Much like how a pizza is only as good as the combination of its ingredients, Pizza Tower's levels will require a similar form of mastery - and you, my dear chef, are in dire need of Combo Structure.

Pizza Tower's movement is vast and expansive. Levels may be simple and straightforward with very few genuine hazards, but it doesn't mean that your legs can't use a bit of a refresher. Let's go over some basic movement:

• Walking:
  
• Running: The most frequent tool you'll be using. Running is divided up into four stages, or "Mach"s.
  
• Mach 1 is the slowest and the one you'll be spending the least amount of time in. The same speed as walking, gives no benefits.
  
• Mach 2 is slightly faster than walking. Releasing Run without other inputs results in a skid. Mach 2 lets you break through light structures, such as wood.
  
• Mach 3 is the mode you'll be using 70% of the time. It lets you break through heavy structures, like metal, and scare (stun) enemies if running towards them.
  
• Mach 4 can only be attained through holding the direction that you're running in, and gives no additional benefits besides moving faster.
  
• Jumping: Unlike games such as Mario or Celeste, releasing the jump button before the apex heavily cuts off your vertical velocity, letting you move in far more precise ways.
  
• Crawling: Don't use this unless you're transitioning into a slide by pressing Grab and Down in sequential order. It instantly boosts your speed to Mach 3 once you exit, although it requires about a half second startup.
  
• Grab: Dedicated button that lets you attack, dash forward a fixed* distance, and do much more.

Grab Actions

• Jump while grabbing to Long Jump
  
• Grab while Jumping to Air Grab
  
• Both of these send you forward
  
• Grab a wall to begin wall running. Hold Run to continue the wall run. You can automatically start wall runs on sloped surfaces
  
• Grab an enemy and throw them again by holding a direction and pressing Grab again
  
• Grab and then press the opposite direction to quickly turn. Does not keep your momentum

• Body Slam: Can only be used while not running and in the air. Lets you break through light structures at any height, and heavy structures once you fall far enough.
  
• Dive: Can only be used while running and in the air. Press down to immediately dive downwards at a fixed 45 degree angle to the ground.
  
• Dive Slam: Can only be used while diving. Press Jump while diving. This halts your momentum completely and functions similarly to a Body Slam, but completely stops your momentum allowing for quick downward traversal.
  
• Power Jump: While in a Mach 3+ Run, hold up or your Power Jump button to perform an infinitely high jump that goes straight up. You can cancel out of this by pressing Grab during the Power Jump.
  
• Uppercut: Hold up and press Grab to perform an Uppercut, which is either a higher jump or a double jump depending on if you're in the ground or in the air. Can damage enemies.

These moves can be chained together almost freely in any capacity with the correct knowledge - mastery of your movement is essential for any game, but especially Pizza Tower.

This isn't going to be a particularly long section mostly because it's so simple.

The fastest way to kill enemies (and the most effective way) is to run at them head-on using Mach 3. This is objectively optimal and what you should be doing 100% of the time, but if you can't for whatever reason, then the following is also acceptable:

• Parry: Right before collision with an enemy attack, Taunt to parry their attack and instantly (?) kill them.
  
• Grab: Press the Grab button to Grab an enemy. Press it again to throw it in a direction of your choice.
  
• Body Slam: Press the Body Slam button to Body Slam. Body Slamming from high enough lets you break through heavy blocks.
  
• Uppercut: Press Up and Grab to Uppercut, which functions as either a higher jump or a double jump depending on if you're on the ground or in the air.
  
• Super Taunt: After achieving a 10 hit combo, hold up and press Taunt to perform a Super Taunt, an attack that kills everyone on screen. This can only be done once before needing to recharge with another 10 hit combo, and it does not stack - for example, performing a Super Taunt with a 15 hit combo will require another 10 kills for your Super Taunt to regenerate. You'll know when you can super taunt by looking for lightning surrounding your character.

Each map will have some kind of unique gimmick to it that other levels don't have. For a beginner level like John Gutter, you likely won't be seeing any, but every other level after that will have some kind of mechanic you'll need to master to get those times down and those scores up. Here's a list I just made up featuring all the new mechanics you'll have to learn:

• John Gutter has nothing.
  
• Pizzascape has the Knight and Ball transformation.
  
• Ancient Cheese has the Bomb and Cheese Block.
  
• Bloodsauce Dungeon has the Firebutt transformation and the Pizza Cutter.
  
• Oregano Desert has the Firemouth transformation, the TNT block, the Rock blocks, the Cow, the Totem Cloud, and the Dash Pad.
  
• Wasteyard has the Ghost transformation and corpses.
  
• Fun Farm has Mort, and flying ladders
  
• Fast Food Saloon has the Weenie Mount transformation, the Timed Gate, the Horsey, the ventilator, and the present.
  
