#tron: evolution ds

[mewtwowarrior]

Tron: Evolution Battle Grids for the Wii has a bunch of circuit options, including the ones from the DS game.

Here's the DS and Wii versions of the circuits I use for Ark.

[mewtwowarrior]

I really love the energy crystals in Tron: Evolution DS and decided that I needed to do a post on them.

I’ve put it under a Keep Reading, because there’s a handful of screenshots.

The energy crystals are out in the Outlands in an area called the Crystal Conduit. It’s somewhere near Bostrum Colony and contains the source of the energy lakes that power Bostrum.

You fly a Recognizer there and can see a few crystals on the way in.

Inside the Crystal Conduit itself, there’s five different types of energy crystals. Most of their effects are gameplay-related and most of their colors line up with the energy wells that are used for puzzles throughout the game. Some of the crystals need the colors you get from the energy wells for however you need to deal with them.

Some crystals are in the background and cannot be accessed, but they’re the same colors as the crystals you have to deal with.

Purple Crystals - Explode when touched/a disc is thrown at them.

Dark Blue Crystals - Heal you when you stand close to them (with the same visual effect as the health power up Pure Energy).

White Crystals - Absorbs the color of the item that touches them/disc thrown at them and transforms into that color (only used with Purple and Dark Blue Crystal powers).

Black Crystals - Are connected to Green Crystals - whatever you do to the Black Crystal affects the Green Crystal. They do two things: absorb and transfer color to the Green Crystals they're connected to (only used with changing them to Purple to explode them and get them out of the way) and cause Green Crystals to grow when you use a green energy well. Black Crystals connected to Green Crystals are also called link crystals.

Green Crystals - Green Crystals do a lot. I’ve included screenshots of the most interesting-looking ones, but there’s definitely more in the game. They're connected to the Black Crystals so that the Black Crystals transfer color to them. Because of this connection, most of the Green Crystals naturally have some black coloring to them. They also grow to make bridges and ledges if green energy is used on Black Crystals. At several points, they grow behind you on their own to keep you from going back the way you came. Gibson also gets trapped in a Green Crystal, the crystal was draining the energy from Bostrum, when he tried to stop it, it trapped him instead. Gibson says the crystal isn't natural. You use your disc on the Green Crystal to shatter it and free him. [When you get back to the main city, you're told that an old program has somehow reactivated - its job was to gather and store energy for an emergency, but it was bugged and shut down. Now that it's reactivated, it's unknowingly draining energy from the entire system, which will eventually cause the system to crash, cause the power to go out entirely, and erase everyone permanently.]

It’s been a while since I’ve taken these screenshots, but in these two, it looks like the crystals are growing under the path you’re on, which I think looks super neat!

[mewtwowarrior]

To my knowledge, this is a list of all of the game-only programs in the Tron: Legacy era video games (Tron: Evolution, Tron: Evolution Battle Grids, Tron: Evolution DS, and Tron: Evolution PSP).

Programs that you play against or are mentioned by name:

Aetos Argus Aristo Axelia Axiom Ayrton Baxter Bevan Blaze Bytor Callstack Cardinal Chiron Crash Deacon Debian Dell* Demas Dorak Euler Falda Flash Fulcrum Galina* Galois Ghassan Glider Hamilton Heap Hiro Hue Ismena Jack* Johnson Kernel Lazarus Nala* Necker Nestor Nim Panos Pappus Pascal* Pythia Radix Skordev Slave Soroban Talbot Tarski Tasck Tasram Theano Theseus Thiele Ulcmar Varignon Webster Weema Yosan Zarek

Programs with plot importance, but only show up in one game:

Blaze Bosh Calchas (ISO) Doran Kalev Odion Tenaes

Game-only programs that are very important or player characters:

Abraxas (virus) Anon Beta Gibson (ISO) Jalen (ISO) Radia (ISO) (Called Ophelia in Tron: Betrayal)

*These names are audio-only, so the spelling may be different than what I've written here.

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Since I was listing the names of important programs in Tron: Evolution Battle Grids for the Wii, I went back through my screenshots of the DS version of Tron: Evolution to grab the names of the three named programs that were important to the plot.

Doran is the System Monitor who works with your player character, Odion has a workshop, and Tenaes is the MCP-esque final boss.

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A handful of Bostrum screenshots from the Tron: Evolution DS game for @ferret-boy.

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Gibson in Tron: Evolution DS.

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About Tenaes, the final boss in Tron: Evolution DS.