maz
Member
Has anyone got past Level 78 of this game? I've had 4 tries at it and it looks pretty impossible to me, unless you are very, very lucky with the symbols you get in the separate lower section.
The only strategy I can see is to bash away at the lower section with the power-ups--but I just don't seem to have enough time to collect enough to bash them all.
Any tips would be appreciated.
Tizz
Member
Hi there, Maz,
There's one power-up that gives you a triangular spread of hits: one up the centre, two angled out to the sides. You need to use that one on the bottom centre field of the lower section, and it knocks out virtually everything at one go. Good luck!
Tizz
AlexSJ
Member
Tizz is right on track with that hint, you need to get that power-up a few times (and that fairly fast) and place it right in the middle of the bottom. In order to get that power-up (it's the last one after the regular bomb) you need to get as many 4 or more combos as you can.
By the way, wait to get passed that one. The other levels are full of walls at the bottom, so you need to move the pieces over one or more columns. At least in Atlantis there was a swap thing ....
Pura vida, AlexSJ
A friend of mine and I were both stuck on that. She told me that the bomb (2nd stage "hammer") used several times will do it. However, she's down to 1 life for level 79. I "died" there once and am still working back to it (from level 68).
AlexSJ
Member
Save your game-info before you even get start there. You will need the lives on the last level ... that one almost did me in and as I'm happy to report has my son stuck as well. He was ahead of me throughout the whole game, but got stuck there. He has a slight disavantage since I took "my" mouse from him and had to play with only the touchpad. That, by the way, is an interesting twist ...
Go to the game folder, find base, save both gameinfo and log file.
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'Dragonlair, you most likely will run out of time with the hammer. Go for the fire bomb, you will need it about 3 times. Work like crazy on getting the longer combinations ..
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'Anyway, in case anybody is interested, I could forward game at level 79 with 5 lives left to live or level 78 with the same amount of lives
Pura vida, AlexSJ
maz
Member
Thanks so much for the info.
I've now got to start again with 3 lives on the USA section and try and get back to L78--knowing that I'll probably be beaten by the next level and have to start again in the USA. Ergggg!
BTW, I'm playing the game on my laptop using the touchpad, and that's probably why I'm not doing better (Oh, yes!).
emperor
Member
I have completed it this evening, but now the game and the addiction has started all over again. After completing the first journey, journey 2 introduces 'debris' that can only be removed by letting it fall out of the bottom. This makes things even harder.
As a word of warning, just when you think you have completed the game, it throws up a really difficult screen (day 81 or 82, I can't remember, but definitely after 80), where I found it better to use the hammer rather than later power-ups to chip away at the pieces in the corners. You'll see what I mean when you get there.
grnnysews54
Member
With help from this thread I finally got past day 78, only to discover I cannot master day 81 (the wedding day). No matter what I do, or what power up I use, I can't get those pieces into the corners to fall out! I am determined to beat this thing! I didn't realize there was a second journey, yikes! I'll never get any housework done!!
grnnysews54
Member
I can now say I completed Level 81 and the game for the first time! I finally figured out to use the hammer to break blocks on the sides of the columns where the items need to drop. I do this after I've gotten two of the same colors sitting side by side, then use the hammer to destroy the other blocks until I have the same color and can swap the item, voila! Once you get the first few items dropped, it does get easier as you can then swap the colored disks above them. Now I'm starting Journey 2, such an addictive game.
RosnSC
Member
I managed to get L78 but probably because somehow I got a lot of extra clock time. That thing must have ticked the equivalent of the amount of time we usually get. I have progressed on to L81, and just lost the first round. Using the hammer to chip away at the blocks on the sides of the column was mentioned. You are talking about the 'brick' blocks at the bottom of the columns, right? I tried the hammer on two of them, and nothing happened, but then again there weren't matching tiles above them, either.
maz
Member
Thanks to the tips about the firebombs, I've now managed to beat day 78, and am now stuck in day 79 .
I think I will give up now--for a while at least.
As W. C. Fields said,
"If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. "
:)
emperor
Member
RosnSC, my apologies for not being clearer in my firrst post - I was being a bit lazy in my description. grnnysews54 was much better in describing what to do. The stone walls are indestructible and you cannot chip away at them with the hammer.
