Jurassic Marsh

Jurassic Marsh
The ninth world in Plants vs. Zombies 2
Fully released on June 6, 2017

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version), see Jurassic Marsh (Chinese version).

Jurassic Marsh
Game	Plants vs. Zombies 2
Number of levels	32
Difficulty
New plants
New zombies
To unlock	Complete Neon Mixtape Tour

Jurassic Marsh is the 9th world (10th world released chronologically) in Plants vs. Zombies 2 which was released across the 4.2.1 and 4.3.1 updates on November 17, 2015, and December 15, 2015, its sneak-peek Piñata Parties for each part beginning on November 11, 2015, and December 9, 2015, respectively, and the soft release was released to Android on November 12, 2015, and December 10, 2015. It received 10 new rally levels and new zombies in a software update on June 6th, 2017.

This world takes place during the Jurassic Era, long before the events of Frostbite Caves, where dinosaurs were still alive. Although the lawn is located in a marsh, water is not a relevant environment modifier in this world. However, water can be seen near the lawn.

All the plants obtained in this world except for Perfume-shroom are "primal" versions of the Player's House plants (except Cabbage-pult). The premium plant released alongside Part 1 of Jurassic Marsh is Grapeshot, and the one released alongside Part 2 is Cold Snapdragon.

Dinosaurs

Main article: Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are the gimmick and environmental modifier of this world. They do not act like typical zombies and are not classified as such since there is no such interaction between the dinosaurs and plants (except between Perfume-shroom). They, however, do interact with zombies of any type that passes by them. The dinosaurs are the raptor, stegosaurus, pterodactyl, T. Rex, and ankylosaurus.

Audio

Sound	Description
	Choose your seeds
	Wave 1 Start
	Wave 1
	Wave 2A Start
	Wave 2A
	Wave 2B
	Final Wave Start
	Final Wave
	Reward
	Jurassic Marsh Ultimate Battle
	Jurassic Marsh Demonstration Minigame
	Winning a Jurassic Marsh level
	Losing a Jurassic Marsh level
	Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur battle Intro

Game description

The ground thunders under the awful feet of terrible lizards! Dinosaurs prowl the past, provoking prehistoric zombies into a frenzy of ancient antipathy!

Order of events

The player requires the world's key, obtainable after beating Neon Mixtape Tour - Day 32 which then gains the player access to Jurassic Marsh.

When the player beats Day 15, they obtain a small rock Penny suspects as the meteorite that destroyed the dinosaurs. The player then defeats the waves of Jurassic Gargantuars on Day 16.

On Day 32, Dr. Zomboss stated that he is irritated by the player's interference and told them to wait for the "enormous rock" he scheduled to get rid of them. Once the player defeats the Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur, Penny detected an incoming meteor, and Crazy Dave farewell his goodbye to the dinosaurs, stating they'll be birdies in no time. Dr. Zomboss then decides that he doesn't have any other choice but to enact his Project Paradox, and flees.

Levels

Difficulty

Jurassic Marsh is an moderately hard world. It contains thirteen somewhat hard-hard days (5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, and 24), and six very hard days (9, 12, 16, 25, 26, and 29). It is much harder than the previous world, Neon Mixtape Tour, but however, it is not known if it is easier or harder than Big Wave Beach, as the community is pretty mixed.

• Easiest level: Jurassic Marsh - Day 1
• Hardest level: Jurassic Marsh - Day 34

Main levels

Day	Plants	Zombies	Dinos	Flags	Notes	Prize*
1	Choice with		N/A	Two
2	Choice with			Two		Money bag
3				Two	Special Delivery level	Money bag
4	Choice			Three
5	Choice with			Two		Money bag
6	Choice			Two		Jurassic Marsh piñata
7				One	Special Delivery level Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers	Jurassic Marsh piñata
8	Choice with			Two
9				Three	Locked and Loaded level	Money bag
10	Choice			Three		Money bag
11	Choice			Two		Money bag
12	Choice			Two	Objective: Don't lose more than 6 plants	Jurassic Marsh piñata
13	Choice			Two		Money bag
14				Two	Locked and Loaded level	Jurassic Marsh piñata
15	Choice			Two	Save Our Seeds level	Note
16				Three	Gargantuar battle	Jurassic Marsh piñata
17	Choice with			Two
18	Choice			Three		Money bag
19				Two	Special Delivery level Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers	Money bag
20	Choice			Two	Objective: Produce at least 2000 sun	La Brainsa Tarpits
21	Choice			Three		Money bag
22	Choice without sun-producing or free plants			One	Last Stand level	Money Bag
23	Choice with			Three
24	Choice			Three		Jurassic Marsh piñata
25	Choice			Three		Money bag
26	Choice			Two	Objective: Survive without planting on Dave's mold colonies	Money bag
27	Choice without sun-producing or free plants			One	Last Stand level	Money bag
28	Choice			Two		Money bag
29				Three	Locked and Loaded level	Jurassic Marsh piñata
30	Choice			Four		Money bag
31				One	Locked and Loaded level	Money bag
32				Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur's health	Boss battle	Jurassic Marsh Trophy, Big Wave Beach key

Epic Quest: Jurassic Marsh Mash!

