Turbo Pudding
Lassoodle’s second world, Frosty Fjord, promises “slippery ice and grumpy walruses.” Milo, Granny Moss and Pip the sparrow take the hunt for the Seed Stars onto the snow, all the way to the Walrus Warden. It’s Tuesday, so here’s how to clear all five stages with three stars.
The picture at the top is level 1, Skating Lake, with Milo gliding around the Sun Coin in the middle of the ice. As Milo puts it: “I’m not sliding. I’m skating. With style.”
The stars work as in the orchard: one for finishing, two for beating par, three for beating par with all three Sun Coins. What changes is the ground. On ice, Milo turns at about a third of the usual sharpness, drifts and can’t boost. Snow slows you to a little over half speed.
Level 1: Skating Lake
The goal is 28 pieces of fruit, and the lake hands you eight at once. A ring of berries sits five meters around the Sun Coin in the middle, about as wide as Milo’s turning circle on ice. Start your turn well before you need it, keep it gentle, and one long skate eats the whole ring for a ×5 combo. Then swing in for the coin. The other two wait on the snow, by the far fence and toward a corner.
The pines, the igloo and the snow rock are only a bump here. Only the fence costs a heart. Granny’s advice: “On the ice, dear, aim a little ahead and let yourself glide.”
Level 2: Penguin Pass
Two snowfields lie on either side of an ice lane, and their melons grow back in ten to fourteen seconds, so the snow is slow but rich. The ice belongs to three penguins. When one wiggles, it’s aiming at your head. A red lane shows where it’s going, and then it belly-slides straight down it.
Step aside, because a penguin can only slide straight. After a slide it rests, and a bump then is harmless. Loop a resting penguin, and it drops a shower of fruit. One coin sits deep in each snowfield, and the third by the far fence.
Level 3: Lost Chicks
This level isn’t about fruit. Seven hatchlings are lost in the snow. Touch one with your head, and it waddles along behind your tail. Bring your head into the nest near the start, and every chick in your line walks home.
The danger is the snowballs. Each one wobbles at the top of its lane, then rolls down it, growing as it goes. Two rows cross the way home, one rolling east and one west. A hit costs a heart and scatters your chicks. Granny’s hint is the whole plan: “Bring two or three chicks home at a time, dear, and wait for the snowball to pass.” One coin lies just past the little ice pond in the middle, and the other two out at the left and right edges.
Level 4: Crackle Floes
The goal is 30, and golden pears count as three. They grow only on a raft of twelve ice floes in the middle. Every floe you leave cracks and sinks behind your tail, then floats back three seconds later. Drop into the water, and you lose a heart.
Cross the raft in one smooth sweep and never turn back over your own trail. One Sun Coin sits on the raft itself. The others are in a far corner and by the right edge.
The frost sprite freezes a spot near your head into ice for five seconds. It never hurts, but ice in the wrong place turns a neat line into a drift. Two penguins patrol here, and this time the igloo, the pines and the rock are hard.
Level 5: The Walrus Warden
“Halt! Nobody slides past the Warden!” The boss is a walrus in a cap whose rule one is no sliding. Rule two is also no sliding. He breaks both all fight long.
You start long, with four hearts. A pale lane follows your head across the rink, then locks red, and he belly-slides down it into the boards. Step out of the lane. He tumbles back and sees stars for five or six seconds. Loop him then.
Two loops end each of the three phases. Between slides, he lobs snowballs, and a ring shows where each will land. From the second phase, his slide cracks the ice along the lane, and the cracks turn into icy water for five seconds. In the third, he slides twice in a row. Up to three hearts drop in, and the boards are only a bump for Milo. He always gets dizzy well away from the edge, so a wide loop has room. All three coins sit along one side of the rink.
See it for yourself
Frosty Fjord is part of the full game. World 1, the Sunny Orchard, is free to play in your browser at lassoodle.com. The full game, all six worlds, is $4.99, paid once. More about the game is on the Lassoodle page.
