A flash game I’ve played since Minecraft was just first starting, but stopped playing it and assumed it’s dead by now (the community died), somehow has survived all of these years.
So apparently there’s new levels, the old levels have gotten a facelift, and new ways to play this beloved game. It even has sound effects and music. Unfortunately, walljumping is still something you really must master. I used to be somewhat good at it, but I’ve gotten rusty over the years.
If you don’t know what Transformice is, well it has nothing to do with Transformers. It’s a game where you play as a mouse, trying to get the cheese and take it back to your mouse hole. It sounds simple, yet it really isn’t. The purpose of getting cheese in this game is mainly for bragging rights. You can get titles like “Plump Mouse”, and also hats and stuff that you can buy with this cheese. Also with the cheese, you can donate 40 cheese that you can make a map, that it will eventually cycle to on a room for people to play on.
You play on a public server (known as a Room) with other people; real people with their own feelings, that it sometimes feels I’m reading the YouTube comments section. I see constant flaming and racism, but I tend to ignore it and focus on trying to get the cheese.
There’s some maps, where everyone needs to work as a team. Those are where the cheese is in the middle, and there’s a balance beam. Too much weight on one side can knock out everyone, making it impossible to get the cheese. It also leads to people either laughing or yelling “WHY WE NO TEAMWORK?!”.
Now there’s also a special class of mouse called the Shaman, which is chosen of the mouse that is one of the top two scoring mice in any given round (for example, if you have 67 points, and the guy above you has 72, you still have a good chance of becoming the Shaman in the next round). As a Shaman, it’s your job to help your fellow mice to the cheese by making stuff appear in thin air, such as crates and planks for the mice to walk across.
Now to be a Shaman, you really need to know what you’re doing. And if you don’t, well, you doom your fellow mice in getting no cheese, and also get bashed to hell and back. Unfortunately, the game eventually will give the option for everyone in that room, a chance to be a Shaman (even though they might not want to).
When it comes to my turn, I bug out of there by joining another room or quitting altogether. I just can’t handle the abuse of screwing up by not knowing what I’m doing. :/
Before, sometimes I have been lucky to get maps that don’t require me as a Shaman to do much.
But sometimes it’s also funny to be a Shaman, when you can build then summon the dreaded Anvil God. The Anvil God is where the game’s physics are at their worst, with anvils flying everywhere, smacking into everyone and eventually causing them to die. It’s quite humorous when a Shaman decides to make one.
There’s also the Box God which pretty much does the same thing, except it’s made out of boxes instead of anvils.
Not all maps require a Shaman, and some maps have two Shamans (blue and pink). These tend to have a Shaman duel with each other trying to cannon the other away. And if they cannon eachother… well, you’re fucked as a mouse.
So if you’re interested in this game, it’s 100% free of charge and available both online and a downloadable version, at transformice.com.
I personally wish the Tutorial part of the game was longer, as in would show you how to be a Shaman with AI mice (that won’t pick on you when you screw up).