Pizza Tower/Unused Graphics/Unused Gustavo & Brick Graphics
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Unused Gustavo and Brick Animations
Enemy eating
Gus and Brick’s idle with an enemy in Brick’s mouth.
Brick walking with an enemy in his mouth.
Starting a jump with Brick’s mouth full.
Gus and Brick’s fall animation with a full mouth.
Brick swallowing an enemy.
Spitting out an enemy.
Back in the infamous Rework Build, Brick had the ability to eat up enemies and either swallow them or spit them out, a la Yoshi’s Island. However, this ability was scrapped by the time of the Eggplant Build, and the spit animation would be reused as the parry animation for the duo.
spr_player_ratmounttumble
Gustao and Brick sliding down a slope. Gustavo and Brick could slide down slopes in the Rework Build, but this sprite goes unused. "Tumble" is also used in the filenames for characters entering the ball transformation by crouching on slopes, a mechanic removed before the Rework Build, so this sprite may have been used when that feature was still in the game.
Wall climbing
Gustavo and Brick once had the ability to climb up walls. The sprite used is just the regular walk animation, but rotated 90 degrees. Quite the lazy decision by McPig, but clever nonetheless.
Brick Alone
Downward Launch
Brick being launched downward.
Brick hitting the ground.
In the Eggplant Build, Gustavo has the ability to jump off of Brick Super Mario World-style, which would cause Brick to be launched downward and break metal blocks. The move was replaced with the double jump seen in the final game. The sprite of Brick being launched would eventually be rotated and used for the Brick projectile Gustavo shoots in War.
Gustavo Alone
Wall bump
The only unused sprite for Gustavo alone is getting squished after hitting a wall. It’s unknown as to why this is unused.
Gustavo (NPC)
Before the days of modern Pizza Tower, Gustavo was originally an NPC introduced in the Beach and Forest build who would give pizzas to Peppino in Gnome Forest in return for Toppins, rather than playing as Gustavo and Brick while collecting gnome pizzas. If the delivery failed, the player would be driven back to Gustavo’s and he would beat the spaghetti out of Peppino.
Main animations
Gustavo’s idle animation.
Gustavo making a pizza to deliver.
Gustavo giving Peppino the pizza to deliver.
Gustavo giving a thumbs up!
Gustavo pointing at Peppino once he gave him the pizza.
Gustavo screaming after a failed delivery.
Gustavo on his knees in disbelief.
Gustavo powering up.
Gustavo powered up. Might be a nod to Dragon Ball Z’s Super Sayian forms.
Gustavo preparing to pummel Peppino.
Gustavo reaching for Peppino. Might be a Sonic.EXE reference.
Gustavo beating up Peppino. During this sequence, Peppino will lose points, 10 to be exact.
Misc.
Golf Background
Gustavo was planned to be in Golf, but only as a background decoration. The sprite depicts him sitting down on a chair. Notably uses his original design, having a larger body and white shirt instead of an apron.
spr_gustavo_name
A sprite of Gustavo's name. Intended to be used as a name for the NPC dialogue boxes introduced in the Rework Build, and was used for a test Gustavo NPC in rm_testing in the Rework and Eggplant Builds, though that's the only instance of it ever being used. Notably, this is the only name graphic that exists, implying that the Rework Build Hub and the NPC system created for it were scrapped before more were created.
Strongcold Miniboss
Gustavo popping out of the present
Idle
Gustavo going back into the present
Hurt sprite used when accidentally hitting Gustavo
In the unused level Strongcold from Peppino’s Xmas Break, there was a boss fight with the Noise in which several characters pop out of presents. One of these characters was Gustavo, still using his old design as evidenced by his hurt sprite. The hurt sprite was used as a placeholder for the object that switches Peppino to Gustavo & Brick in the Rework build, before the finalized sign graphic was introduced in the Eggplant build.
