Watch the little scene, and then the game will start.
First of all, the game is very difficult. So take frequent breaks to prevent yourself from getting frustrated, and also to relax. Tips can only take you so far; patience and practice are the two most important things you need to learn. After that, you should be fine in slowly progressing through the game.
You will start in the Elder Kettle's house. Read what he says, then go over to the table and start the tutorial. Follow the directions and collect
Coin #1 at the end. Exit the house.
You'll start in the overworld. First of all, grab an achievement by going to the fork that leads north and go right. Take the shortcut to another part of the map to get the achievement
Cutting Corners. Head back down to the circle with the diamond inside. Select it to start your first true level, called Run 'n Gun: Forest Follies(Make sure to get
coins #2-6: this is very important Keep doing the level till you get all 5 coins). (strategies for levels below)
Talk to the Apple NPC on the bridge to get
coins #7, 8, and 9. Head into the Porkrind's Emporium, which is the shop.
There will only be a few items for sale right now, but get
the Smoke Bomb (Charm) and the Spread (Gun). You should have two coins left. Head back out and go to the veggie garden and interact with it to start Boss: Botanic Panic against the Root Pack boss.
Go up to the moving tree at the fork in the north. Interact with it to fight Goopy le Grande.
Go back to Root Pack and go down to the staircase to enter the boat and battle Ribby and Croaks.
Go back to the shortcut and do the level on the other side, Run 'n Gun: Treetop Trouble. Make sure to get
coins #10-14.
After this, make sure to go to the shop and buy the
Heart (Charm) and if you are feeling confident in your skills, buy Roundabout (Gun). If you feel you need extra assistance, buy Chaser (Gun).
After, go north to the NPC and talk to him. After, interact with the blueprints and look at the Plane tutorial.
After, go to the newly formed bridge and beat Hilda Berg at the air station.
Once you beat the boss, go back to Ribby and Croaks and keep going east and south to reach a little building. Talk to the fish NPC and enter Mausoleum I. Beat it to unlock your first Super.
After, head back to Treetop Trouble. Keep following the path and head east more. Go to the flower patch to battle Cagney Carnation. After that's done, head to the red die house and enter. Talk to the NPC and if you beat all the levels, he will let you pass to World 2.
Progress Check:
Equip Card:
Weapons: Super:
Peashooter Super I
Spread --------
Chaser --------
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Charm:
Heart
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Smoke Bomb
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Bosses:
World 1 World 2 World 3 Finale
The Root Pack
Goopy le Grande
Ribby and Croaks
Hilda Berg
Cagney Carnation
(Run 'n Gun)
Forest Follies
Treetop Trouble
Mausoleum I
Achievements
Note: If you want to A+ every level, make sure to do it now. You will want to focus all your firepower on the next world, so either cleanup everything at the end of the game, or do small cleanups at the end of each world.
So that's the overview. Here's the strategies.
The Root Pack
Botanic Panic
Recommended equip: Peashooter Spread None Smoke Bomb
For the first phase, the potato will spit balls of dirt at you. Parry the pink worms. Use Peashooter and jump. The second phase will have an onion crying with the tears damaging you. Go to the left side and use Spread while dodging. The pink tears can be parried but it's hard to do. After you damage the onion, the carrot will appear. Use Spread but use the Peashooter EX move on the carrot. Dash for the mind beams and shoot the mini carrots with Spread. Soon you will win. You will unlock Ribby and Croaks after you win.
Goopy le Grande
Ruse of an Ooze
Recommended Equip: Peashooter Spread None Smoke Bomb
First you will fight normal Goopy. He will bounce around and occasionally turn himself into a fist. You can duck to avoid the fist. Soon He will eat something and three parry question marks will appear. This is the only time in the whole fight where you can parry, so if you're aiming for a high score, make sure to parry all of them.
Anyways, Goopy will now turn giant. He will bounce around again, however you can no longer jump over him, which means Smoke Bomb pretty much an absolute must. His fist attack is changed, he now gains a literal boxing glove.
The third phase starts with Goopy being dizzy, then getting squashed by a tombstone. The tomb will be in the background and attempt to squash you. Use Spread and dash out of the way. This boss unlocks the Aeroplane blueprints as a tutorial for plane mode and in turn unlocks the Hilda Berg boss fight.
