Something else I’d like to ask of anyone else who’s played the game: has anyone figured out any way to press a button or pull a lever without actually being there? I’ve tried everything from creating a clone of myself to push it to gluing a punching bag to the button and putting a boxer in front of it, and nothing works. I even tried using a perpetual motion machine to push a button, but it just created a black hole and swallowed me up.<\/p>\n

That said, I’d like to share my experience on the game’s “Heist!” level. Needless to say, spoilers follow.<\/p>\n

“Heist” challenges you to steal the starite. There’s a security guard with a club nearby, and a camera pointed at the starite. When the camera sees anyone, a steel door drops down in front of the starite. There’s a way around, but it’s guarded by a second security guard who has a gun.<\/p>\n

The first thing I tried to do is get rid of the club guard. I dropped a ghost <\/strong>next to him. But the guard was brave – rather than running, he began to club the ghost. The ghost fought back and killed the guard, which caused me to lose – you can’t kill the guards.<\/p>\n

Next, I tried to make a Tazer<\/strong>, but it wouldn’t work. Tazer is actually a brand name. So I made a tranquilizer gun<\/strong>. That worked. It put the guard to sleep, but only for about five seconds, which wasn’t nearly enough time for me to begin to think about addressing the camera.<\/p>\n

Creating a pit <\/strong>worked. The guard with the club fell into the pit, and I was left to deal with the camera. First I tried an EMP<\/strong>. It blew up when I activated it, and did nothing to the camera. Placing a mirror <\/strong>in front of the camera didn’t work at all either. And when I tried an invisibility cloak<\/strong>, it turned me invisible, which was great. But the cloak itself remained visible, and the camera saw it and shut the steel door. That’s when I started thinking about taking the back way around, past the guard with the gun.<\/p>\n

So how to distract that guard? There wasn’t room up there for a pit. First, I tried to put his girlfriend <\/strong>there. He shot her. The bastard. The coldhearted bastard. He was really serious about his job. I finally managed to tranq him with the tranquilizer gun<\/strong> and run past before he got up. Then I blew up the pile of crap behind him with a bomb <\/strong>and got to the starite.<\/p>\n

I’d be glad to hear how anyone else got through the heist level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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