The Cave
27 Achievements
15-20h
Who Wants to Live Forever
Got everyone out of The Cave without dying once.
0.4%
How to unlock the Who Wants to Live Forever achievement in The Cave - Definitive Guide
* Take three easy characters with good abilities and a quick and easy puzzle. I recommend: the knight (easy and fairly quick puzzle; special ability lets him be immune to falling damage), the monk (easy puzzle without much opportunity of dying), the scientist (easy puzzle, not much to die for here either), the Hillbilly (can dive under water as long as needed but a long puzzle).
I don't recommend: the time traveller (puzzle too complicated), the twins (puzzle too long), the adventurer (too much possibilites where you can die)
* Most important: Don't fall to your death! If you try rushing too quickly through your adventure, you will fall and die. That's why I recommend going with the knight always head on - you can prevail dying by using your special ability .
* Try avoiding the following, avoidable deaths: staying under water for too long, getting squished by an elevator (happens often enough...), getting squished by the boat in the last puzzle on the island (if you dive underneath the boat, you will die), staying too close to an exploding dynamite, getting squished by a mine cart arriving (happens often enough...)
* If you do die - head to the dashboard immediately! Press the Xbox Guide button , then and quit the game! If you choose to leave ingame, the game will save and you will have to start over again! If you play on Xbox One or Xbox Series, just hit the Guide button and close the game ("menu" button on the tile), this way the game won't save your progress (thanks to Beatmosh for the tip).
* You can skip a complete passage while replaying! In the very first puzzle (where you have to lure the monster to the hot dog on the stick to pull it up with that lever), take a second hot dog with you! Carry it on at all times through the following puzzles (first character puzzle, then the mine carts puzzle, then second character puzzle)! Always carry it on until you get to the zoo. Stop now! Take a character who DOESN'T have the hot dog. Walk with him and he gets "eaten" by the monster. Now, remember the puzzle? Still got that hot dog? You can skip all that recorder getting and so on, just take your character with that hot dog, lure the monster onto the bridge and BAM - you just skillfully skipped an entire puzzle and made your journey a little shorter. ;)
* You can skip two passages (including the above mentioned one) while playing with the monk and the knight which cuts down a lot of time. Thanks to Stavia and SFDATX for this tip: "You can use the monk's telekinesis power to skip the elevator part of the knight's trial by stealing the dragon key through the wall, and to skip all of the hunter (zoo) puzzle by stealing the hot dog out of the machine."
* Be patient. Sometimes it is better not to rush too much in order to avoiding easy deaths. And good luck!
My preference is:
* The Hillbilly
* The Scientist
* The Monk
These will allow you to pick up:
You can also try and get
Go for Time Traveller, Twins and Monk, as their levels are very safe. If you prefer the Scientist, beware the laser.
If an accident happens, use the trick of dashboarding and closing the game (NEVER "Save and Quit" if a character dies). Of course, you can Save and Quit to take a rest if everything is OK.
This is easiest with the Hillbilly, Scientist and Monk as their sections of the cave are fairly safe.
- Just a few words of warning:
- Avoid the guard with the gun in the Scientist's launch facility.
- Stay still on the magic carpets in the Monk's temple.
- Careful on that Ferris Wheel at the Hillbilly's carnival.
- Watch out for the miner's dynamite.
- At the zoo a good whack from the Crystal Cave Monster's tail will kill you.
- The large hole on the desert island is very easy to fall into.
- The do not swim under the boat on the desert island as you will drown.
Remember, if you die (or are about to die), quickly hit the guide button and exit to dash. You may need to replay a large portion of the game but at least you won't be replaying everything!
Don't try for this on your first run through. By the second you will have learned where you need to be careful.
I even long paused the game before dashboard and when climbed the final stairs with the first character, since the game didn't save, achievement unlocked flawlessly.
You can follow the advices and tips from the Walkthrough here to feel it easier.
This is probably the toughest trophy in the game. You have to get all three characters to the end and up the ladder without dying. I recommend saving this until your last playthrough when you have full knowledge of the Cave’s different areas and how to solve the puzzles quickly. Furthermore, I recommend using the Monk, Scientist and Time-Traveller for this playthrough, as those characters’ specific areas have the least risk of death associated with them.
Throughout the game, I found that the main source of deaths was falling from too great a height. The game unfortunately has a lower threshold of falling distance than most platformers, which means that you need to carefully jump down ledges and always use the ropes and ladders available to you. It requires a certain amount of patience and it is tempting to rush, but in the long run it will take far less time to tread carefully as opposed to replaying whole sections because of a stupid death.
Thankfully, this trophy can be manipulated by quitting to XMB if you die. Reload the game and select “Continue” and you will start at the beginning of the section of the Cave in which you died.
To complete the game, I recommend choosing a Monk, a Knight and a Time Traveler for this trophy. The zones of these heroes have a lower risk of various unplanned deaths. At the same time, the knight’s zone is traversed very quickly due to the traveler’s teleportation ability (without opening the dragon gate, you need to teleport there and steal the coin).
The greatest danger when obtaining this trophy is falling from a height; in many cases you will have to patiently use the descent along ladders and ropes. Where possible, you can use a knight, because... In invulnerability mode, he can fall from any height (for example, in the episode with the miner's trolleys you will have to constantly run up and down).
Game Guide
An example of such a passage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7BO4AqdG8