Space Giraffe - Player's views, help needed, etc.

[chub]

Dear Sirs Yak and Goat,

Today I have encountered the atrocity that is level number 32. While some folk might complain that the Drop of Fire might be 'a pain in the arse', it cannot be compared with the 'elephant in the arse' that is that horrid level.

You gentlemen, are not cunts, but quadruple cunts.

Yours sincerely,

Carl

[CarlBillen]

“Focusing on bullets and nothing else”

So, juggle them back to the web core? I do that, but it never seems to be enough!

Yep, only listen and look for bullets... There are plenty of standard enemies that will be shot when you hunt for the bullets to keep the Power Zone far away. (So you basically don't need to look out for maintaining the Power Zone, it pretty much does it itself on this level). Do note that you want to try to shoot bullets, and not kill enemies (because it are the enemies who are shooting the bullets). So most of the time I jiggle/wibble a bit in one spot (I do not stand still, I just alternate between the same three grid lines or so) so I do not shoot too many enemies. I often do this on the grid line where a pod is appearing. When I hear the 'whoop' (bullet shooting) sound, I check where the bullet is, and go for it... Because I did not focus on the standard enemies, there are often a few on the rim so you simply bull them off... That will result in another horde of enemies appearing, which will add more bullets...

The great thing is, when you are focusing on the bullets, and the rim gets full, you won't have that many enemies at the back of the grid, which allows you to see the bullets in the distance and then you can already go to the correct spot to intercept them as soon as the get on the grid.

But, of course, easier said than done... When I go hunting for bullets on level 5, if I fail, I will often get a 'Meh' score. So be warned and don't lose courage... But there must be other levels that should be 'more useful' for getting that achievement...

[Mr. Morn]

I reached my crowning achievement on this game last night: I managed to finish level 13 (A Drop of Fire) with the highest ranking. I don't care if I never do well on the leaderboards, or if I never get any extra awesome modes unlocked. Getting that rating on that level is amazing.

[TwistedScrote]

Starting to get the hang of this now. Level 10 with a score of 13,694,729.

And even better, I'm beating TwistedScrote.

Not for long mutts...... not for long!

Once I've got lvl 13 outta the way I intend to thrash the shit out of this game. (well top 100 hopefully!)

Just look out for the "Belgian Buller"

Yesterday I noticed that Worm had passed me, so I tried and tried and managed to pass him, getting from level 1 to 23 in one big go ...

Just look out for the Blancmange Level (14?)... Yesterday I thought I knew how it is configured (thinking I was on the outside of the cone) but my left/right controls were reversed... It is only when I drove to work this morning that I realized that I am actually INSIDE of the cone, but we're looking through the cone walls

Whoops.... Overtaken you now Carl!

[Game Rogue]

“Focusing on bullets and nothing else”

So, juggle them back to the web core? I do that, but it never seems to be enough!

Yep, only listen and look for bullets... There are plenty of standard enemies that will be shot when you hunt for the bullets to keep the Power Zone far away. (So you basically don't need to look out for maintaining the Power Zone, it pretty much does it itself on this level). Do note that you want to try to shoot bullets, and not kill enemies (because it are the enemies who are shooting the bullets). So most of the time I jiggle/wibble a bit in one spot (I do not stand still, I just alternate between the same three grid lines or so) so I do not shoot too many enemies. I often do this on the grid line where a pod is appearing. When I hear the 'whoop' (bullet shooting) sound, I check where the bullet is, and go for it... Because I did not focus on the standard enemies, there are often a few on the rim so you simply bull them off... That will result in another horde of enemies appearing, which will add more bullets...

The great thing is, when you are focusing on the bullets, and the rim gets full, you won't have that many enemies at the back of the grid, which allows you to see the bullets in the distance and then you can already go to the correct spot to intercept them as soon as the get on the grid.

But, of course, easier said than done... When I go hunting for bullets on level 5, if I fail, I will often get a 'Meh' score. So be warned and don't lose courage... But there must be other levels that should be 'more useful' for getting that achievement...

Thanks for the “clarification” reply! I will try this tonight – and let you know the results!

What of the flower AP? Is level 9 the easiest level to do this on? Any tips?

[gilesgoat]

Dear Sirs Yak and Goat,

Today I have encountered the atrocity that is level number 32. While some folk might complain that the Drop of Fire might be 'a pain in the arse', it cannot be compared with the 'elephant in the arse' that is that horrid level.

You gentlemen, are not cunts, but quadruple cunts.

Yours sincerely,

Carl

.. wait when you'll reach level 70 ...

[Game Rogue]

“Focusing on bullets and nothing else”

So, juggle them back to the web core? I do that, but it never seems to be enough!

Yep, only listen and look for bullets...

Thanks for the “clarification” reply! I will try this tonight – and let you know the results!

What of the flower AP? Is level 9 the easiest level to do this on? Any tips?

Thanks... got 20 plus sneezes on my first attempt!!!!!

[CarlBillen]

Whoops.... Overtaken you now Carl!

I played again just 'to demonstrate to game to a friend', got over the 40 million, getting all excited because you had scored 48 million, but I died at 44 million

I looked at the leaderboards how close I had gotten to you, and lo and behold, you had 60 million suddenly

But I am pretty proud I managed to get from level 1 tot level 32 in one trek (though level 32 is still a brick wall for me to overcome at this moment...). I almost managed to get 9 lives, and improved my score with quite a bit... So I am pretty pleased

[TwistedScrote]

Look again Carl!


I have 95 million.

[franki]

• Great Green Arkleseizure: Get more than 20 sneeze bonuses leaving a level

I did this on one of the first 'closed' level - I just went round and round and round and round shooting. This didnt give me a particularly good score or anything but it did appear to work.

same here. today i sat down to try to rinse the tutorial i didn't get the achievement but for the first time, i clicked with bullet juggling, something i hadn't really been doing before. went back to the game and the first closed level that they shoot at you, level 4 i THINK, i got GGA achievement first go. lotsa phone noises, the level sounded GREAT

i reckon i must have been pretty lucky, played the level again and got nothing like 20. ah well, i got klepto as well later i love learning this game!

[teamonkey]

Gah, I'm pish at this! Got me a professorship of giraffology though.

[SpookyElectric1]

I have now had three 'two red light' occurences with the 360 since getting SG. It's never happened before. Does SG throw more stuff around on screen than other games and could this be the cause of overheating? I've played games like GOW when it was much hotter (weather wise) for longer periods without it overheating.

Or is my 360 just heading for the three red lights of 'certain death'?

[Yak]

I really don't think SG stresses the hardware. the fact that we run at 60FPS means we don't push things overhard. I guess it's just unlucky and it would've redlighted anyway. Nothing we do is particularly exceptionally demanding of the gpu.

[SpookyElectric1]

I really don't think SG stresses the hardware. the fact that we run at 60FPS means we don't push things overhard. I guess it's just unlucky and it would've redlighted anyway. Nothing we do is particularly exceptionally demanding of the gpu.

Hmm, just seems strange it's not happened at all since this Wednesday! I'll try playing something else for a long period and see if the same thing happens....

[ozzzy189]

Hi, i'm new here, so please go easy on me. Anyway,i seem to be enjoying this game more and more, i just don't seem to be getting big scores, i'm currently on level 39 or so with 45 million. If i start from scratch i can get to about 20 odd, with maybe 25 mill. I haven't really got the hang of getting big scores though. I get the bulling technique, and have got into the bonus round a few times, and pinged a few bullets back, but i can't help feel i'm missing something.
Damn fine game though, it's such a shame to many 'reviewers' reviewed it before they'd had enough time to get into it. I do agree about the marmite association though. I sent YAK a pm re:SG before i posted this a few days ago, my love for this game has grown, i do like it more, but i still die from just not seeing what's going on, and that does spoil it a little, but only now and then. (so far)