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General Donkey Kong Discussion => General Donkey Kong Discussion => Topic started by: stella_blue on April 14, 2013, 11:00:05 am
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Ever worked hard for a 9-11k Level 1-1 score, only to suffer a textbook rivet screwing on the very next screen? Of course you have. Everybody has. Level 01 scores of 14-15k (9X00/5X00) have become so common that I scarcely take notice anymore. I'll accept it, but I don't have to like it.
A recent game presented a sharp contrast. I put up a 7200 on Level 1-1. If I've ever had a lower 1-1 score, taking both hammers and pressing aggressively, it's been completely erased from my memory. Short of taking a wild barrel in the face, everything went wrong. The bottom hammer was weak, steering was a joke, the initial fireball was determined to make my life miserable from start to finish, and zero-point barrels were all over the place. I played on, managing 13,400 on the rivet stage and completing Level 01 with 20,600 points. Not bad at all. It wasn't the first time the rivets have bailed me out after a disappointing 1-1, but it probably represents my most extreme example.
An early death almost always means an automatic restart. For me, a poor score on any individual stage does not.
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And THAT is why I warp! Especially past 1-1.
You have to work five times as hard for the same amount of points on 1-1 that you can pick up much more easily later.
It's one thing if you're going for the WR, because you have to get ALL the points, but I just want to tear through the BS.
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Yea I warp too. The whistle is behind DK, on 1-1. You have to hold the P1 button down and then jump to the left to get past DK...then jump straight up in the air when you are standing just to the left of DK...and the whistle appears. Grab it, and it gives you the option to warp to 2-1, 3-1, or 4-1.