Keen Dreams levels and their descriptions

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szemi
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Keen Dreams levels and their descriptions

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Hey! Yesterday, I just read the manual of the game and I ran into interesting things in connection with the levels. Here ya go:

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This is really interesting! At least "Kumquat Chasm" and "Lettuce Lake" were known about before and, to my understanding, thought of as level names that were cut. But as presented here it looks more likely that these are just area names within Tuberia, similar to Keen 4's "Three-Tooth Lake" being an area within the Shadowlands.

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We clearly need to read more manuals. :dopekeen

The zone names are also what caught my eye. It seems very unique. None of the other episodes have names for places outside of the levels that I can think of, aside from Three-Tooth Lake yeah, and I guess Korath III but that's quite a different scale... This map seems to have the most detailed background info despite being so visually simple.
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