Rare Replay

This achievement requires you to complete a full playthrough of the game, completing all 13 stages in turn. Working towards this will likely be your first step in unlocking the game’s achievements.

The levels have quite a range of different formats, though all ultimately are based around a side-scrolling beat-‘em-up/platformer mechanic. A brief overview of the stages is as follows, to give some idea of what to expect from each:

1. Ragnarok's Canyon: This is a fairly standard beat-‘em-up stage, with the ‘Toads battling across the surface of a planet and ending with a boss sequence. For the boss, after each barrage a rock will be left behind – you need to pick this up and throw it back, towards the screen, to damage the boss.
2. Wookie Hole: In this second stage, the ‘Toads repel down a deep hole, avoiding and attacking a variety of enemies who’ll take any opportunity to stop them. Be especially careful around birds, which are able to break the ‘Toads cables and send them falling to their death.
3. Turbo Tunnel: A notoriously challenging stage, here the ‘Toads ride a Speeder Bike while navigating a dangerous obstacle course at high speed.
4. Arctic Cavern: This stage, being ice-themed, has slippery surfaces throughout and the low friction from these will make it easy for the ‘Toads to skid into hazards including crazed snowmen, ice cubes and spikes.
5. Surf City: Another ‘vehicle’-based stage, here the 'Toads ride surfboards down a river, dodging logs, whirlpools, and mines. Fortunately this stage is somewhat more forgiving than Turbo Tunnel!
6. Karnath's Lair: The ‘Toads now use giant snakes to climb the stage, with careful jumping and quick reactions required to jump between snakes as they appear, while avoiding deadly spikes.
7. Volkmire's Inferno: With a similar format to Turbo Tunnel, the ‘Toads take to jet planes to navigate an aerial obstacle course.
8. Intruder Excluder: The ‘Toads ascend an upward-scrolling elevator shaft, avoiding electrified platforms, suction devices that attempt to draw them into deadly blades and toxic gas - among other hazards.
9. Terra Tubes: Set in a network of pipes, this stage includes swimming sections and deadly, rapidly-moving, ‘Krazy-Kogs’ that will chase and attempt to run over the ‘Toads – eventually each can be escaped in a safe area that avoids their path, but you need to be quick!
10. Rat Race: As its name suggests, this stage sees the ‘Toads racing a mutant rat down a shaft, to reach and defuse a series of three bombs before the rat can detonate them. Crucial to descending as quickly as possible is minimising how long the ‘Toads spend on platforms, so when falling from each platform aim towards the next gap as far as possible. If the rat threatens to overtake, a well-placed attack should see it overshooting a gap that it’s about to reach, buying time for the ‘Toads to progress.
11. Clinger Winger: The game’s final vehicle-based stage, here the ‘Toads ride a unicycle as they attempt to outrun a pursuing ‘Buzzball’. The Buzzball can generally travel more quickly than the ‘Toads, but it slows down on corners – so to stay ahead of it, rapid, ‘clean’ turns are vital. To maintain speed, you’ll need to hold the D-pad /  in the direction of movement and try to change this direction exactly at the point of cornering to avoid losing speed. You may find it helpful for this to attempt to pause the game at each corner, change direction and unpause, making use of the rewind feature if you don’t time the pause perfectly.
12. The Revolution: Another upward-scrolling stage, here the ‘Toads climb the Dark Queen's tower, having to make use of precarious platforms, some of which are liable to vanish or drop.
13. Armageddon: Now all that remains is the final boss, with the ‘Toads facing off against the Dark Queen. Watch out in particular for the tornado attacks that she can launch, but fortunately the range of different attacks available to her is limited. Good luck!

For those who find it useful to have a video to refer to, the following Youtube video demonstrates a (very impressive!) full playthrough of the game:

One important point to note is that while a few stages include warps (appearing as a cross pattern of dots drawing inwards) that allow you to skip two stages ahead, you should avoid using these when working towards this achievement, as the achievement requires that you complete all stages, not just that you complete a full playthrough - and skipping levels will mean that you're not credited with completing them. However, for reference (e.g., in case of a repeat playthrough), the four warp points are as follows:

• Stage 1: This requires speed to reach - take out the first two enemies as quickly as possible and run to the right, where you should (if you're fast enough) see a warp that you can jump to at the top of the screen. If it's not there, you were too slow.
• Stage 3: Near to the beginning of the last part section of the stage, at the bottom of the screen.
• Stage 4: Jump from the suspended platform that appears above a spike-filled gap that you'd normally fall down (this is at the start of snapshot 4).
• Stage 6: In the stage's second section, climb onto the snake and when it turns to descend, run off the top of it to the right, to land on the platform below.

The following Youtube video demonstrates the locations of the warp point: