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Yeah. MHX is such a great remake. And the Vile mode was so much fun.

Only thing I didn't like was the music.

Oh Man.

This game is so cool

Stuff like this is what makes me rank it for sure above SMB.

Ohhh. Is that what the secret under Acceptance is? Doing that area "the other way"?

Hmm. Okay...

Third attempt: 1:27.

What is "Acceptance" on the map? It just brings me back to the glowing orb room? But it says there's a secret?

Second attempt: Ruin 4.

Hahaha.

Well, I officially love Ruin. Definitely my favourite area in the game.

I made it back to level 9 in my first attempt.

I'm confident I can get it in 2 more tries.

You were right, speed running is fun and I wish the game had more of it.

Oh man, the secret area in Ruin. That was so satisfying. I love how they "gift" you with the super easy screen of blasting through all the cannon balls at the end of it.

Yes, this was a really good story

Most stories aren't good and I don't read them

But this one was

Thank you.

The "collect 10 rings" carts sure get pretty tough huh?

the first few were so easy I thought they were like the "casual fun bonus mode" of the game.

but the last few are pretty tricky.

travelling through Ruin...

noticing all the levels are clearly designed in a way that they can be done backwards

hmmmm

The finals will take place sometime in August, probably the 21st or the 28th.

Oh, and I forgot to actually link to the game:

http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/10264-Season-4-Wildcard-Game-1-For-the-Birds-The-Mafia-Championship

It's worth taking a look at if you're curious what this championship is like.

Hi everyone.

I wanted to post an update regarding the Mafia Championship (Season 4) taking place over at Mafia Universe. (http://www.mafiauniverse.com/)

A quick summary for those who weren't following:

165 communities were invited to nominate one of their members. I was chosen to represent board 8 and gamefaqs.

The 165 were split into 11 games of 15 players. A game of 12 vanillas/3 mafia was played, and all 15 players would vote +4/+3/+2 for their top three players. The top vote-getter moves on to the final game. With 11 games, that fills 11 of the 15 finals slots.

I played a game as scum, I got lynched on day 4 after being bussed by my partner. The game ended on day 7 (final 3) with a highly controversial result due to a debateably illegal/unethical vote that replaced the letter i with the lower-case letter L, and the voting system (automated via bot) on the site was immediately updated to prevent it from ever happening again.

The players voted for who they thought was the best player in the game (not MVP), the player they'd most want on their team in a future game for the best chance of winning. I tied for 2nd place. The 1st place winner was highly deserving and I voted for them.

The finals game filled up 11 of it's slots this way. But 4 more must be filled to reach 15. Two "Wildcard" games are held. A jury composed of last year's finalists pick 30 of the best players who didn't advance, for two more games of 15. And each of those games send 2 more players to the finals.

I was selected for Wildcards and played a second game. I posted a topic shortly before the game started to let people know about all of this.

This is the new part:

I was town this time. 12 Vanilla/3 Mafia. We lynched our first scum on day 3 with 11 players alive. We mislynched twice after that and reached a final 5 with two scum left alive. We were pretty confident we knew one of them, all the townies agreed that one person had to go. (They were scum) But one of the townies voted for another person they thought was partnered with that "obvious" scum, and the town lost. I didn't vote. But I made a guess at the scumteam too, at lylo, and my guess included the aforementioned "obvious" scum, as well as the townie who voted wrong, who I suspected as well. So in the end, the third scum slipped by both of us, I had them strongly townread.

The players voted on who they thought was the best player in the game overall, regardless of specific results and/or MVP status.

The scum player that evaded capture entirely and won at Lylo got the #1 spot with a huge number of points.

The #2 spot, which also advances to finals, went to me.

It was honestly a surprise, because like I said, I was part of the town who lost at Lylo, and the player I suspected wrongly was someone that many others thought was obvious town. (I had a few people mention that they thought suspecting that player was totally unjustified.) Granted, many of the people who felt that way also townread the final scum and suspected the mislynched townie instead. So it was a very tough game all around. I can go into more details if people want.

