Jango Eats Pie

Jango is a very sweet fuzzy monster, and terribly particular. He eats pie — but only the one kind he is craving right now.

Watch the bubble above his head. It might say cherry. It might say pizza. Whatever it says is the only thing he will swallow, and it changes the moment he gets it. Deliver quickly and it pays double; dawdle and it pays face value.

Offer him the wrong pie and he spits it out — no harm to his health, but there goes your combo and a little of his patience. Offer him something that is not pie at all and it costs a heart. Three of those and Jango blows up, which is the end of your run.

The wrong answers are the whole difficulty, because they are drawn just as lovingly as the right ones. A cheese wedge is cut to exactly the same triangle as a slice of pie. A steak and a baked fish arrive on the very same dish. Donuts and cookies are round in all the right ways. The tell is the crimped crust, and nothing that isn't pie ever has one.

He is also always getting hungrier. The bar drains whether you act or not — faster while you stand there holding something and thinking — and letting it empty costs a heart, exactly like a mistake does. Nothing sits in your hand indefinitely either: hold something too long and it wriggles free.

Help arrives, rarely. A golden pie takes back a single mistake. A rainbow pie takes back all of them. And a baker's dozen suspends his fussiness entirely, turning everything arriving into pie for eight glorious seconds, during which the only way to lose is to be too slow.

Feed him without a slip and the combo multiplier climbs — that, rather than the raw count, is where a real score comes from. Each level sets a quota before he is full, and the next one starts faster, busier and fussier than the last.

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