new enemies throughout the level. Clock and bell pickups become collectable upon activation of Pizza Time. During Pizza Time, the player's points are slowly drained, with 5 points being drained for every second wasted, giving the player even more of a reason to try to get to the exit sooner to try to get a good rank. Pizza Portals, when unlocked, can be entered during Pizza Time to enter Lap 2.

The timer does not count down when the player is in Secret Eye areas. However, the time keeps counting down during cutscenes and item pose animations, wasting a small portion of time.

When time runs out, Pizzaface appears and starts to chase the player, meaning you REALLY have to hurry to the exit before he touches you. If he touches the player, they instantly get a Time Over (When this happens, "Your Fat Ass Slows You Down" plays as Peppino is launched off of the screen), requiring to start the level again.

The only non-boss level without Pizza Time is War, which instead has its own timer but also has a Pizza Portal to allow access to Lap 2.

The only exception to Pizzaface chasing after the player once time runs out is The Crumbling Tower of Pizza, where the player instantly gets a Time Over should time run out.

Pre-release

For early appearances and scrapped ideas, see the pre-release page here: Pizza Time/Pre-release

Trivia

• The Pizza Time mechanics are an intentional parallel to the escape sections of Wario Land 4 and Shake It.
• This is a reference to the Spider-Man 2 internet meme which has the same name.

Gallery

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  Pizza Time notification.

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  Timer bar.

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  Timer fill bar.

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  John bar indicator.

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  Pizzaface sleeping.

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  Pizzaface waking up.

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  Tower icon during The Crumbling Tower of Pizza.