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The first thing you'll notice about this level is the horrible camera angle
they start you off with.  While the camera gets better as you increase in size,
things don't really get easier as far as collecting goes.  It actually seems to
be harder to collect clouds, especially the small ones, as you get to the
larger sizes.

To start off with, your choices in collecting aren't great, basically just
Sheep Clouds and the smaller varieties of White Clouds and Rain Clouds.  I
found the best way to handle this is to dash through the large cloud banks in
oblong circles.  There are enough hidden in there to get you to your first
upgrade; which is thankfully very early.  There are also a few visible pockets
of small clouds and some rotating circles, but the difficult maneuvering and
wait time make them nearly worthless.

Soon after your first upgrade, you'll find yourself picking up medium-sized
clouds, which is great because the cloud banks are made mostly of these.  You
should start growing at a mad pace.  Keep dashing in large circles, keeping
yourself within the cloud banks.  At about 350 Clouds start getting meticulous.
You should have over 3 minutes left.

This is a style issue here, you can either follow the outside edge of the
clouds in a large circle or move through in a line, jump over your Katamari and
return (like in Sweets Meadow).  Neither works better than the other, it seems
both ways somehow miss clouds that you roll directly over.  Plan your route far
in advance, and keep an eye on your total to make sure when you roll up a
cloud.  This may be the only level where moving backwards for any length of
time is viable.

Around 450+ Clouds, you'll start running into a dilemma.  Finding the smaller
clouds you missed becomes very hard.  Keep a sharp eye out and remember that
the lines airplanes leave behind count as clouds.  Try to roll up the Giant
Rainbows towards the end, there are several clouds hiding in there that are
difficult to get when you're too small to roll up the rainbows.

Sometimes you'll end up with 1 or 2 Clouds left and unable to find the
offending ones.  That's the way this game works, you only need 475 Clouds for
the Super-Clear, but those of you after the 100% may be frustrated your first
few times through.

Colombo

Oct 25 2009, 10:10 AM

I got 100% the first time i played the cloud stage. like everyone else said dash nonstop. after a little bit i got big enough to roll up every cloud. once your done rolling most of the clouds and there might be a (rain,thunder) god left dont go for the god, go for the cloud, because when i did it for 100% there I didn't roll up all the gods and it says i got 100 percent. if you did it like i said you should get a 100 percent with 1-10 seconds left. Hope i helped

Colombo.