Topic: Animal Puzzle Adventure First Impressions

I'm surprised nobody has made a topic for this one. Anyway, if you've bought this title what do you think about it? How does it control? Is it worth it or is it totally lame? Do you think it deserves its E10+ rating?

Looking forward to impressions. Had my eye on it since it released in Japan.

It is an ok game. The game controls via the d-pad and there is no tutorial. A help mode would have been nice for areas that one gets stuck in.

There is some animal and same number of barn. If you press down in d-pad for example, all the animal moves down, except if there is an obstacle in that direction, the obstacle is the key to solve the puzzle. To solve the puzzle all the animal must be at each barn in the same time. If one or more animal fall down the hole or cliff, it's game over. The game records how many moves you take to solve the puzzle, and I think there is no information about minimum moves possible.

So is it like robot rescue? If so, is this better, or just more expensive?

Same formula it seems, yes. That's why it appealed to me.

Never play robot rescue, but this game looks simpler and less informative (There's a girl talking something useless from time to time at bottom screen, though).

How many levels are there? Robot Rescue has 45, so ultimately unless it has twice as many I don't see this game on my DSi when I have Robot Rescue.

As I said on the review page, it's actually not bad at all, and an entertaining little diversion if you're into puzzles of this sort. It is, however, extremely bare-bones, with a colorful presentation but nothing at all in the way of alternate modes, options, etc.

Stage 4-05 is killing me. It's the one with 6 dogs and 6 pigs, which you move vertically to opposite ends while keeping the right arrangement. That's one of only 3 stages that I haven't completed in the first 4 chapters (are there more after that?). Not sure why I'm so addicted to this thing, but I believe it's just how I am -- if I open a level and can't figure it out, it drives me crazy until I can solve it.

While I'm talking to myself, let me also note that there seems to be a contradiction in the built-in help manual. It states that there are 5 chapters, and that the next chapter will open whenever you complete 8/10 puzzles of the preceding chapter. I've completed 39/40 puzzles in the first four chapters (that last one is dang hard), but the fifth chapter is still not accessible.

I suppose this means I'm stuck until I can solve that one remaining puzzle.

Wario, CHECK THE WII MUSIC THREAD! I need your help with something.

I find this game hard, even at chapter 2, maybe I'm not suited into puzzle game...

@sylkrian

You're right, it's dang near impossible to clear certain stages. I still can't go to the fifth chapter due to not being able to clear that one stage, but I actually also couldn't clear stage 2-10 for a very long time, until I wrote a recursive computer program to find the solution. No joking, I did that, and it gave me a 147-move solution, which I can share if anyone else is stuck on that level.

@Kid_A

Maybe you should check the Wii Music thread. I responded to your request on New Year's Eve, but I never heard back from you on it.

Well, I completed it, all 50 stages. Some were tremendously challenging. Something tells me I'm one of the few people in the world to finish them all, given the fact that the game seems to be aimed at a younger audience which I can't fathom being capable of working at these long enough without giving up in frustration.

It was well worth its 5 bucks, but now it shall be deleted, for lack of replay value and to free up some space.

I like this game but I can't seem to beat stage 2-10 and I've been trying at it for almost 2 days now. I'm starting to get frustrated. There's so many stages I get stuck on.

@MimiLoveAsuka

Do not despair; as I noted above in one of my comments, I was also stuck on that stage for hours and hours of frustrating gameplay, until I finally gave up doing it the normal way, and wrote a computer program to find a solution. Writing and running the program only took me 3 hours, but I'd have surely spent several more days (at least) without it.

So, if you want a 146-move solution (probably not the shortest possible, but the first my program found), I just posted my program's output here for you. Follow the sequence of moves, and you will finally be able to beat that level.

(The numbers next to each move indicate the positions of the animals on the playing field, counting from the hole in the upper left corner as coordinate 0,0 -- but ignore that, it only is in the output so that I can confirm the program's logic. The number 146 at the top is the count of moves it took to reach the solution, while the number 84263 is the count of different sequences the program tried before it found a successful one.)

@warioswoods

Thank you sooo much! I thought I would never make it past that stage! I really appreciate it!

The sad part is, after I got past that stage I flew right through chapter 3 and got stuck on 3 stages in chapter 4. ^^; and it's mostly the ones that look like they'd be easy to figure out that I get stuck on. Is there any way you'd be able to help me again?

@MimiLoveAsuka

I'd have to do a good bit of work to adapt my code to handle the later stages, unfortunately. I wrote it hastily to solve that particular level, rather than making a generic level-solver, so it's structurally based on certain premises, including the existence of only one type of animal. Most of those later stages have 2 or more different types that need to reach their respective houses.

There was only one more level after 2-10 that stumped me for a long time (out of the 50 total stages, all of which I somehow managed to get through), and it was the one with 6 cats and 6 dogs, lined up across from each other, and needing to be switched vertically. I finally figured that one out just as I was close to giving up in frustration, but of course I didn't write my solutions down or anything. Which one are you stuck on now?

@warioswoods

I only have one stage I'm suck on now, I managed to do the other ones. The one I'm stuck on is stage 4-05 the one with the 6 pigs and 6 dogs. I've been at this one for 2 days too and I have no clue how to solve it.