Seaweed Casserole

Rio, 1998. A casserole has gone bad. Not spoiled - bad. It boiled, it escaped, and now it sits out on the headland steaming quietly and sending its dinner up the beach after you: seaweed, prawns, rolling onions and a clattering brigade of saucepans.

Dick is a crab. Dick has enormous claws. Dick did not ask for this.

Five stages, each with its own big boss and its own trick. The Stockpot Brute plants itself and charges straight down your line. Senhor Prawn leaps clean over you to land behind. The Onion Baron fights from the back of the screen behind lobbed onions and a court that never stops arriving. The Pressure Pot is sealed - hit it and it just CLANGS - until the valve blows and it is wide open for ninety frames. And then, in the kitchen, the Casserole itself, which finds a fourth gear when it is nearly finished.

Clear each stretch before the beach will let you through. Remember you are on a plane, not a line: move up and down to line up with what you are hitting, or your claws swing through thin air. And those claws are for grabbing as much as hitting - seize an onion and hurl it, and it will take down whatever it lands on. That matters most in the boss fights, because every one of them keeps coughing up fresh ingredients, and every ingredient can be thrown straight back.

Beat the Casserole and the whole run starts again a lap harder, with your score intact.