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Cosmic Wartoad
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An action game of grid-based exploration, combat, and rescue on the ZX Spectrum.
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About this game
Cosmic Wartoad is an action game developed by Denton Designs and published by Ocean for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
The queen of the cosmic wartoads has been kidnapped by the Rygellian Slime Beasts, transformed into a human, and imprisoned beneath the Slime King's Sludge Saw. The saw descends over ninety minutes, giving the Cosmic Wartoad a limited time to rescue her.
Gameplay
Players travel across the Rygellian Timevoid, an 8x8 grid of nodes. Each node contains a minigame, typically involving combat against enemies on a pseudo-isometric screen. After completing a node, the Cosmic Wartoad can enter an adjacent one.
The objective is to collect all eight pieces of the Cosmic Toolkit, navigate across the grid, and shut down the Sludge Saw. The game ends when the rescue succeeds, all three lives are lost, or the ninety-minute time limit expires.
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