Crystal Cove Online Villain Designs

I've talked before on here about my love of Crystal Cove Online, an Internet game designed by Cartoon Network as a companion to Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. For those unfamiliar with the game and haven't read my past posts on this, essentially the game adapted each Mystery Incorporated episode into a video game level. This included creating "minions" for each of the villains for the player to have to defeat, which weren't in the episodes. This was always one of my favorite parts of playing the level each week, because sometimes the side-enemies would be really creative and interesting.

Recently, I was quite excited when a friend and frequent visitor of the blog, Grumpydrawer, sent me the final sprite images of each of the different minions and villains found via the game's files in Flashpoint. In the game, the minions show up briefly and move quickly to attack you, so it's a bit tough to make out certain features of their designs. These images of each of the minions allow you to see their designs in great detail. To my knowledge, these designs have never been shared online before, and this is the first time they're being posted in high-quality. I wanted to share these images with you all, as I think they are really cool, and was amazed by the level of detail put into them. I particularly think the shrunken head looks really frightening and gruesome for something in Scooby-Doo.

The minions are listed in order of the episodes. Note that "A Haunting in Crystal Cove" is the only level to have two different types of minions, which are living bear rugs and haunted chairs. "Escape from Mystery Manor" re-uses the rats from "Beware the Beast from Below" as minions. There are also a few minions that don't appear in levels, but are still in the game, which include caterpillars, flies, and wasps. For some reason, the image of the fly that was found only shows it from the back. I also added Thorn's design, since the design for her was found as well.

The images for each of the villains were also uncovered. While all of them were also the villains of their respective episodes, I'm including them here as well because some of them have interesting differences in coloring or design. Examples of this would include "Nightfright," where he is colored red instead of purple, and "All Fear the Freak," where  The Freak's skin color is more ghoulish rather than just white. I actually like the game's design for The Freak a little better than the actual episode!

In addition, because the Fish Freaks were made into minions for its respective level, the boss fight was against one larger Fish Freak, who appears to have some differences in facial features to make him look more monstrous. There are some other very minor differences as well, such as the Headless Horror looking a bit skinnier than in the episode.

Other notable differences in the game adaption include that female gator monster was not a boss villain in the game, although she did show up during the unmasking and it's just said Fred, Velma and Daphne caught her off-screen. In addition, the boss fight in the "Secret of the Ghost Rig" level was against a ghost-truck driver, since the challenge of fighting a truck would likely be immense considering Shaggy's only weapon is an umbrella lol.

Here are the villain images from the game:

I hope you enjoyed this little blast from the past! I had a lot of fun looking through these images, and think it's so cool that these designs were discovered so they could be posted here as an archive. I don't have the page on the side menu, since the game is technically discontinued, but I did make a page on Crystal Cove Online detailing pretty much every piece of info you could ever want to know about the game. With these designs now available, I gave the page a redesign over the past few days, and I think it looks really cool with the villain and side-villain designs added. You can check the page out here.