Post by clansing in N Step Steve: part 2 comments

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Ah, right, you run out of moves right at the exit square when you go for the star.

Okay, so you've managed to get a spare cat, and the portal in the room giving you one spare cat would suggest you need one spare... but you're right you need one more. The entrance to the room is as wide as it is for a reason. There's a different solution to 11,17 when you start with an extra cat that will get you there.

If you need a hint, you won't take both original cats out, you need to sacrifice one of them fairly early to relocate a troublesome part of the level. Then you'll be able to take the other and both revived cats.

Marie750203 years ago

I come from 11,17 with 3 cats, but it seems that's not enough...

clansing3 years ago

Ah, okay. Three is enough. So I'm not sure exactly where you're stuck since there are a lot of places here where it looks like you'll be close, and then lose the plot (as I found out the hard way), but a few suggestions:

1) First thing you need to push across is the flag, This starts with two of the starting cats plus the revived cat from the medusa section, and using the "cats don't turn unless they move" mechanic.

2) Never push a cat across the conveyor, only flags and rocks.

3) I found it easiest (maybe necessary) to stash the level-ending cat in the south tunnel to set things up so that I could recharge moves by moving up onto a flag, since otherwise it was too easy to either walk onto the spikes or accidentally walk onto the conveyor.

Marie750203 years ago

OK, got it. Thank you very much ! again !

nmotsch7896 days ago (2 edits)

The star is above the spikes, at least in the current version. Which also makes it *seem* impossible to get if you enter the room with 2 Steves (although I could be wrong). Was it changed at some point? I don't know if any older versions of the game are still available online anywhere to check, or if there's any footage of the room from an older version that might show it as being on the spike?

Ethan Clark (EPICPIKAGUY)6 days ago

I could pull up the 1.0 version of the game and see if it's the same.

nmotsch7894 days ago

Lol, thanks for indulging my curiosity!

Ethan Clark (EPICPIKAGUY)4 days ago

Seems to have been there from 1.0.

nmotsch7891 day ago (1 edit)

Interesting. Alright, criticism withdrawn.

Just curious, is it possible to get that star if you start with only 2 cats?

clansing1 day ago (1 edit)

I probably just misremembered the positions of things when describing it. Looking back at the original comment I was responding to, Marie75020 was one step short of being able to leave the room, not one step short of the exit space, so I clearly just had a brain-fart when answering that one, and mentally put the star one space back from where I thought Marie was (obviously I didn't have the star there anymore myself to check it). Mea culpa. I'll update that comment so it doesn't confuse people ;)

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