Whenever King Altador has some urgent messages or news to be delivered somewhere in his self-named realm, he always has one choice of who to send them: Yooyus. Besides being Altador's national petpet, Yooyus are fast little creatures with a lot of experience in flying. Not even birds can match them when it comes to flying all over the kingdom with the most important news of the day. In Crisis Courier, you play a variety of Yooyus that are helping each other to deliver their news.
Controls
You control your Yooyu by moving your mouse around the screen. The left mouse button is used to switch between types of Yooyus. All of the levels are centered around navigating your Yooyus under and over houses and temples, giant pillars and even squads of Minitheuses. If you even just touch a building or pillar, you'll lose one of your three lives.
Yooyus
The two basic Yooyus, Fire and Snow, correspond with the Red and Blue Minitheuses respectively: the Fire Yooyu can defeat Red Minitheuses and the Snow Yooyu can defeat Blue Minitheuses. Remember, if you use the wrong Yooyu you'll lose a life, so be careful. Note that whenever you start a new level or lose a life, you'll begin as a Fire Yooyu.
There are two extra types of Yooyus: Mutant and Faerie. You can only become one of these Yooyus when you collect the corresponding item: a Wing Fruit for the Faerie Yooyu and a Fig for the Mutant Yooyu. Mutant Yooyus can defeat both colours of Minitheus, which is great for those giant piles of them. Conversely, the Faerie Yooyu will earn 20 points for each goodie bag collected, but it cannot defeat either colour of Minitheus. If you run into a Minitheus while you are a Faerie Yooyu, you will lose a life. These are not available in every level, and if you do manage to collect one you will only remain that species of Yooyu for a few seconds. You won't be able to switch species if you are Mutant/Faerie, you'll just have to wait until the time runs out, at which point you will morph into a Snow Yooyu.
Fire Yooyu
The Fire Yooyu will earn points when picking up the following goodie bags:
5 points
10 points
The Fire Yooyu will defeat the following Minitheuses:
The Fire Yooyu will be killed by:
Snow Yooyu
The Snow Yooyu will earn points when picking up the following goodie bags:
5 points
10 points
The Snow Yooyu will defeat the following Minitheuses:
The Snow Yooyu will be killed by:
Mutant Yooyu
The Mutant Yooyu will earn points when picking up the following goodie bags:
The Mutant Yooyu will defeat the following Minitheuses:
The Mutant Yooyu will be killed by:
Faerie Yooyu
The Faerie Yooyu will earn points when picking up the following goodie bags:
20 points
20 points
20 points
The Faerie Yooyu cannot defeat any Minitheuses!
The Faerie Yooyu will be killed by:
The fig (left) turns you into a mutant Yooyu, while a Wing Fruit (right) turns you into a Faerie Yooyu
Scoring
Points in this game are mainly obtained by collecting Altador goodie bags. There are several dozen of these in each level, and you do not need to collect every single one (or even any at all) in order to pass the level, but if you're looking to get a high score or trophy you'll probably need to collect close to every single one. If you're just playing for Neopoints, going through a few levels and missing a bunch of goodie bags is fine.
+5 points (Snow/Fire)
+20 points (Faerie)
+10 points (Snow)
+20 points (Faerie)
+10 points (Fire)
+20 points (Faerie)
Points can also be earned by "defeating" Minitheuses. You will earn 10 points per Minitheus you defeat. You can do this by flying through them, but you must be using the correct Yooyu or else you will lose a life!
Upon finishing each level, you earn 100 points for every level you have completed. For example, you get 100 points after level 1, 200 points after level 2, and so on. There are 9 known levels.
Gameplay
Minitheuses can be found aimlessly walking along the level's platforms or flying in the air. Fortunately, the flying ones are always stationary and can still be defeated by guiding your colour-corresponding Yooyu over it. There are no special colours of Minitheus anywhere in the game; nothing so dangerous that it can be defeated only by the Mutant Yooyu, or anything like that.
The end of every level is marked by a huge, wide, empty space followed by a tall, stone pillar. Although this pillar may look like a final obstacle, it simply marks the end of the level and you are free to fly through it. Think of it like a goal post.
Strategy
As you go through the levels the speed at which you move increases. Because of this, always have a finger ready on the left mouse button for pesky Minitheuses that will be appearing in different colours in quick succession.
In later levels, Red and Blue Minitheuses will generally appear in mixed groups. This, of course, makes them much harder to defeat! Be sure to keep an eye out for the figs that usually precede these areas, and don't try and weasel into these groups without a Mutant Yooyu. Remember, if you're not able to get some of them don't worry about it (even if you're going for a trophy). The most important part is keeping your lives, which means sometimes not going for risky dives for a few extra points.
Too bad there wasn't a fig nearby; I could have gotten them...
Also, be on the lookout for trick Wing Fruit/Figs. Generally, these items are in places where they are of use, but sometimes they exist just to trick you. An example of this would be a Wing Fruit placed before a giant lump of Minitheuses. In this instance the Wing Fruit will only do you harm because you lose the opportunity to gain any points for defeating the Minitheuses.
As a last tip, typing kingaltador anytime during the game gives you one extra life. A good time to type this is the end of Level 1 before passing the goalpost.
Weepit Was Here
Like several Flash games on this site, this game was worked on by Weepit. If you click the leftmost bottom window on the background of the main menu, you'll find a secret "level" which isn't part of the main game. It's actually a sneaky message from Weepit!
For a full list of Weepit's note appearances (as well as the original Easter Egg hider, Ollie), check out our article!