1. Atrocious Follower

2. Mute Courier

3. Badly-Dressed Mafioso

4. Returned Gangster

5. Helpful Otaku

6. Inferior Brother

7. Mother's Angel

8. False Soldier

9. Determined Brawler

10. Lonely Lion

11. Imaginary Beast

12. Traveller of Dimensions

Ok, some of the titles can admittedly have more than one choice due to me choosing the title first. In any case, have fun guessing!

And I would like to give you a heads up that there are some spoiler regarding some level names, so if you've yet to complete the game, just read this post later

So to start let's set our criteria, we'll classify levels into two groups, major levels (with "M" as an abbreviation, these are referring to main levels from both the main campaign and the Lost Galaxy), and minor levels (with "m" as an abbreviation, these are referring to challenge/speedrun levels, as well as anomalies like Winter Wonder and Credits Clash) we'll also assume that players play a Lost Galaxy level right after they find it's portal, and we'll also count Stellar Speedway and Winter Wonder as as negligible post-game due to them being short DLC, so now that our criteria is established, let's count up how many times each power-up was usable

Octo-Balloon: 5 total (3M, 2m)

. Sky Garden M . Balloon Breeze M . Space Bully Nebulax M . Helium Heights m . Winter Wonder m

Twin-Frog Gloves: 8 total (4M, 4m)

. Az-Tech Trail M . Wormy Passage M . Wako Tako M . Retro Rampage 5 m . Space Bully Nebulax M . Credits Clash m . Spring-Loaded Run m . Winter Wonder m

Barkster the Bulldog Booster: 9 total (5M, 4m)

. Construction Derby M . Mighty Chewy M . Retro Rampage 3 m . Djinny Of The Lamp M . Djinny's Revenge m . Boxel Bust-Up M . Space Bully Nebulax M . Credits Clash m . Building Speed m

Rolling Armadillo: 3 total (3m)

. Rolling Star Sola m . Dashing Dillo m . Rolling Star Luna m

Handy-D (monkey): 4 total (2M, 2m)

. Go-Go Archipelago! M . Space Bully Nebulax M . Rising Heat m . Winter Wonder m

Mouse Shrink: 2 total (1M, 1m)

. Downside Surprise M . Winter Wonder m

Elephant Suction: 4 total (2M, 2m)

. Trunk Of Funk M . High-Suction Hero M . Let It Slide m . Winter Wonder m

Slo-mo Vision: 5 total (3M, 2m)

. Slo-Mo Casino M . Spooky TimeM . Mecha Leon M . Credits Clash m . Winter Wonder m

Sponge: 2 total (1M, 1m)

. Bathhouse Battle M . Winter Wonder m

Chicken Rocket: 7 total (4M, 3m)

. Trapped In Time M . Lady Venomara M . Retro Rampage 4 m . Orbital Blitz M . Rocket Pull Power! M . Credits Clash m . Winter Wonder m

Muteki (Metal Ball): 5 total (3M, 2m)

. Heiroglitch Pyramid M . Cannon brawl M . Falcon McFly M . Credits Clash m . Winter Wonder m

Penguin Swim: 2 total (1M, 1m)

. Bubbling Under M . Winter Wonder m

Teddy Bear Cymbals: 3 total (1M, 2m)

. Final Encore M . Credits Clash m . Winter Wonder m

So from what we can tell, the most used power-ups are Barkster the bulldog booster (9), the Twin-Frog Gloves (8), and the Chicken Rocket (7), and that the number of major levels each of them have under their belt are 5 for Barkster (2 of them being bossfights), 4 for the Twin-Frog Gloves (present in 2 bossfights), and 4 for the Chicken Rocket (with only one bossfight), but what sets them apart is when they're introduced, since both the Twin-Frog Gloves and Barkster are introduced in W1, whereas the Chicken Rocket is introduced late into W3, which marks the approximate halfway point of the game, so by doing some math with this formula "number of major appearances/number of worlds since introduction" we get these results

Barkster: With bosses: 5/7 = 0.71 major appearances per world Without bosses: 3/7 = 0.42 major appearances per world

Twin-Frog Gloves: With bosses: 4/7 = 0.57 major appearances per world Without bosses: 2/7 = 0.28 major appearances per world Chicken Rocket: With bosses: 4/5= 0.8 major appearances per world Without bosses: 3/5 = 0.6 major appearances per world

So looking at this, we can understand that the Chicken Rocket makes an abnormally high amount of appearances since it's introduction, which already outscores both the frequencies of Barkster and the Twin-Frog Gloves on both fronts, and this becomes more amplified when we exclude bosses from the equation

So in conclusion, YES, some power-ups have definitely overstayed their welcome, with the Chicken being the biggest offender of this, I hope you enjoyed this little analysis I did (which took me about 45 minutes to type, so an upvote would be pretty much appreciated), and if you have your own opinion, feel free to type it in the comments

Have a nice day :)

Holy crap it’s so repetitive. Why did they do this to us

Are there any more 3rd party characters you think will be interesting to see in they get added?

Personally in wish there was any FF7 related characters because it feels kind of sad to me they didn't add a Cloud bot since the game was introduced on the playstation hardware (the original release)

Really struggled with To the Beat and the Grand Master Challenge, booked half a day off work today to get some stuff done round the house. Managed to get the platinum trophy in just after work before chores, I let out the loudest cheer and made my dogs jump 🫣

Absolutely loved this game, so many beautiful levels and the soundtrack is just perfect, hope we get another game or some extra levels soon!

Specifically talking about the Slo-Mo Casino level. He starts off by driving on the wrong side of traffic, narrowly avoiding collisions with oncoming vehicles. Next, a truck crashes and instead of checking for survivors, Astro steals the cargo for himself. If that were it, maybe I would have given him a pass, but he then heads straight to a casino to gamble and he cheats using his time slowing machine while doing so.

Awful example for children. Would not recommend.

Hey everyone! I haven’t played since October and I really want to play it again, so I am deleting my save! Splashing sprint, To the Beat! and Dejenny’s Revenge, here we come!!

I’m have 322/322 bots. But in missing something here and I think it’s at the crash site? Can anyone help?

(Sorry for the bad quality)