Moot_Geeza wrote:

A quick summary, as I like talking about it: collect 20 blue gems on foot as one of the children and deposit them at the base to become Nights, at which point you take flight and the camera locks to a side on view. Each course wraps around, so to speak, so you can fly through the stage repeatedly. The aim is to collect 20 blue gems and deposit them, then return to the base before the timer runs out, but after depositing 20 blue gems points are doubled (?), so remaining in the stage racking up points before the time runs out is key to maximising your score. Each item you collect gives you a second or so of grace to collect something else to increase a 'link' - basically a combo - which increases your score multiplier. Some courses have complete link possibilities where skillful players can maintain constant links until the timer runs out or a missed item breaks the chain. It's got bags of charm and the bosses are mostly superb too.

Collecting gems on foot is only recommended for one course I know of.....Collecting while flying on rails is what this game is about. It's one of the ultimate score chase games. Is a mess on first encounter but when it clicks it's superb. Suffered from inappropriate comparisons with Mario 64 at launch as it is not an foot game - it's awful like that.

Collect the blue gems as fast as possible to unlock the Ideya palace after which the gems turn gold which is bonus points time - do as many laps as you can picking up as many gems and linking combos as possible before the timer runs out.  Each boss has a near insta-kill method to find. You can earn up to a x2 multiplier depending on how fast you beat the boss.

High scores for each level and part level are tracked. Really hardcore score game. I have it on Saturn, PS2 and Steam. The Steam and PS2 remakes are identical - they have Saturn modes and Christmas Nights as unlockables and they seem to play pretty close to the original.

So far - about 6 hours into Ace Attorney 2, and I messed around with Mega Drive new NSO games and also did another round with Cruisn Blast because it is just unapologetic fun. And DLC next year!

Moot_Geeza wrote:

It's been ages since I played but if you collect 20 on foot before heading to the Ideya Palace you can make a beeline for the deposit box and kick the double points/gold gems phase in quicker. I think. It's not necessary, just stuck in my head as I always used to do it at the start of Splash Garden so I had longer to (try to) keep a complete link going.

There is a mare in which doing that is optimal because the required blue orbs are really close to the start point - forget which. It means you bust the Ideya palace really quickly and you have max bonus time -  but my impression is you are better flying to gather blue orbs in most other levels....I could be wrong on that of course as I am no master of the game.

davyK wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

It's been ages since I played but if you collect 20 on foot before heading to the Ideya Palace you can make a beeline for the deposit box and kick the double points/gold gems phase in quicker. I think. It's not necessary, just stuck in my head as I always used to do it at the start of Splash Garden so I had longer to (try to) keep a complete link going.

I watched the world record run (allegedly) of Spring Valley on YouTube earlier. I feel (even more) inadequate (than usual).

There's a guy in the Saturn UK forums who is a WR holder. It's bonkers at that level. He busts 1m in a level that my best is 300K in!! 

I’ll be honest, I didn’t like the way he/she played in the video I watched. It’s hard to explain, but it didn’t seem graceful to me (might be just envy on my part of course), but the trick ribbon technique was borderline cheating. However, I am going to try it, as the only achievement I’m missing is the one for performing 12 tricks in the time limit

davyK wrote:

Aye - that glitch on the stunts is probably a cheat - but it only works in that level where you are bouncing off the ceiling - so I'm a bit shrug on that. I hear it's fixed in ports.

The glitch is in mare 2:-

That’s pretty much the same glitch, although I saw it in on Spring Valley and the player went from the ground, up the the ‘ceiling’ to complete it.

The performance in your video of mare 1 was beautiful, I’ve only managed to achieve complete loops of a level in Soft Museum.

You play mare 1 in Xmas Nights' Link attack mode over and over with no timer - best I've got is about 230 links.

Someone got over 1000....

The snow level in Banjo is good.

I often have this in me head at regular times tbh, but especially at Xmas:

nick_md wrote:

I often have this in me head at regular times tbh, but especially at Xmas:

That is a great one. Wifey bought me DKR for Christmas back in '98.    What a game that was. Blew MK64 out of the water.

That the big stunt combo one??  I know very little about the stunts really.