A Halloween Moto X3M, raced against your own clock
Moto X3M: Spooky Land is MadPuffers' Halloween edition of the Moto X3M series, released in October 2019. It has 22 levels, each a single track of ramps and traps between you and a finish line, and nothing else to collect. That makes the whole game one question: how fast can you get there?
Stars depend only on your finish time. Style only counts for what it does to the clock. Getting to the end is the easy part; getting there quickly enough for three stars is the actual game.
Controls
W or the up arrow accelerates, and S or the down arrow brakes. A and D, or the left and right arrows, lean the bike: right tips it forward onto the front wheel, left tips it back onto the rear wheel. The same lean keys are how you flip in the air.
Where the seconds actually go
The timer starts the moment the level does. Hesitating at the start line is time you never get back, so be on the gas immediately.
A crash does not end the level. You come back at the last checkpoint, but the clock never stopped, so every fall costs the seconds you spent getting there again. If you crash early on a short track, restarting is often faster than recovering.
Each front or back flip in the air takes 0.5 seconds off your time. On a long jump that is worth doing; on a short hop, a flip you cannot finish turns into a crash and costs far more than it saved. The rule of thumb is to flip only when you can see the landing and still have height to spare.
Reading a Spooky Land track
Holding full throttle the whole way is the usual mistake. The traps are timed and placed for a rider arriving at a particular speed, so the fast line is often easing off before a hazard and accelerating after it, rather than arriving early and getting caught.
Land with the bike level. A bike still tipped forward or back when it touches down is the landing most likely to throw you. Tap the lean keys in short presses in the air instead of holding them.
Learn a track before racing it. The first run is for finding where the traps are; the runs after that are for shaving time. If a level will not give you three stars, the guide for this game has a full run of every level so you can see where the time is made.
Facts on this page were cross-checked against the Poki page for this game, CrazyGames, and Poki's page for the original Moto X3M from the same developer. Where a detail comes from the original rather than Spooky Land, it is one the two pages agree on.
