T4K Level 1 - 100 Walkthru, with commentary :-)

[Markie]

Right here! Really interesting and the guy doing the commentary explains it well https://youtu.be/OXkoY9SI_fE

[Markie]

A much higher rez version but without commentary https://youtu.be/7uAmPY49aA4

[VanAlphen]

The video in Pure mode with the commentary is pretty impressive from the few bits I saw. I went straight to the end to see if he would suicide in level 100 or complete the game with no score for the leaderboard, no such dilemma on the X-Box version he played though, makes me jealous The second video is just pieced together from Classic mode bits.

[hairy_pete]

The video had me realize that I've been doing it wrong all the time ... I figured there's no need to be that obsessed with keeping things off the rim (as you would in T2K or T3K), so I've now resorted to a much more gentle, just-keep-one-spot-clean approach. That gave me instant improvement from below 4 million points in Pure mode to above 7m, from stuck in the 40s to level 71, and that's just the 2nd game played that way.

So ... cool. Thanks.

[Markie]

[hairy_pete]

Even betterer, after a bit of practice in the higher levels, I took another go at Pure mode earlier today. Even though I can't quite handle those immortal machine gun things yet, I got all the way to level 100 (and promptly died there). With quite a lot of Warp going on as well, I scored a grand total of just above 13 million points, which places me onto the PS4 leaderboard as ...

First! Yay!

[VanAlphen]

Congrats, hairy_pete!

[Sickboy]

Even betterer, after a bit of practice in the higher levels, I took another go at Pure mode earlier today. Even though I can't quite handle those immortal machine gun things yet, I got all the way to level 100 (and promptly died there). With quite a lot of Warp going on as well, I scored a grand total of just above 13 million points, which places me onto the PS4 leaderboard as ...

First! Yay!

Hey, man. What's your PS4 score table name?

[Deckard]

Congrats bud - I keep forgetting I have it on my Switch and I def need to play more of it !

[Deckard]

Just checked and I am second on both Survival and Pure (not by much on both I might add) with scores of 2.4 million and 94 million respectively - I also feel a little cheated as I can never figure out how to win the green trail bonus levels later and they cost me millions by failing them - I have asked everywhere how you dont fail on them and nothing seems to work - I can always do the first 3 or 4 and then it just tanks me......even though I am doing the same thing I was doing on the earlier ones - How are you sickboy ? Long time - I suddenly remembered we had a score war running on this a long long time ago -



Great game and happy pre-Trump and covid days !

[hairy_pete]

Even betterer, after a bit of practice in the higher levels, I took another go at Pure mode earlier today. Even though I can't quite handle those immortal machine gun things yet, I got all the way to level 100 (and promptly died there). With quite a lot of Warp going on as well, I scored a grand total of just above 13 million points, which places me onto the PS4 leaderboard as ...

First! Yay!

Hey, man. What's your PS4 score table name?

Hello, old friend! What a coincidence - I haven't been here for a long while, just today came back to report another win. I am PietroTorso on PS4.

TV programming and streaming boredom made me pick PS4 leftovers back up. Between other games, I practiced T4K Survival mode some more. After a few improvementlets and many attempts that started well and ended miserably, last night I finally managed the big one.

Just one life lost after Destroyer and Fidget, through Plank with seven lives still, an urgent pee break (getting old aren't we?), I broke the previous record and then kept it together and reached the calmer realms of the wobbly and the invisible levels where many more points awaited. I actually pulled all the way through to Display Line Interrupt, final score 4.4 million, almost a million more than the previous world top score. First is me - PietroTorso is the name.

[Deckard]

Why do i find the Switch T4K harder than the Vita TxK on Survival - you only get 3 lives if I remember correctly on TxK and a ton more on T4K - I would still argue the late 20s yellow rounds are in the wrong place difficulty wise as they are some of the hardest in the game to do without losing a life and def deserve to be very much in the late game as its such a luck factor with the spinning dodecahedron enemies and their unblockable spraying missiles, coupled with the pulsars and spinning web - by contrast the "bull" levels in the 30s I find very relaxing....

Currently finding on Survival on my last few games getting to about 28 with a crap score of 1.5 million. Need to GIT GUD (again)

[hairy_pete]

You're right ... one of the things that I needed to practice most is how to not die as much between 26 and 32. Bastards the whole lot of them. 37 is just as evil, 38 not much better. Once you're past those with a handful of lives left, it's going to be a good game.

[Sickboy]

Just checked and I am second on both Survival and Pure (not by much on both I might add) with scores of 2.4 million and 94 million respectively - I also feel a little cheated as I can never figure out how to win the green trail bonus levels later and they cost me millions by failing them - I have asked everywhere how you dont fail on them and nothing seems to work - I can always do the first 3 or 4 and then it just tanks me......even though I am doing the same thing I was doing on the earlier ones - How are you sickboy ? Long time - I suddenly remembered we had a score war running on this a long long time ago -



Great game and happy pre-Trump and covid days !

Yeah, man. I'm okay, thanks.

Brilliant game. I can't find the bastard now though. I'm trying to set up a Retrobat collection of my all-time favourite games from multiple systems and I'm bollocksed if I can find Galaga Legions on Xbox 360 emu... Any ideas?

Are you on PS4/PS5 T4K? I've rediscovered it recently after dropping it in a huff over the tilt-control mid-level sections.

[Sickboy]

Hey! I'm good, thanks.

Nice T4K skillz. I'm rediscovering it at the moment. I wish it was a bit more refined in places - what's the story with that fourth (I think) green trail bonus level where, erm, the green trail disappears completely?

Even betterer, after a bit of practice in the higher levels, I took another go at Pure mode earlier today. Even though I can't quite handle those immortal machine gun things yet, I got all the way to level 100 (and promptly died there). With quite a lot of Warp going on as well, I scored a grand total of just above 13 million points, which places me onto the PS4 leaderboard as ...

First! Yay!

Hey, man. What's your PS4 score table name?

Hello, old friend! What a coincidence - I haven't been here for a long while, just today came back to report another win. I am PietroTorso on PS4.

TV programming and streaming boredom made me pick PS4 leftovers back up. Between other games, I practiced T4K Survival mode some more. After a few improvementlets and many attempts that started well and ended miserably, last night I finally managed the big one.

Just one life lost after Destroyer and Fidget, through Plank with seven lives still, an urgent pee break (getting old aren't we?), I broke the previous record and then kept it together and reached the calmer realms of the wobbly and the invisible levels where many more points awaited. I actually pulled all the way through to Display Line Interrupt, final score 4.4 million, almost a million more than the previous world top score. First is me - PietroTorso is the name.