anyone else stuck on the first one?

Stage 33 has me stumped. I only need to complete that one, then the ones it unlocks, and it's driving me nuts that I cannot figure it out!

Stage 40? i have an idea, but it's hard to implement…

...Aaaand 5 seconds after I post that I figure it out. *bangs head on desk*

for Alex:

*sigh*

Just like the last one, this is so easy it's disappointing. The first three games had a perfect difficulty level; they weren't mind-meltingly obscure, but at least they took a little thought.

These levels, on the whole, weren't even as nice to look at as the previous set. A few of them (26, 29, and 37 in particular) were nice, but otherwise it just felt... average. I mean, it's not ugly (of course), but the one thing that made Ringo playable was that it was a consistently beautiful game. This one is even easier than Ringo and not as pretty.

If the next Hoshi Saga game doesn't step up the difficulty, I'll be sorely disappointed. The original three were genius. Near-perfect, in my opinion. I really have no clue why Yoshio Ishii decided to start making them so easy.

HAHA just kidding about stage 40! IT'S WAY EASY!

A bit slow there sydviscious. I kinda got it already, although now I noticed I still need to do stage 40. I tried what you suggested above but I just don't seem to have the patience for it. Oh well.

stage 42?
help!

ah really easy again, only problem I had was on 40, but once you figure it out it's like -.- lol

help for stage 40?

Level 40:

This is the first time I've even heard of the series, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm glad I encountered the 'easy' ones first, but I found it enjoyable simply as a series of interesting graphics and toys, with a not-so-difficult goal in each one. I'll definitely be glad to go back and look at the others, and challenge myself a bit more, too!

Stage 40, however, wasn't very fun for me, and stumbling upon the answer extracted a "what, really?" rather than an the desirable "oh, right!". Here's some progressively more useful hints:

This one was way too easy. With a few exceptions that I went back to later (25, 40) and a single exception that almost made me ragequit (41) it was a nice easy game. Almost nice enough to make me overlook the fact that stage 39 has a three-star difficulty and yet all you do is click twice on each of the incredibly obvious crusher-things. Plus clicking on both of them in the same cycle makes it glitch.

PIEEEEEECE OF CAKE.

Hint for Stage 33:

omg 42...?

I may go nuts if I dont have help with 34

please I beg you

@Vienna:

And for those stuck on 42:

The First parts were quite good and even challenging...now it's just pretty and way too easy...not challenging at all..rather disappointing...

Completed everything except Level 1! Can someone screenshot me what it has to look like?

Sorry, I'm stuck on stage 45.

And the title means?
"Ringo" was apple. I found a translator that says "ame" is rain. Is this correct - ringoame = applerain ?

Level 45?
HELP!!!

@criticaleye

Lavos I am indebted xx

It doesn't work for me... I open any stage and all I get is a black screen with a white "0" below (yes, I waited for it to load, the browser even says "loading" for a while but then says done).

Level 48 cracked me up.

Overall I too miss the more challenging Hoshi Saga games. He must have some reason for deliberately making these so much easier though.

Same here, koro... (although the 0 changes to a -385) I hope whatever is causing this is temporary, because I'm really looking forward to this one.

I also get a black screen with "0" and the only thing I can do is reload the whole game....Too bad, really wanted to play this.

Stuck on level 41. can anybody help?

Does anyone else find that the majority of the levels don't load all the way?

@Canadiangirl @flowerdoggie @koro:

I was able to get through all the levels by continually reloading. They appear to be having overloaded server syndrome. Forunately the game saves your progress.

anyone got a walkthrough?

@littlefish "Ame" also means "candy." "Ringoame" is "candy apple."

Looks like JIG crashed their servers! Just shows what a great game series this is!

Koro, I'm also having loading trouble. I hit refresh and sometimes that clears it up, but sometimes it doesn't. :(

Wow, the artwork is gorgeous on this one. I just want to sit and rotate the first one for a while.

I love these games, even though I was thinking this one was easy...until I hit 45! Now I am stuck. Any help?

And, as usual when I finally admit to not being able to figure it out on line, I figure it out.
here's a hint on 45, but I'm not get at hints.

Easy, yet highly amusing. I still can't figure out why I like these so much. (:

I laughed out loud at stage 40. And I had already had fun

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I'm getting a 503 server error.

Level 41 is wrong. The right and left arms of the star are reversed.

Try it now drlemon - this should help.

Yeah, I was SO excited to play this and then I get 'Service is Temporaily Unavailable' message. *sigh*

Hoshi Saga Ringoame Walkthrough

AaronzDad,

WALKTHROUGH

surprisingly easy installment to the hoshi saga. I particualrly enjoyed seeing some color this time around, and the 3-d and physics puzzles were top-notch.

Hey Yoshio, if you happen to read this, I keep getting an error when loading a new level -- the "number of bytes left" turns into -385 (negative) and freezes, and doesn't change. The only way to fix is to reload the page. Fortunately it does remember my progress, but, you know, you might want to look at that.

[It's due to the server being overloaded as the game was just released early this morning. Try one of the alternate links provided, or wait a few days for the traffic to die down a bit. -Jay]

Always one of my favorites. Thanks for keeping us up to date on this series!

