Progress update - I have 9 levels left to solve in Vicious now - The Gr8 Escape, Buridan's Lix, 100% Built by Lixes, Wait Why is There a Tree, All Aboard the Pain Train, Tinker Tailor Soldier Lix, Theresa Falls Up the Stairs, Heed the Traffic Light, Halfway Down the Stairs, and Chasm.
I have also solved a couple of Hopeless levels, (Division of Labour and Empty Space is Hardly a Waste, both done fairly quickly) - haven't really spent long on anything in Hopeless yet though.
Feel like I'm close with some and clueless with others...
For the remaining solved vicious levels:
Survival of the Craftiest - Solved 1st attempt, the only fiddly bit to me was
. Liked the level in terms of just how big it looked (without being onerous in length)
Dream the Impossible Dream - Also solved fairly quickly, (fewer than 10 attempts)
Here the fiddly bit was getting the timing right to use the right hand basher
. Feels to me like a lot of the alternative routes can be ruled out very quickly?
Triangle Inequality - Reminded me of Tribute to Benny Hill in that its about clumping the group together, but it seems much easier than that level - feels like it should be in Cunning at the latest? As a level at that difficulty level its a nice idea.
3.1.1.1 - I felt it was very generous with the skills available, and the terrain made it pretty clear where to deploy most of them, so it only took a couple of goes.
Finale - Solved this more quickly than Toccata, though of course Toccata has to go first. And with the artwork used in Toccata you can't even switch the names.
Feels like a fairly conventional level, once I worked out that you can afford to have a few lix splat at any rate
. Like SOTC I liked the fact the level had scale but did not take a long time for any attempt.
Strange that 4 of the last 5 levels in Vicious have been relatively tame, idk if that matches others experiences?
Also attached is a better but still failed attempt for Buridan's lix, an optimisation of the earlier one. 8 lix saved now, so there is still something I'm doing wrong.