PrinceWatercress plays Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! - Part 27 of 27

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The Dragon Shores Coaster is the hardest of them all. You'll be popping balloons while avoiding obstacles. You'll have to press Left or Right at the right time to take the forks in the road (it's kinda picky, so you might have to press it repeatedly until it moves like you want it at the forks). In the second track, you may have to jump with the X button to get some of the balloons. The last track has you armed with a cannon, which lets you take down the balloons with the targets at them. You'll have to press Circle at the right time to take those balloons down, since you can't aim the cannon at a different spot (kinda like the trolley in Breeze Harbor).

Now for the post-game surprise for finding everything in the game. There is a door that requires you to have 10,000 gems and 64 orbs to open. Inisde is a Superflame power-up...with lightning emanating from it! If you walk through, nothing seemingly happens...until you press Circle. It's a permanent Superflame, and you can even keep it when you save the game afterwards!

What's also interesting is that if you start a new game immediately after saving, you can play the game all over again with the permanent Superflame! It's really awesome! With that, I get revenge on Fracture Hills for giving me a hard time.

Also worth mentioning is that when you beat the game and go to the Guidebook, you can now scroll past Winter Tundra. If you do that, you'll be able to check out all the Skill Points. If you have 8 or more, you can press X to access the epilogue. That reminds me...next time! If you have all 16, it'll say "Well Done!" at the end of the list in big black letters. Nice. You'll also extend the epilogue with the extra "Faunus Mortas" section as well.

If you have the maximum of 99 lives, but you don't have all the skill points, you can go past 99 and have triple digit lives. You can even save this total to your save file, if you wish. Of course, if you get an extra life through normal game play, you'll be kicked back down to 99. 

Well, this was a fun one. See you next game. 

Skill Points

Gulp's Overlook

Perfect - Beat Gulp without taking damage and you'll receive an Extra Life and a Skill Point.

Hit Ripto - If you can hit Ripto with a rocket, you'll get an extra life and a Skill Point for you efforts.

Ripto's Arena

Perfect - If you can somehow beat Ripto without taking damage at all, you get one of the hardest skill points in the game as well as an extra life.