Phantom Vortex Hints

Today we talk about the Phantom Vortex, a mystical portal that only opens up during the Night of the Phantoms. Once you enter, you are immediately delved into a dark dimension, filled with the spider-like creatures trying to steal your candy.

If you are brave enough to venture to the spooky realm, there are many portals scattered throughout the lands. There is one in each:

Go to Jamaa Township, and go all the way down to the Jamaa Derby area. Look to the left.

In Appondale, go to the upper left, and look near the cave you cannot enter, above the Conservation Museum.

In Mt. Shiveer, climb the icy mountains and right above the ice cave that leads to Crystal Sands.

In Crystal Sands, go up the water slides and toward the cave that leads you back where you were before (Mt. Shiveer). 

In Sarepia Forest, avoid the slide and go to the left and look near the flag shop.

In Kimbara Outback, look near the bottom of the screen, near the Medical Center (part of the control panel thing at the bottom is blocking it whoops).

And finally, there it is in Coral Canyons. Go up the left side of the rocky canyon and look near the den store (aaand this time my pet is blocking it).

Okay well since I just gave you the dramatic quest, it's time to check out the vortex's game, called Phantoms! The goal is to keep the approaching phantoms away from the piece of candy and guide them into the blue portal thingies (maybe the take 'em to Peck's prison)!

 

Scene of the action! At the left bottom, there is a chart which tells you how many phantoms are in the current level and how many you have caught so far. Lower right tells you the total phantoms caught and what level your on.

Poor phantom getting trapped ("but I was just hungry!")

Phantoms and the portal traps are spawned randomly, so there's actually no goo method of winning it. After every five levels you get a prize. I've only made it up to eight and got a trapdoor for my den. I hope to beat my record soon.

I counted and when there are more than one phantom on a level, each one appears on the screen every two seconds. It takes about ten seconds for a phantom to get from one end of the screen to the other. Maybe if your some kind of math genius with an intense knowledge of angles and time you could probably ace this game. XD

My method is to be quick as possible. I find it easier to lead the phantom to the portal and then lead it away from the candy. Like if the candy is in the upper left corner and the portal is in the upper right corner, I would guide the phantom up and then to the right.

Interestingly, levels 3 - 5 are the easiest levels, because the more phantoms, the more portal traps. Don't worry about getting one into which trap, I suggest guiding each one to the nearest portal.

Oh, and if you move the torch to the edge of the screen or off, it will suddenly appear in the upper left corner!

Again, this certain mini-game just takes practice. I've looked online and there aren't any established methods to win. Good luck!

New Parties!

Today, this update will be chock-full of pics from the two new parties! (click on a pic to enlarge)

3 Weird Things in Bitter Sweets

So these are some pretty interesting things I found it the Night of the Phantoms adventure!

First, when you go to the swamp, make sure you enter along the right side. As you move down, a certain cattail will suddenly turn into a hotdog!

Go to the graveyard, and click on the big tombstone with the phantom skull. A ghost hoard appears!

Finally, move to the laboratory, and near the upper left side, you'll see to mysterious phantom creature disappear in and out in tubes filled with weird green goo!

Bitter Sweets Adventure Guide Completed!

Woot woot! I finally got this done! After trail and error (I kept forgetting to put certain pet passages on the map), the first adventure guide I have worked on is ready.

Here's the main map: (the green dots stand for pet passages and the orange dots stand for four-player areas)

If you want read the full guide,

Click here!

You can also find it on the main Adventure Guides index page, which is a green button to the left of this blog.

When the Bitter Sweets adventure was first released on October 2, 2014, it was originally limited to four players! Also, it had actual adult phantoms in there, that could put them to sleep. The candy goal was shorter too, only 50 candies, but in a time of twelve minutes.

Interestingly, if a jammer touches a porto-phantom that is in the middle of respawning, it'll loose half of its health heart.

There used to be other animal passages, including that of a cheetah, sugar glider, joey, and tiger.

The most mysterious thing, I think, is that there used to be an adventure dubbed "TBA," but it was removed like super quick when it was released. I looked up some videos, and it appears in Sept 2014, TBA was an early testing of Bitter Sweets. Liza was featured in it, and you had to collect special stones instead of candies, like The Forgotten Desert. There was even a button that asked if you wanted to enable a cheat!

The OTHER Night of the Phantoms

Okay, so today I will be discussing the 3D version of Jamaa's spooky celebration! The Play Wild app, becoming more and more popular, is hosting it's second Night of the Phantoms.

Spooky Forest Party

I'm pretty busy this week (just had a big birthday bash), so I only have to to post a few photos about the haunted forest party. I know it's pretty boring, but I should have some adventure guides out soon.

The party rolls around every 4 hours and 40 minutes, and even though the space is small, it's wonderfully decorated. You''ll enter a spooky area, with mysterious streams of purple goo snaking along the ground (phantom poison, perhaps?)

To the far-off right lower corner is a costume trunk where you can buy several outfits perfect for Halloween night.

If you go up aa bit and toward the scary tree with the green-goo face, you'll notice and old-fashioned phonograph, where you can buy a ghostly song for your den, costing 100 gems. It is quite spooky, the off-tune organ sending shivers up your spine.

To the left is a thick patch of fog. Or is it? Maybe it's a group of ghosts wandering the woods, for if you stay in the fog long enough, your animal begins to become more transparent, until you can barely see it yourself.

As you go pasted the mysterious trees as they grin at you, there'll be a strange shadow of a factory in the distance, puffing out swirls of green smoke. The Phantom Factory, perhaps? Suddenly, peculiar bats, with entering costumes, come flying from their perches and off into the night.