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How to break my mind: Subject me to watching a dolphin get 75% towards a space restaurant before missing every star trail in sight, proceeding to fall down past hundreds more that it refuses to land on due to its speed. 100 times.
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I actually think the angle for "nice entry" is to try for the same angle you're traveling at. If you're coming down from a vertical jump, it's straight down, if you're making a shallow jump (better for distance) it's a shallower angle.
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The BOTD is actually really easy. All you have to do is get about 5 nice entry's in a row and then you can leap pretty far.
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Yay, got the BOTD at last (travel 100 metres horizontally). This is how I got it. Repeatedly exit the water at around 20-30 degrees to the horizontal, and get a good entry back into the water each time (takes some practice). This allows the build up of a fair horizontal velocity. Then get lucky and travel through a hoop at a good horizontal velocity. Weird planet this dolphin lives on...
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"There are many animals who have visited space before us. Examples include dogs, guinea pigs, rats, mice, cats, and dolphins."
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''dolphins are some of the smartest animals in the world.''
''dolphins are both smart and extremely agile/graceful/fast with their aquatic movements.''
so:, if water is similar to space in terms of ''flopping around in swim-like movements, and on the general need for constant movement in a (seemingly) fluid and ''moving'' enviroment, along with the fact that ''dolphins are so smart that they will reach mars one day!11oneone'', then we can safely assume that dolphins will reach mars on 2172.''
-dr dooffus, janitor at MASA, (Marine Animals Space Association.)
as for me:
i dont know about you, guys, but MY dolphin reached the moon, it surpassed it, and it even went close to the orbit of mars, and it gave me a score of 39,573, with a high jump of 50_ meters, and a long jump of 140+ meters!)
now, why the moon+mars are so close to the earth...
thats an other subject! (MASA investigates it)
tl;tr good game, fun stuff, good tricks, and a pleasant game all-around.
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Hot Tip! Extension seen from a previous game are loaded up in the next one! For your first run, do a leisurely swim until you find a good chain of extensions, then restart, and in the next game you can start with a big speed boost!
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I may confirm other comments: getting to the Restaurant is a little random. You can hop off starslides instantly, hit 20 Nice Entries; I had a metric ton of Extensions and then Starslided sideways haphazardly. // Start with a vertical jump + corkscrew. // A forty-five degree jump (diagonal) // tailslide (read manual) // Use a 30 degree (half diagonal) then 20 very shallow horizon jumps, entering in such a way as to make a smooth curve with your nose. // You need a Reversal too. // Rack up combo; you should be looking at about 8 different tricks, about a paragraph's worth. Exit 45 degrees (DIAGONAL), and through Extension (preferably). // One starslide per planet past Mars. Face sideways. Starslide: press down, and then press up immediately, then repeat if you hit the same starslide. // Land, hold a directional key, up and down the second you breach the water. As you tailslide, instantly press Up; face sideways. Hit a starslide on the way up to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Good game. Reaching the restaurant is nearly impossible with the sea really not being deep enough. Even if i curve right / left right after entering the sea, i still can hit the bottom.
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Finally figured out the trick to the 88 m/s achievement. I had the other two parts easily, but the speed one stumped me. Looks like the trick is to get starslides. Holding down to corkscrew while you hit a belt of stars seemed to mysteriously give me 20 extra m/s.