ASLASL: Close Call

A little closer. A little riskier. ASLASL is a vertical arcade dodger: drag your character through a storm of obstacles and live on the edge. ■ 9 worlds, 90 stages Work your way across the map one stage at a time. Each stage is a fixed course from 40 to 100 seconds long, with up to three stars for reaching the goal without a revive, starting three fevers and hitting the close-call target. Every world brings its own backdrop and new hazards and items, and Start picks up right where you left off. ■ Endless mode Chasing a high score? In Endless mode the run goes on until you crash, and your best lands on the leaderboard. ■ Close calls pay off Skim past an obstacle for a close-call bonus. Chain them to push your combo up to ×8. Four close calls trigger Fever: every point counts double for 5 seconds. ■ Items that change the run Catch your breath with Slow Down, Shrink and Shield, or blast through everything with Rocket Boost. Magnet pulls in nearby coins and EMP wipes out electric gates and missiles at once. Open a Lucky box for coins, a shield or bonus points. Speed Up, Grow and Score ×3 are risky, but survive them for big points. ■ Hazards that keep surprising you Electric gates, spinning blades, pulsing mines and dashing missiles, then crushing walls that close in from both sides, swinging pendulum blades and orbiting satellites. 33 obstacle patterns in all, and in Endless mode a new zone every 1,000 m shifts the mood and the music. ■ A reason to come back every day A new daily course, three daily missions and a check-in streak that grows every week keep the coins coming. ■ Race your friends on the same course Send one challenge code and your friend plays the exact same layout to beat your score. ■ Collect characters Spend your coins on characters with their own style. Every character is cosmetic only, so skill is all that matters. New backdrops unlock as you reach each world.

• Boss fights at the end of every world: catch 4 cores to win • New worlds 10–12: 12 worlds and 120 stages in total • World rules: Gust Zone pushes your craft, Dark Zone limits your view, Overload Zone speeds up for double points • New items: Phase shield, Fever cell, Coin cache • New craft Solar Sentinel (free after World 10) • Dodge extra close for a PERFECT: double bonus and slow motion • Reworked World 1, new patterns in every world • Speed tuning, combo capped at ×4, new grade targets