Fat Princess Strategy Guide

Look beyond the cute and cuddly visuals, the hilarious music and you will realise that Fat Princess only  on PS3 (available through the PlayStation Store, free demo as well) is a strategical game. This game is meant to be played online. It comes from the same creators as Warhawk, so you better have your PSN ready.

Well, let's get into it.

1. Basic and General Controls (Not applicable to all classes)

Square - Attack (Hold for more powerful attack), Throw, Break out from ice
Circle - Pick Up/Drop
Triangle - Change Weapon
X - Jump
L1 - Lock on, Block (only warrior can block)
Select - Brings up map.
Start - Brings up scores

2. Classes

There are 6 classes in Fat Princess.

Villager -  The neutral starting class, villagers cannot be upgraded. Their only unique move is a slap that can make enemies drop objects and stun them. Though villagers have the lowest health of all the classes, they also have the fastest movement. Villagers can't remove a hat once it's worn, only replace it with another, but the player is always respawned as a villager. The only time when you will be hoping to use the villager is when you want to run and get some cake for the princess quickly. Otherwise, you shouldn't be spending your time as a villager and you should go pick up a hat ASAP.

Worker -  The most important class of all, the Worker (plain cap) should be upgraded first so he can defend himself with bombs. The Worker is the second fastest class. The Worker's default weapon is an axe, which can be used to attack enemies, but is best used to cut down trees and chip away at metal sources. Grab these resources and deposit them in a Hat Machine or a captured tower to add them to your overall stockpile. Although harvesting resources is of utmost importance, the Worker is also essential for building and upgrading. You can build siege weapons at siege spots, draw bridges, catapults in your castle and defensive doors with the proper resources. You can also repair any of these things. You can also upgrade the Hat Machines with the proper resources. When you have the needed wood and metal, a green arrow will appear above a buildable/upgradeable spot. Hold L1 to lock on (it will then be highlighted in red) and press SQUARE to build. A meter will show your building progress. The upgraded Worker has an additional weapon: the bomb. You can charge this attack to throw it further. It's very powerful and can be used to destroy doors and the like. There will also be a "Big Bomb" spawned next to the worker hat machine which can be used for any teammates for massive damage. However, it is a double-edged sword as any teammates near it will also take damage. You can pick these up with CIRCLE and throw them with SQUARE or put them down in a catapult with CIRCLE to send them flying toward the front line. Don't leave your home base without one!

Warrior - The Warrior (horned helmet) is the most powerful character, with the most life and damage-inflicting capability. As a result of his armor he's also the slowest. The default weapon is a sword which can be charged for a damaging close-range attack. You can also hold L1 to block projectiles and reduce damage from the frontal attacks. You cannot block when charging an attack though. The upgraded Warrior has a spear that swings a bit slower, but has greater range. You can charge this weapon to do a flying attack. It is essential that you use the Warrior's charged spear attack when locked on to an enemy with L1 -- this can be a one-hit kill for some classes. If you don't lock on, you'll do damage but you won't be able to aim the attack very well. The flying attack will take you some distance as you charge. You can use this attack to jump across huge gaps without the need for a bridge or walking through water. Works well on Black Forest especially.

Ranger - The Ranger (Robin Hood hat) has an infinite quiver of arrows that can be charged to seek out enemies for damage across wide areas. His arrows can be blocked by the Warrior's shield, but most people won't be paying enough attention to defend themselves. Upgrading the Ranger will outfit him with a cool shotgun-like weapon that provides some extra power but at the expense of some serious kickback. When the Ranger's Hat Machine is upgraded, the various torches in and around your home base will be lit, allowing you to dip weapons in it for an extra kick. Try this with the Ranger's arrows and Warrior's weapons.

Mage - My personal favourite. The magic-wielding Mage (pointed wizard's hat) has damage-inflicting powers at his disposal can be useful in large groups of enemies. The default attack of the Mage is a fire attack. Lock on to enemies with L1 and send fireballs their way or hold SQUARE to do a less-damaging area attack. You can charge the fireball attack as well for greater damage. Enemies on fire will continue to take a small amount of damage for a short period of time. Upgrading the mage gives you an ice attack that functions in the same way as the fire attack, but can freeze or slow enemies for a short time. They will be frozen for longer times depending on how long you charged the attack. The upgraded Mage Hat Machine will also spawn rainbow-colored potions (they appear in the little notch by the hut) that can be tossed at enemies to turn them into chickens. Chickens have one heart of life -- although they can still damage enemies with a nasty peck! The potion will convert whomever is nearby, so beware! You can also drop this into the catapult to launch it across the map. The Mage's area attacks can cancel out the spell effects on your team for spells of the opposite type: ice cools teammates on fire, fire unfreezes them. The fire area attack can ignite big bombs and logs -- the latter can be used to light weapons on fire. The ice spell can extinguish a lit bomb, too!

Priest - The Priest (tall bishop's hat) is an interesting and essential class that can heal the other classes. Lock on to nearby friendlies with L1 and hold SQUARE to heal them. You can also charge SQUARE to slightly heal all friendlies in a small area. A fully healed friendly will have a temporary shield that will block a single attack's damage. This will go away if you change weapons, however. Upgrading the Priest unleashes his true power -- the Dark Priest can damage foes while healing himself. You can tell an enemy's life is weakened when the little face over his head turns red. Locking on to enemies and draining their life won't kill them, so use your death ray from behind the frontline to help aid Warriors in the fray. A Warrior / Priest combo is seriously hard to overcome. A charged attack from the Dark Priest will make enemies unable to heal for a short period of time, make their controls "wobbly" (voodoo?), prevent them from locking on, and take away their charged attack. You can tell if the Priest is fully charged by a small pentagram / star that forms under him.

(Thanks to IGN Guides for the class descriptions)

So now it's time to choose your class.

3. Choosing your class/role

If you have read everything above, then you should have an idea of what class you want to play.
A quick summary of general roles for each class should help you.

Villager - Feeding cake to the princess although the worker's speed will suffice.
Worker - Collecting resources, building, upgrading and breaking structures and repairing. Cake?
Warrior - Frontline soldiers, they get into the huge fights without fear.
Rangers - Similar roles to warriors, except they get the advantage of a little more range.
Mage - Support and stalling (with ice).
Priest - Support.

You should, at least, know how to play two classes well if you want to have a decent game experience.

4. Other Tips 

 Here are some tips from the developer's site.
http://titanstudios.com/blog/strategies/ 

Here are some detailed map overviews.
http://au.guides.ign.com/guides/14266745/page_4.html 

5. My Tips 
 (Based on Black Forest and on Rescue the Princess and Team Deathmatch)

 - The fastest way to earn points is to get the worker hat ASAP. Build doors to your castle.
Chop trees until you get around 10 wood in your stockpile. By this time, your ranking should be in the top 3. If not, you are doing something wrong. If possible, upgrade the mage (after upgrading worker of course). Now go get your mage hat, get to the meat grinder area. Charge up your area spell and release it when there are a lot of enemies in your attack range/circle. You may not kill them, but if done right you will get points for assisting in their kills. Continue until then end of the game and you should easily rack up 1000 points in no time. This may not be the most productive way to win the game as such though (for Rescue the Princess) as your time may be better spent planning how to kidnap the princess.

- I recommend the worker to kidnap the princess because they move fast and they have bombs. In Black Forest especially, there is a catapult and a warp in the prisoner's cell. Get in to the prisoner's cell. Spam your bombs until you break the wood covering the warp. Grab the princess and jump in. Alternatively, if there are only a few people in the enemy castle and they have upgraded the catapult. Grab the princess and flat out run to the catapult and fling yourself to your castle. Once in your castle, you are pretty much safe.

 - When defending against your prisoner getting kidnapped and the enemy is picking up the prisoner. Do not attack him if it is one-on-one. Let him pick it up and then unleash your fury. Because, when the opponent picks up your prisoner. The voiceover dude, sends out a notice to everyone. By doing this, you will be guaranteed support in the form of teammates and you will have a BETTER chance of keeping your prisoner. Obviously, some situations may differ and you have to use your own brain at times like that. This applies when you are kidnapping back your princess. Pick her up and THEN fight. It only takes a second.

- When capturing outposts, especially outposts near the enemy castle, hide behind the outpost if you can. Since the map does not rotate, if you hide behind the outpost so that you cannot see yourself, then it is most likely no one else can see you apart from using the map or noticing the outpost's flags changing. The same principle can be used when healing.

- Low on health, and being attacked with no priest around? Get to one of your team's outposts and get up to the top of the outpost. By doing this you will gain 3/4 of a heart. You can charge up your attack while doing this as well, so feel free to attack and heal at the same time. This method can be used to survive those huge battles in the meat grinders.

