about as close as the cube is to having a second good game
[*]when playback reaches a movie's end, it pauses and switches to recording instead of suddenly closing the movie, if you did any recording after the movie was opened
If you can actually get rid of both walls blocking the Rainbow Drop in world 5 without Rick and survive the second one, I commend you. I don't think it's realistically possible on a console, and considering the angles and tight spaces I don't think it's possible on an emulator either. Rick + Spark acts like Beam from other Kirby games, and it's the sweeping and range that allow you to break both walls surrounding the drop. Coo and Kine can't make it past the first wall, and if you try to jump to reach the second with solo Kirby, you don't have enough time to recover before dying from the bottomless pit in front of the second wall, no matter how little time you spend using Spark. (It's not even close either.)
The WIP looks fairly good, though I have one question. Against the third boss, why not use Kine + Stone to attack the boss rather than ditching Stone? You can attack it through the entire battle rather than just when enemies come out.
Also, as far as the girl blob. As far as I know, it is random. But I do know that the level that will cost the least amount of time to find the Girl Blob, in case you can't get it on a first pass, is level 5-3 - you get to choose who to use right at the start of the level. If you need to go back for Rick - who as far as I know is a a requirement for world 5's Rainbow Drop - that's the level to go to.
There are few things I'd like to test if you did not :) 2-1 You could take fire ability, then bird, then use fire ability to break blocks at the end of level... 3-1 Isn't rolling down after getting stone ability faster? (after seeing your behavior at long vertical stage I think rolling is ineffective... never saw that in action though) 3-boss which victory dance is faster, with or without fish? or are they same? You don't seem to need fish in bonus level, so if free dance is faster, you should drop it after boss is beaten... 4-1 Just wanted to say that frames where you get fire ability are cool =)
Kirby 2 deserves to be done in SGB mode given how beautiful it looks in that.
? :Dit's a good game, but I have to admit I'm stuck in the big head. how does one go up to the roof ?