Now on ‘No One Cares’: me ranting about a poptropica island
Survival is one of if not the best island in poptropica, all 5 episodes of it. If I had to pick one certain part, it would probably be Cabin Fever.
Usually islands that are done in parts have 3 parts but not Survival.
It’s just not like other islands (joke)
The whole story of Survival is that you, in your big yellow blimp, get caught in a storm and crash land on a freezing cold island in the middle of winter. Since it’s so cold, you have to keep moving or you will freeze to death. Your goal is to build a fire. That’s the spoiler free version if you wanna go play it for yourself but not on the actual game because the new people in charge are just really really bad at their job and will probably simplify the game and make it not interesting anymore so download a thing that I don’t think will give you any viruses, I mean I haven’t had any problems really so I’m sure it’s fine or maybe it isn’t but the only thing people will “find out” by stealing my data is that I’m cringe, a weirdo and an idiot but none of that is really a secret so 🤷♀️ uh anyway it’s called chromium and on it you can download the version of poptropica before Flash stopped updating and play that it should have survival.
So if you’re continuing that means you either don’t care and just want the story, have already played or you just want to be spoiled which honestly… why?
My favorite part is when the squirrel is just so done with all the noise and just jumps off the tree, hope he’s alive but it’s hilarious… he’s probably fine right? So you build your little fire your baby fire and you go to sleep, and the drawing of the fire is like weirdly aesthetic imo, and here you find out that someone is watching you. Hmmm suspicious.
In part two you wake up and you’re starving, you need some good ol food and you find a tiny widdle lake or whatever that is and it has some om nom fish so you have to break the ice (literally) and then make a bad joke about it so you can build a fishing rod, you literally build a fishing using shoe laces, a hook, and a rod that was just… there (it’s not just stupid convince, this gets explained) so you get your om nom fish and there goes the end of this part.
Next part you find a crashed plane and a… cell tower? It looks like it hasn’t been touched in centuries. So your goal is to find a way to contact help and here you get a clipboard with information about the crash landed plane but also a message “don’t trust M.V.B” the numbers Mason. What do they mean? Maybe the note wasn’t written for you? Let’s just go ahead and contact help, hey a chopper came by, we’re saved! “My name is Myron Van Buren” oh shit nevermind, I think I forgot to walk my fish. So you get on anyway cause you’re desperate and also an idiot. End of this part
Cabin Fever, my favorite. Myron takes you to the cabin he lives in and tells you he’s a hunter. He takes you to his trophy room where he shows you all the stuff he’s hunted, their corpses are stuffed and put on stands or mounted on the wall, and then he shows you his greatest achievement, wait a minute… that’s… A PERSON- oh no wait he’s alive he was just standing there to scare you thinking Myron hunted a person and stuffed them haha funny… it’s not so funny soon. That’s his butler, his greatest achievement is “finding good help” and he also has a giant golden statue if his head that says “tally ho” in his voice so he’s totally not self centered. Then Myron treats you to dinner and you’ve been surviving on fish and idk where ur getting water from (lake water isn’t safe for drinking) for the past few days so obviously you agree and… now I’m hungry. So you agree and head over to eat and drink, once you’re done you feel kinda dizzy and tired and you’ve been drugged so like that’s cool that’s fun, not weird at all, you don’t drug your guests right after saving them from the brutal outdoors? Wow you’re so weird. So you wake up in your bedroom with the butler locking the door and just leaving you thinking you’re completely passed out. But you are not so now you have to find a way out. The gameplay of this part is just marvelous. There’s a bunch of cool stuff and night vision goggles and all that, and it’s just so cool all the different stuff you do in this part. So you make it out and now you’re finally free but wait, the lights outside turn on all of a sudden, and Myron and his butler walk out of the building. They say it’s time to hunt, you ask what they’re hunting, why dear friend, they’re hunting YOU! A human is a much harder hunt than any animal, humans are unpredictable. You run for your life from this psychopath but he follows not far behind and here we move to our next bit.
Now on this final part you continue where you left off, running from Myron. You are to dodge trees and bushes for more efficient running so you can manage to get away from Myron who is behind you, eventually you’ll fall down a hole that’s hidden in grass and Myron will have no idea where you are. So you catch up with where you are now and this dude tells you he was one of the passengers on the crashed flight and he was also “rescued” by Myron but he managed to escape him and he hid out underground. He left clues and help all over the island so if anyone ever crashed here again, he could save them and that he’s been watching us but he couldn’t get involved or else Myron would find and kill him. He says he has a plan to defeat Myron but he can’t do it because he has a wooden leg that doesn’t have much mobility does it? His whole leg is gone and replaced by a stick. So he tells you what to get to carry out the plan and now you have to get all that stuff and capture Myron once and for all, you also free a bear and the bear becomes your friend so that’s cool.
That’s the end of Survival but I find it super fun, I mean Cabin Fever is obviously the best but all the parts are nice too.