Hoshi Saga 2

For stage 55:

Pick the box up by the lowermost corner and lift it as high as possible. Then drop it.

Hahahaha. I was slowly trying to write a walkthrough, but Kevin beat me to it. Great job!

Barring 40 and 49 (which have been finished by jay, see above if you need help), I have finished everything but 61, 65, 67, and 71.

41:

You have to click the outlines in order to light up the various 'pieces' on the ground. The star is near the top of the screen, and a little to the right.

Grab the column of what appear to be boxes and move your cursor to the right. Keep doing this until the star is turned all the way around.

Those stuck here are probably on the right track but just didn't take it far enough; you have to grab the box from very close to the bottommost corner and raise it up as high as you can before dropping it.

Shoot the box without letting it drop out of sight until the star is revealed.

This is a fairly straightforward maze; get the items, make use of the turning areas and don't touch the sides.

For stage 60:

Drag the left side of the bar in a semicircle up and to the right around the dot.

:/ Didn't see the complete walkthrough Kevin posted. Good work, man.

Complete walkthrough:

The levels are ordered by number from the last game, so we start with 36. This guide is pretty in-depth, save for the surprises that occur when you solve the puzzles.

36.

Click one of the firecrackers before it fizzles out.

37.

Hold down the left mouse button, and let go when the four "legs" are fully stretched out.

38.

Click the two girls so that they are facing the boy, then click the boy.

39.

Mouse over all the men on the sidelines.

40.

Start with your mouse positioned below the dress of the rightmost woman. Sweep the mouse upward very fast. Naughty naughty.

41.

The correct star is slightly up and to the right of the center of the window.

42.

Time to test your reflexes. Catch a photo of the tip of a shooting star in your targeting recticule. (Anywhere within the range of the big box, including the little box.)

43.

Using your mouse, grab the bottom of the rectangle on the far right side of the screen. Hold onto it, then drag it up to flip it upside down and wait for the star to drop out.

44.

Drag the hexagon to the left to reveal a star.

45.

Try to pull the cylinder upwards. Keep pulling.

46.

Grab onto a shape. Pull your mouse along the circle, and keep spinning it in the same direction until you win this round.

47.

Whoo, this is a toughie. When you click, then pull across a glass, it plays a note. Pull in the other direction to play the note again, or let go to use another glass. Play the entire "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" song without screwing up. If you screw up, the sheet music disappears.

48.

Grab that darker tip thing and put it up against the surface on the left side of the screen.

49.

You know stage 43? Go to it. One of the boxes drops a bomb when you tip it over. Go back to stage 49. The same bomb will drop from the stage above it (!!!). Click it to light it up. Then watch.

50.

The star is behind the moon. Pull the stuff blocking your view out of the way fast. Including the moon.

51.

Hold down the mouse button on each screw till the panel falls off.

52.

Grab the spiky ball, then shake it vigorously.

53.

Grab onto the column and pull to the left or right. Keep doing this.

54.

Stack up the pieces to form a star. If you get it wrong, exit and enter the stage again.

55.

Grab the cube and pull it up higher than the top of the game screen, then drop it.

56.

Carefully pull all three sheets as far as you can.

57.

Blast the center, and do all the sides before they fade away.

58.

Grab the ball. Drop it above the bar, in the second dark column.

59.

You ever played Hogan's Alley? Juggle the block in the air by repeatedly shooting it.

60.

Grab the top-middle part of the bar-shaped object. Drag it across to the right side of the screen.

61.

There's a square in the top left corner. Pull it out to reveal a line guide. Line up the guide so that the intersecting lines are aligned directly with the cross on the odd pointy thing. In this fashion, line up each point so that each one is facing a different point on a star, if all of them were to be pressed together. The head should be lined up with the top vertical guide line. This should already be done for you anyway. The top "arms" of the star should be lined up with the lines that are two lines down from the top vertical guide line line. The bottom "legs" should be lined up with the two lines pointing down, just next to the bottom vertical guide line. It will automatically end when you get them all correct.

62.

Check carefully around the lower left middle part of the screen (it's near the center, so don't go TOO far) for an area that shades itself into a black star when you click on the right spots.

63.

Mouse over the circle. Move the mouse clockwise while it's on the circle. Keep the mouse over the circle while you're doing this.

64.

If you click on the circles in a certain order, the lines will eventually form into a star. The circle in the center will reset the lines if you click on it.

