Did anyone else save Troy first because they thought he was just suicidal, and that he knew the numbers because he worked there? And then after the chick asked about what the business even does and figured he could have been a freedom fighter burning the building for a good cause. And the reason he asked to die was because he knew no one would take his side and he was gonna go to jail anyway?
You can actually skip unlocking the mage in level 7, by using very efficient dashes... I don't know if that helps anything, but the mage still appears in level 8 without unlocking him in level 7.
So if your having trouble getting the backwards stuff, And the laser wall option is out the window, you can shoot your cannon directly forward and you can either end up in one of those tubes or you might hit a catapult, I didn't use any weapons so the game either ended or I hit something, and if you're at the start already getting those backward thing are easy.
I found an alternate way to go backwards... I didn't see how it happened, but my guy went into one of those orange tubes and bounced around in it, and come out the end of the tube and he was going backwards...
I did lvl 16 by deleting the word under it to where the thing almost falls and before it did, I added another letter to re-balance it, but it will still be falling, and I'd add another letter, and another til I get to the end and it slides off, and goes off balance off of the edge.
Here's how I beat Level 18: Delete type under remove me, so that the remove me falls on its side. push remove me to edge, extend right align to max. Wait til laser goes by, delete text under bomb. lol...
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