Kid Chameleon High Scores - Caves of Ice (23,160 Points) [WR]
4Though Caves of Ice does not require that much technical movement to highscore, it is once again one of the hardest. I say this because I know for sure it is possible to get 23,170 points. No matter how hard I try, though, my reaction time doesn't appear to be good enough to salvage that extra 10 points, though.
The best helmet to start as is Cyclone. The helmet can be acquired by taking one of the telepads found in this level to the dead-end Elsewhere 32, collecting it there, and then returning. Immediately upon returning, you want to run to the right. If you look beneath the floor, you'll see a random arrangement of iron blocks. You want to jump and fly when you pass over the second iron block in the one set of two iron blocks. Tap the C button about 4-5 times to fly through the gap in the upper right corner of the wall to proceed to the next area. Run again all the way to the right wall, and as soon as you touch the wall, move back all the way to the left, such that you fall through a whole bunch of blocks seamlessly. Let go of the left button briefly, as a gap you do not want to enter will come up; immediately after passing it, begin holding the left button again.
This trick is extremely hard. In order to make the first critical time of 5:46, you *must* enter this next gap seamlessly. To do this, you need to turn around at about the time Cyclone crosses the border between the last and second to last iron blocks on that platform. However, it is far more precise than it looks. I fail it about 90-95% of the time. If successful, all you need to do now is run all the way to the right and fall for a few seconds. At around the time the clock turns to 2:50, a diagonal arrangement of iron blocks will appear to the left. The moment Cyclone passes the upper right block is the moment that you now need to move to the left. You will land somewhere in the diagonal iron blocks if done right, and now continue moving left until reaching the bottom row of rock blocks.
Immediately inside the cave is a row of three prize blocks. The first from the right contains a clock. Be swift and careful when collecting it, as the critical time is super narrow, yet the box is easy to miss being triggered. If everything was done right, you should barely get a time of 5:46 here. Take the telepad off to the left, and you should easily qualify for the second critical time of 5:45.
You will notice that the telepad spawns you back at the very top of the level. Though there are two clocks present in this level, it is actually faster to respawn the clock we just collected by taking this telepad. Though it may seem inefficient taking this telepad all the way back to the beginning, it is far less time costly than trying to go for the other clock. This time, you will be spawned right next to the wall with the hidden gap in the upper right. Immediately upon spawning, jump and spin to get though it fast. After that, simply repeat the process we used the first time until collecting the bottom clock again at a critical time of 8:31 (or 8:32 if you're really good).
The 90-95% success rate of the trick mentioned previously has caused me to never successfully pull it off twice in a row on both passes. In the video, you will notice I fail the trick as expected, where immediately lose any chance for getting a third critical time of 8:32. Later, you will notice I make an additional, far more costly mistake at the diagonal iron blocks. Since I turned left one frame too early, I could not make it through seamlessly at all, causing me to lose a total of nearly 25 frames. Surprisingly, these two mistakes together did not cause me to lose an additional second at the third critical time, because I unbelievably got an 8:31 by one frame!
After collecting the clock, begin to fly up the cave, tapping the C button about once every half second for maximum vertical velocity. Stay on the left side of the cave, moving to the right only in three places: Once to move 2-3 spaces right after the third elevator block to avoid a series of shooter blocks. The second is to move at least 3 spaces right after the eighth elevator block to avoid a row of ghost blocks. Immediately move back to the left after both instances.
The third is to collect the flag at the fourth critical time of 8:16, or 8:17 if you're amazing at this level. I couldn't get it, no matter how hard I tried; it's just too hard to pull off that one trick twice in a row. It would be quite a task, but if anyone out there is somehow able to squeeze out an 8:17 from this level, I would totally love to see that! :D
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