Combo

The Combo Meter is an essential feature in the gameplay of Pizza Tower.

Behaviour[]

The player must defeat enemies to increase the combo. The combo meter lasts for 6 seconds. When it ends, Pizza Points are given based on the size of the combo. The combo has many behaviors depending on what the player does:

Increase:

Pizza Points, Clocks, and small Pizza Blocks extend the combo time by 1 second, while some other items fill the timer completely.
Priests will refill the combo timer when used for the first time. Any other usage leads to no extension.
Collecting Toppins, Gerome, and the Tower Secret Treasure refills the combo timer.
Enemies spawned by Enemy Spawners won't add to the combo, but the timer will refill it.
Activating Heaters in Refrigerator-Refrigerador-Freezerator fully refills the combo meter.

Decrease:

Taking damage reduces the combo timer by 2.5 seconds.

End:

Getting caught by a Toppin Monster immediately ends the combo, meaning they must be completely avoided to P-Rank Don't Make A Sound.

Stop:

During cutscenes and posing animations (unlocking a door, switching areas with rockets, getting the treasure, etc.), the combo timer does not decrease.
Grabbing Greaseball refills it and keeps the timer at maximum until hitting it.
The timer also momentarily pauses when being grabbed by a Big Cheese. It resumes once Peppino is thrown.
As The Noise, swinging around a Hamkuff freezes the combo until it's thrown.

Score Value[]

Score earned from a combo is determined by the formula (x^2 * 0.25) + 10x. A calculator can be found here.

P-rank[]

In order to earn a P-Rank, the player needs to keep a combo going for the entirety of the level — starting it in the first room and keeping the same combo for the rest of the level. It is also required to get the score requirement of an S-Rank, find all 3 secrets, find the Tower Secret Treasure of the level, and finish Lap 2.

Super Taunts[]

A Super Taunt will be available when reaching a combo of 10. Electric sparks will appear around Peppino/The Noise/Gustavo when a Super Taunt is ready. A Super Taunt will clear every enemy on the screen, but the player must increase the combo by 10 to use it again. For example, if used at a combo of 17, the player needs to get to 27.

Combo levels[]


Combo level	Name
1	Lame...
5	Cheesy
10	Not bad but not great either
15	Getting somewhere!
20	Nice, :) Good job
25	Cheflike
30	Brutal!
35	Evil
40	Unclean
45	Disturbing
50	Twisted
55	Psychotic
60	Ill-willed
65	Crushing
70	Funny!
75	Unfunny

Combos 80 and over will loop the names of the combo, adding "Very" in front of them (for example, "Very Not bad but not great either"), and getting a combo of 160 or higher repeats the combo naming scheme of a combo of 80 to 159, looping back to "Very Lame...".

In other languages

Combo names	Languages	Names	Meanings
Lame...	French
	Russian	Ужасно...	Terrible...
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Cheesy	French
	Russian	Так себе	So-so
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Not bad but not great either	French
	Russian	Ни хорошо ни плохо	Not bad, not good
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Getting somewhere!	French
	Russian	Уже лучше!	Now that's better!
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Nice, :) Good job	French
	Russian	:) Совсем неплохо	:) Not bad at all
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Cheflike	French
	Russian	Достойно шефа	Worthy of chef
	Spanish
	Latin spanish
Brutal!	French
	Russian	Мощно!	Powerful!
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Evil	French
	Russian	Жёстко	Harshly
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Unclean	French
	Russian	Невероятно	Unbelievable
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Disturbing	French
	Russian	Шокирующе	Shocking
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Twisted	French
	Russian	С ума сойти	insane
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Psychotic	French
	Russian	Крышесносно	Terrific
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Ill-willed	French
	Russian	Дьявольски	Devilish
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Crushing	French
	Russian	Потрясающе	Fabulous
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Funny!	French
	Russian	Смешно!	Funny!
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish
Unfunny	French
	Russian	Несмешно	Not funny
	Spanish
	Latin Spanish

Trivia[]

Before the Eggplant Build, the combo meter only depended on enemies and was not the main priority. The player would get points from killing enemies, rather than at the end of the combo. The timer also lasted 2 seconds. The points the player would be given start at 10, then double after each enemy defeated up to 80, then staying at 80 after each enemy. The combo meter was displayed directly on the TV rather than below it.
- The combo meter only had 4 levels:
  - "OK..."
  - "Alright"
  - "Good!!!"
  - "Very good!"
- In Earlytestbuild and Preearlytestbuild, the combo system is absent.
- In Demo 1's Tester Builds 1 to 4, the combo timer took the appearance of a small pizza which loses slices as the time decreases. Combo levels and the combo counter were absent.
  - In Tester Build 1, 2 and 3, the timer lasted 1 second.
  - In Tester Build 3.5, the timer lasted 4 seconds.
- In the Rework build, the timer lasted 4 seconds instead, but the amount of points seems to increase by 10 for every 5th enemy defeated.
In PT_Eggplantv15, the highest combo title was "Brutal!", and after that, it keeps reusing the same title. However, in the files of the game, there were already all of the animations for all of the levels.
In the October 2022 build, combos after "Unfunny" reuse "Unfunny".
Ending a combo at "Funny!" level gives the player "Funny Polka" clothes, and ending a combo at "Unfunny" level gives the player "Unfunny Cook" clothes.
In some playtest versions of the Eggplant build, the combo meter fill icon was always purple (though its face was the same), and the combo meter was displayed to the left of the TV.
"Cheflike" is a reference to Unreal Tournament's "Godlike", where a player has to attain 25 frags without dying, while in Pizza Tower, the player has to achieve a combo of 25.
Before, the Combo Ghost used to be orange, but after The Noise Update, it would show up as purple at the start of a run, and continue to be until the combo is lost, in which it will revert into it's orange color in the next combo.
When playing Pizza Tower on a Nintendo Switch 2, due to an error, the Combo Ghost will always appear purple, even after losing a combo.

Gallery[]

Combo meter[]

Combo levels[]

HUD[]

Old combo system[]

April 2021 Build and Rework[]

Demo 1 - Beachandforest[]

Demo 1 Tester Build[]

Miscellaneous[]

Audio[]


Audio	Description	Transcript
	Getting any combo level.	(whistle)
	Getting any combo level.	(whistle and ringing)
	Getting any combo level.	(squeak)
	When losing the combo. Also used when giving money to Mr. Stick.	(cash register sounds)