Overview:
- Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
- Offline: 26 [400]
- Online: 0 [0]
- Approximate amount of time to 400: 18-25 hours
- Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 3 playthroughs of 100 different levels
- Missable achievements: No
- Does difficulty affect achievements?: Yes! Difficulties do NOT stack. All 3 difficulties are unlocked from the beginning. You will be required to play every level 3 times, once on each difficulty, scoring a Perfect+ at the end of each run. Perfect Perfectionist, Triple Perfectionist, Double Perfectionist, Hardcore and You Are AWESOME are all affected by difficulty.
- Unobtainable/glitched achievements: None
- Extra equipment needed?: None
Get ready to run as CommanderVideo adventures across the Hypersphere to stop TimbleTot and reunite with his courageous contingent of charismatic compatriots. Being blasted by an unreality beam can be a real inconvenience sometimes!
100 levels of running, jumping, sliding, blocking, slide-jumping, kicking and...did I mention running? 100 of these lie in wait, tasking you with combining the above skills to see these obstacle courses through and nab all the Gold en route before treating you to the piece de resistance, shooting yourself out of a cannon face first at a target. It's the only way to fly.
Walkthrough:
Ultimately you can boil the achievements down to "Perfect Perfectionist", "A New Challenger", "Multiple Personalities" and "You Are AWESOME".
Get "A New Challenger" out of the way immediately, the first few levels are very easy and it only needs to be done once. Apart from that achievement ALWAYS hit the checkpoint (Red barrier) in the middle of the level. Only the penultimate level in World 5 and Boss Levels have more than one checkpoint.
Aim to obtain all Gold and all Mode Ups within every level, everytime from the very beginning of the game. This will mean you have gotten a "Perfect" on this level and allow you to shoot yourself out of a cannon to obtain a "Perfect+" at the same time. The target at which you shoot your runner is always static and never has any gimmicks blocking your shot at any point. The distance from the target seems consistent across all levels so when you get a feel for the right time to shoot you should be nailing these bullseyes consistently. The only difference between these end-of-level targets is in World 5, The BIT.TRIP, where the target changes visual appearance to something more square, but otherwise the task is exactly the same and the same timing that's gotten you bullseyes before should serve you well here.
If at any point you miss some Gold or Mode Ups I'd recommend killing your runner ASAP and returning to the previous checkpoint. You'll need to collect all of the Gold again but it's faster than restarting the levels from scratch or finishing with anything less than Perfect, which is ultimately worthless.
All regular levels take about 45 to 120 seconds. The speed at which you run, the amount of Gold or Mode Ups to collect and number of checkpoints is the same on all difficulties. Higher difficulties only means more enemies/obstacles to encounter on your run. Find out which of the 3 difficulties suits you best for you first run as knocking these courses off on your way to Perfect Perfectionist is a lot shorter than you'd expect.
If you've returned to get some treasure on a level you've already Perfect+ed once already, try it on one of the other difficulties so that you can get it out of the way ASAP. When going for treasure follow the red signs within a level. You will still find enough Gold & Mode Ups to fulfill the Perfect requirements of the level on these alternate routes.
As for Alternate Exits/blue routes, sometimes it is NOT possible to get a Perfect while going for these as the alternative routes just don't give you enough Gold. This varies so perhaps run them on a lower yet-to-be-done difficulty just in case you fall short.
As soon as you've found a new character, change to them and you can start working towards Multiple Personalities immediately.
The majority of the Rewards that make up 9 of the achievements here, culminating in You Are AWESOME, will come to you naturally on your route to Perfect Perfectionist. You'll only need to go out of your way to dance and collect treasure.
WARNING:
Retro levels are completely unnecessary to obtaining achievements.
There are 5 levels in each of the 5 worlds containing a Retro Cartridge (A yellow rectangle), they are not shown next to the level name like uncollected chests until you have physically ran into them. You've 3 lives in these retro levels but don't worry as you can access them direct from the world map once you've found them by pressing over the level they were found within. Those completed are marked with a star. It is NOT necessary to collect all the gold in these retro levels. Doing all 25 of these will unlock the CommanderVideo retro costume. This doesn't count towards the 40 treasures. I'd recommend avoiding these retro cartridges as the will cut short all the progress you've made in your current run of that level.
[We would like to thank Hurricane Of 87 for this Roadmap]