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Aquaria for iPad / iPad controls

« on: December 17, 2011, 08:01:38 pm »

For the most part, the game works well with the touchscreen interface.  Bt there are a few things I haven't figured out.  One is eating things in beast form.  It seems that if you zoom into the baddie (with the pink swirls around you) then you've eaten him.  But if you simply swim into him, you get hurt.  I haven't figured out the finesse to be able to zoom at will, has anybody here figured it out?

I also figured out that double tapping a seahorse saddles me up.  But I have no idea how to make it go.  Just sit there on a sedate seahorse. 

I also think that switching forms is slow on the touchscreen, so boss fights that require different forms are probably harder than if I was playing on a pc.  Anybody else get that impression, or is it just me?

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Aquaria for iPad / Re: Stuck... Arghhhh (spoiler alert possible)

« on: November 19, 2011, 12:39:38 am »

I'm stuck here too, and getting so sick of seeing Nadia's death sequence!  I'm able to feed him two frogs, and once got three frogs into him before I got creamed by his big breath shots.  It seems like the timing on this battle is just so slim.  I wish I could stay shielded in energy form.  Making the boss more dangerous the closer he is to being finished is just so sadistic.  I'll keep pounding away at it, but anything I can do to make it a tiny bit easier?

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Aquaria for iPad / Re: Newbie question

« on: November 10, 2011, 02:39:41 pm »

Thanks guys, I'm through that area and happily exploring with my nifty new energy form.  I really enjoy this type of game:  lots of exploration, not only of the environment but of abilities.  "Hmm, what can I do here?"  Very excellent!

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Aquaria for iPad / Re: Newbie question

« on: November 09, 2011, 01:00:25 pm »

I dont have the energy form yet.  Yeah, in that first room, the door behind me slams shut and the door in front wont open.  Theres a colored spark flying around, is that the boss?  I tried singing the same color it changed to, but i have trouble discerning the red and orange, and the two shades of green.  Was i on the right track with that, at least?  If so, ill go back and bulldog it until i get it.

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Aquaria for iPad / Newbie question

« on: November 09, 2011, 01:40:30 am »

Hi,  I'm playing Aquaria on my iPad1.  I've learned the bind song and re-explored everything moving rocks and finding things.  I think the next place I should go is into the energy temple, but I get stuck in that first room.  I can't figure out how to get out of it.  After reading some of the posts here for players on the Windows platform, I wonder, should I be able to shoot at things?  Is that what I'm missing?  That little swirly thing in the bottom corner of my screen doesn't do anything.  Do I need to find something to use as ammo?  Am I completely off the mark and should go to a whole other area?

Thanks!  Great game so far, except for getting stuck here.