As you can gather from our review of Slide the Shakes, we’ve had lots of fun playing that iOS game… so much so that we’ve picked up various little pearls of wisdom for excelling at it. Now you can read them while sipping from a big glass of milkshake…
Perhaps the single biggest piece of advice we can dispense is that careful timing is everything in Slide the Shakes. It’s tempting to rush into things, but you can get further if you treat the game more like chess by carefully surveying the playing area before deciding when and how long you should swipe.
Indeed, always briefly keep your finger held down at the end of a swipe; this way, you can use the color scale to assess, before you lift that finger, whether your slide will have just the right speed and power.
Also, when experimenting with your sliding, it’s better to be cautious and regularly make too weak, rather than too strong, a slide. That’s because if your shake falls into the abyss, you will, in many instances, have to restart the level right from the beginning.