Bonus stages!

After beating an enemy, you'll be sent to a bonus stage for the area, the time limit for the area is directly proportional to how many yellow hourglasses you collect during the 3 rounds.

Each hourglass adds 5 seconds to the time limit, to a maximum of 60 seconds for 12 hourglasses.



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Collecting every coloured orb in a bonus stage ends it immediately.

Bonus stages have 24 coloured orbs, 8 in green, 8 in red and 8 in blue.

Green orbs increase your base speed.

Red orbs increase your magic meter gain.

Blue orbs increase your "agility" and i have no clue on what it actually influences, frame counting didn't help much, my current theory is that it "shields" you from debuffs but i cannot confirm with current game knowledge.



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The bonus stage usually incorporates some of the gimmicks from the main stage, for example: the game has boost pads in some stages, and those appear in that stage's bonus.

fun thing: if the timer ends while you are in a boost pad, the stage won't kick you out until the boost pad animation is done, this means you can afford to spend less time collecting hourglasses to get to the bonus faster, since the time limit won't matter as much.

General Guide - Basic Mechanics

The game's mechanics for the main stages and characters are as follows.

[i'll separate into different guides for enemies, bonus stages and hidden paths].

You have to collect flags to win each stage.

Each stage is divided in 3 normal rounds plus a bonus round.

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The first player to collect a flag can keep getting flags, while the other is "It",  the "It" player cannot collect flags and must tag(touch) the opposite player to be able to collect flags.

You and your opponent can use some abilities to make collecting flags and slowing down the other easier, and those are as follows:

Bridge - You and your opponent can summon a temporary bridge, Bog is an enemy that can summon 2 bridges at a time.



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Shoot - Fires a projectile that can be upgraded up to lvl 5 (starting at lvl 1), this can destroy mines, neutral enemies and freeze the target for a certain number of frames, depending on the level of the shot.

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Teal Mines - Players can drop these behind them, at the cost of some magic. It knocks the opposite player down and slows them, computer opponents rarely use this.

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Speed up - As simple as it gets, this is a spell that speeds you up at the cost of magic.

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Teleport - You can teleport! specifically to blank tiles on the map, holding a direction usually can influence where you teleport to, but the game seems to prioritize the nearest tile from your current position. (costs a lot of magic).



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Slow spell - This one shoots homing teal bullets that slow down the enemy, computer opponents really like using this one and it also takes a lot of magic to cast it.



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Hidden Paths and Pick-ups

The Pìck-ups go beyond just flags!

You can get hourglasses, red magic orbs, green speed orbs, golden orbs, and an item to increase your shot level.

Hourglasses: there's 12 of them per stage, 4 on each round and they add 5 seconds to the bonus time limit, to a max of 60 seconds.

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Red magic orbs add directly and instantly to your magic meter.

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Green speed orbs increase your speed and can go above what the speed spell can reach.

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Golden Orbs give the following perks for a limited time or until you get tagged:

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Full immunity to everything aside from ice physics, and getting tagged.

Maximum speed.

faster building animation (it ends before the bridge is actually built so you can build 2 bridges in different places at the same time).

Shot Level upgrade:

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The SL (shot level) is capped usually in intervals of 3 or 4 stages, and it can go up to lvl 5, i'll go into more detail in another guide.

Options:

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These spawn a floating metal blade around the character, that deals damage and slows whatever it hits, it can protect you from mines, enemy shots and it can knock down enemies.

It stacks up to 5.

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# Hidden paths

Almost every stage has a hidden path, usually if a stage has one, it has on all 3 rounds, but this isn't true for every stage.

Some hidden paths require you to build a long bridge usually to a Red/Green orb filled area.

some only have a single golden orb and others have everything, including the shot upgrade.

The more hidden ones require you to build a bridge on a specific tile, that reveals a teleporter, these are usually so out of place and slow to get i decided to not include in the maps i made for the game.

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Main enemies and neutral enemies.

# Aside from Krosh, the first enemy in the game, every enemy has some sort of gimmick, be it their stage, or the way they act.

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# Minox, the second enemy, has a kind of dash forward whenever he's IT and you're directly in front of him.![](/static/blob/pzm9j6wn.png)

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# Lethotep, in Circe, has his gimmick on their stage, full of pink teleport nodes.

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# Krayken is semi-immune to normal shots, bouncing them in random directions.

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# Kolo can transform the semi-ice ground into fully frozen.

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# Belok can machine gun stun you with shots.

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# Mantos spawns mini versions of herself that basically acts as a moving teal mine.

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# Bog can build 2 bridges at a time.

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# Cauldron can spawn a phantom version of him, that doesn't have collision nor can tag you.

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# Kneenot likes to spam slow down shots more than almost everyone.

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# Lothar can cause earthquakes that knock you down.

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# Gnorr is very fast and will pick up golden orbs if given the chance.

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# Argus can become invisible.

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# Nemean is the most aggressive opponent ever.

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# And our final main enemy, Vorga.

# She can build 3 bridges at a time, she is immune to normal shots, bouncing them to you and  she is semi immune to ice physics.

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# For the neutral enemies, we have:

# Red mines and booster.

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# Red mines:

These usually spawn around flags, getting hit by one knocks and slows you down.



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These mines also spawn on specific tiles in some maps.

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# Booster:

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The booster enemy is more of an annoyance than anything, and it boosts you on the opposite direction to which it its. meaning: if the enemy is on your left, it will boost you to the right, it doesn't matter your facing or what button you're holding.



Both can be destroyed by shooting, or running through them with the golden orb immunity.

Shot Power-ups.

You can upgrade your SL (shot level) 4 times, up to level 5 here they are:

# SL 1

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# SL 2

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# SL 3

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# SL 4

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# SL 5

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# SLevel restrictions

You cannot fully upgrade it even if you know where the power up spawns, because the game "locks" your lvl in certain stage intervals.

If you reach the interval limit, upgrade spawns become golden orb spawns, and these are the intervals and their respective limits

Solaria ~ Ash - lvl 2 max

Hexol ~ Virion- lvl 3 max

Ferrinar~ Iris- lvl 4 max

The Lair is the only stage you can get up to lvl 5.

Name	Autor
Bonus stages!	Angie52shirogane 6 months ago
General Guide - Basic Mechanics	Angie52shirogane 6 months ago
Hidden Paths and Pick-ups	Angie52shirogane 6 months ago
Main enemies and neutral enemies.	Angie52shirogane 6 months ago
Shot Power-ups.	Angie52shirogane 6 months ago