Oh yeah. That's why.

[xaq_the_aereon]

So a recent post in davidn's journal got me into picking up Crystal Towers 2 again. After getting my bearings in again with a new file, I switched back to my main (still sitting at about 90.6% completion)...and ran into a couple of problems.

Biggest problem is that I couldn't remember how I had the controls set up. I only got to the control settings menu through furious keyboard mashing, and when I saw what the controls were set for, I facepalmed...I was using the same general setup I use for emulators. T for Select (Use here), G for Start (menu), and FRED for AXYB (not actually used, magic2, magic1, and jump).

So, once I got that sorted out, I eventually ran into my 2 other big problems:

1) I'm still missing 8 Orbs, but since I seem to have completed all the main stages at least once, I can't figure out where they could be. (/subtlecryforhelpdavid)

2) The "constantly losing gems" and race (whether for checkpoints or against a ghost) Rainbow Gems, regardless of what stage they're in, are still the bane of my CT2 existence. I fully completed Flying Fortress C, yet have gotten nowhere with Luminous Tower A. :[


...Oh well, game's still fun.

Comments

[davidn]

Well, looking at your scorecard (hooray), I see you still have two bosses to find and defeat - but you'll need more of those gems to do it...!

Luminous Tower A is paradoxically a lot easier if you take your time - find the route that feeds you the most of them and just walk along it, avoiding any enemies (it was a massive mistake to halve your gems when you get hit, it should have been losing about 10 of them or something.)

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

If it helps, here's a piece of information I didn't find out (i.e. David didn't tell me) until after completing the game the hard way: you can shoot the ghost to slow him down.

Let me say that again.

YOU CAN SHOOT THE YELLOW B*ST*RD.

The amount of revenge this lets me take on the Dust Hill A phantom in particular is well worth opening the level for. :P

D.F.