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rgraves

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No I don't. You mean the 'revive' option? I ran out of those ages ago. Am I supposed to buy more or something?

Yes! You buy more platinum (revive) doobies and oracle (get hint) doobies from granny at the stall in the hub area (at the back on the left).

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Rudderless

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What do you do on that rhythm action bell ringing bit with the skeleton?

I can't figure out what the zigzag bits are for.

Keep shaking.

Do bear in mind that those sections are nigh-on impossible to do first time - thanks to the inherent imprecision of shaking the remote at a precise moment and the exacting requirements of the minigame. It should allow you a bit of leeway, but doesn't.

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What do you do on that rhythm action bell ringing bit with the skeleton?

I can't figure out what the zigzag bits are for.

You just keep ringing don't you? I think you have to start/end on the bells for it to register though.

I hate that bit though - the shake detection seems too hit and miss for it to be anything other than completely frustrating. I just avoid him now :/

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Graham S

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Well, this is just enraging. Fucking bastard deaths. Character movement is awkward when you need to be fast and accurate. My wife shouts at me. The framerate drops. A big fucking sweeping ice monster hits me into the camera. When you try and use an item it insists on giving you an instructional screen you have to click past so you lose your "flow". The characters are irritating and Japanese. Aargh. I can tell somebody who had a hand in Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins was involved with this.

And yet...

Proper logic puzzles of a kind I've not seen in a long time. Very satisfying solving some of them. That little 2-star puzzle about a key in an ice chapel on World 2-2. Took 2 minutes to do. Perfect.

I can't tell if this is going to be brilliant for this missus and me to play together or if it will lead to domestic violence and a snapped disc.

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Nobody seems to be playing this game, so I'll just chime in and say it's brilliant. A lovely point and click adventure puzzle game that has a nice difficulty curve. Great game to play with the girlfriend too. Best thing I've played on the Wii aside from RE4. (Obviously I haven't played Mario Galaxy yet...)

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Nobody seems to be playing this game, so I'll just chime in and say it's brilliant. A lovely point and click adventure puzzle game that has a nice difficulty curve. Great game to play with the girlfriend too. Best thing I've played on the Wii aside from RE4. (Obviously I haven't played Mario Galaxy yet...)

I'll second that motion. This game's so good that it's stopping me from playing Phantom Hourglass. Ubelievable! As I mentioned on another forum yesterday, it's so refreshing to play a point-n-click that takes a 100% different approach than what we're used to but pulls it off just as well.

Capcom really does have the magic touch lately.

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Not sure if it's a bad point, but it's possible to make a mistake in a puzzle and not be able to finish the level unless you restart. And the game won't tell you at all, unless you use the (admittedly brilliant) built-in hint system. On one of the earlier levels I was trying to figure out a puzzle only to realise later that a mistake I made earlier rendered the level unsolvable.

Having said that, it's never really bothered me, since once you've figured out a sequence of puzzles in a level, it takes very little time to get play the game up to the point where you were before you screwed up.

So yeah, I'm still loving it. It gets much better as the game goes along.

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Not sure if it's a bad point, but it's possible to make a mistake in a puzzle and not be able to finish the level unless you restart. And the game won't tell you at all, unless you use the (admittedly brilliant) built-in hint system. On one of the earlier levels I was trying to figure out a puzzle only to realise later that a mistake I made earlier rendered the level unsolvable.

Having said that, it's never really bothered me, since once you've figured out a sequence of puzzles in a level, it takes very little time to get play the game up to the point where you were before you screwed up.

So yeah, I'm still loving it. It gets much better as the game goes along.

I've done a couple of levels like that, but it was always obvious when I had totally messed up, usually because something disappears that obviously can't come back and a bubble appears above Zack's head with a black cloud in it.

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It only made me stuck early on on one of the ice levels

On the level where you hammer the floor that makes a big icicle fall to block one of the goons. I accidently broke the icicle and I don't think there was a black cloud for that mistake. I thought there would be another way to solve the puzzle, because I assumed that the icicle would grow back. If it were a Nintendo game, the icicle would've grown back.

Anyway, that puzzle prepared me for all the latter stages where it was possible to fuck up.

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After playing an hour of Mario Galaxy last night and only getting 3 stars and still on Bryo(sp?) the first planet in Metroid I think I'm glad this is delayed. I won't have those 2 out of the way by the time this comes out over here. Plus Zelda and PW3 on DS. Sake, why do I have to work?

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I'm keeping this bumped, because even though Mario Galaxy is the main deal at the moment, the girlfriend is still insisting we play this in between the Mario breaks.

And you know, even after playing 30 stars worth of Mario, it's still great. Just did a couple of levels in Barbaros' castle,

the reflection level

and I'm loving how imaginative all the levels are. I also loved the

airship

level too.

The animation is really nice too. The framerate drops here and there when too much is happening on the screen, but it's one of those games which really does look like a cartoon.

Essential purchase for all Wii owners.

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