Cloudberry Kingdom
16 Achievements
400
100-120h
My Beard is Impenetrable
Complete a chapter without dying
40
How to unlock the My Beard is Impenetrable achievement in Cloudberry Kingdom - Definitive Guide
1) Make a new save file on either HDD, USB, or cloud storage. This is so that the statistics will show 0 deaths (you can check overall statistics while in pause menu of a level).
2) Choose Play Game > Story Mode and select character (character customization doesn't affect gameplay so choose what you want).
3) Choose Chapter 1, The Sea.
4) You will need to beat Chapter 1 (which consists of 40 levels) without dying to get the achievement so start making your way through the levels.
5) If you happen to die, don't panic! Here's where the trick comes into play. If and when you die, press start to pause. Now press the guide button on the controller, then X to sign out, and click Yes to confirm.
6) Now sign back in and be sure to pick the same storage device that your new save is on. (What I mean by "new" save is the 0 death one, not a previous save that may have death statistics on it).
7) Select Story Mode and this time you will see "Continue". Do that and you should be at the level you made it to before you died. Your statistics should show 0 deaths. Basically, the game saves progress when beating a level OR when you quit out of pause menu. As long as you only hit pause and then sign out, your death won't be saved and this is why the trick works.
8) Keep repeating these steps in order to beat Chapter 1 without dying. Upon continuing to Chapter 2, the achievement will unlock! And there you go... an easy method for this otherwise hard achievement the normal way!
... play the game and try to stay alive for the first 40 levels (chapter one). When you are falling down or hitting some obstacles, immediatley pause the game and dashboard out. You can then restart the game and continue story mode with no deaths at all (you can check your stats to be sure). If you want, you can also copy your save file to a USB to be on the safe side.
*Important* Do not just pause the game and leave to the title menu, this will autosave your stats, thus affecting your stats on deaths.
With this method the achievement popped up for me. Hope this helps ;)
If there is anything I forgot, let me know. Thanks!
Chapter one is probably your best bet for this. It's 40 levels, however none of them are particularly difficult. Story levels are static, so they'll always be the same. If you have trouble with specific levels, feel free to use powerups to aid you. Completely ignore coins when going for this. Going for them can get you killed and ruin your attempt for this achievement.
This achievement is glitchy. In order to do this, you have to have no deaths recorded in the chapter - meaning you have to get the achievement the first time you go through a chapter. So if you miss this achievement on your first attempt (which you probably will - you'll still be learning the game at this point), migrate your save to a removable storage device (such as a flash drive), create a new save on your hard drive, and try again.
Glitched
The easiest chapter to do this on is Chapter 1: The Seas. However, this trophy is glitched because when you complete the chapter without dying, it may not pop. There are 2 workarounds for this as detailed below. The second method is simpler but it requires you to back up your save files and delete them. You can redownload them once you earn the trophy.
1. Try to complete the chapter without dying and collecting all the gems on every tenth level; in this case, levels 10, 20, 30, and 40. If the trophy still doesn’t pop after doing this then refer to step 2.
2. Quit the game and back up your save file to a USB stick (or if you are a Playstation Plus subscriber, you can upload the save file to the cloud). Once you have your file backed up, delete it from your PS3. Now start the game back up and attempt the trophy - no need to collect all the gems. If you die, simply quit to the XMB and reload the game. Thanks to ThanatosNinja2 for this tip.
Since essentially no one who plays this game will go for this trophy as their first, their death counter will be greater than zero when they eventually attempt to do it. The glitch is believed to be caused by the fact that the player's death counter will be greater than zero when going for the trophy, therefore the game thinks you have died on the chapter even though you may have not.
ThanatosNinja2 provided an additional tip that makes this trophy considerably easier:
If you know you mistimed a jump and are going to die, you can quickly press and buy the AI demo power-up, as doing this doesn't count as dying and Bob gets placed back at the beginning of the level safe and sound.
Also note that you must select "Continue" after you complete the last level without dying. Otherwise your progress will be negated and if you'll have to do it all over again.