Tip for completing Story Mode levels

[SolsVGR]

I just beat the story mode of this game last night and I figured I'd share this piece of advice with anyone who may be struggling. Basically, as I was playing, I would reach levels that were just astronomically hard out of nowhere. I'm talking Tetris vs. Puyo Puyo matches where the CPU would get a 6 or 7-chain within 25 seconds (which effectively immediately kills you in tetris). I'm a decent enough player and had no problem beating the first game while getting most of the stars, but this was just ridiculous. On a couple of these levels, I would quit the game and come back the next day, only to find I could beat it, getting 3 stars first try.

 

Well, I'm not sure the specifics, but the game has some form of scaling difficulty, and I found the best/easiest way to take advantage of it. Basically, starting around world four, almost every single stage would be that difficult, making it near impossible for me to not get wiped out within half a minute. I decided to try experimenting and this is what I found that works:

 

Encounter a ridiculously hard stage? > Fail intentionally > "Skip stage" > Immediately try it again once you're back at level select.

 

Boom. The CPU will now be incredibly stupid and take their sweet time doing anything. I have no idea why this works, but if you skip a stage, it will become doable the next time without fail. It's not even a subtle change. I ended up having to do this for just about every stage starting towards the end of world 5, and it worked every single time. First try would be a ridiculous god-like CPU, but after I fail intentionally, it was as if they'd never played tetris or puyo puyo before. 

 

So I figured I'd post this to potentially help anyone else out: If you're getting stuck on a stage and it just feels like hitting your head against a brick wall, but you also don't just want to skip every stage, try this. It'll make the game actually doable.

[FFATMA]

That's very helpful!  Especially if you want to get 3 stars on every stage!  You can also turn off the scaling difficulty, but even when I tried that, I ran into that same issue with some stages having Mr. 25-second-massive-combo-instant-death pop up.  I ended up just skipping those stages, which weren't actually too many after turning off scaling difficulty.  I'll try your method and go back to clean up what I've missed!

[Joypad92]

If you instantly die intentionally, the game will think that you're a complete beginner. That way you can plow through every stage without any difficulties, which isn't really fun either. So I recommmend to always try your best when encountering godlike CPUs, even if there's no way you're gonna win. Then return to the stage select screen and try again. That way the game will try to match the CPU difficulty to your true skill level, which can make for some fun games.

[Ich1994-1994]

Do I have to get 3 stars on every level for the plat or is just 1 enough?

[Doenbo]

The trophy 'Completionist' says "Achieved 100% completion in Adventure mode". So i guess you need to 3 star everything.

[Ich1994-1994]

By now I don’t think so. I am at 86% and 3 star only a fraction and am not even done with all levels

but atm I got a big problem. The game sees to think I am the ultimate Tetris god. In level 6-8 ai beats me within 10-15s every time. I tried to loose on purpose and skip alit. That didn’t help. I tried to loose and skip on other levels but it still does not get better. I don’t even know how he does damage so insane quick. On my good runs I manage to make it take 30s before I die

Edited January 12, 2022 by Ich1994-1994

[SolsVGR]

I can confirm that you don't need even close to 3 stars on every level to get 100%. I got 3 stars on everything and I think I got 100% around 60-70% through the story mode. 1 star on every level I don't think will be close to enough but you only need to get so many stars to get that trophy.