I tried spamming [A] inputs all over around/on the Bobson sprite and couldn't trigger dialogue. Dying in the spikes didn't fix it.
If you ever want somebody to break a game in new and creative ways, I'm your guy 🤣
I'm gonna go live on Twitch in a bit, I'm a super quiet channel, so feel free to drop in if you're around. We can try some stuff and see if we can figure out how I managed to break it so well - I have the same username over there, I don't want to come off as trying to shamelessly plug my stream lol. I can also send you my Everdrive saves, I'm not sure how universal they are, though.
I went back several savestates. The earliest one I have in the castle has one key, and I was about to get the key off the right-hand side, and even at that point the dialogue was broken. One save back from that was at the "weird room". If I restore from there I'm able to clear the castle and get the dialogue no problem... so I honestly have no idea what I did to break it. I tried a few things and couldn't replicate the issue... I really want to figure this out now 🤣
Either way, I was able to beat the game. The first time I got the bad ending, but decided to load state to get the good ending first b/c I had NO idea where the game was going the other way. The bad ending is hilarious. Was there any point to the Lizards?