Games where the main sprite changes

[Manu128k]

In "Las tres Luces de Glaurung" AKA Conquestador some chests can turn you into a kind of pig . Besides, chest mages in Ghouls'n Ghosts can turn you into a duck

In Night Hunter, you can transform to be vampire bat, a human vampire or a werewolf
In Mad Mix you can turn into a ship, a tank, an hippo...
I can recall a couple of recent games like Metamorphosis and TCQ but I'm sure there are lots of examples, old and new.

[PeteProdge]

Plenty of changes in New Zealand Story!

[blucey]

Rebelstar when you equip different weapons.

[Morkin]

Rebelstar when you equip different weapons.

Ah yeah, also Chaos when you case magic armour/magic knife/magic sword.

[Lee Bee]

The Simpsons: Bart Vs The Space Mutants

When you pick up the spray can:


And what about Golden Axe when you ride the creatures?

[Oloturia]

Horace Goes Skiing has a different sprite when walking, when walking with skis and when skiing.

[Oloturia]

Also Glider Rider, with or without glider.
Rampage... arguable, there's a metamorphosis when the game is over, but it's more like the Knight Lore transformation.
El Poder Oscuro feat. a man inside a flyer inside a robot. I don't know if it applies because the old sprite remains on the screen.
Capitan Trueno, you can change between Capitan Trueno, Crispin and Goliath.
Terramex, some objects are wearable (the flute, the umbrella, the vacuum cleaner).
Mad Mix Game, the pac like guy becomes a tank or a space ship.
Psycho Pig UXB, the pig can wear a godzilla suit.
Xenon, the ship has two shapes.
Draconus can morph into a newt.

And then many games with "spaceships with components", like Moon Cresta.

[Bubu]

And... Horace Goes Skiing!!! This game has it all



For me one of the best 100 games in the full catalogue.

[Juan F. Ramirez]

Technically, Sam Fox Strip Poker does count...

[Bolton80]

In How To Be A Complete Bas**rd, if you open the umbrella indoors you turn into an oven for the rest of the game. That counts as quite a 'change', doesn't it?

[Oloturia]

In How To Be A Complete Bas**rd, if you open the umbrella indoors you turn into an oven for the rest of the game. That counts as quite a 'change', doesn't it?

A little OT but I have to know. Is this a joke of some kind that non native speakers just don't understand? Or maybe it's a reference to some radio show/TV show/comic/magazine/narrative of any kind that never went outside the UK where people turn... into ovens?

I know that in many cultures, opening an umbrella inside means bad luck, not turning into ovens.

[Bolton80]

Hi @Oloturia , no idea why he turns into an oven. Doesn't related to any UK culture/media that I'm aware of, not even The Young Ones, where something like that wouldn't be out of place. Guessing it was just a convenient sprite for the programmers to swap in.

[Alessandro]

In Sir Fred and Sophia II, the main sprite changes when the character is swimming.

In Herbert's Dummy Run, Herbert uses a rudimentary parachute if he walks through the elevator door at the wrong floor.