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BONUS 03: THIS IS A STEAKOUT! {B1003}
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SUMMARY: Gather 100 stars while navigating a stage composed primarily of meat
products.
STAGE: This is a Steakout!
POINTS: 700
From where you appear, jump ahead to the floating island that looks like a
piece of prime rib. There's a round of cheese here, and a star. From there,
you can jump out to another such island, though there's a huge steak fork
sliding back and forth that can knock you into the pit if you collide. Wait
until it has extended its furthest to the right and has just started to
recede, then double jump over to the next ledge and collect the stars.
Beyond that, you'll find some floating sausage rounds. Hop along those and
collect the stars, then to another stake platform, and from there along more
of the sausage rounds (collecting stars along the way). You'll now come to
another set of the sausage rounds, but these are more dangerous because of the
forks passing through. You'll use the same strategy to avoid these that
worked for you with the previous fork, and eventually arrive on another steak
platform.
Double jump to yet another steak bit, then look ahead and you'll see a stack
of lunch meat. When you jump on it, note that it is springy and will cause
you to bounce upward. Don't allow yourself to be startled. Let yourself
bounce until you've had a chance to get your bearings, then bounce up the next
few ledges until you're standing on a sausage round and looking forward to a
rotating piece of meat.
This segment is tricky for a few reasons. As you head forward, you'll need to
prevent the slowly rotating meat from forcing you to drop into the pit. There
are ten chunks you'll have to head along, collecting stars on the way, and
you'll need to double jump to leave one for the next. Also, there are huge
chunks of meat over some of those gaps, so you have to time your jumps just as
the meat is passing so that it doesn't come through and knock you into the pit
as you're moving. These things you might manage easily enough, but the camera
also has the unfortunate tendency to swing to the side as you complete some
jumps. Be ready for it and don't let it distract you so much that you fall
into the pit.
When you reach the other side of that meaty gauntlet, you'll come to a steak
ledge, followed by more of the springy lunch meat, then another steak ledge.
Ahead, you'll see bits of sirloin on a pole. They will serve as a platform,
but they rotate after staying still for approximately one second. To make
your way along these, you must wait until they start to rotate, then jump out
so that you land as the rotation stops. Count one second, then double jump to
the next segment as the platform begins to turn. Keep repeating that process
to make your way across a series of three such sirloin ledges, at which point
you'll notice a fork in the path. Continue along the one straight ahead to
find a place where you can jump to a hamburger patty and ride it over to a
distant ledge that contains 10 stars. Collect them, then ride back across and
from there jump along the sirloin tidbits to safety that is now located to
your upper left in the form of a series of steak platforms.
Hop along the series of stake platforms and at the top you'll see an open
hamburger. When you jump onto the meat patty, it will hesitate for a moment
and then start gliding forward. Along the way, you'll encounter dinner forks
stuck into sausages. You have to jump over these as the hamburger patty
continues its trip forward. Be careful not to brush against the forks, as
that will slow you down and your ride may get away from you. Give yourself
plenty of time to jump over each bit of dinnerware. It seems like the jumps
are easiest just near the part where the fork branches to its tines. Staying
too far left will mean you have to jump higher, and double jumps seem to slow
you down. At the end of the ride, you'll find a stake ledge with some CHEESE
resting on it, in case you need a health refill.
Ahead, you'll see another of the open hamburgers. Jump onto the patty, then
ride through another set of forks. In this case, it seems to work best if you
stay near the front of the burger and press against each fork as you can, then
manage a small hop over it and keep near the patty as it passes the next one.
If you let yourself fall behind much at all, you'll fall into the pit.
Past the forks, you'll find another solid ledge, this time looking forward to
a series of sausage rounds that are rotating ahead of you in a circle. You
can jump out and press the 'Action' button to grab onto the tip of any of
them, which you should do. This causes you to crawl along the ledges. Head
to the end of the first set, then let it carry you in a complete loop so you
don't miss any stars. At the top of the loop, you can jump out to the next
set of sausages, and repeat that to work your way across the series of moving
ledges, collecting stars as you go.
When you reach the end, there's a single stationary ledge you can head across,
followed by more steak that leads to the end of the stage. You'll receive 200
Gusteau points for your trouble, plus 500 more for collecting all 100 stars.
Then you're returned to the world you were exploring.
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