What I was trying to say was that the later, more powerful power-ups are not very useful. You need to get two tiles of the same colour adjacent to the piece you want to free on one side, and then use the hammer, whichever style, to remove the single piece between the one you are trying to free and the outer edge of the game area to bring a third, matching tile into place. You might need to use the hammer a number of times to get this third piece at the right level. The reason the more powerful power-ups are not much use is that they can only be used away from the area you are working in if you are not to destroy the pair of tiles you are trying to work with.
I hope that is clearer.
crazyritten
Member
Each journey will get harder.
The game said that there where 3 journeys.
But there are more.
I will start at journey 6 tomorrow and i have 18 lives now.
Each 100,000 points you get a live.
Also for extra lives you can take the red heart in the cirkel.
Im addictive to this game, hahaha.
I will keep playing it.
Good luck everyone and greetings from the Netherlands.
RosnSC
Member
emperor, I think I've 'got it', but not totally sure...lol. I did beat L81 last night, though it took a couple of tries...and lives. I found you just have to work those pieces over to the outer blocks, where they will eventually fall to the bottom, and then out. I am on Journey 2 now.
Copmom, I almost completely lost interest in Atlantis Quest, but then I got hold of a very simple cheat that someone posted, that made all the difference for me. Now mind you, I wouldn't use cheats 'lightly', but only when I've played a level 'to death', and know that if I could just get that one little tile that is right there at the edge with only one other tile blocking it, I could win that level. As it is, now, I've gotten good enough at it - and learned that when finishing the very last level not to start a new game - that I am up to (I think) 81 lives, and a LOT of the 'tools'. I keep playing it over and over, too. :D
Sue - who played and replayed The Rise of Atlantis, too but eventually lost her knack with the last level, and took to making a new name and starting fresh...and losing out on the accumulated 'tools'
Sue
Tizz
Member
Hi, RosnSC
I only managed to complete Atlantis Quest the once and lost all my saved extra time and all extra lives on the final level. I find it much, much harder than Atlantis Rising. All those tiny game fields! So if you really do know a "simple cheat", please share!
Tizz
Weena
Member
Ok everyone I am addicted. I played all night long and still got stuck. Someone said that you can't break the stone walls, well if you can't do that then I am lost. When you say that you have to chip at the side do you mean that you are chipping at the edge of the stone wall?
Not sure what level I am at but it is sure driving me crazy. If anyone can help please do. I just love this game, the graphics are fantastic.
Hay just a question. Today is Sept 21st. Any reason why we didn't get a new game today? I so look forward to the weekend.
Weena
copmom
Member
I never tried Atlantis Rising.. must have missed that one.
Weena, no you don't even try chipping at the edge of the stone wall, they don't break!
When you get something in the corner that you need to move, you usually need to have 2 of the same color above it, and then get that same color beside it.. that's where you'd use the hammer to break a block here and there to get that same color dropped down beside it so it will move over.
I am on level 5 (been around the world 5 times)and totally stuck on game 81:(
The closest has been one puzzle piece left to go....ugh!
Obviously I have gotten through game 81 four times already but MAN does it gets harder!!!
Anyone else out there that got past this point??Any suggestions?
AlexSJ
Member
Instead of going around the world forever, hop over to Alawar and check out the new version from Montezuma, one of the overall favorites of Match 3 given away here: The Curse Of Montezuma (http://www.alawar.com/game/curse-of-montezuma)
I saw some requesting in the thread about suggestions. While I don't like it as much as the previous version, it does have some funky form.
Too bad, the hour goes by way too fast - perhaps if we all root for it, they'll offer it here.
Pura Vida, AlexSJ
RosnSC
Member
Tizz - Try the letter 'w'. That little letter works wonders...<BG>.
Copmom - The Rise of Atlantis is the sequel to Atlantis Quest, and is a very enjoyable game. If it's offered up here at GOTD, I recommend you grabbing it. I got it the 2nd time; passed it up the 1st go around because I 'thought' I wouldn't like it....hah, was *I* wrong.! When you complete the final level (which can be a real b***h to beat) of that game you get a very nice screensaver.
AlexSJ - I got the first Montezuma game when GOTD last gave it away. For some reason, though, I couldn't 'get into' it.
Sue
copmom
Member
Rosn.. I was wrong. I do have The Rise of Atlantis, forgot to put the shortcut in my desktop games folder.. it was in Program Files. Knew something was wrong since I had the screen saver for it! DUH. Just tried it and I have 30 spare lives in that one. I guess that's one good thing about all this talk about 80 Days.. brings back to mind all the old favorites I have on here that I'd totally forgotten about!
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