Overview
This guide offers a small amount of gameplay advice in the event you don’t want to learn it for yourself or are having trouble with gameplay. It is NOT a technical guide, please consult the forums regarding any relevant problems. This guide will exist until such a time as someone makes a better one.
Gameplay instructions
Laserlife is a twin stick-runner – in case you hadn’t noticed.
You control 2 lasers with the 2 joysticks on your controller.
Each Act consists of 4 levels, each level consists of 4 Phases.
Phase 1 requires the collection of memory fragments. Using the lasers, depress the triggers on your controller upon impact with a fragment.
There are 3 types of fragment, introduced one by one in each stage.
These are the standard fragments, easy to catch. They are found in all Acts.
These purple fragments require you to hold the trigger down until they dissipate of their own accord, typically 1 second after catching. They are only found in Acts 2 and 3.
These green fragments require you to hold them and immediately move them in their chosen direction (observe the arrows) They are only found in Act 3.
Phase 2 is slightly easier depending on how you play. The discs only need an impact, no triggers required. Their placement is slightly harder than their fragment counterparts.
The discs will light up when the lasers are in line, see image.
Phase 3 has little to it. It is a tunnel runner in which you must navigate linear obstacles.
Like Phase 2 only the joysticks are required to move the lasers. Unlike Phase 2, impact is not recommended. You will lose your current chain (and you cannot regain it) upon 1 hit. Multiple hits will earn you a restart of Phase 2.
Phase 4 is only a few seconds long and simply needs the continous rotation of the joysticks.
All instructions are briefly provided by the game at the start of each level.
Tips and tricks
Here I will give the few tips and tricks I have found whilst playing Laserlife.
“Laser navigation” is the magic phrase here.
In Phase 1, your lasers should always be at the edge of their range (i.e. keep the joysticks rammed to the sides at all times). No fragments will spawn anywhere other than in range of the edge. They may look as if they do, but they won’t.
In Phase 2, its all about their plane (The physical level the lasers are at). There are 3 vertical, and 3 horizontal planes. There is little deviation from this until the higher tier Phases. (At the higher tier Phases, the disc trains slope up or downwards from plane to plane. It is easily countered (especially with the last point on this page).)
Plane 1 is bunching them right together.
Plane 2 is the lasers ‘relaxed’ position (i.e. no intervention from you).
Plane 3 is the edge of their range.
It should be noted that unlike Phases 1 and 3, the lasers in Phase 2 cannot cross the screen.
In both Phases you should take each spawn as it comes, don’t prepare for 2 spawns away unless you want to risk missing the the current one.
In Phase 3, the only barrier the lasers should be relaxed in is the barrier that has a hole. (See image.) It may look as if it is slightly lower than centre but they will go through.
The lasers must be taken control of for ALL other barriers.
Phase 4 doesn’t change.
Finally and most importantly: LISTEN TO THE MUSIC!
The rhythm of the music corresponds directly to the placement of the fragments/discs, their spawns are NOT random! Time your triggers with the soundtrack and you will succeed.