65.

If you did the first game, this stage isn't nearly as horrific or difficult as the first. Just type out the phrase, then grab the screen and give it a good yank.

66.

Pull on the white tip on the bottom of the screen SLOWLY. Let go when you can see the whole thing.

67.

Click the man's nose to reveal nose hairs. Mouse over them (EW...) to pull them out, revealing a nose hair star. Ugh.

68.

Wherever you click, those squares will spin in a 3x3 pattern. Align all the pieces to form a star.

69.

Quickly memorize the pattern (or take a screenshot), then click on the parts to match up with the center, and hit the center button to see how you did.

70.

Toughie. Click on the hexagon to grab onto it, then carefully guide it to the end of the maze. YOU MUST NOT TOUCH ANY WALLS. Note that it only rotates when you are touching a "rotation" zone, and you'll want to turn the tip around when you see the first one. At the sharp blocks, wait until both jut out, then scamper by when both pull into the wall at the same time. At the second rotation spot, you carefully have to align your shape to fit through that area without being crushed by the side at the same time. Prepare to be here a while.

71.

Credits. YAY!

Cheers for the effort, weirdguy. =)

I've added yours to the walkthrough section as well.

For those of you who have given up on level 70!

you can cheat by right clicking

Could someone please take a snapshot of the solution to 61? I can't get it right for some reason.

Here you go, Brandon...

Level 61 screenshot:

http:jayisgames.com/images/hoshisaga2_level61.png

Awesome game! Really fun to explore each new level, I liked the music-stage. I did need some help on 40, the one with the skirts. I was close to the solution, but gave up too early ;)
I hope there's more 'expansions' soon!

Hey, Jay, where's the click? And where is Harukio? I haven't noticed him

Argh. Does anyone have a more detailed solution for 70? Specifically the last turning point/obstacle. What angle should I be trying to rotate to?

This one is almost as good as the first. Maybe the first was a bit more varied in difficulty and harder overall but still a fun lunchtime's entertainment. I liked the music one because it wasn't too easy, and the only other one that was more than a little challenging was the skirts. I was even looking for the ecchi wind reference, but it took a look at the comments to find out how to do it. Maybe a slight ripple when you were doing almost the right thing would have helped.

I'd tried side to side, just not up/down fast enough.

Hmmm, stage 36 doesn't want to load for me, very annoying

This game (and every level) loads at 1/100th the speed their 1st game loaded. What happen? Jay, you mentioned something about a cron job?

[Edit: I have nothing to do with the loading of this game. It's entirely due to the traffic Ishii-san is receiving at his site. When the game first launched, the game was loading very quickly; now with word getting around the Web about it, you will encounter loading delays. That's just the way servers work when they are overloaded, if you can reach them at all. -Jay]

Long loading times...

Anybody knows similiar games? Except Click Drag Type ;).

Great, now the sound won't load for the crystal glass level.

If someone had explained to me how Hoshi Saga was about, I would have very probably said it's a boring game - but I met it before anyone could have commented on it and, don't know how that works, but I liked it a lot.

Now, Hoshi 2 is the same stuff. Nothing new, no surprises, "no strings attached", it's just plain fun.

I found the sequel definitely - though not by far - easier than the first one, I solved it in like half an hour without any kind of hint or walkthru, but that's quite OK for a game like this.

Good work, hope to see Hoshi Saga #3 some day.

Website hosed, lol. Takes upwards of 5 minutes for each level to load!

I agree with Mike D: the music one's only hard if you don't know music, or how to play those "instruments". Before I got the hint that happens when you play the right first note, I was just fiddling with those Legend of Zelda tunes, and didn't know what I was supposed to play.

a-D f-a-D f-a-c-b g-f-g-a D-c-e D (Or, referring to the place of the glasses instead of their pitch, the second one from the left is D, two to the right of that is F, and two more to the right is A. You can figure it out from there.

Can anybody give further instructions on how to do #40. For the life of me I can't get it! Maybe it's because I'm using a trackpad and just can't move the cursor fast enough!?

Oh boy! No time to comment! I have to go find stuff!

Loved stage 47. Playing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' on the glasses was fun.

Man, that wine glass is hard until you get the hang of it. For people that have played music:
Ignore the sizes of the glasses. They're arranged from left to right CDEFGAB. That sheet music really does help.

