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Archiving Every Single One Of Barry's Death Screen Quotes From Monster Dash: Updated!!

so you know when i made that post archiving a bunch of Barry's post-death quotes from Monster Dash a while back? Halfbrick recently updated Monster Dash to be the original* 2010 version for Halfbrick+, and it does in fact include the quotes Barry used to say at the end of a run! so i thought i'd kinda "remaster" my original post with new, high quality screenshots of all the quotes taken straight from me playing the game :)

*it's the OG game, but it's got some slight remastering going on. you'll see in a second.

first image id: "Agghh walls. My only weakness."

second image id: "Note to self: Next time there is a wall, don't jump into it!"

wow, immediately you can tell that Barry art got a massive glow up! he's got all this nifty shading and he looks so much more expressive than before! i like it! i like it a lot! apart from the art, the quotes in this game are pretty much all the same. these are used when Barry bumps into a wall and plummets (quite gracefully) into the void below :3

first image id: "That [Enemy] is just angry because no one will ever love him. Or her. Or whatever it is."

second image id: "You win this round, [Enemy]. Next time we meet, you wont [sic] be so lucky."

(the quotes switch out the enemy based on what you got killed by, like a Zombie, Demon, Vampire, Yeti or Mummy.)

again, Barry going off!! jesus dude, calm down a little! kinda surprised they kept the first quote in to be honest. when they added AOZ to HB+, they changed a lot of the dialogue to have it be more updated, including removing the Barry kissing Runingunin scene completely, likely to make it more PG (and to make Barry less of a creep), but they kept this one in! i like that though, i feel like modern Barry is missing a lot of his meanness he had in the earlier games and i like that they kept it in here :)

first image id: "Damn you spikes hiding cleverly in plain sight!"

second image id: "Who designed this place and thought spikes everywhere would be a good idea?"

these were for when Barry died to the aforementioned "spikes everywhere". not much else to say here, but these quotes are really funny! seeing Barry actually say "damn" is great, i wish he'd use more light swearing like that in newer games,,

first image id: "Dying is as fun as a bag of jellyfish!"

second image id: "Why couldn't I die wearing a cool hat?"

third image id: "That fortune teller sucks! There are no sharks with lasers involved in my demise!"

these are three sorta miscellaneous quotes that appear regardless of what Barry is killed by. they're pretty swell and some of my most favourite quotes, though i still have no idea what the hell he means by death being "as fun as a bag of jellyfish". jellyfish bags sound pretty fun to me, i like jellyfish...

first image id: "I hope I come back as a zombie."

second image id: "At least I died with dignity... And my pants!"

third image id: "When you die can you take your weapons with you?"

finally, high quality screenshots of the dignity quote! again, these are more miscellaneous quotes. not much else to say about them, though i like the thought of purgatory containing a weapon bay :P

first image id: "Why am I the cat with only one life?"

second image id: "I hope Death is ready to rock-off for the top bunk!"

third image id: "It's time to start a re-run!"

are Barry and Death having a sleepover or something? that sounds pretty rad actually, having a night with the Grim Reaper himself, eating marshmallows, summoning hellspawn, whatever else people do at sleepovers...

now this is where my original post would have ended, but after playing for a little bit, i realised that i actually missed a couple of quotes! they must not have appeared in a lot of videos like the original screenshots were from, so here they are now in their full glory to be archived!

first image id: "Note to self: Next time there is a gap, dump it rather than falling and dying."

second image id: "Ahh, Gravity. Such a cold, cruel mistress."

i've never seen these quotes before in all the couple hours total i spent looking for screenshots of the original ones!! i wonder why, they're not rare or anything. these were for when Barry fell into gaps without hitting a wall beforehand. i guess i initally didn't get any screenshots of these because the videos i got them from where about a minute or two long, and gaps don't start getting wider until around 2000 - 3000 metres, which the people recording didn't really get to. plus, falling into gaps cleanly is kinda tricky to do on purpose. anyway, they're archived now and in a super nice quality, and i glad i found them through the game itself! i don't know how much more "low-quality youtube videos from 10 years ago" sifting i could do...

that's pretty much about it for now! if i find anything else that's interesting about this game, i'll reblog this post with my additions. i'm super glad i have higher quality images of these, cause now they're consistent and i can actually read them without having to squint through all the pixels to see!! plus the very handsome glow up they gave my boy Barry ;)

(and finally for shits and giggles and because i don't know how to end posts, here's a screenshot of my best monster kills being at the funny number)

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