The players in this game were very good. The first game of 15 contained many players from sites that play mafia a lot more casually than us. This game, (almost) everyone was clearly a very strong player, and those who weren't were mostly only held back by activity, not skill level.

I'll answer other questions if people have them. It was the most intense game of mafia I've ever played, the most active game I've ever played. (130 pages of 50 posts each - that's about 13 full topics here. But the amount of words in those posts is WAY higher. Imagine novels. Constant walls of text.)

And ultimately, the most fun game I've ever played, though it consumed my life for three weeks.

Ok yeah I need a hint. I don't have a clue how to get there.

Oh. I see the machine cart. It's one of the few times you can see a second secret area from another... but I don't know how to get there. But that gives me a way to narrow down roughly where the entrance might be, at least. So I may be okay.

This is my last hidden thing in the first world map.

Oh. I did find #3. Behind a very clearly breakable wall that I somehow missed every time I went through the area.

Hah, I was so sure Exodus secret #3 was gonna be in the bottom right corner of this level.



Thought I was gonna say "Nevermind, found #3 also"

Jumped off-screen there and died.

Was I the only one who thought there must be a hidden area there?

Got number 6 in Exodus actually.

I was trying to count where the first 2 secrets were in Exodus and the map layout just confused me and I couldn't keep track.

Okay, I'm sorry to ask, but actually, can you tell me which rooms SS Exodus secrets 3 and 6 are in?

And also, which room is the cart in in Machine?

It's just not really fun for me to be re-exploring levels that I played 3 weeks ago, looking just for secrets. I normally like secret-hunting, but because it's been 3 weeks, my memory (and muscle memory) of the levels has dropped and replaying them feels kind of like a chore.

tfw you get to 3-4 in acceptance but then realize you haven't played the rest of it in weeks so you're probably gonna screw up and why didn't you just practice area 3 on its own.

Pus-Man was relaxing compared to Tombs & Torture.

Oh. Key door in Golgotha. Duh. I didn't even remember that if I had one left, it must just be a key door, since every world has one.

I swear I hadn't looked in Golgotha yet, I was just like "Uh, I missed only the last one, but I don't want to re-find the first 6 just so I can count them out and figure out where the 7th might be"

If I'd been playing 3 weeks ago, I'd just remember where I found the secrets so I would know where to start looking for the last ones. So I don't think it's unfair to ask.

But thanks for the hints in advance, haha. I'll try to find without. But I know I already looked through Hollow the other week and never found the 5th. Haven't done Golgotha yet so more hopeful there.

My only issue with stuff like Toms & Torture, from a gameplay perspective, is, no, it's not too hard, but it is hard enough that I'd want to take a break from it and come back after a bit, and you can't do that because you'd lose your progress.

In one of the first two rooms of Wall of Sorrow, huh? Geez. I just looked at them so closely and took every off-screen exit I could find, and all I did was die. I don't see any weird formations or blocks either.

Thanks.

Tombs & Torture.

My god.

Am I gonna get a headache from focusing so closely on a screen full of objects moving that fast?

The first few levels were the hardest, I think. But level 10 was really tough.

So I have secret #2 in Wall of Sorrow.

I just went re-looking for #1, and I found a hidden area in level 3. But it was empty... Was that the one I already got? I don't remember.

Is #1 really in levels 1 or 2? Just a yes or no.

Again, it's only because my memory is failing me, so I have trouble remembering which areas I've been, which things in levels might be leading to a secret and which were just bandage locations, etc.

Same with Golgotha. I have 1 to 6. Which level was 6 in? So I can only look for 7.

I could check a FAQ but I like playing the game totally blind with only your posts as my outside source of info!

Coming back after a few weeks is tough because I don't remember the areas as well so I don't remember exactly where I found secrets.

Can you tell me which level Hollow secret #4 is? I have 1 to 4, I want to look for 5 but I honestly can't be bothered to re-find 1 to 4 so I can know which levels to start looking for #5 in.

Tom was a second off from joining us but his post just had too much clutter

That is a very nice same-time post.

Oh and Ulti

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Alpha/beta discussions

I came in to say this. Glad it was the first reply.

Wow. That secret. Crazy.

