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Rink Runner Game Guide
I love penguins. I love ice and I love music, therefore I love this game! You
play as a music-mad Bruce, who loves nothing more than to skate around on the
ice chasing after the wild music notes. Easy? Quite easy I will admit. However
if you want to gain that adorable trophy for your lookup, or you want the
highest score to maximize your point gains, then I would suggest a certain
strategy towards this game.
The early levels of the game are very easy. Too easy in fact. Your skating area
is very large and all you have to do is catch the music notes. However, as the
game progresses, you will find that water cracks start appearing all over the
ice and your catching area is slowly becoming smaller and smaller. You will find
that on later levels, the smaller playing field size becomes quite detrimental
to catching notes, as the earlier late levels will leave you finding that you
can skate only around the left half of the screen, while run-away notes will
evade your catch and disappear entirely on the right side of the screen while
you jump exasperatedly on the left. If you can survive these levels, then
rejoice because an ice berg will slowly drift towards the right side of the
screen giving you a 'full' playing field again.
So what can you do if your Bruce is restricted to only skating around on the
left half of the screen? The only thing you can do, wait for the notes to
rebound and head towards your direction. If the note however does not rebound
back to you, then what you must do is attempt to catch the note when it is
nearest to you, and to do this, you will have to skate as closely to the edge of
the ice as possible.
One of the biggest errors I made when I first played this game is not realizing
that you could skate over the water. As long as you don't stop in the water,
then you won't sink. Therefore, only click your mouse in areas of ice. If you do
happen to find that you clicked in an area of water, click again quickly in an
ice patch (in the same direction) so your Bruce can skate over to the new
destination instead and continue his music-catching crusade.
In every level, 30 notes will appear (plus addition sharps and flats). It is
told that your aim should be to catch the notes in as little moves as possible
to achieve a maximum score. I strongly advise against this and not go for
'minimum' moves. I would also recommend forgetting about this 'less moves for
better score' because if you do start playing this way, you'll find your
concentration is spread out too thin and your Bruce will start falling into the
water. In addition, the score difference at the end of the level in minimal
(only 1 or 2 points), and this can easily be more than make up in the next
level. Instead, concentrate on catching the notes by clicking on ice patches
only.
After the first few levels, you'll start noticing a considerable amount of
musical sharps and flats appear. These are bad! Don't touch them. If you leave
them to their own devices, they'll slowly become yellow, then red and then
entirely disappear. The same goes for music notes if you leave them too long,
they'll gradually change into warmer colors before disappearing. Make sure you
grab the red notes before considering the other notes. You should also note that
a lot of the time, you'll be trying to catch notes which are halfway across the
screen. You'll have to time your Bruce, to meet the note at exactly the point
they collide. It gets easier as it goes along. It is recommended that you aim
further than the music note, so that if you do make a small mistake, you have
time to fix it up. Be wary that you cannot catch music notes by standing still.
The only way to catch the notes is by running into them. Running into them does
not always mean a dash across the screen. If you find you ran to the meeting
point of a note too early, when the note comes, simply click 1mm away from your
Bruce and that should do the trick!
Gaining the high score in this game is a trial of patience. To get the trophy,
all you need to do is keep repeating the levels over and over again until you
get your desired score (then click send score). Lastly, always try to catch 100%
(30 notes) in each level. As you progress further and further, the needed number
of caught notes will gradually reach 30. If you don't start practicing from the
start, you may find it a tad difficult in the later stages of the game. Good
luck!
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