campaign

How to start a campaign

You start a campaign from play › arcade by picking "campaign" in the selector.

1. Open play › arcade. The "how do you want to play?" selector appears and remembers your last pick.
2. Pick campaign. The other option is endless mode.
3. Pick a difficulty. Easy: 5 lives, 75 s and a shield. Normal: 3 lives, 45 s and a shield earned with points. Hard: 3 lives and a fast cpu. More in difficulty.

How to clear a level

You clear a level by scoring the number of goals that level asks for before the clock runs out.

The clock starts at 45 s (75 s on easy). Each of your goals adds 10 s and each of your hits adds 0.5 s. If time runs out you lose a life and the clock refills (see lives and shield). Goals during frenzy do not count.

When the level ends, the "level complete" screen adds the level bonus (500 × level), the time bonus (20 per second left), lives and coins.

What shows up on each level

Each level adds something new, and the game announces it when the previous level ends. Everything is covered in threats and power-ups.

Bosses every 5 levels, titans every 10

Every 5 levels there is a big enemy: on levels 5, 15, 25 and 35 a boss or a giant, and on levels 10, 20, 30 and 40 a titan.

• Different every run. The 8 boss and giant types are shuffled per run: the first four never repeat, and the first one is never the same as the first one of your previous run.
• Titans from different families. The first four titans cover all 4 families, in an order that changes every run.
• You win by breaking it. On a boss level goals do not clear the level: it ends when the boss dies. You get 90 s (110 on easy), and 99 s against a titan; each hit on a part adds 1 s.
• Phases. 2 phases on level 5 and 3 from level 10; titans have 3 stages plus a core.
• Reward. Every defeated boss gives a life and coins, and its theme goes to the jukebox.

Sometimes a boss turns gold: that is the secret boss Ω.

Bonus stage between levels

Between two normal levels the hypercycle may show up: a 45 s bonus stage inside a tube where you cannot lose lives. The earliest one comes after level 3, and there is at most one every 6 levels.

Saving and continuing

The campaign saves itself at the start of every level, and you pick it up with "continue" on the start screen. On Android your progress can also go into your Google account backup, if you have it turned on.

After a game over you can continue on the same level by paying coins: 100 the first time, 200 the second and 300 the third, up to 3 times per run. You come back with your difficulty's lives (at least 3), after a 10 s countdown with its own theme.

How far the web demo goes

In the web demo the campaign goes up to level 10, the first titan. When you beat it you get "end of the demo · you beat the first titan · thanks for playing".

Related

endlessmode · arcadehypercyclemode · bonus stagedifficultymechanic · easy, normal and hardthreatsmechanic · blocks, drones and more