This game comes with different types of power-ups, and these include hearts, which give you extra lives. They’re fairly common in the game, with most players seeing one or more per level. As you can never tell when your slide down will be fraught with a whole lot of danger (as opposed to some danger), those extra lives will come in handy.
Waterslide Extreme’s controls include a brake button, but you should use it only when you truly need it the most. Usually, this would be when you encounter a row of crystals on the way down. Hitting the brakes allows you to slow down ahead of a turn, so that way you can gather the crystals. However, braking also slows you down, and you have to keep this in mind so you don’t run out of time in a level.
We cannot stress this enough – Waterslide Extreme is a racing game, and in here, the mechanics require you to complete a level within the allotted time. Hitting the brakes too hard would have you screeching to a stop, and if that happens, you automatically lose a level. Be especially careful when slowing down if you’re dealing with a slide that has an incline.
Provided that the tube is fully covered, you can move anywhere you wish. And since speed is extremely important in the game, you should be sliding where the water is flowing, so as to accelerate faster.
The crown and boost power-ups are two of the more useful power-ups you can use in Waterslide Extreme. The crown makes you invincible, and once you run into crabs and ducks while in this invincible state, you’ll kill them and earn some points. The boost power-up, on the other hand, gives you the huge surge of speed you need, possibly the difference between passing or failing a level. Boosts tend to be in the same spot regardless how often you play the game, and are usually found right before inclines, where speed will be especially important.