Snake Pass

Hello everyone,

This is more of a warning/tip rather than a solution. I played through all the levels and when I died I would just retry. When I completed the last level, the achievement did not unlock. DO NOT RETRY (Press start than ). This did not work for me. What you need to do is either dashboard or quit out of the level and reload it. I did a mix of both, but if you want to be safe, just dashboard and reload.

Now some tips:

1. You should be good until the last water level. For the obstacle where you need to ride it to get the pink gem, and than traverse onto the next one. I would not coil and the moment you get the gem, haul ass while lifting your head up. This should make you clear the gap easily and the rest of the level is smooth sailing.

2. On the fire levels, if you fall in some lava, there is time to escape, you just need to move quickly.

3. The middle two fire levels are the harder ones, for the turning obstacle that you need to ride across a large gap (I believe in the third? level). I would wrap yourself over the long horizontal bar, and than quickly coil one of the smaller vertical bamboo sticks. When it gets close to the other side, start lifting your head and use the momentum to shoot yourself forward.

4. For air levels, you need to commit. Don't try and backtrack on an obstacle as I found myself failing more often than not. Noodle is quite resilient and if timed correctly you can use gravity and the momentum to your advantage.

5. Last level is the hardest. I recommend practicing this level a couple times before you get the hang of all obstacles than going for a clean run.

6. I DID NOT DO TIME TRIAL. I only did normal mode.

Recap:

1. Do not use the retry option (). This messes up the achievement.
2. Practice makes perfect.
3. I didn't do time trial so, you can unlock it through normal mode.


Thanks for reading, I understand its more of a tip rather than a solution, let me know. First time writing a guide so I appreciate any feedback!

UPDATE
According to HawkeyeBarry20, you can now press () and it will no longer void the achievement. This now makes this achievement a lot less annoying! Good luck everyone!

You might have seen that loading tip that tells you that collecting all the Gatekeeper coins is the hardest challenge. That's a complete lie.

First of all, let me give you the best advice to make your life easier. Switch the control scheme to Easy. You get far more control over your actions, which means you're also not fighting against the awkward physics system most of the time. The hardest stage in my opinion is 14, because you can't really cheese it as much, and the addition of wind pushing you around can throw off the physics engine a bit.

However, there's one thing that the physics engine allows for... and that is manipulation. With some practice, you can skip large chunks of stages making this far more easier than it should be, and let's be real, the devs have a really sick sense of humor when it comes to making an achievement for no deaths in a game where you're constantly at war with the controls (and chances are they didn't even do this achievement themselves).

I used the following video to get a lot of ideas on how to run each stage, but remember, you'll need a very good understanding on how to perform some of the more advanced tech as they require very tight movements to pull off.


Sadly there's not much else to say... you can cheese this achievement in a sense, but it still relies heavily on personal skill, and some luck since the physics may not want to play along on helping you along. I suggest doing this first so you can keep track of what stages you cleared without deaths, or alternatively, start a new save file and just aim for this.