Play extra hard Jurassic Marsh levels 33-42 to win vast numbers of gems!

Since the 7.4.1 update, this limited-time Epic Quest of 10 steps was added. It uses Jurassic Marsh days 33 to 42 as the equivalent of its 10 steps. A money bag is awarded after completing each step, and completing all 10 levels will give the player 100 gems.

Since the 9.1.1 update, this quest has 8 levels (35-42) and gives 80 gems.

Step	Plants	Zombies	Dinos	Flags	Notes
1	Choice			Three
2				Three	Locked and Loaded level Objective: Don't lose more than 10 plants.
3				Two	Special Delivery level Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers.
4	Choice			Three	Save Our Seeds level Objective: Don't spend more than 3500 sun.
5	Choice			Two
6				Three	Locked and Loaded level Objective: Survive without planting on Dave's mold colonies.
7				Three	Special Delivery level Objective: Survive a Massive Attack in Jurassic Marsh; Never have more than 15 plants
8	Choice			Four
9	Choice without sun-producing or free plants			One	Last Stand level Objective: Don't let the zombies trample the flowers
10				Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur's health	Boss battle

Brain Busters

Special Delivery

Main article: Special Delivery

Special Delivery is a Brain Buster that is a conveyor-belt level with the plants given via said conveyor-belt. Being a conveyor-belt level, no sun and sun-producing plants will be given. Starting from Big Wave Beach, most of its levels are featuring new plants.

It is playable on Days 3, 7, 19, 35 and 39.

Save Our Seeds

Main article: Save Our Seeds

In the Save Our Seeds levels, the player has to protect the endangered plants marked by a striped tile and his or her house too. If the player lets one of them be eaten by the zombies or disappear in some way, he or she will lose. Otherwise, it is a regular level, which the player can choose the plants to protect the endangered ones.

It is playable on

• Day 15, with two endangered Primal Wall-nuts.
• Day 36, with three endangered Toadstools.

Locked and Loaded

Main article: Locked and Loaded

Locked and Loaded is a regular Brain Buster with the plants chosen, and the player has to use them to defeat the zombies. Starting from Dark Ages, its levels will always feature a premium plant.

It is playable on Days 9, 14, 29, 31, 34 and 38.

Last Stand

Main article: Last Stand

Last Stand is a Brain Buster that gives the player a huge a amount of sun and some Plant Food before starting the level. However, the player cannot choose plants that do not cost sun (except Hot Potato and Stallia), sun-producing plants and some other certain plants (However, this rarely happens). After choosing, the player will be able to plant plants with instant recharge to set up his or her defense before starting the battle.

It is playable on Days 22, 27 and 41.

La Brainsa Tarpits

Main article: La Brainsa Tarpits

La Brainsa Tarpits is Jurassic Marsh's Endless Zone and it is unlocked after completing Day 20. If the player decides to go here before completing the rest of the world, Jurassic Bully and Ankylosaurus will be encountered earlier. This Endless Zone starts you off first with Primal Peashooter, Primal Wall-nut and Primal Sunflower (instead of their modern counterparts) and Perfume-shroom. As the player progresses, more dinosaurs will appear in the level and tougher zombies will appear more often. Players consider this as one of the most difficult Endless Zones in the game because of how threatening the dinosaurs are (especially Ankylosaurus).

Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur

Main article: Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur

Related achievements

	Martial Marsh Masher Unleash the Jurassic Marsh Gargantuar

	Meteor, Right? Complete Jurassic Marsh

	Dinos Sore Prevent all dinosaurs in a level from interacting with any zombies

	Terror Redactyled Use a Perfume-shroom on pterodactyl carrying a zombie towards your house

	Hungry, Hungry Dinos Complete a level where T. Rexes chomp 10 zombies

Gallery

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Walkthrough

See Jurassic Marsh/Walkthrough.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Jurassic Marsh
French	Jurassic Mare
German	Jurassisches Moor
Italian	Pantano giurassico
Brazilian Portuguese	Pântano Jurássico
Spanish	Pantano del Jurásico

