Something New Every Day

I'm going around the island again and just found something new.  If you click on the "portable player" in the lower right you can check how many capsules you have found for the magic clocks and zodiac signs.

Go to the Portable Player
Then Records
Then Status
Then Events (middle tab on top)
Then click on the Info icons to the right of the Magical Clocks and Zodiac signs.

The zodiac uses symbols so you might have trouble interpreting this screen if you're not all that interested in astrology.

You can use this information to find when and where to find the missing clock and constellation pieces by going to Konami's web site. Look for question Where can I find X capsule -has schedules for constellation, music, and magic clock.

Around and Around

I'm going around the Island one more time with Walk It Out.  I only have a little more than 200 buildings, trees, streetlights, etc to go and 1 magic clock.  I have looked and looked for the magic clock and can't find it.  I have changed the time on the Magic Clock widget thingee to every single hour (except the missing hour, of course) three different times and still can't find it.

This evening I went to the Konami web page and found when and where the missing clock part should be.  It's available at 4 different times during the day so I don't know how I could have missed it all 4 times.   Especially when I looked for it 3 times which makes 12 opportunities to find it.

All that going around in circles is making me batty.

Around and Around the Island

I completed my trip around the island twice and have started again since I last posted.  It was much faster the second time.  Partly because I've built up my stamina and can "walk" much farther at one time now.

Here are today's tips.

Before you leave the island for the day, click on the little box in the lower right corner of the screen to save what you have built.  Konami refers to this box as the "portable player".  Inside the portable player is the Pause Menu where you can do things like view your game records, change the song list, select a new time, change the settings, or play some mini-games as well as save the game. 

1. You may want to change the settings for your game.  I played the game with the default settings for a month or so, but have since changed them to EASY.  On the Settings selection, you can make things easier or harder just by clicking on the little buttons on the right.  I think the instructions in the game manual adequately explain what each selection does.  I set the Miss Penalty to Off and the capsule value to Very Easy.  (The values placed on the capsules are not logical.  For example, on the ranch a hay bale is worth more than twice as much as a house.)
2. You will probably want to remove some of the songs from the play list because they are just plain awful. 
3. Also you may want to remove the songs with slower beats because you can collect points faster when you walk to faster beats.  You can always add the songs back to the list if you want.  Or maybe you want to stick to slow songs and go
4. You can select only one certain genre of songs to play.  I did that accidently so unless you only want to listen to Japanese Pop be sure you are on the All button before you select "play in order listed" or "play random"
5. There are different capsules available at different times of the day.  If you want to finish the island you will either need to exercise at different times of the day AND night or use the magical clocks to change the Island's time of day.
6. Some of the capsules are hard to find.  There is a map on the portable player that shows you where you are and where the capsules are.  At the bottom of the map are icons of each type of capsule with the number of each type availabe at that time of day.  If you click on one of those icons it will remove them from the map (click on it to bring them back).  This is helpful when you have over 3,000 capsules and you want to see where the rainbows are.
7. If you click directly on your avatar, it will change directions. Sometimes a capsule is visible when you turn around and approach it from the opposite direction. 
8. If you hold down the A button on the Wiimote you can see different views (left and right, up and down).  If you hold down the A button while holding the cursor on your avatar you can move it.  Click both the A & B buttons at the same time to return the avatar to the default position.