Lastly, if you're not getting the sheet music, the first note is the glass on the far left.

Great game! And to Jay, when I was looking at this late last night, I didnt mean the game wouldnt load, I meant the text here for the game was not there. But its all there now.

Great game! And to Jay, when I was looking at this late last night, I didnt mean the game wouldnt load, I meant the text here for the game was not there. But its all there now.

Heheh, I just beat the wineglass stage on a computer at school that doesn't have speakers =D.

If anyone is having trouble with 38, note that Kevin's walkthrough is incorrect - the second walkthrough (weirdguy) is right.

Also, both walkthroughs are somewhat misleading about 46:

There's no need to drag the shapes. Just click anywhere on the play area and keep the mouse button pressed until the shapes rotate fast enough to form stars

This game is a really good sequel, the wineglass level was by far the most fun:

Easy if you can read notes.

Thanks, couldn't have done it without ya.

I know that right clicking doesn't work in Flash but that never seems to stop me from trying it.

How to do STAGE 47:

You sure?

Hey, I figured it out for myself...

Ok, ok, fine...

Last Chance!!!

Ok, so here we go. Step 1: From left to right, label in your mind that they are 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. The highest one should be 5 if your doing it right. (You won't need to use all of them, though.) Now here's the order: 11 55 66 5 44 33 22 1 55 44 33 2 55 44 33 2 11 55 66 5 44 33 22 1. Congrats, there's your star!

61: I think there's more than one way to do it, but here's what I did.

I noticed there were ten slots in the guide. We have five pieces, so five slots are significant. Since it's a regular guide, I guessed that if you aligned each piece to a slot, then skipped a slot and did it again, something would happen.
Pick one as your starting slot, then align a piece so that the whole piece is inside it, with the long sides pointing toward the center of the guides. Nudge it until the sides are perfectly aligned with the guide. You're now finished with this piece.
Repeat this process with each piece, using every other slot as the guide for that particular piece. When each piece is precisely aligned, they'll fall into a star shape.

Fun game, great diversion! Too bad I need diversions like I need another hole in my head.

for level 70

you can "cheat" by right clicking and placeing the mouse where you want your hexagon to be. you then left click and your hexagon "teleports" there through any walls. you can collect the last star piece without worrying about walls this way.

Argh!

On level 47, do you have to get the rhythm perfect also?

LEVEL 64 --- PLEASE HELP!!

Is there a trick to the timing?

I can't figure this out for the life of me. I can see the five circles meet in a star pattern during their orbits, but I can't figure out when/which order to click each one so that the lines are correct. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My random clicking is getting me nowhere.

Is it just me or is it all loading very slowly?

Rufu:

No, rhythm is utterly unimportant. Just get the right notes in the right order.

I might get slammed for being pedantic about this but I just can't let these things go:

To everyone calling the initial shape in level 70 a hexagon: It's got five sides, not six. That makes it a PENTAGON, not a hexagon. Sorry, just had to say it.

Anyway, another great installment from Yoshio Ishii! Here's hoping there's a third in the near future!

there is a way to cheat in lv70

1.start normally
2.right click (ingore the buttons)
3.left click on the aim
4.turn the direction(the 'horn' points >)
5.rush to the 2nd pt
6.right click
7.wait until the two 'door' open- -"
8.left click on the aim
9.go to the next aim
10.right click→left click on the aim

DID IT!!!

For level 47,

You rub only the top of the glass to simulate the sound. Click then sweep across the top to get it to play the sound.

Also, play the notes according to how you know it, the musical notes come gradually, and are all there after the first phase of the song "twinkle twinkle little star".

Even that took me forever to work out.

Oh, nice little touch with the attention to details on level 47: I don't know if anyone else noticed, but

when you "play" notes on the glasses, the liquid inside vibrates.

Stage 64: weirdguy's walkthrough is not very detailed for this stage, so here's an extra tip:

wait at the center of the screen until, once in a revolution, the stars align in a star pattern. The connect them by clicking them in order, to form not the outline of a star but a pentameter. You'll only be able to make one connection per revolution, so wait patiently until the stars align again, and again.

rather than try to complete the picture by working your way from the top down, try working from left to right. There's more wriggle room on the sides.

Before I even start, can someone tell me: do all the levels only require the mouse as input, or are there one or more (as in the first one) that use the keyboard?

