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I must say, this golden has been rough q.q I think the bouncy orbs weren't even that bad on their own. It really taught me a lot about the interaction between the momentum you get and the direction you're (or not) holding. I'm sure that those skills are gonna come in real handy with the last 3 goldens. That said, the fact that they also move a few pixels made them really really rough. Especially the fifth screen of the first part, the one where you bounce in some sort of V-shape of purple crystal, that one just felt like a lottery haha. Even though I could do some minor adjustments last minute, I've died so many times on that screen.

Talking about deaths, it's so funny to me that how closer you get to completing it and how closer you get to getting the golden, the more strange your deaths become. Three deaths before I finally got it I died in the water section of the fourth screen of the second part. You may think to yourself "What water section?" That little part where you have to dive between two spikes with virtually no risk of dying :)

It makes sense though, the cleaner you get the better prepared you are for most situations so that only the weirdest deaths can occur. But even then I've died so many times in the first part, which is I think why this B-side felt so rough. I really enjoy the three later parts, but the first part felt dull in comparison so the fact that I kept dying there didn't help o.o

All in all super happy to have gotten it and on to Core :D Anybody got core-specific tricks? I'm kinda scared of that one, not gonna lie ;.: