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I had to slow down my mouse, but I completed all the levels. I don't remember the exact wording, but it said something like "Congratulations! You have completed the game." Kind of a letdown after all that work.
I think my difficulty was having an ergonomic mouse -- I don't naturally make the mouse go straight horizontally or vertically anyway, so I kept sliding to one direction or the other unintentionally. Maybe that's part of the gimmick, though, in that one unconsciously corrects for such movement, and that's what must be retrained to go the wrong direction. Anyway, it was an excellent time waster. Thank you, Book.
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I lost track, actually -- I got pulled away by a kid not having gone to sleep yet, and when I came back it just said "Final Level" without giving a number. It wasn't much (if any) more than twenty, though.
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It's hard for me, not because the reversing effect has me confused but because the mouse I'm using is wonky and the cord is all kinked.
Anyone remember Heaven and Earth? It was a puzzle game with superb graphics. It came out in the early 90s and one set of puzzles was all based on having the mouse motions reversed. I think it was only for Mac, though. I wish it were available now.
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I can't tell you what a personal victory it was for me to complete this. I have always had difficulty with spatial/hand-eye coordination things. (Neither by itself--I was good with 3-dimensional geometry, for instance.) I was all set to give up at level four, and then I saw that most people in this thread made it through the whole thing, so I became determined to keep on going. At level six, though, I decided that this was really not going to happen. But I kept trying. After level ten or so, I started to become more confident. I would see something crazy and think not, "This will be impossible," but, "This will be hard."
And then came level 16.
I must have spent nearly an hour on level sixteen alone. Several times I made it to the bottom of the elevator and either couldn't get off in time, or got off and crashed into the top wall. After level 16, 19 was suprisingly hard, but I knew it was just a matter of patience.
Talk about making too much out of a silly little flash game!
I don't think the reversal made it any more difficult for me; I would have had as hard a time if it were normal. I did develop ten years' worth of carpal tunnel syndrome in a couple of hours, though.
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Yeah. Good game, that. I never did finish the whole thing, but some of those puzzles were fun. Especially the one with the groups of blocks that moved together. And the Figure/Ground section. The card game was pretty cool, too -- like the one in Fool's Errand with the major arcana, but somewhat more complicated.
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