Forsaken City/Collectibles

Forsaken City's A-Side features 20 red strawberries, three golden strawberries, and one winged golden strawberry. Additionally, one crystal heart and one cassette tape can be found. This page is a guide on how to obtain each and every strawberry.

Strawberries

Start

1. Your first strawberry is found on the second screen of the subchapter, requiring the player to jump up using the spring and dashing upwards to reach it.

2. On the third screen; you need to jump off the block at the end of the room, collect the berry, quickly dash up to avoid falling into a spike pit, and grabbing up a wall.

3. On the fourth screen; this is a flying strawberry. To collect it, you need to use the disappearing platforms at the right of the screen to jump upwards towards on top, and then jump off the left side to collect the berry. An alternative speedrun-specific strategy involves the use of Wallbounces.

4. The room after the flying strawberry, on your left, when you find a glowing light, go left. Hidden behind a small challenge, collecting this berry involves scaling up a small ice wall with a few spikes here and there. Dashing rightwards after falling down, at the left, will net you the berry.

5. Boost off the zipper left-upwards, and climb onto the right side of the ice block with spikes on top. Jump off upwards, and dash left-upright in order to collect the strawberry.

6. In the same room, instead of heading upwards using the spring, which is how you would normally progress, head downwards, leaning on the right wall. An ice block can be seen: dash on it to destroy the block. In the room that follows, jump downwards, dash onto and hold the zipper, and jump onto it as it stops; subsequently jump to where the strawberry is. Jump off leftwards and dash up-left, through the floor, in order to get back to safety.

Crystal Heart

To first find where the crystal heart will be, follow the instructions for Strawberry 9, which goes as follows: in the room with two zippers, one heading right straight into spikes, and the other heading upwards, use the first zipper normally, jump onto the second one, and boost up-leftwards to where an "up arrow" sign can be seen. From there, head left, and continue through another (relatively harder) room with two zippers. Once you're outside of the city, and can hear the "Piano Only" version of First Steps, jump and dash left until you find the satellite, collecting the strawberry on your way.

A computer screen there goes through a specific cycle of colors: white  • purple [{bull}} blue  • red  • purple  • yellow'. After that, several birds will start flying in different directions: the white bird will fly up, the purple bird left, the blue bird down-right, the red bird up-right, the purple bird (again) left, and then the yellow bird up-left.

Dash following the order the colors flash, in the directions the colors are associated with. It is easiest to do this on the platform a little left of the computer screen. Therefore, dash up, left, down-right, up-right, left, and up-left. Once that's done (there is no time limit, you just need to dash in order), a blue crystal heart will appear. Collecting the crystal heart will yield you the Pointless machines achievement.

Cassette Tape

Right at the Chasm checkpoint, move the block out of the way, and head to the other side of it. Head upwards and you will discover another room, one with paths towards strawberries 16 and 17. A zipper on the ground can be used to boost upwards; use that to make it up.

You'll find another room, with a zipper stuck on the wall. Move the zipper out of the way, and head behind it. This will lead you to a cassette tape room. Cassette tape rooms feature alternating blue and pink blocks, which alternate to a beat synchronized with an 8-bit version of the level's music. Time your jumps and make it to the cassette. This unlocks Forsaken City B-Side.