Awwww JB, I wonder if we can find a saved game? I luckily have a couple of kids with fast reflexes to do that stuff for me.

That one gave me fits for days, JohnBoy, so you are not alone. I can't remember what I did, but I finally was able to get through it. I could do with a geriatric mode sometimes too!

I'll see if the game saves in such a way that one can be sent to you...

The problem is that they're training you to do something later than requires similar skills - so you'll have to skip that bit too. This is common in games with an 'action' element - new skills are introduced in a way that allows you to practice for later in the game where the same skill is essential for success.

HI JB-
I too remember those ##**!!@ hoops-I thought I'd never get thru them, but all of a sudden it happened and on I went. loved this game but there are some really tough places and battles to get thru-I had to look at WTs to get advice about strategies to use. I am stalled at the next to last battle-kinda lost interest and quit -it gets really difficult toward the end. But don't get discouraged-just keep trying-if I can do it, anyone can. I hope to get back to it one of these days.
Draclvr-did you ever finish it, or are you still gardening?

Unfortunately, the save system has only 6 slots, if I remember correctly. Now I wish I had made a save folder and put saves in it after completing the worst parts!

Gardening away, bigmamma. Read: 114 tomato plants etc. Plus tons of company visiting from Iowa to Colorado to Germany. One of these days I'll get back to it!!

Yup, that's what I found with the saves too.

Update! I have defeated the death tank(after not playing this game for a month or so) and am now in the meat circus with the replicating bunny monster.
The characters are just so darn cute, it makes me want to keep trying. my inner child,I guess.
JB- are you still hanging in there? Did you get thru the hoops? I thought that was the most challenging of the floating situations.

What seems to work for me is when I try a difficult battle/move and keep failing, I go away and leave it alone for awhile and after 2 or 3 sessions of trying and practicing ,I figure it out.

Draclvr-I can just taste those fresh tomatoes! Hope you can get back to the game sometime-good to know someone else is playing it

Hi, I have not been back to the game in a while. Playing another challenging game, Trine. Stuck there also in the dragons den. I will eventually go back and try the hoops again.

Haven't given up yet, but I'm ready to throw in the towel any day now.
Am half way thru the next battle where you have to blast the big bunny and give the little bunny to Oly and he goes up to a higher level each time. Once I got almost to the top before time up and Oly dies, at which point-back to the bottom again to start all over.
Why oh why do they have save points instead of being able to save as you make progress? That would make it possible to finish these extremely difficult challenges and maybe even finish the game

I'm with you Bigmamma.....I'd like to ask a developer that question. I assume it has to do with costs or maybe programming ease, but I don't know that and I hate not being able to save at will so much that I often skip games that don't allow that.

Have you tried the Walkthrough Here?

I was reading it and it seems to have some good tips for the Tent City, though I don't know if that is where you are.

Agree 100%. It infuriates me that you get so close to the finish point and mess up and the game throws you right back at the beginning. Not fair.

I have stomped my feet and thrown a hissy fit more than once with games that won't let you save progress. I hate starting over and over on a difficult part.

Still slaving away in this heat in the tomatoes etc! I'm starting to look forward to fall!

Glad to know I'm not the only one who gets to the tearing-hair-out stage with these save point designed games.
I seem to remember the first 3 0r 4 Tomb Raiders had save anywhere slots-what a difference-you could save right in the middle of a really impossible battle, so it was always possible to get through it without spending hours of repetition, which leads to finally giving up.
I still think Psychonauts is worth playing-up to the final chapter(Meat Circus)- because of it's colorful and imaginative characters, amusing dialogue, and surreal environments, but I seem to have this compulsive need to finish games to the end, so I'm still trying
Thanks Looney-I'll check that WT!

I have no doubt I'll be back at it later this fall!