Ribby & Croaks
Clip Joint Calamity
Recommended Equip: Peashooter Spread None Smoke Bomb
The first phase can be the hardest. The small frog will throw projectiles your way, some of which can be parried. Try to parry at least three, as this is the only phase where it is possible to parry. The tall frog will shoot fireflies that home in until you shoot them. Keep shooting the the second phase will start.
the second phase is actually the easiest. You don't have to aim anymore, since there is a frog on each side and they share an HP bar. The tall one will blow you to the smaller frog which will shoot projectiles that bounce around the screen. After you dealt enough damage, the tall frog will eat the smaller frog and turn into a slot machine.
The machine will shoot coins and when the boxing glove turns pink parry it and now when it is attacking is the only time to damage it. There is three different attacks it can land on. Frog, Tiger, and bull. The Frog is the easiest. You just have to jump on platforms so you don't fall into the spikes between platforms. The Bull shoots out platforms that are higher and shoot lasers either up or down. The tiger is the hardest; orange platforms will come on the ground and throw balls in the air. Once you win, you will unlock Mausoleum I.
Hilda Berg
Threat'n Zeppelin
Recommended Equip: Plane Shooter None Super Bomb Morph Smoke Bomb
This is the first airplane level, and it can be quite hard. I found this the hardest boss in World 1 so be careful. At first, Hilda will fly up and down, sometimes laughing a HA projectile at you. Note that purple blimps will be going on the screen and shooting bullets at you for most of this fight, so make sure to dodge them. Soon, she will charge at you and come back as the Taurus constellation form. Her only attack is to stretch towards you so make sure to be near the feet when she stops moving. After, she will turn back into the unicycle form.
Now green blimps will come on sometimes instead of the usual purple ones. These shoot 4 bullets in a Spread-like formation, so be careful. These bullets are never pink. She also has a tornado attack now. Just shrink and avoid it.
Next, she turn into one of two things:
- She can turn into Gemini, where the twins can fire an orb that fires bullets in a circle. Make sure not to be below or above the orb or the bullets can get a cheap hit on you. Just react accordingly and fly in clockwise or counter clockwise pattern.
- Next, she can also turn into Sagittarius and fire arrows that shoot three stars at you. The arrow is not much of a threat; the stars are more likely to hit you. Again, fly in a circle.
Now when she turns back into unicycle form, the blimps will start appearing in larger numbers. Soon she will turn into her final phase as a crescent moon.
The blimps will stop appearing, however stars that fly up and down will take their place. Some can be parried. Her main attack is to extend her face and UFOs will start appearing. Brown UFOs will fire a beam downwards when they are in front of you. The red ones will attack when you're under them.
I like to use my Super here. Winning will unlock Treetop Trouble and Floral Fury.
Cagney Carnation
Floral Fury
Recommended Equip: Spread Peashooter Super I Smoke Bomb
This one is kinda weird with the progress bar. There seems to be a lot of phases according to the death screen, but in actuality there is really only 2 phases. Phase one Cagney has 3 different attacks:
- Cagney can face punch you either above the platforms or below them.Watch where the fist is up or down and go the opposite direction.
- Cagney can turn into a machine gun and shoot seeds that turn into plants when they touch the ground. The purple ones turn into black piranha plants that jump up and down on the ground. Most of the others turn into green plants that fly and home in on you. There will be one pink (you can parry this one) that turns into a flying plant and goes to the top, where it sometimes opens up and shoots a projectile at you.
- Lastly, Cagney can open up hands and either nuts come out and head towards you, or a boomerang will go across the top, then back on the bottom.
I mainly use Spread for this form.
The second phase, Cagney puts down roots and the ground turns to thorns, so you absolutely have to use the platforms. Cagney can spit dandelions at you and can also shoot roots up through two of the platforms. Use Peashooter for this phase and use your super, also spam your EX whenever you can.
Forest Follies
Run' n' Gun
Video walkthrough will 5 coins coming soon!
Treetop Trouble
Run' n' Gun
Video Walkthrough coming soon!
Mausoleum I
Mausoleum
Here, You have to defend the urn in the center of the screen. Parry the ghosts and make sure they don't come to close. Automatic Parry really helps here.
Video coming soon
