I don't get how people are getting 11 cycles on the first one. To do this you'd have to get an aqua in place in three cycles... I just don't see how this is possible.
VII. Haematite (93/79) It's slow, uses too many cycles/symbols but I think it's a fairly different design.
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There's a way to kind of skip across the water. As your building horizontal speed, after you get about 16 Nice Entries you can slightly angle the dolphin up. Make sure it's just slightly and he'll skip like a stone across the water without having to adjust position at all, you can't really do flips but you can continue corkscrewing. I can build up about 42 max nice entries this way, but with only 10 seconds remaing. Still luck of the starslides after that.
Odd thing i noticed, if your having problems loading this game with vista... vista has an odd headphone detection scheme that if you don't have speakers/headphones plugged in this game won't load. It sounds stupid but i just tested it, with the headphones it loads fine but as soon as you try loading it w/o it just gets to the loading bar then goes to a black screen.
Finally i got it, with both my shield and sword alive. I had my shield go out to the middle first, then just as the dragon is in range of it i had it start following the sword, moving the sword right after that in position to shoot. After that just keep trying to circle the enemy bot. GL
to expand on GPK_smurf's strategy, it seems good to have the shield follow the sword but try to go in a circle just out of reach of the dragon. Try to make sure you get a shot on the dragon every time he gets a shot on your shield. I had 2 shots on him left when my shield died, and i ended up just needing one more.
challeng 4 wouldn't be as much of a pain, if you could at least quit midway during a battle... that way you wouldn't have to wait a minute for the dragon to take out the sword :-/
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