Matthew - like the first one, you'll need the keyboard for at least one of them.

I freaked when I saw level 65 at first, but it turned out to be much easier than the first. One of my favorite games by far and I can't wait for a third instalment.

That was fun. My favorite level was probably 40. Heheh. 47 was also fun. I figured before I even started it that I'd have to

play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." But I had a hard time with it because I thought you were supposed to rub the glasses in circles, and kept accidentally getting more notes than I wanted. Once I started rubbing straight across it was easy.

I really think that this "episode" was far to easy. Maybe it's because i was new to flash gaming in general when i did the first one but this was very easy

hey Tiberius what happened to #61? ;)

For number 47:

Play them in this order, they are numbered from left to right:
1,1,5,5,6,6,5 - "Twin,Kle,Twin,Kle,Lit,Tle,Star"
4,4,3,3,2,2,1 - "How,I,Won,Der,What,You,Are"
5,5,4,4,3,3,2 - "Up,A,Bove,The,Clouds,So,High"
5,5,4,4,3,3,2 - "Like,A,Di,amond,In,The,Sky
1,1,5,5,6,6,5 - "Twin,Kle,Twin,Kle,Lit,Tle,Star"
4,4,3,3,2,2,1 - "How,I,Won,Der,What,You,Are"
I organized them by verse.

47 was a pain.

I'm going crazy with level 70. Have read all comments and cheats. Can't do it. I can get the #@*#Star to bottom right, and then...crash. On the first game, I couldn't type fast enough to finish, and I guess I can't move fast enough for level 70. It's irritating, to say the least, to ALMOST finish both games...but I still enjoyed the heck out of them. Bring on Number 3 !!!

I just cannot get number 40! Do you have to hold the mouse button down too, or just move the mouse? I'm shaking the desk I'm trying so hard!

I play this on a laptop with a Trackpoint pointing device, and find Level 70 to be impossible. I really don't want to have to go buy a USB mouse just for one level... :)

Stage 47
For those of you who are tone death (or just can't seem to figure it out)

The goal is to ring the glasses so it sounds like "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" if you haven't already figured it out.
To play a note simply click and hold and make a circular motion on the rim of the glass.
Imagine that each class is a number
(from left to right)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Click each glass rim as followed:
First Line:1 1 5 5 6 6 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1
Second Line:5 5 4 4 3 3 2
Repeat Second Line
Repeat First Line

Kinda easy....... the first saga was harder.

I love these games, but I have two problems with them. Firstly, now I keep seeing stars everywhere I look (I think that may have been from the level where

there were loads of nearly-stars and you had to find the real star

dresses

Now fot the twinkle, twinkle little star level i got a peice of paper and began my trial and error noting down each number. How did I work out the number? The glass on the left is 1, then 2, 3, 4.. you get the idea. I hope. The main song i got to begin with is

11 55 66 55 44 33 22 55

I love this series. BEST STAGE EVER: 64!

yay that was good :) i didnt need any hints this time around :D

I managed number 70 on a laptop. Granted it took many, many tries but I did it. No excuses! =P

After finishing this, does anyone know how to "reset" it so that it goes back to default levels (i.e. hidden levels around the edge, and no "star" icon next to completed levels)?

Tried clearing cookies, etc - made no difference :(

Rob - Flash developers can save your progress by using what's called a Shared Object, local storage on your computer where settings are stored. This is different than sites storing cookies.

You can access a control panel whereby you can delete the stored save data for individual sites...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

That link will open the control panel. Scroll the list that appears until you find the domain ece4co.vis.ne.jp, and then click the "delete website" button.

This tech note from Adobe explains the Shared Object and the settings manager in more detail...

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=52697ee8

Thank you, Geer, for pointing out the water vibrates in 47! My computer at work has no sound, so made the level impossible, even with detailed spoiler instructions, until you pointed that out! (Many times I would strike a note and it doesn't register, so requires an extra attempt.) Even then it was hard, as can barely see the vibrations on my screen. :-)

i have to say, the one with the glasses was pretty annoying. it's a lot easier if you can read music though.

i also had trouble with level fourty, with the skirts.

He made it a little more difficult this time, that's for sure.

I am not able to make 70.

