Luxor 2

Very true. Good mention bud.
I'm at about level 12-2 on my normal playthrough of this if anyone is curious. Painfully getting there.

12-1 HERE..... 10-4 was pain...

I fucking hate this game. This is the reason I have an odd number player score and goddammit it's hard.

Thanks for the tip. Been getting stuck and having to reply entire zones so far, perhaps this will ease my suffering.

The quickest way to reset is to hit the Xbox guide button and just sign out of your profile. This will take you back to the Luxor main menu.

Also, this may help some people: I was trying to chain together more combos for more powerups, but then found out that the only requirement to get a powerup is to make balls disappear on three consecutive shots. You don't have to chain them together. So the best strategy is to make as many twos as you can before making threes. This will maximize your powerups.

I've been hacking away at this game slowly and I find that it is ok to shoot normally as the line of balls is starting out or at the middle of the route.
But as soon as it gets close to the end, you must focus on the first balls in the line only as shooting in the middle of the line of balls will push the front balls closer and closer to doom.

Remember you can press the B button to switch to another color which is your back up ball to shoot. I made it a habit to press B on every shot pretty much when I have to make quick shots.
If there is a ball stuck in the hole and you can't get it out or hit it with another ball, as long as you know what color it is, you can stick this color to the next ball in the line and it will attract the like colored ball out of the hole.

The game will help you and will tend to give you the colors which are the closest to the hole so use this to your advantage.

Whenever I got a scorpion, backwards or lightning storm, I would immediately do the method described in this solution to save progress as this is usually a good state to save in and resume at whenever the game decides to screw you over.

Personally, having played both this and Zuma which are both very similar, this game is EASIER than Zuma because of the saving method in this game. Zuma does not tend to help you with giving you the right colors either.

With the above being said however, I am yet to play this game on expert difficulty so maybe I'm in way over my head!

I agree with Sgt Malarkey Br. At 12-1 now and so far not too many levels have given me trouble... with the exception of 10-4... which was complete hell and took almost half an hour to complete.