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at this rate the endgame levels will have hour-long videos (i can only presume)

God bless Shakurel Kirby. Meta knight is my favorite of those

churine wrote: ↑4 years ago

Looks like raocow's back. Speaking of going places, I'm actually going on a bit of a trip myself, so I went and played a few levels ahead of raocow just in case I wind up being too busy to play some days.

Anyway, I found this to be a pretty fun level. I like the bouncy platforms, though it can be hard to hit enemies while bouncing up and down, especially when the enemies are also bouncing around. This level also has those cannons, which interestingly seem to be on a different 'team' than everyone else; both Hatsworth and the other enemies can attack and be attacked by the cannons.

Is Lozenge the new Laundromat? I've noticed raocow's been saying "lozenge" a lot lately and it's super funny to me for some reason

This small hiatus was a good opportunity to catch up on this LP.

Seems raocow lost a bit of his puzzle abilities. Lot's of mistakes he even admitted to, and oth non-optimised moves. Eh, it should come back tomorrow.

He does seem to be over relying on his laser a lot. It's costing him way too much energy, keeping him old longer.
He also goes for hearts when he should focus on filling his meter (turning young and activating the robot are full heals).

Seriously, the music in this game is great! Along with pretty much everything else so far, it's a shame I've pretty much heard nothing about it.

In today's episode raocow lamented at how the internet terrible humor has infected him, causing him to autocomplete into lame jokes (10:34). And a few minutes later in the video he reiterates the Millenials are killing X meme. (19:50)

It seems like it's always going to be Monsoon season for memes nowadays.

That laser attack sure seems to take a ton of energy. Judging from the time when raocow used it twice in a row when he had a full super meter, it looks like you only have enough for five lasers at most. Anyway, these axe enemies sure seem to be giving raocow a lot of trouble. I want to say they're not that threatening, though as I've said before I typically just use the robot suit whenever it's ready, so most of my encounters with them end with them getting a rocket punch to the face.

Cole sounds like he's twelve.

Letting him tag along would be child endangerment.

In the middle of the fight raocow got hit and ended up turning young. The reason why he ended up gaining HP was because he bought "Coward's Comfort." Which gives you special meter whenever you take damage. He took damage and then it boosted him over the threshold into youth form, which comes with a full hp restore.

Lance was quite a silly fellow. This makes me wonder if we will see the bosses again later in the game.

I love everything about this boss fight, from Lance's flashy animations to the music notes attracting hordes of fans which either heal or damage Lance depending on if you match them or let them get to the top. Speaking of music, I can't get enough of this boss theme. I was even considering not using the robot suit to avoid interrupting the music. And while I did end up using it, I may have held back against him a little bit. (I happened to discover a way to use the robot suit that appears to infinitely juggle Lance, but once I realized what I was doing I dropped the combo.)

Anyway, since the latest suit piece allows underwater breathing, I assume we'll be seeing some water levels in the next world (and if that's not enough, it's name is clearly based off of Atlantis). I'm interested to see what those are like.

So we don't see previous bosses ever again? I'm curious about silhouette lady from world 1 still

If I was available yesterday (taking care of cousin's, one is name Cole!), I would have said this:
Those large axe knights always do that low sweeping axe swipe. You should probably always come in jumping and attacking. They always attack as their getup animation.


Today: Kay, this boss was pretty funny and unique. Especially with the anchor and music notes. It seems if you match a music note his fans trample him, but letting one rise to the top has kiss fans hug and heal him.
While I'm a little sad to not see the mega laser, that juggle combo raocow did with the rocket fist probably dealt almost as much damage. This is probably the same strategy that Lunar alluded to.

I wonder if it will be worth it now to explore the swamp water. The area raocow remembered only had 2 chests. But there was a lot of swamp elsewhere.

The chin makes the guy 1000x times more unnatractive than whatever else twist they could come up with.

I approve of the use of Robo Laser against that gate.

I'm sad you can't attack the giant fish in any way. It doesn't even flinch to acknowledge you.

Hey, raocow, does this work for the sprite/emoji/sticker that you wanted for the cute frog? I can make an animated one of it walking too if you'd like!