HOW DO I DO 40! the hole move the dress up and down quickly not workin.. HELP

I love both versions of Hoshi Saga. I have to admit that 40 and 49 had me stumped. I didn't have much trouble with twinkle twinkle, but I read music easily. But thanks for providing the walk-through everyone, it's very helpful.

help! 61 is so hard!

As a deaf person, I find many absolutely sound-dependent games to be outright impossible. Thus, I was very grateful after reading that the water vibrates when notes are successfully struck, and used that to guide me through part of that jingle level. However, I gave up after still making errors--this wasn't the only level giving me a lot of trouble, and I pretty much settled for almost but not quite completing the game. I had only two unfinished particularly annoying levels anyway (47 and 70), so I'm considering this game effectively beat.

huh... twinkle twinkle was REALLY freakin' easy after i figured out how to play the first note.

help 64 is so hard

can someone just please help me on 64! pls pls pls!!

FACE!
i just beat the whole thing with ONE hint!!!
...just braggin
exuse-ah moo-a...

68!#%%#$%^ >_<

Damn, this game is so good ~!! Gratulate super idea xD

finally i beat it

Yeah, I got most of these without help, but I'm still stuck on 70. For those of you who didn't cheat (apparently this doesn't work on a Mac), what direction do you have the star pointing to get through the last gap for the last point?

For the tone deaf, the notes to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star can be played as:

11556654433221 5544332 5544332 11556654433221. Good thing the glasses are in order; otherwise, I'd never be able to solve this as my sound card is fried.

This is a slightly odd question, but is there a way to delete all saved progress? I know it's the same, but I'd really like to start over from the start but it keeps saving all my progress.

in lv21
it wasn't really that left top
u click the bottom of the grey part and u will hear it tinks

Solution for 61:

1. Get the square in the top left hand corner

2. Move the grid over the 'x' of the second shape and move the shape so that the point matches with the line to the very left of the line going straight up

3. Move the grid over to the 3rd shape and move the shape so that it matches 2 lines to the left of the line going straight up

Continue this, only the shapes will face different ways

If you get the shapes in the right spot, the pieces will drop and form a star on the ground

38 is kinda wrong on the complete walkthrough it forgets to mention that you have to click on both girls first then afterwards they'll look at the boy then you click him, he jumps, then falls through...just thought you all should know (^-^)v

Yea k 68 is making me go to wits end here anyone HAVE ANY CLUE HOW TO DO IT? And i obviusly i know to click on the square (duh) BUT WHICH ONES?

yayzz meeee!!!! i finally did it! thanx to hints and tips :)

Yaaaaahhhhhggghh! I need a Hoshi Fix! Is there a #3 coming??

47:
from left to right
1155665443322155443322554433211556654433221
good luck!

For the one with the face, a little hint:

The Japanese writing in the background means 'nose hair'

Level 47 is the most annoying thing on two legs... well, it doesn't have two legs, but that's not the point! I knew the tune, it's just keeping my hands up to speed at almost midnight that's the problem... ^^

Well, there's loads already for 47, but:

Number each glass 1-8 going from left to right, then play this tune by sliding your mouse across the tops:
11 - 55 - 66 - 5 - 44 - 33 - 22 - 1 - 55 - 44 - 33 - 2 - 55 - 44 - 33 - 2 - 11 - 55 - 66 - 5 - 44 - 33 - 22 - 1

Gosh, I hate slider puzzles. #68. That is the only one stopping me from seeing the credits.

Congrats to Yoshio on creating another of one of the most brilliantly designed/developed games reviewed by JIG.

I love it.

is it wrong that I come back to play this game about once a month?
It's so beautifully animated and such creative puzzles, I hope there's a three, come on Yoshio!!!

You know for the darn mouse avoidance pentagon one - you can just right click once the thing is folowing your mouse and click else where, to teleport it. It evem works for the last bit - you get the 5th point before dying.

yay man once i figured out how to change the arrows on lv69 it was easy from there bring it on #3

I am completely stuck on 68! some people put out cooridinates, but they didn't describe how you were supposed to use them i.e. across and then up, blah blah blah. HELP!

Hint for 64.

Number the circles that touch the middle of the screen from the top of the screen to the bottom and then number the circle that is off to the left as #5.

5-4-3-1-2

For those having problems with lvl. 40:

You have to drag the cursor up and down the right figure very quickly, in a sawing motion. Just keep doing it and it should eventually work.

40.

move your mouse up alot on the right girl. naughty naughty.