• Crust Cove has the Barrel transformation, dangerous water, water currents, and Cannon Goblinbot.
  
• Gnome Forest has the big mushroom, Gustavo, and Gnome Pizza.
  
• Deep-Dish 9 has the Rocket transformation, the switch block, the teleporter pizza, and the Anti-gravitational Olive.
  
• GOLF has the Golf Block, Sir Nose, and Goblinbot.
  
• The Pig City has the Grind Rail, ramps, taxis, and the Rat Balloon.
  
• Peppibot Factory has the Boxed transformation, the conveyor belt, and the factory spawner.
  
• Oh S---! has the Cheeseball transformation, the Sticky Cheese transformation, and sewer pipes.
  
• Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator has the heater, the jetpack, and Pepper Pizza.
  
• Pizzascare has the Exorcist.
  
• Don't Make A Sound has the Shotgun and animatronics.
  
• WAR has the Shotgun, landmines, and War Terminals.

Remember what each of these can do to your movement and gameplay, and be prepared for when they come up!

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• Pizza Boy doesn't do anything.
  
• Cheeseslime doesn't do anything.
  
• Forknight keeps its fork in front of itself until scared, so ram into it at Mach 3 or parry.
  
• Swedish Monkey throws bananas, so avoid the bananas.
  
• Mini John scampers around, so dodge the punches or parry.
  
• Pepperoni Goblin kicks you into ball form, so dodge the kicks.
  
• Pizza Box Goblin throws bombs, so use the bombs against them.
  
• Pencer charges towards you when spotted, so dodge or parry.
  
• Flying Anchovy will dart towards you when spotted, so dodge or parry.
  
• Tribe Cheese will fire an arced projectile towards you, so dodge, parry, or disrupt before it comes out.
  
• Totem Clouds are rendered null if you turn off their totems.
  
• Kentucky Kenny throws chicken at you.
  
• U.F.Olive doesn't attack you directly.
  
• Clerk doesn't do anything.
  
• Bandito Chicken will run away from you jumping all the while, so chase it down.
  
• Mushroom Ghost turns you into a ghost.
  
• Gabaghoul swoops down at you, so parry if possible.
  
• Potato Farmer charges towards you when spotted, so dodge or parry.
  
• Eggplantmobile will throw projectiles and charge towards you when spotted, so dodge or parry.
  
• Peasanto burns you.
  
• Electric Potato can't be defeated unless Mort is here to help.
  
• Ranch Shooter shoots bullets, so dodge or parry.
  
• Bad Rat lunges at you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Pineacool will only hurt you if you touch its top, and parries with you (for a slightly longer duration), so dodge.
  
• Spit Cheese will spit cheese.
  
• Cannon Pizza Goblin fires cannonballs instead of bombs, so dodge or parry.
  
• Captain Pizza Goblin pesters you from outside the screen, so dodge or parry. You cannot defeat him unless you exit the section that he's in.
  
• Treasure Chest Guy can't hurt you.
  
• Noise Goblin shoots arrows at you.
  
• Pickle will teleport to you and wiggle its arms, so dodge or parry.
  
• Pizzard will shoot lightning bolts towards you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Olive Trooper will shoot at you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Golf Demon can't be grabbed and charges at you, so parry.
  
• Noisey is similar to a Forknight.
  
• Pizza Slug coughs cigarette smoke at you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Hamkuff steals your rat, so run at it with Mach 2.
  
• Shrimp Thug will punch you if you get too close, so dodge or parry.
  
• Peppibot will either pimp slap you, shoulder bash you, or run towards you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Grabbie Hand lifts you up.
  
• Weenie doesn't hurt you, kinda.
  
• Ninja Slice can machine gun kick you or uppercut you, so dodge or parry.
  
• Snowman is similar to a Forknight, but cannot get scared. Parry.
  
• Pizzice shoots icicles in the four diagonals. Parry.
  
• Fake Santa cannot die unless Super Taunted.
  
• Ghostknights are Forknights but cannot die unless killed via the Exorcist.
  
• Pepperoni Goblin Bat will fly down from the ceiling to kick the player into Ball form, so dodge or parry.
  
• Clownmato doesn't hurt, but bounces you around.
  
• Toppin Monsters will all chase you differently and jumpscare you when you get caught, so run or shoot.
  
• Patroller will alert Toppin Monsters after 5 seconds of spotting you unless you parry (instant activation) or kill them (stops alarm)
  
• Piraneapple flies towards the player and can only be defeated by parrying or using the shotgun.
  
• Pizza Soldier fires a machine gun at the player, so blast it.
  
• Cardboard Tank will stand still and shoot missiles at the player, so blast it or parry.
  
• Kentucky Bomber will bomb the player with projectiles from above, so dodge or parry.
  
• Peppino Clone will lick you, so dodge or parry.

Not much to say here.