User blog:Le Rottweiler/statkey



I’m attempting to identify the mysterious items in this image. The one with the cylinders is almost certainly for a diving suit, but the other two are less certain. My guess is that the cube spells NIN, but if so, why? Maybe it was supposed to increase the munition capacity à la Doom’s backpack? Maybe it was a magic item? It’s quite difficult to determine. As for the boots, it’s possible that the designers were planning on including a powerup for increasing speed, then decided that it was ultimately useless. (A less probable hypothesis is that it was meant to help people manœuvre through slime, but that would have been obviously redundant given the Biosuit symbol.)

These are (of course) mere conjectures. If you know (or may know) what these icons were for, please tell us. Merci beaucoup.