How many sausages are there? (Post your progress here!)

[Feep]

Just finished the second "world", at 55 sausages now.

Twisty Farms was *incredible*. When I finally worked out how to get through...wow.

[Gerald]

I'm at 45, two levels missing in world 2.
Twisty Farms was indeed incredible. I tried it, didn't get it, went to work, thought about it during the day, went to bed, fell asleep, woke up after two hours, tried it once more, immediately succeeded, went to bed again,slept like a baby.
Thanks Stephen.

edit: 55 now, world 2 complete. Dat tower...
edit: 81. World 3 is a piece of work.
edit: 88. I'm on a roll!!
edit: 95. Cold Frustration is frustrating.
edit: 98. Cold Frustration is amazing.
edit: 101. Area 4 lookin' mighty fine.
edit: Area 4. Are you kidding me. Enough!
edit: Wretch's Retreat is killing me. Literally. I feel the life draining out of me.
edit: noooo. stupid me.
edit: 106. Baby steps, but getting there (hopefully)
edit: YES! Area 5, here I come.
edit: I beat the first stage of area 5. Yes, it's hard but it's still sooo fun.
edit: 116. I hope this never ends.
edit: 135. Saw the Jonathan Blow talk at Pax '16 where he also talked about this game. He showed his save file of the finished game: 215 sausages in the whole game!! I feel like Jon Snow, "i know nothing".
edit: "Crater" has been the most difficult level for me so far, probably because I didn't realize this was the first time you had to poke a sausage vertically Wow.
edit: 143. World 6. OMG This is suddenly a completely new game, isn't it??
edit: 174. I swear I am so gonna finish this thing and it's getting on my résumé.
edit: 201.
edit: Finished. I am a sausage now. Literally.
edit: also, the price discussion is IMHO completely obsolete. The amount of joy that players who like puzzle games get out of this game is insane.

[Fachewa]

58. The tower seemed impossible at first, but I loved it !

[nthstasis]

60

beating the tower felt genuinely amazing

[Gerald]

Originally posted by nthstasis:

60

beating the tower felt genuinely amazing

I wonder if we all used the same strategy:

First, I separated the tower into two 4-sausage towers, that had the same orientation. I then pushed all sausages into position and finally went around from the bottom left ladder to the upper right.

[aliasup]

i'm at 59 so far
about the tower, I didn't split it into two separate towers, i pushed the full tower forward then knocked off the 3-height tower, then moved a 2-height tower onto the raised area, then split everything up into the right place.

[Beam]

74! i tried aliasup's technique first, gave up and used gerald's.

[Fachewa]

92 now, this 3rd area is crazy, 2 levels left and I have no idea how to beat them <3 ("cold frustration" is a very appropriate name :3)

I think I used a different method for the tower ? I managed to split everything intro four 2-sausages tower in the middle of the level, mainly by testing how sausages behave when in tower formation, then pushed everything in place

[Gerald]

OK, I just finished "Cold Finger" in area 3, but my solution was kinda...strange?
IDK, how did you do it?
webm of my solution: https://my.mixtape.moe/dqsxlu.webm

I cut off the ending of the solution because it was trivial after the part you see in the vid.

[aliasup]

i'm pretty sure all the possible solutions are variations of that. i didn't do it 100% the exact same way, but i'm sure this level is meant to formally introduce how the sausage on the head works, so i'd the only possible solutions are ones where you have the sausage on the head
now i'm at 70

[Gerald]

Originally posted by aliasup:

i'm pretty sure all the possible solutions are variations of that. i didn't do it 100% the exact same way, but i'm sure this level is meant to formally introduce how the sausage on the head works, so i'd the only possible solutions are ones where you have the sausage on the head
now i'm at 70

Yeah, thinking about it, you're definitely right. It's one of the "new mechanics by accident", like the Destructoid reviewer said :)

[aliasup]

escarpment, jag, frustration, cliff, and gate are all i have left in the cold area with 80 sausage, i really need like 10 hours where i forget my responsibilities and lose myself in this, because it's just so hypnotizing, but it needs a long time to work its magic, and i've been playing it in 10 minute bursts because i feel guilty that i'm not doing anything

[Feep]

I got to the "end" of escarpment, but man, no idea how to finish. :P

[aliasup]

now i finished jag and escarpment

jag was one of the most interesting levels so far for me because the idea for me seemed that it was directly trying to show one idea at the start of the level, that blocked off sausage pairs let you walk over them normally, and then gives you the place to try that out. It took me a stupidly long time to see this, so it was interesting to see how simple it was.

[aliasup]

Originally posted by Fachy:

92 now, this 3rd area is crazy, 2 levels left and I have no idea how to beat them <3 ("cold frustration" is a very appropriate name :3)

I think I used a different method for the tower ? I managed to split everything intro four 2-sausages tower in the middle of the level, mainly by testing how sausages behave when in tower formation, then pushed everything in place

WAIT
how did you get 92 sausages in 7 hours, it's taken me 17 to get to that point
i am much slower than i thought, but oh well, maybe it's just because i haven't been able to just play it all at once

[Fachewa]

Originally posted by aliasup:

WAIT
how did you get 92 sausages in 7 hours, it's taken me 17 to get to that point
i am much slower than i thought, but oh well, maybe it's just because i haven't been able to just play it all at once

Hmm dunno, my brain works well with puzle games :D ? Played a lot of em since forever so I guess I'm used to it ? But I don't think you're particularly slow, this game is really hard but I feel like it just "thinks" the same way I do. People have different affinities with puzzle game, so it's normal some are faster or slower, especially with this kind of game.

Once you "get" how the game wants you to think, it'll become easier.