Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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And there it is. 16 throughout the entire game. On PAL, though I don't know if this matters.

I wouldn't immediately know how to interpret this number. I guess we could see how it compares to its predecessor. DtP took off with 34, and across the years dropped down all the way down to just one.
May this game live the same fate ? Of course, we have no way to tell, but it seems unlikely.
The count of DtP progressively lowered down thanks to better stage layout manipulation, and new tricks such as wall-clips. In L'sV though, wall-clips wouldn't help much with the remaining gems. Maybe only three of them. Most are situated in strictly linear sections, where there's clearly nothing you can do to avoid going through these parts at all. The only plausible way out of them there would be even wiser layout usage, or carrying enemies to them. If we could also find a way to extirp ourselves out of tornadoes without getting dragged inside them that would help a lot.
But as of today, this is the current state of the challenge with this game. I don't have any more ideas that I haven't already tried.

As it stands, Chamber o'Fun is the stage with the most of them with 5, followed by Volkan Inferno's 3.
I honestly thought that Fun was by itself gonna equalize if not surpass the count of the entire rest of the game. It would clearly have if it weren't for the Boomies we can carry to skip most of the second tornado slider.

I made another summary of the scores, including the extra stages at 2:12.

Over.

[Update, 27 june 2022 : La-Lakoosha was improved by one dreamstone to a 1 count, thereby lowering the overall count by one gem to 15.]

Vision scores playlist : youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1GOxYfabbWIHQj6axuMeDzVlibdt6t-P