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Mexico:|
Difficulty: 5/5
Weight: 800 tons
Record: 800 m 20'00''00
Bonus Miles: Clear Bonus : 3500 m
No Miss Bonus : 2400 m
Perfect Hit Bonus: 1200 m
Amount of remaining tons at which the spider speeds up: 240 tons
Once again you begin a level in a four-colour-section. Like before you should
collect every POW capsule and pass out on most air capsules but this time you
have to drill around lots of brown blocks from the get-go. (The flower
pattern is the same as in Brazil)
Pretty soon you'll find a row of X-blocks and six POW capsules just like in
Brazil. Wait for the centre flower to open and bring in two hits here.
Afterwards (when the spider has approached closely) two three-colour-sections
await with some nicely to reach POW capsules and the chance to nab at least
one oxygen tank.
The hunt continues in a four-colour-section without any special structures
but the spider's speed and the high amount of X-blocks make for a relatively
hard time getting through if you want to go on attacking but nonetheless it
is possible.
After that Namco grants you a little break by letting you drill through a
two-colour-section followed by another four-colour-section and a speeding up
of the robot. Here you get a chance to strike two times at the same flower as
you'll come across two rows of X-blocks "guarding" six POW capsules. You can
either make an X-block drop onto these rows or alternatively move to the left
or to the right and drill through a normal block.
The next three-colour-section is pretty average: Just move around the lots of
X-blocks, grab as many POW capsules as possible and any air tanks if
necessary.
Afterwards you'll get into a four-colour-section starting off with a small
"cave" consisting of X-blocks and containing three POW capsules. If you're
low on air and/or the spider robot is extremely close you don't want to get
in there as you will have to drill a brown block at the bottom to get out
again but if both doesn't apply go get the tanks. Just below this cave you'll
even find two more columns consisting of three red tanks each. These are
surrounded by X-blocks, too, but only to the left and to the right, so you
should definitely grab them.
By now probably the spider has thrown off its outer shell speeding up the
hunt even more. If you don't feel like you're capable of both drilling down
quick enough and collecting POW capsules don't do it. After a short while you
come to a two-colour-section leading to a four-colour-section that begins
with two rows of X-blocks that surround a lot of easy to reach red tanks.
Watch out for falling blocks since gravity has risen steeply and go on like
in the last four-colour-section meaning that you should either feel
comfortable and nab POW tanks or only drill down and wait for the next big
gathering of red tanks (a stair made of these goodies) and end the level.
The last level of Pressure Driller seems intimidating at first but with a bit
of practice (and a lot of resistance to frustration ^^) it becomes rather
easy.
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