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Tasty Pastry
144,355
Achievement won on 29 Mar 09TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 29 March 09 at 03:03, Edited on 21 December 10 at 23:41
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This solution has 73 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
You have to do this in one of the ten minute modes. The five minute modes will simply not be enough unless you have been playing this game for a rather long time. The one that takes place in the dark, I feel, is too hard, and should not be used. Start the game by grabbing a power dot and eating the four ghosts. rinse and repeat for the other three power dots. This should net you about two extra lives at least. After that, simply eat dots. Here are the biggest tips.
1) If you don't die, the amount you get per dot increases. See the "10" that flashes behind Pac-man when you eat a dot? That will go up to "20", then "30", "40", and "50". This translates to big points, and probably 20-30% of your score.
2) Although eating ghosts at the beginning of the level is reccomended, ignore them afterwards unless they are in your way. Use the power dots to simply keep the ghosts away from you while you clear dots.
3) Ignore the bonus points of the ghosts and instead go for the "food". The key, crown, etc, are above 5000 points, which translates to about an extra life per one eaten. Don't try to "taunt" ghosts over to you, and don't worry about "wasting" power pellets. Remember, you are going for score, which means going for the big food prizes.
I find Extra Mode 3 the best, as do many of the people in the comments below.
I had eaten about 10 of the highest food item by the end of the game, which translates to about 60,000 points just in that.
Remember, clear the boards fast, as in, as efficiently as possible, to create pellets and food faster. |
spacedvest2
166,948
Achievement won offlineTA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 25 March 10 at 16:29, Edited on 25 March 10 at 16:33
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I did this last night and I thought I would share my experience if it helps anyone else.
I tried this both with Extra Mode 2 and Extra Mode 3. I think it is much easier with Extra Mode 3. I tried to get this achievement in various ways (i.e. focusing on one side more than the other to get to the Crowns faster), and the best way that I found is to start on the left side, focus on that side only, and eat all the dots, then eat the fruit, and then focus just on the right side. Go back and forth so that ultimately you will get to crowns on both the right and the left side at the same time. At this point, you should hopefully have 1-2 minutes left and eat as many crowns and ghosts as you can and you should get 100,000-150,000 at the end easily.
I also noticed that sometimes I was wasting valuable time by running away from ghosts (going all over the board to try and escape them). Sometimes it is better to again focus on the side that I was working on and maybe get eaten (losing a life) as opposed to not getting eaten and running up the clock. As you play, you get extra lives fairly quickly so it is not necessarily a bad thing to get eaten sometimes (but it does kill any dot multiplier you have built up).
BTW, I really enjoyed this game. For a Xbox Live Arcade game, I found it very enjoyable. |
mysticpopov
51,584
Achievement won on 17 Aug 09TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 26 August 09 at 19:40
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This solution has 22 positive votes and 3 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
| my girl and i both topped 400K on the Extra Mode 2. just go for dots unless the ghosts are just in your way. if you do a speed run(no ghost combos) you will have about 300K with 1 minute remaining and nothing but Crowns to munch on. at this point, the once slow board is moving pretty fast. just munch dots and crowns as fast as possible. again the key is to eat enough fruit to be at crowns on both sides by 1 min remaining. if you go for too many combos early, you will never even get close to crowns. |
Xavygravy
59,666
Achievement won on 05 Jun 10TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 07 June 10 at 09:24, Edited on 07 June 10 at 09:25
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This solution has 18 positive votes and 1 negative vote. Please log in to vote. |
I got this achievement on Extra Mode 3.
The easiest way to get this achievement is to make use of the power pellets, not for eating ghosts (as each time you eat them they get faster), but for giving you time to collect pellets. In this way, you can sometimes spend a whole minute chaining power pellets together without any ghosts chasing you. Only eat ghosts if they are in your path.
To get this achievement, keep clearing both sides and collecting fruits until you get to the crown. If you manage to get to this point fast enough, it should be a breeze. Every 2 crowns should grant you an extra life so collecting pellets should be the largest priority. The crowns also grant a lot of points, and in the last minute (which is when you usually reach this point), you will be very fast and are able to increase your score by 50-100,000 on crowns alone.
I got 488,000 on my third or so attempt, so 400,000 should be no problem. |
Ben Online NL
41,581
Achievement won on 24 Jun 08TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 05 November 11 at 07:31, Edited on 21 October 12 at 11:27
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I think Extra Mode 2 is the way to go because:
The beginning is better for racking up lives doing combo's these extra lives make sure you have a small buffer for later
The beginning part has smaler/shorter fields
Main reson: At about 5/4 min it has more power pellets that keep you alive when the fields are big and full of pellets
The ending part (once you've done a cycle of all the fields) is small/short fields again witch can rank up about 100K+ in the last minute(s) |
vi BiG PuN ix
39,774
Achievement won on 19 Jun 12TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 29 July 12 at 19:03
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This solution has 3 positive votes and 0 negative votes. Please log in to vote. |
It's all about Extra Mode 3 here, worked well for me. The main tip I can give is to just survive for as long as possible, make every life count. You'll gain lives by scoring a lot of points and just generally staying alive. The longer you stay alive, the more points you'll gain for the dots you pick up. I'd recommend NOT picking up any of the big yellow dots and eating the ghosts, at least not until you're closer to the end. When you've got 2-3 minutes left, start collecting the yellow dots and eat like crazy. The points multiply for each consecutive ghost eaten. The important thing is to collect the fruit as soon as possible, because eventually the levels reset and it's basically like playing from the beginning again in terms of the layout, and so you'll have plenty of big yellow dots. If you've played well enough, and made the most of every life, you should have plenty of lives stocked up in case things go awry towards the end.
TIP: Even with a minute left on the clock, you still might be quite far from the required score. Keep going though, as you'll gain most of your points in this last minute, and remember that reaching 400000 in itself is pointless unless you actually complete the stage as well. I finished with a score of around 429000. |
HILL5IZE
76,361
Achievement won on 02 Dec 12TA Score for this game: 349
Posted on 12 December 12 at 22:45
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| This is the real challenge of this game. Here are some tips to reach 400,000 points. First, you must obviously choose a 10min. mode. Choose a 10min. challenge that suits you well. I usually go with the Extra Challenge 2 or 3 (I did it with both). You make the most points by eating ghosts in succession and by eating fruits (or whatever items they throw at you... let's call them fruits). You must eat every tokens on one side to get an item on the other side. The game always throw reflexion images on each side, so you must use this to your advantage. When you have a lot of BIG tokens on both sides, quickly eat all tokens on one side only. You will be able to keep the others for later, when you really need them. Eating ghosts is good, but know that they increase in speed as you eat them. You may want to refrain yourself from eating every ghosts every time. Sometimes, its best to use your Big tokens as a security to continue your progression. The levels will be harder at times, with a lot of tokens and corridors. Learn to dodge ghosts and never loose time in empty corridors. With a little practice, you will learn the levels and get far. At the end, most points come from the fruits (like the crown, see other achievement). You should concentrate on the first side that gives you the crown, since the levels after the crown are starting over again to the first levels, which are easier. So each time, grab the crown, get all tokens on the other side, and grab the crown again, until you reach 10 minutes and the achievement ! |