- The biggest tip of all, USE THE MAP. Just press the select button and look at where the enemies and teammates are and THEN plan your course of action. It helps immensely.

- Be original. Do not try the same methods if they do not prove effective. Surprise your opponent. 

- And finally, have fun. Do not memorise strategies and play. Be free and create your own legacy.

Hope you enjoyed this guide, comment please. 

Some awesome chain mail I got

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,'If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.'
In response to Bill ' s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:
If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........Twice a day.
2.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3... Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light.
I love the next one!!!
7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.
PS - I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call 'customer service' in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!!!!

StudyPass - Session 11

Well, it's here ... exam week.

  

Whether you feel prepared or not, all that matters now is that you stay in good health, develop and keep a positive frame of mind, and make the most of the time between exams to do any last minute study.

 

Here's some tips for the exam period.

 

#1: Stay healthy

 

There's no point studying all night until you're a zombie. Get enough sleep. Eat well. Drink lots of water. Make sure you get out of the house for some fresh air and relaxation. Managing your health is critical over the next couple of weeks so take good care of yourself.

 

#2: Manage your emotions

 

Someone once told me that anxiety is simply excitement ... with shallow breathing! Both emotions are responses to some anticipated event in the future and both carry some tension in the body. However when we're anxious we breathe shallower and slower.

 

Try it next time you're feeling nervous ... First change your posture ... become more upright, pull your shoulders back and focus your eyes up. Take several very deep breathes through your nose and out your mouth. Use this simple technique whenever you find yourself feeling anxious to put yourself in a more useful state of mind.

 

#3: Develop a positive outlook

 

We often talk ourselves into fits of panic and nervous energy. But things are rarely as bad as they seem. Instead of focusing on what could go wrong ... focus on what could go right!

 

Become your own cheerleader. Kick out that little voice telling you the bad news and replace it with your own little raving fan screaming ... YES YOU CAN! .... Seriously, you can.

 

#4: Use your downtime

 

There is still plenty of time in between exams to pull something special out of the bag. Get up early. Get focused. Decide on just one section you will focus on and study that. Don't worry about how big the subject might seem. Just do what you can in the time you have available.

 

# 5: Exam day

 

Always keep focused on your outcome - a successfully completed exam. Nothing else matters. Manage nerves as I have described, keep up your water intake, use positive self-talk. Get to the exam room well on time but avoid talking to stressed out friends - it's better to avoid their nervous energy and instead stay focused on managing your own state.

 

# 6: In the exam

 

I'm sure you've heard this advice before ... it's obvious but important. Read the instructions carefully so that you know exactly what is being asked. Then read each question thoroughly ... underline keywords, spend a short time planning your response.

 

If you find yourself lost while answering a question then you may need to move on to something else. Don't give up too easy, but don't get too stubborn either.

 

Always come back to complete questions if you have the time. Never leave an exam early. Use all the available time to attempt all required questions or review and improve your answers.

 

 

 

Finally, don't take it all too seriously. Yes, it's important right now, and yes you should give it your all. But in a few years time you will look back at this period at school and wonder why you were stressed at all.

 

Have fun!

 

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

Geoff Peterson

StudyPass

Growing Minds, PO Box 633, Christchurch, Canterbury 8140, NEW ZEALAND

Tick Tock - Birthday Blues

What: My birthday

When: 28th October

Where: Can YOU put a place on where time is? BirthDAY people. (Now that I think about it, space-time continuum? - Nah, too complex)

How: The passing of time

Who: Yours truly

Why: Because time never stops ticking.

As you gather from those key points, it's my birthday. Woopdeedoohdah. No idea where that came from. Anyway, birthdays.

A birthday is a time when you celebrate your existence for a certain period of time. So if I live till tomorrow, I can proudly say, I've survived 17 years of this terrible world.

There used to be a time when I used to be proud of the fact that I had lived that long.

e.g. "Mum, I'm 13 now, I'm a TEENAGER!!"

Yeah, well that isn't happening anymore. I feel old already.

"Aw man, I'm 17 now? That's like *counts in head* ONE year away from being an adult"

I'm a bit jealous of Peter Pan. He stays young and keeps his flawless skin. Even Olay Total Effects can't fake 'young boy' skin.

But what can I do to stop time? Don't answer that.

There's always been one thing I wanted to do when I grow up. Tell stories about my life to my grandkids. Stereotypical as it may sound, it SEEMS like a fun thing to do.