I had tried going up some of the spots in that level on the sides, I gave up after that, the middle one seemed tougher somehow but I guess it wasn't.

Interesting.

I do miss time trials, I liked those.

But it's cool how we have different opinions because we clearly value different things.

Thanks!

I lost embarrassingly in mafia and am considered a fool.

Which means I can reclaim my life after spending 3 weeks almost every moment of my free time on that game.

And can get back to this!

actually, could you give me a small hint for retrograde hidden area #2?

I found the one in level 2 and the one in level 9.

I've been through 3-8 a few times now and I just can't find anything...

I'm not done with TeiN but I'll add my opinion anyway.

I like TeiN more.

Just because, even though I really like Super Meat Boy and am a huge fan of this genre, I prefer games to feel a bit more "cohesive".

Super Meat Boy levels feel like a bunch of random obstacles just thrown together, in individual levels that vary in shape and size and generally don't really have any feeling to them other than "here's a bunch of stuff".

TeiN has very clear themes for each world, the overall aesthetic of the game works as a connecting thread, the story is more unique, and the levels are actually connected. You can actually tell what the themes are for each world, there is consistency in terms of obstacles that you'll learn throughout the world.

I'm probably not explaining it that well, and it HAS been many years since I played SMB.

I guess I'll bump it

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I consider people who refuse to wear seat belts and demand that the seatbelt law be repealed to be on the same level as anti-vaxxers.

Harmful to themselves and everyone around them.

There are literally a million little dangerous things that someone can do that can be harmful to themselves and to other people around them. Should all of the other things have laws and fines attached to them? Sure, why not. lets go baby, let's regulate.

This is an argument that will never be settled and we will never see eye to eye.

99% of those "million little dangerous things" don't raise car insurance rates.

They also aren't on the road every single day for hundreds of millions of people

never go to india

I've seen the roads there and they terrify me

Thank God that in the USA, each state has good road laws and regulations

yes but india doesn't

so your point is invalid

wait i don't get this logic either

transience posted...

I haven't followed your topic at all. I just watched two minutes of a speedrun to see what this looked like and wow, it's just super meat boy, maybe a little slower. is there a sense of same-y-ness when you play this? like it doesn't feel all that original because super meat boy already did this about as well as you can do?

It feels different than Super Meat Boy, in my opinion. I'd say it feels about as different as it possibly could, considering how similar they are. If that makes sense. There are some big differences in core mechanics that make the gameplay "feel" different, and the focus of the level design is also different.

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Jumper games are great, so you should play them, but the physics may be a bit outdated at this point. Hopefully they'll still be good for you.

cool. I'll get back to this game next week. feel free to keep this bumped, or not.

Thanks for the 3-2 tip. It's 3-3 that really gets me. I have a strategy that works, I'm just inconsistent with it...

I can finally play this game some more tomorrow, woohoo

but ugh there's really 5-x stages...? that's... awful... oh well. I'm committed to doing it.

man i feel like this board used to have more people into this genre though. and this game is clearly a must-play for fans of the genre. wish there were more people posting.

=(

if I got to the end of depression and saw there was a new level added and I died in it I'd feel AWFUL

I can't really read your notes since it's about stuff i haven't got to but i'll play this game again on saturday/sunday depending on if I am alive in my mafia game or not. so keep updating for sure.

Denial and Anger aren't a problem for me, I kept trying and got past them pretty consistently, at least consistently enough that it's not a problem

Depression was so easy I'm not even worried

But the fish... ugh. Agreed, if it was the first I'd be so much happier.

(I got the golgotha tumor btw, you need to be entering from the previous area, not from map)

i beat scab or die as well. tough, though.

i still don't have everything from the first areas, I just couldn't help but get ahead a bit in future.

i'll play again next saturday!

i thought i found the secret in anguish but it just led to an NPC =/ laaame

Well, I got to 3-2 after a bunch of attempts and the fish got me. Of course they did.

Area 4 won't be hard at all, but getting past the fish rooms in 3 is just... ugh.

I need a break.

Oh my god. Acceptance. Is this what I think it is? Oh my god.