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| Item | Location | Notes | |------|----------|------| | All 20 Golden Bananas | Scattered across every level; many require double‑vine chaining. | | All 4 Mirror Shards | Level 4 (Swamp), Level 2 (Ruins), Level 3 (Canopy), Level 5 (Temple). | | Secret Health Pack | Level 1 – behind waterfall. | | Hidden Statue (collectible) | Level 2 – behind the pressure‑plate room, requires a perfect landing onto a hidden platform. | | “Heart of the Jungle” Trophy | Defeat the final boss without taking any damage (requires mastering perfect landings & dodges). | | Speedrun Record (< 12 min) | Complete the game using the Vine‑Glide technique and no deaths. |
No discussion of Tarzan-X is complete without addressing its male lead, Rocco Siffredi. Today, Siffredi is a legend, the subject of the Netflix documentary Rocco, and a symbol of European adult cinema’s raw edge. But in 1995, he was at a turning point.
Siffredi approached Tarzan-X not as a joke, but as an actor. In interviews years later (translated from Italian), he noted that he studied chimpanzee movements and tried to maintain a "feral, wounded dignity" throughout the shoot. He refused to cut his hair for six months prior. While his costar was performing to the camera, Siffredi was attempting to embody a literary character. Tarzan-X - Shame Of Jane -
This seriousness creates a tonally bizarre film. You have Rocco, grunting authentically and climbing ropes with actual intensity, juxtaposed against a Jane who occasionally looks off-camera to check her marks. The mismatch is the heart of the film’s charm. It is impossible to tell if Tarzan-X is a masterpiece of deadpan irony or a genuine artistic failure. Perhaps it is both.
This is where you confront the “Shame” itself. | Item | Location | Notes | |------|----------|------|
| Section | Objective | Tips |
|---------|-----------|------|
| Entrance Hall | Disable Shame‑Barriers | Use Charged Roars on the glowing sigils (they flash red before deactivating). |
| Hall of Mirrors | Navigate a maze of moving mirrors | Follow the reflected Jane silhouette; the correct path always mirrors her movements. |
| Statue Puzzle | Align three rotating statues to open the inner chamber | Each statue rotates 90° per hit. Count the rotations (they start at 0°). You need the north‑south orientation for all three. |
| Final Battle – “Shame of Jane” | Defeat the Shadow‑Clone and free Jane | 1. Phase 1: The Shadow dashes; dodge with Vine‑Swing and Roar when it stops.
2. Phase 2: It creates Shame‑Clones (smaller shadows). Use a Charged Roar to clear them—each destroyed clone reduces the Shadow’s health by 10 %.
3. Phase 3: When health ≤ 30 %, the Shadow becomes vulnerable after a Roar. Deliver a perfect landing on the platform directly beneath it; this triggers a Shame‑Burst that instantly ends the fight. |
| Item | Details | |------|----------| | Genre | 2‑D side‑scrolling platformer / action‑adventure | | Developer / Publisher | Tarzan‑X Studios (indie) | | Platforms | PC (Steam, GOG), Nintendo Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Series X | | Core Goal | Rescue Jane from a mysterious “Shame” force that has turned her into a shadow clone. You must traverse the jungle, solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and finally confront the “Shame” entity in the Temple of Mirrors. | | Play‑style | Fast‑paced platforming mixed with light puzzle elements and a simple combat system. The game rewards momentum, timing, and strategic use of Tarzan’s “Vine‑Swing” and “Roar” abilities. | No discussion of Tarzan-X is complete without addressing
Surprisingly, Tarzan-X: Shame of Jane attempts to offer something more than the usual "boy meets girl, boy loses clothes" narrative. Directed by the enigmatic Joe D’Amato (a pseudonym for Aristide Massaccesi, a legend in Italian exploitation horror and erotica), the film positions itself as a quasi-literary adaptation.
The "X" in the title was a marketing nod to the then-burgeoning "XXX" rating, but also implied an experimental, extreme version of the story. The narrative follows a familiar arc: A shipwrecked English aristocrat, Jane (played with a bizarre mix of prudish horror and burgeoning curiosity by adult actress Julie Smith), finds herself stranded in the Congolese jungle. She is rescued—and subsequently held captive by circumstance—by Tarzan (Rocco Siffredi, the legendary "Italian Stallion" of adult films).
Here is where the "Shame" enters the equation. Unlike the traditional Johnny Weissmuller version where Jane blushes at Tarzan’s loincloth, this film weaponizes shame. Jane is portrayed as a Victorian-era woman crippled by societal repression. The jungle becomes a crucible. Tarzan, speaking in broken, guttural English (Siffredi plays him as an almost feral Byron hero), cannot understand why she covers her body or recoils from touch.
The "shame" is not hers alone. The film eventually reveals that Tarzan feels a primal shame—a sense of being "less than human" because of his ape upbringing, only to have that shame transmuted into rage and passion. The psychological hook, however thin, is that their coupling is an act of mutual destruction of societal vs. natural guilt.