That means I need to have an interesting life. For that, I need to have done interesting things. E.g. I drove a car when I was 14. (That's illegal where I come from).

So if I told them that, my grandchildren might think I'm a rebel and I'll get a sick happiness out of it.

Oh, by the way, I drove that car before my 15th birthday just so I could say I did it when I was 14.

That same question came around this year. What can I do, so that I can say I did it when I was 16. Something interesting, something cool.

Answer: Nothing.

I realised then that this birthday wasn't going to be much fun.

1) I was growing older (than I would like)

2) I did nothing interesting in the past 364 days.

"C'est la vie!", as the French say. "That's life!".

Normally, I hate those kind of sayings, and I hate people who quote random things like that but I'll make an exception and say that this time.

Even as I'm writing this, I'm thinking about something interesting I can do. And I realised something so interesting that even the Dalai Lama wouldn't have thought of it.

I changed the font. From default to Trebuchet.

GC: "Hey Grandpa, what did you do when you were 16?"

Me: "I changed fonts"

The good thing about birthdays though, is that you know your true ("How's life?") friends from your "Sup!" acquaintances. True friends make an effort and actually remember my birthday for a start and some even go on to say "Happy Birthday!". "What about presents?", I hear you say. Well, let's just say a handshake is just fine. Refer here because this is what I'm referring to (the Valentine's Day bit)

Magical, ain't it?

Well, this is my last post as a 16 year old.

Hopefully you will see a more mature and attractive me in the next post.

Until the next post, loyal readers.

Twitter

There's all this new hype about Twitter.
How 140 characters to express yourself gives birth to creativity and blah blah blah.

So I joined Twitter recently. You can follow me on http://twitter.com/LiXworks
Its not that bad. I get to see what everyone is 'twittering' about by looking at the trending topics.
And I managed to get a follower who I don't know. So somehow my twitters are getting across the world.

I still haven't been on it enough to make up my mind on it completely.
Will do soon though.

Hopefully, I'll get my follower count higher with this post.

My First Proper Post in a Long Time

It's been a while since I've properly posted on my blog.
So here I am.

My vacation in India and Bangkok was awesome.
Got to meet my cousins after about 10 or so years.
My cousin got married. I went to an A. R. Rahman concert and got a suit and uniform tailormade.
Got a foot massage (1 hour) and a pedicure (30 minutes).

Contrary to popular belief, a pedicure is not that girly.
All they did was cut my nails and scrape off dead skin, leaving my foot clean and smooth.
This pedicure was not the kind where you get your nails painted or polished.
This was a cleansing pedicure.
I justify my moments of losing manliness with that thought. "It was cleansing".
Now that I write it down, it does seem pretty girly, oh well.

The foot massage was great though. 1 hour of relaxation. The masseuse also put in a bit of shoulder and neck massage.

And now I'm back home (my 2nd home) and it's been a week.
It took a while to get used to school and now I'm settled in.

Worst thing is, I got exams in 21 Days, 21 Hours, 21 Minutes.
Wow, talk about timing. It must mean something.

I should go study now. But I think I need to satisfy my hunger first. Chicken soup is on the menu.

StudyPass - Session 10

t's time to get serious about exam study. It's too important to put off any longer.

 

To make the most of the upcoming weeks you must have a study plan.

 

If you don't, you will find it all too easy to put off your study for another day, another week. The risk is that you won't have enough time to fully prepare.

 

Worse still, you will have a nagging sense of unease about your study which can lead to more stress. Most of the exam stress students feel comes from thinking about studying, not from actually doing it!

 

The lesson here is simple: Just take some action. You feel more confident and in a better state to take the next step. One step at a time is all you have to focus on.

 

 

Create your own study timetable ...

 

As soon as you create your study plan, you will actually experience less stress and feel more motivated. That's because your study plan steps out in the future what you need to do ... It gives you a sense of certainty about what is ahead.

 

To help you create your plan I have included this special study timetable link

 

where you can download and print your own study timetable.

 

It's fast, easy and painless. Click here

 

to open the pdf file and then print it and complete it.

 

 

If you haven't yet started a study programme then the only thing that matters right now is that you take a first step ... that's all .... just take some action, see how it makes you feel ... then take another step.

 

 

Your future study coaching emails ...

 

The emails will increase in frequency over the coming weeks as we get to the serious end of the year.

 

If you are a recent subscriber then you will receive emails closer together as you are receiving both the existing sequence of emails and the more recent emails that will be focusing on exam preparation.

