As a kid back in the PSP days, when I first saw the game, I didn't buy it
because the title said Impossible and I thought why buy when it's impossible XD.
Jokes aside this is one of the most replay-able game. I've been playing it since
PSP days and now on Steam PC. I've finished all the achievements for this game
and here is my two dollar 99 cents on the game:
Sound : Different sound tracks for different levels and practice mode.
Easily some of the best music and it fits each of the levels well.
Only thing I felt was, in practice mode it would be great if the
level had the original music playing instead of the dedicated
practice music.
9/10
Levels : This will be my order of the levels in terms of the most replay-able.
1. Level 4 Phazd.
2. Level 3 Heaven / Level 2 Chaos Fantasy
3. Level 1 Fire Aura and Original Level.
Tips / Others :
* It's incredible how well the background music helps you in timing the
mouse clicks / jumps for levels. Try to focus on music beat while making
decisions on jumps.
* Holding the mouse instead of constant clicking can help in few cases
and avoid fatigue.
* Phazd : despite fast, I feel is one of the easiest level, simply follow
the music and time the clicks. [10/10]
* Heaven : I feel has the best music out of all the levels and also the
toughest and it has a few phases.
- 1st phase is the easiest one where the music lyrics are
at Caution, Overdrive, Power, Overdrive, Power, Control Your...
- 2nd Phase : Medium level + Destructive (the platform starts
collapsing behind you once you jump on it). Right after hear
"Control Your...", the level speed picks up and you are required
to time the clicks better.
- 3rd Phase : Hardest + Constructive + Final
This is when screen switches back to blue. This is the toughest
one because the level literally starts to render in real time in
front of you. It feels like you can't plan ahead or time your jumps.
Simply have to memorize the pattern by failing a few times. Towards
the end it has a continuous stretch of 3 spikes something like this
^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ if you can time this you are good
and pretty much finish the level.
- [10/10]
* Chaos Fantasy : I would consider this to be similar to Heaven where
you have phases. This is the best level in-terms of
correlating music beat to jumps.
- 1st phase is the easiest. Simply follow clicks and music.
Towards the end you can literally feel music do 2 beats and
you see 2 spikes.
- 2nd Phase : easier than you think + Flipped.
When I first approached this on PSP, I would pause the game here and
hold my PSP upside down to feel easier XD. Later I realized holding
mouse instead of clicking constantly makes most sense here.
- 3rd Phase : easiest of all, more like a pause to catch your breath
for what's up next.
- 4th Phase : Flip Again + toughest of all phases
The toughness comes from 2 tricky areas, one similar to heaven end
where you have flurry of 3 spikes only reverse "vvv vvv vvv vvv vvv"
The challenge is they are not evenly spaced out, so we can't blindly hold
mouse here, actually have to time the jumps. Too early you crash, too late
you still crash XD. The second tricky area is towards the end where your
mind says jump but you are not supposed to.
- 5th Phase : easy + simple clicks, don't be fatigued.
- [10/10]
* Fire Aura + Original level : I mean not much to say here. Both the levels
combined have 3 or 4 jumps that are tricky. Nothing unusual here. Its mostly
holding mouse and letting go off at few places.
- [9/10]
* One more thing about game getting sluggish, particularly evident
when your attempts start to increase. On PC, for levels like Heaven
and Chaos Fantasy this is more noticeable, once your attempts increase,
the jumps to register despite pressing the button. I thought it was a
placebo but the behavior is consistent. Simple fix is to restart once
you cross say 20 or 30 attempts instead of continuing. The game sometimes
also randomly crashes when attempts go even higher say 50+.
I confirmed this by going frame by frame collecting mouse data,
whether I clicked the button and did the jump happen. And yes, it
doesn't some times :-(
Looks like game's code might be leaking resources when attempts
increase and not when you manually restart the level. Well Well WELL,
let's not go into code and performance here. It performs well for
majority of the folks and configurations.
* Achievement for 500 attempts is too easy. Start a level, find a
spike, put a practise flag right infront of it. You constantly
crash into it and attempts go up. Usually with a well placed flag,
2 sec per attempt, should take around 1000 sec or ~17 mins. Just
leave the thing and go for a snack break.
Overall I would rate this game 9 / 10. For the price, the replay value is insane.
Helps with focus and concentration unless you get addicted to it. Overall I would
recommend this to anyone :-)