Why do I keep misreading this as "Hoshi Saga Ringtone"?

site freezes up quite often. now the page is temporarily unavailable. hopefully it'll either fix,or maybe an alternate site will solve the issue. In either case i'm about 45-50% of the way through. good job as always on the walkthrough Grinny. :)

[Note there are actually 3 different URLs you can use to access the game. The alternate URLs are included above at the end of the review. -Jay]

Beautiful as usual, but much too easy this time. Where are the challenging puzzles? The Five-Stars? Really, if it's this disappointing from now on, please stop making more Hoshi Saga and start something new that's at least moderately challenging!

If you see a blank screen with a 0 at the bottom just close and reopen the game. That worked for me.

what's with level 42? no matter what i do i can't beat this level. any idea what i'm doing wrong?

Did anyone else notice that

Done. The only one I needed to check here for was Level 40... And for level 41, I noticed that

Not nearly as hard as some in earlier iterations, but nice and casual.

meester man, no such thing happened for me.

Even though I still like the series, it'd be nice if they'd do something to make it more challenging...

Paul, about Stage 42:

Way to go JIG, you crashed another poor mans site with your traffic XD.

Hosted on the WORST SERVERS EVER! Two different connections (different ISPs) and I get either Service Temporarily Unavailable or a level doesn't load so I have to refresh to get Service Unavailable again.

I love this series!
I actually managed to complete this one, without any help! So happy. :D

For those wondering, the title of the game (Hoshi Saga Ringoame) , (星探�-檎飴) literally means Star Search Candied Apple. or something like that. Why Ishii didn't just go on to Hoshi Saga Orenjii (orange) is beyond me though. :P

i know,nerdypants but it never does anything no matter how fast i am. i guess i'll just end it here.

I keep having the issue with individual puzzles not loading - magelie's advice works, but for some puzzles I needed to close and reopen at least five times! Otherwise this game is gorgeous, although on the easy side.

Hmm. Neat ideas, BUT:

1/3 of the levels are insultingly easy (the zipper @ 35? come on...)

1/3 of the levels are frustratingly impossible (too much to try or no way to guess the correct option unless you already know it or just get lucky -- impossible to figure out logically by less than truly lengthy trial-and-error. examples: 26, 34, 40)

The last third are probably about right, very nice and yet not too frustrating or easy. Honestly, that's more than I see from many puzzle games lately, so I have to give them credit.

A bit too easy, and the server is horrible (503 errors/puzzles not loading abound). Still a nice quick time waster.

just like the last one, way too easy. I hope this trend stops with this game.

On level 26

KamenZero -

just finished, now that 49 is willing to load. And it's definitely too easy, same as the last one.

26, 34, 41, and 42 were about right for easy-to-middling puzzles. I would have given them all 1-2 stars. Why 39 rates 3 stars I do not understand. 40 was hard but I don't like that it relies on a trick. Everything else was just too simple. It didn't require thought, just mousing over until you found the right spot to click. 32, 44, and 47 had nice concepts, though.

Like an oasis in the desert, Hoshi Saga Ringoame appeared miraculously on JiG at a time when I really needed the diversion ~ Simply Superb.

Having to reload the game every couple of levels was somewhat annoying, particularly when the server was temporarily unavailable, but it was all worth it.

Thanks Yoshio Ishii :)
and Thanks JiG :)

This game is so ludicrously and insultingly easy compared to the others that it doesn't feel like the same game. Why were almost half the puzzles one and 1/2 star difficulty? Why is it I completed this in less than half an hour? Why weren't there any 3.5 or above difficulty puzzles? Why was the last puzzle

so easy? Half the puzzles feel like how-to-play puzzles, and I could understand if the whole series was like this, but they weren't. It took me only a minute max on any of these.

Over all, if the next one is this easy, I probably won't bother, because not only were the puzzles easy, they were short.

ahh.. *sigh* im kinda depressed... its too easy, its sad how this series started and went.

Hey I completed all the Hoshi Saga games so I hope I can help with the problems I just read.

level 40 : just 1 trick, grab the surface with your mouse and lift it up. The star is actually behind the circles!

level 45: Put all the bricks after each other with a space in between. It's just like the game "Domino". Then click on the pointing finger. You now have completed the level.

Level 1:

Make the shadow look like a star and then let go and it will fall into a star.

For my money, this was hands down the most beautiful installment in the Hoshi Saga series. The forest level and the cat-and-moon level alone take it to #1, visually speaking.

And I for one enjoyed the more relaxed difficulty level. All the people complaining and threatening to stop playing the series (I'm sure Yoshio Ishii is terrified) if it doesn't get harder next time should take a moment to think about someone other than themselves... and maybe remember that the web is chock-full of browser games that are plenty hard, hard enough that more people would find them unplayable than would both enjoy and beat the game. A game that's "too" easy for some people is accessible to more players.

Reminds me of clickplay. :)

Except I like the level choosing feature here. :D

YAAAAYYY! Finished it for the first time EVER! No help or anything...this is the first time I've finished any Hoshi Saga game completely. I just wish

This is definitely on my list of favorite games ever!

yeah i think that was a bit to easy i only needed help on 40 and 42! :)