 

 

Until our next communication ...

 

All the best with your studies.

 

 

Kind regards

 

Geoff Peterson

StudyPass

StudyPass - Session 9

This email is about what to do if you feel overwhelmed with school work ... when there's too much to do and not enough time to do it.

 

I don't think you should be trying to find ways to squeeze more things into your day. Working harder isn't always the best solution. Sometimes you have to do less, in order to achieve more.

 

If you find yourself too busy with school work then it's possible that you haven't made the distinction between being busy and being effective.

 

Being Busy vs Being Effective

 

You can be busy doing lots of things with little or no attention on whether those things are actually important.

 

Being effective is about doing the things that are most important. These are the few critical actions that produce the biggest results.

 

If you find yourself with little time to do any study then the chances are you are being busy without being effective.

 

Being busy is often a way to avoid doing the most important, and sometimes uncomfortable things.

 

So what do you do? Stop trying to manage your time .... instead start prioritising.

 

Let's revisit the 80/20 rule

 

You may remember in a previous email I introduced you to the 80/20 rule. It states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the time and effort.

 

So 80% of your results will come from 20% of the time and effort you spent chasing those results.

 

Or put another way 80% of the time and effort you spent studying will make no difference to your results!

 

The trick is to identify the 20% that makes the difference. Then to focus exclusively on that and eliminate the 80% of actions that make little or no difference.

 

You need to ruthlessly apply a strict set of criteria to your actions to ensure that your time and effort will produce the results you desire.

 

Parkinson's Law

 

Here's a very important principle you should know about any type of work ... It's called Parkinson's principle:

 

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

 

 

What this means is that whatever time you give to a task, the task will expand to take up that time.

 

If you give yourself 10 hours over 4 nights to complete an assignment ... then you will find a way to fill those 10 hours with assignment work.

 

The task will magically expand to consume that time ... you'll spend more time researching ... more time editing etc.

 

But remember, 80% of your time and effort is not producing significant results, so this extra time does not necessarily produce a better result.

 

If however you set yourself a very tight and clearly defined deadline, for example, to complete the assignment in the next 3 hours, then immediately your level of focus changes. Now the heat is on. You must now work smarter not harder.

 

So the trick then is to simultaneously apply both the 80/20 rule and Parkinson's Law to your study ... Always focus on the tasks that are most important and then set tight deadlines for their completion.

 

Here's how ...

 

1. Write a list of the 2 or 3 most important school related tasks that need to be completed in the next week.
   
   e.g. complete the English assignment
   e.g. study for the Science test
   
   To make sure you only write the most important tasks ask yourself questions like:
   
   If these are the only 2 things I get accomplished this week will I feel satisfied?
   Will each of these tasks directly affect my results?
   Which subject(s) are most important for me to improve in?
   
   
2. Now, set a very tight time deadline for each task. Remember a tight deadline helps you to work more efficiently because it forces you to focus on essential action.
   
   e.g. 4 hours to complete the English assignment
   e.g. 3 hours studying for the Science test
   
   
3. Take out your diary and schedule 1 hour study sessions over the next week to devote to each of these tasks. Do not devote any time to any other homework or study until these tasks are completed.
   
   
4. At the start of each session write a specific objective for what you what to achieve in the hour.

 

 

A word of encouragement ...

If after applying this technique for the first time you find you don't meet your tight deadlines, then don't beat yourself up. Just realise that you are developing your study habits here.

 

You will get better at focusing your efforts each time you apply this strategy. You will make more distinctions and find out what works for you.

 

Even if you don't meet your deadlines on your first attempt, you will be a lot further ahead than if you had no deadline.

 

Just refocus and recommit. You are building mental muscle with every attempt you make.

Until our next communication ...

 

 

All the best

Geoff Peteson

StudyPass 

 

 

 

© 2009 Growing Minds Ltd

 

Growing Minds, PO Box 633, Christchurch, Canterbury 8140, NEW ZEALAND

Vacation...

My vacation..
Right now I'm on a vacation in India.

It's been awesome.
Met my cousins and had a lot of fun.
A nice wedding and even better food.
I've probably put on a few kilos by now.

Missing my friends back in NZ though.
I got a suit stitched. And my uniform.
My dad got a 5800 which has wi-fi. So I steal my neighbour's internet.

Go Tua!! He owned that tattooed know-it-all.

Anyway, I'll miss the first week of school.
and I'll see you later.

God, the internet here is so slow - 256kbps..