Thursday, 7 April 2016

19 Sonic Chaos - Aqua Planet Zone Act 1, 100 Ring Strategy

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this stage and about getting 100 rings in it.

For a water level in a Sonic game, it isn't too troublesome! Nice view of the clouds as you start right at the top parts of the stage too. You should make an effort to stay up high as well for collecting rings. If the worst comes to the worst, there's an extra life at the very bottom left corner of the stage, allowing for some practice.

Continue going right, being careful of the little hopping enemies, until you get to a cliff. Carefully jump across the platforms with two rings each above them and over past the spikes. The platforms will crumble here too. When you get over the spikes, don't hit the speed booster. Just take it handy. Collect the 3 ten ring boxes and be careful of the hopping enemies below. On this part, go right slowly towards the edge and jump on the small platform that almost looks like the background. From here, you can jump right if you want and collect 4 ten ring boxes on top of the loop and another ten ring box across the gap. Alternatively, you can jump up and left to get the Rocket Shoes and collect this big long string of rings which should get you up to 100. If not, then go back for the ring boxes.

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

18 Sonic Chaos - Mecha Green Hill Zone Act 3, Boss

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this tricky short stage and about the boss.

First, try to climb as high as possible by carefully using the small platforms. Just above the second treacherous bridge, there's a ten ring box. It can be collected with a normal jump from the right side, which is a lot safer to jump from I find.

The boss fires projectiles while climbing up and down on the tree. It can be beaten by continually bouncing on it. Rings come in handy too if it ever gets awkward.

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

22 Final Fantasy Explorers - Needled And Cleaved Online With Joe And Nova

Dear Readers,

At this stage, Joe was EL177 White Mage, Nova was EL131 White Mage and I was EL98 Monk.

Nova and Joe looked really fetching in their cat ear White Mage hoodies!

Quest 1: "Battle of Mages"

I wasn't on this one. It was for Mages only. I joined a bit late and decided to craft some Gravity Busters. About time I upgraded weapons.

Quest 2: "A Bona Fide Battler"

I wanted to encase Bahamut because I didn't have his Magicite yet. Joe brought his Cactuar to help.

Quest 3: "He Who Slices All"

After this, Joe was kind of sleepy so Nova and I continued for a while. My 3DS was sleepy too so I plugged in the charger.

Quest 4: "Gigantic Cactuar"

Just fought another one for the sake of a subquest! This one's all complete now :)

I got a one hit death from a 10,000 Needles attack as well. They're always needling me, those Gigantuars and Cactuars!

Quest 5: "The Royal Cleaver"

Fought Tonberry King for another sub. Got one hit cleaved by him too! Good thing I had Nova to heal me all this time!

Quest 6: "Dragons of Doom"

Joe rejoined. We took care of these guys quite handily and we all initiated Megaflare at the end! This was good for a subquest too.

Quest 7: "The Royal Cleaver"

Still have more of the subquest quota to fill! I got cleaved that time too. D'oh! He kept chasing me the whole time too.

Monday, 4 April 2016

17 Sonic Chaos - Mecha Green Hill Zone Act 2, 100 Ring Strategy

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this stage, which can be pretty tricky when trying to get 100 rings.

From the start there are two platforms that float upwards. The left one leads to a few rings, and the other leads to the upper path, where you'll find a good ring filled path but with treacherous bridges. There's also a cluster of rings below, so pick what you can get.

Beyond the vertical corkscrew there's a platform that'll take you upwards to a hidden 10 ring box. Just below the next and final treacherous bridge, there's a massive cluster with about a third of the stage's rings so take your time around here.

Sunday, 3 April 2016

16 Sonic Chaos - Mecha Green Hill Zone Act 1, 100 Ring Strategy

Dear Readers,

This zone is quite tricky and easy to die in. I like it a lot because of the music. It even has a little segment that can be heard in Sonic CD! I love the colour of the sky in this level too, which is a pretty sunset and the start of the nightlife! Whatever nightlife can be found in a mechanical Green Hill Zone anyway.

With regards to collecting 100 rings, It's not done very easily, but there's a handy extra life to help you practise by breaking the blocks under your feet at the start. There are a few rings scattered below, but most of them are above on treacherous sloping bridges and you can climb back up by dropping on the spring below the vertical lines of rings. There's a handy 10 ring box under the last bridge and springs at the end which can help.

Saturday, 2 April 2016

15 Sonic Chaos - Sleeping Egg Zone Act 3, Boss

Dear Readers,

Today I'll talk about this stage and the boss at the end.

You can get to the boss easily simply by holding right, but it's more fun to use the spring! In any case, be sure to pick up the ten ring box on this path!

The boss is a springy robot thing you can easily defeat if you can keep bouncing on its head. If you can't, then keeping some rings helps to deal with the bullets it fires at you.

Friday, 1 April 2016

21 Final Fantasy Explorers - Slow Battle With a Nimble Alexander And A Dangerous Sandy Leviathan Online With Joe And Nova

Dear Readers,

No April Fool's jokes today sorry. Maybe one can be made about Chocobos being some kind of delicious dessert, but I can't think of any.

Quest 1: "Demon in the Depths"
Quest 2: "Lawless Judge"

Alexander was at Leggi Steppe this time and used his slowing down moves so we couldn't move fast anywhere. To make things worse, he jumped all around the place! I've never seen so much motion from him before.

Quest 3: "Purging the Sins of Humankind"

Wasn't able to encase into Magicite this time.

Quest 4: "Ferocious Sandstorm"

Leviathan in the sandstorm! He can use Tidal Wave and everything! How is it possible? Anyway, he kicked our butts so hard and he doesn't even have legs! We did manage to defeat him though, but we were on the ropes!

Quest 5: "The Firebird's Deadly Revival"

We encased the Phoenix this time!