I think that could work, yeah

I wasn't able to say anything yesterday; I've been on the road since before raocow uploaded yesterday's Hatsworth video, and while I did stop somewhere to sleep, I still feel like I've had enough riding in a car for the rest of my life.

Anyway, I'm here now, and we're in the water world now. The water in this game is a lot like Mega Man water: it makes you jump higher, and there's spikes everywhere. There's a lot of new stuff here, from those wall enemies to the boomerang, which is my new favourite projectile weapon (although at this rate I might end up saying that about every new weapon).

Speaking of the boomerang, raocow didn't fully power it up in today's video. From what I can tell every weapon can be powered up twice, with the final stage being easy to tell because it changes the projectile drastically (the bombs become those square bombs, and I think the standard bullets also have a unique graphic at their final stage).

Weasleby shows up once again, and I found this fight against him to be fairly annoying; he spends most of the time floating too high to hit with regular grounded slashes, and a lot of his attacks make it even harder to attack him; when he sends out the spike walls he floats even higher, making it really difficult to hit him, when he does go down to ground level you only have a second or two before he starts charging around, and when he forms the two cannons near him you can't really attack him at all (well at least not without risking the cannons respawning on top of you, as raocow demonstrated). I didn't have a huge amount of trouble against this guy, but I believe I did have to start playing it safe towards the end of the fight to avoid dying.

Wow, with how involved that little platform ride was, I was expecting it to

lead to a secret exit

or something.
The money was nice, but dang dude, the game's really starting to show its fangs now!

I didn't really have anything to say yesterday, and by the looks of things, no one else here did either.

Anyway, the difficulty is indeed starting to pick up. Much like raocow, I died here by getting knocked of the slow moving platform into the lava. I only died once, but unfortunately that was still enough to make me lose my beloved boomerangs. I'm hoping they show up again soon, because after going through this stage without them I miss them already.

I took the same route through this stage as raocow, and one thing I find interesting is watching raocow struggle with sections that I just strolled through with the robot suit. I used the suit in the section right after the platform ride, and although it had some trouble with some of the jumps (mostly due to the low ceiling; it's actually surprisingly good at jumping normally), thankfully it isn't damaged too much by a quick dip in the lava here and there.

Speaking of the robot suit, I can't help but scratch my head and wonder why raocow manually ended it after defeating that wall enemy. The robot suit is pretty alright at platforming, so there's no real reason to end it unless you absolutely can't get somewhere with it. Sure there was a gap that's probably too small for the suit just ahead, but even assuming raocow foresaw that with psychic powers or something the suit still would have helped with the enemies on the way.

Ouch, quite the level

Is it even going to be possible to get items going forward without grinding for money? It seems like just that level made it pretty much impossible to afford much anything afterwards.
Unless one of the suit pieces makes you get more money? The Golden Wallet or some silly shenanigans like that?
I have no idea since I've never played it or looked it up!

This was yet another difficult level. I died once again here, and after all the good things I said about the robot suit, it was actual the cause of my death. It turns out that when it explodes it destroys nearby destructible blocks, and when those are the only thing between you and a pit of lava... well, bad things happen.

This level introduces these wizard enemies, and when their almost dead they'll transform into blocks that will make the puzzle rise much faster. While they can cause trouble, I almost want to just leave them there sometimes, because I often find myself wishing I could manually raise the stack like what's possible in Panel de Pon.

The thwomp enemies are also new, and while it is possible to kill them, after the first few I just started running past them. Though I haven't been buying any of the upgrades, and at this point there is a clear difference between my damage output and raocow's.

Regarding the upgrades, it's not like this is a game where you have to spend your money after each level or lose it, and I'm pretty sure the intent is for you to have to save money over multiple levels for the more expensive upgrades. There will definitely be plenty more levels to get money along the way; just going by the completion percentage we're not even halfway through the game. That being said, I don't know if there is enough money to easily buy everything, or if you're just meant to pick and choose upgrades to suit your style of play.

This game seems like it could use a dodge roll.