SPOILERS Most Effective Strategies: Against Bosses, With the Forms, and Swimming

[Chibi]

This is a very broad topic, so I'll define some rules or 1:

First person to post posters choose one of the three topics, and list the best ones he (or she knows) (EDITED)

Try to be as comprehensive as  possible

HAVE FUN

Example: from Glamador, binding a rock and shooting Nature Form briars/cactuses at it to make a thorny flail of death.

Example: from Chibi (me), luring the Energy Boss as far as possible then triggering the wall of flame (it kills him with one shot)

BEST EXAMPLE I KNOW: in the area of the Open Waters next to the Arnassi Ruins and Mithalas Cathedral, there is a friendly creature (is it the Ezzit?) who follows you around: if you stand in front of the current at the top, he will push you past the current and you can get sun form without beast form (a really hard goal)

Enjoy!

EDIT: topic is a little optimistic, it's become more of an open talk section. Sorry if you're looking for major clues, but there are still some neat tips within. 

[Glamador]

Well, this one's not really a trick so much as a little known function of energy form.

You may have noticed that if you leap off a wall or do a little spin as you end a dash and fire off a charged energy form shot you will shoot 4 instead of 3.  Well if you dash off a wall AND do a little spin at the end you shoot out 6 shots.  It's extremely useful for harder enemies.


P.S.  what wall and how do you set a fire underwater?

[RobertWalker]

A minor tip with the Energy Temple boss: You don't have to push him backwards to get the pearl. Just swim up to him and bind right away. You'll snatch the pearl right out from under his paws.

[silverflagon]

Yes Chibi how the heck did you set a wall afire?

I don't have any special tricks but if someone could come up with a really easy way to beat SS boss then I will be eternally grateful. I normally remember the tunes by the moves not the colours but I get no chance to do that with this boss and after the 6th note I forget how to start the sequence 

[Chibi]

Sorry for not being clear, I had just woken up  . It's the ray of fire that appears between two points when you shoot the pearl; but setting a wall on fire would be a neat idea for a mod  Dangermouse?


"edit" I removed a post below and added it here

Just came up with a new idea, saw it in the Aquaria Final Teaser, but tried it and it didn't work: I saw that in the Fish Cave, when leading the fish, Naija could move and sing at the same time. I tried it with different combinations of key and mouse, but no cigar.

[Chibi]

I grabbed this from another topic: if you eat all the fish in one area, then go back to that same area and "eat" in the beast form, you'll eat invisible fish. Free health, anyone? 

A small one concerning beast form, you can still do spin shots (spinning to fire more than one shot), but it goes up 1,2,3, instead of 1,3,4,6,

[silverflagon]

Sorry for not being clear, I had just woken up  . It's the ray of fire that appears between two points when you shoot the pearl; but setting a wall on fire would be a neat idea for a mod  Dangermouse?


"edit" I removed a post below and added it here

Just came up with a new idea, saw it in the Aquaria Final Teaser, but tried it and it didn't work: I saw that in the Fish Cave, when leading the fish, Naija could move and sing at the same time. I tried it with different combinations of key and mouse, but no cigar.

You just hold your curser on the note and drag, she will move in that direction, you can do the same when Naija and Li are in an hug. That last comes in useful if they are in a clinch over a save crystal, because you don't want to right click on them just there or you end up in save mode again! lol

[Chibi]

Thanks Silverflagon! I love it when a topic gains posts: it's like having grandchildren. (Not that I would know) 

[silverflagon]

Thanks Silverflagon! I love it when a topic gains posts: it's like having grandchildren. (Not that I would know) 

Nor would I Chibi worse luck, I would love to have some grandchildren to shock and embarrase lol

[Chibi]

To add another entry (and to wrench this topic back on track  ):
    This one was a very good observation by you, Silverflagon: If you eat a squid, gain its blinding ammo, and shoot at other squids (idk if this applies to other animals) they become blinded and shoot at their allies.

[silverflagon]

Thank you chibi, I haven't had chance to retest it yet but if anyone else can I would love to know if it worked for them also? I'm fighting the Golem boss at the moment

[Chibi]

Is that the boss who gives you the dual form? I've heard that The Golem is  in a boiler room, and the dual form seems too sleek for stone and brass

Edit: + a minor one: before you gain the energy form and if you don't want to lug a rock around: use shield form and stay really close to a shooting enemy. His own shots then hurt him. (NOTE: this doesn't apply for bosses (I tried it on the energy god for 30 minutes before realizing that pearl+empty statue+charged shot = boss ouchies 

[silverflagon]

No the golem comes before you go to the area that gives you dual form. Haven't you got there yet chibi? I've found that he is best fought with mostly beast form. spoiler just use a soup that gives you plenty of speed and swallow those wierd little pink things and then spit them out at the woman, and convert to energy form to shoot him when he glows red.

[Chibi]

I haven't played aquaria ever since I played it when I was supposed to be doing my homework and ... i was caught.

[silverflagon]

I haven't played aquaria ever since I played it when I was supposed to be doing my homework and ... i was caught.

Oops, I can't say anything against because I always forgot my homework  lol