Trivia

• Jurassic Marsh is the farthest back in time the player goes in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
  • Specifically, it takes place during the Kimmeridgian Stage of the Late Jurassic, which lasted from 154.8 ± 0.8 to 149.2 ± 0.7 million years ago.
  • This is revealed by Penny on the first level of the world.
• The map after Day 16 appears to be the landscape changed by the meteor impact due to the absence of grass coupled with dead flora.
• The lawn of Jurassic Marsh contains the skeleton of a dinosaur, similar to the one on the unsodded Player's House lawn.
  • The skeleton is much bigger than the in-game dinosaurs.
• A world similar to this world first appeared in Plants vs. Zombies: Timepocalypse, albeit with no name.
• The zombies' foreheads have the same Neanderthal appearance as the Frostbite Caves zombies' foreheads.
• The art used in Jurassic Marsh bears a strong resemblance to scenery from the cartoon show The Flintstones.
• Its former name (Mesozoic Park) in French, is "Mésozoïque Park," which is a reference to the Jurassic Park franchise.
• This world has the least number of zombies encountered, which is 8.
• The Day 15 note appears is one of the map assets from Far Future, but recolored to green.
  • Penny speculated that the asteroid was supposed to be 'Seattle-sized', implying her belief that the meteor was supposed to destroy the dinosaurs, but shrunk. Seattle is also a reference to that the PopCap company is in Seattle.
  • However, by Day 32, after defeating Zomboss, Penny says "I detect an incoming meteor, User Dave. I advise immediate egress from this time zone" to which Crazy Dave replies "Bye-bye, dinos! You'll be birdies in no time." implying that the K-T extinction event, contrary to Penny's earlier speculation, was not prevented after all.
• The two premium plants released during Jurassic Marsh, Grapeshot and Cold Snapdragon, are both upgrades of pre-existing plants: Cherry Bomb and Snapdragon.
  • Coincidentally, both plants are obtained in Pirate Seas.
• Jurassic Marsh is the second world with animated lawn mowers, the first being Frostbite Caves.
• Despite the fact that humans did not exist during the time of this world, zombies—which are assumed to be "undead" humans—are of course featured in this world. This fact is referenced in Jurassic Gargantuar's Almanac entry.
• The music in this world is heavily based off delta blues, a variation of country blues originating from the Mississippi Delta, as well as being somewhat inspired by African music due to the use of the Balafon and the Kalimba.
  • Part of the Choose Your Seeds music at the beginning has a close resemblance to the first game's main menu music. This is shared with Modern Day's version as well.
  • Part of the Wave 2A and 2B is based loosely on Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
  • The Ultimate Battle and Brainiac Maniac music tracks are directly based off Dark Ages' tracks, a trait shared by Lost City and Frostbite Caves as well. They both are very "desolate" sounding, indicating how far the player has travelled back in time. These two tracks, as well as Modern Day's final wave theme feature impressive live harmonica parts.
  • The deep grunting and whirring instrument that can be somewhat likened to a Didgeridoo that plays in practically every song in this world is a Bass Harmonica.
  • The instruments used to represent Jurassic Marsh in Modern Day's themes are the (chromatic)harmonica, resonator guitar, and balafon.
  • This world borrows the Ancient Egypt Low Whistle only for the Ultimate Battle music (probably due to lack of instruments like Big Wave Beach), but this one contains a reverb effect, this was later reused on Modern Day.
• Jurassic Marsh has no exclusive Brain Buster, similar to Frostbite Caves, Lost City, Ancient Egypt starting update 6.7.1 and Neon Mixtape Tour.
• Usually, Brainiac Maniac was used on Brain Busters levels. In Jurassic Marsh, aside from Save Our Seeds, it was used on some levels with given criteria to pass (i.e. preventing zombies from trampling flowers.)
• Jurassic Marsh, Neon Mixtape Tour, and Wild West are the only worlds that do not have surprise attacks.
  • However, it has surprise attacks in the Chinese Version.
• The lawn appears to be higher above ground than the scenery like the house, zombie base, background marsh, but the zombies do not appear to gain ground when entering the lawn/eating the brains.
• All plants obtained in this world start with the letter P.
• All of the zombies in this world except Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur and Amberhead Zombie start with the word "Jurassic."
• Jurassic Zombie, Jurassic Flag Zombie, and Jurassic Rally Zombie are the only zombies in this world with the word "Zombie" in their name.
• The achievements for Part 2 were accidentally leaked on Google Play Games with the official release of the Jurassic Marsh Part 1 update. Those leaked the designs of the Primal Potato Mine and T. Rex.
• One of the Part 2 advertisements shows the ankylosaurus and text that says; "Objects in game may be larger than they appear!" which is a reference to the Jurassic Park franchise.
• It is the only world to have one of its icons not be themed with the world. The Part 2 icon was for the Feastivus event.
• The Part 2 preview shows a pterodactyl carrying a Jurassic Imp. This does not happen in-game as pterodactyls can only carry Jurassic Zombies, its variants, Jurassic Bullies and Jurassic Rockpunchers.
• Before the 5.3.1 version, it used to be the tenth world on the world map order.
• Frostbite Caves, Lost City, Jurassic Marsh and Modern Day are the only four worlds that do not have unlockable plants from the first game.
• In the Android version of the game, the Wave 2B music is unused from the game entirely. This is also true with the start of the Final Wave for this world, Modern Day and Lost City.
• Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur's intro is later reused for Modern Day - Day 44 and Penny's Pursuit.