By John Walker on April 26th, 2010 at 6:22 pm.
Crikey, a new one already! I do so love the Hoshi Saga series from Nekogames, as I was saying but only the other day. Part five is available now, and it’s fantastic. Once more there’s twenty-five micro-challenges asking you to find a star within an inventive, cute way. And unlike part four, this time there’s toughies amongst the delightfully simple.
Which is how I like to think of myself amongst the RPS team. I know I’ve said it before, but the reason these games are so compelling is not just that they’re beautiful (once again part five is in colour, with a lovely pastel, almost crayon-coloured theme), nor that each is yet another smart idea that could be fleshed out into its own Flash game, but that I play them with a broad smile on my face. Even those half-star difficulty levels (out of five stars) still make me beam as their easily, but wonderfully, completed.
People should care about these games as much as I do. Because I’m right. Play these. If you’ve never played any, there’s 125 levels waiting for you! What a treat!
Um, this one’s even easier than the previous one!
I must admit I liked it better when it was monochrome, too. Back in ye olde days of yonder everything was better…
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It still seems easier than the old ones. Still lovely though.
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Server downtime :(
Enjoyed the ten or so I get to do, must remember to come back later.
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I’d say there’s a strong chance of another one coming out pretty soon, given this contains stages 26-50 and he’s once again put “to be continued” in the corner of the credits page. I suspect he’s saving up some more fiendish ones for at least one more saga.
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Well I’m thoroughly stuck on level 40. Don’t know about the rest of you.
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40 was also the one I was stuck on the longest.
SPOILER!grabtheground
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The first level (26) has completely broken my mind.
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You’re probably trying to do it correctly – I “found” the star but it seems to want you to be annoyingly precise on that level, which is strange as these are usually so relaxed and lenient
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Here’s a guide if you want to confirm you’re going about it the right way.
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/04/hoshi_saga_ringoame.php#walkthrough
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I’ll be damned if I can get level 26 to work – even with the solution screenshot :(
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!!SPOILER!!
Oh bugger – you have to rotate it anti-clockwise from the start. If you go clockwise it doesn’t work :(
A bit of a bug methinks.
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Indeed, delightful. I was listening to this song at the time and it was a great match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4iONfj0gRQ
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yeah, chiming in with the “nice, but super easy” crowd. There were one or two puzzles in the last one that were quite unintuitive for me but none of the puzzles took me more than about 10 seconds for this game.
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number 4 and 5 were easy (save that damn #40). I’m still stuck on a few from parts 1-3. Also, can’t be bothered with solving the “twinkle twinkle little star” bit all the way through by trial and error.
Still, very interesting work.
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No. 30
Squee!
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I don’t think it’s about difficulty as much as it is delight.
26 was a mofo, 40 was obvious once I read the spoiler and otherwise they were quite simple and rather pleasant.
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such a very amazing link !
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yeh it was an easy game, but I’m still hard to play :D
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