Bonus! 4-Page Hot Fuzz Video Game Strategy Guide Inside

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| Ben Jarman |

Hot Fuzz plays in glorious 35mm at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, June 14th, through Tuesday, June 16th. For tickets, showtimes, and other series information, visit trylon.org

The movie Hot Fuzz has many references to 80s and 90s action films and many of these films had Nintendo video game adaptations. The following pages are an attempt to create a strategy guide for an 8-bit Hot Fuzz adaptation that does not exist. Just imagine Edgar Wright’s movie coming out in 1990 with a licensed video game to help the producers with advertising.

Page one shows a banner for a video game, depicting characters Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) and Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) as stoic police officers, game stats, and two pixelated images of a swan and the main character, Angel. The framing is a black and white checkerboard pattern with a yellow and blue background. TEXT: BIG COPS. SMALL TOWN. MODERATE VIOLENCE. A VIDEO GAME BASED ON THE HIT MOVIE From the movie screen straight to your television, the fuzz has returned to bring peace to England. Suspicious residents of Sandford will do anything it takes to maintain their traditions, including murder. You control highly decorated constable Nicholas Angel or loyal partner Danny Butterman. Your main task is protecting the small town from cloaked madmen, sea mines, and troublesome swans. Find clues in a castle, use ice cream power-ups, and fight dangerous bosses before time runs out. GAME – STATS Hot Fuzz Memory 2M Graphics 8 Story 9 Play Control 6.5
Page two shows the items in the game including an ice cream cone, a plant, and a DVD, a still from the film of characters, Angel and Butterman eating a Cornetto, and hand-drawn enemies in the game (a green snake, a wild boar, a street thug, and a member of a cult with a brown cloak and knife). The framing is a black and white checkerboard pattern with a yellow and blue background. TEXT: DESSERTS AND DISCS The investigation will take stamina and precision, but you won’t have to do it alone. Sprinkled about each stage are items that make this adventure possible. Find these items and you will receive more energy, extra lives, or different game endings. Cornetto You lose energy when taking damage from enemies. Ice cream refills any lost energy. Peace Lily When you lose all your energy, you lose a life. Find your peace lily to obtain an extra life. Action Movie DVD Collect all six action movie DVDs to see the best ending to the game. ENEMIES SNAKE Snakes look small, but their bites are deadly. Don’t be surprised by their speed. BOAR Coming from the fields outside of town, boars take extra damage to defeat. THUG The streets of Sandford need cleaning. Wearing a variety of tracksuit colors, thugs are known to put up a good fight. CULT A secret cult of citizens runs the town. Wearing brown cloaks, these enemies carry knives to slow you down. Be brave even if they attack in large numbers.
Page three shows stage one, a hand-drawn, brown warehouse with red, yellow, and green boxes, a still from the film of Angel stabbed in the hand by the first boss, Santa, stage two, the hand-drawn streets of Sandford with brick buildings, a light post and bushes on the other side of fences, a still from the film of Angel chasing a crook in a purple jogging suit (the second boss), stage three, a hand-drawn brick church tower with ladders and cross-shaped windows, and a still from the film of a brown-cloaked figure (the third boss). The framing is a black and white checkerboard pattern with a yellow and blue background. TEXT STAGE 1 Operation Crackdown Before moving to Sandford, Constable Angel participated in Operation Crackdown in London with the renowned SO19 armed response unit. He received a bravery award for efforts in the resolution of the operation. BOSS: St. Nick Take a little damage from Santa before going in for an attack. He will move backwards allowing you to strike him. STAGE 2 Sandford Streets Once on a new assignment in Sanford, shoplifting gangs appear in the small town. Constable Angel and Butterman hit the streets to bring justice. Watch out for pedestrians! BOSS: P. Cocker This giant thug is fast and easy to miss. Stay on the left corner of the screen and attack once, every time he passes. STAGE 3: St. Vincent’s The St. Vincent Church Festival is threatened by an unknown evil. Reach the top of the church by climbing unsteady ladders and jumping across dangerous platforms. Hurry upwards because the life of a citizen is on the line. BOSS: Mr. Cult A cult is behind the trouble at the festival. Mr. Cult cannot bend in his cloak, so duck and strike.
Page four shows stage four, a hand-drawn brick castle with torches and arched window, a still from the film of the head of the fourth boss, Lurch, without hair and looking frightened, stage five, a hand-drawn grocery store with shelves of colorful, boxed foods, red, purple, and orange produce, and the frozen section, a still from the film of two butchers with hats tossing knives (the fifth boss), stage six, a hand-drawn outdoor miniature model version of Sanford with bushes in the background, stage seven, a hand-drawn, three-story police station with wooden walls, desks, and filling cabinets, and a still from the film of a spiked, black naval mine. The framing is a black and white checkerboard pattern with a yellow and blue background. TEXT: STAGE 4: Sandford Castle Angel and Butterman are on the hunt for the rest of the cult in Sandford. Search high and low in the town castle to unveil their terrifying scheme. Beware of the increased number of cult members inside. BOSS: Lurch Lurch takes more energy than any other boss in the game. Luckily, he is slow so you can beat him. STAGE 5: Somerfield The leader of the cult is hiding inside a Somerfield Grocery Store. Race through produce and the frozen foods to reach the butchers. BOSS: Butcher Bros. Blocking the way to the cult leader are the Butcher Bros. Whatever you do, don’t let them surround you. STAGE 6: Model of Sandford Just outside of town rests a miniature model of Sandford. This is the final showdown. BOSS: ? Who is the cult leader? Make it through stage 6 to find out. STAGE 7: The Police Station The cult leader is the last boss, but there is one stage left. A bomb is about to explode in the police headquarters. You have 90 seconds to run from the 3rd floor to the entrance on floor 1. You can do it!

Edited by Olga Tchepikova-Treon

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