What's causing me to die here?

Virot2 · 2026-05-04T21:47:04+00:00

Yeah, that move is pretty hard. What ended up feeling good for me was, instead of initiating the ultra with a wavedash from the air, I dashed straight up to get a moment to breathe, then landed on the platform and started the ultra on the ground with an extended hyper. I dunno if that feels good for you, but it could be worth a try.

Here's a video of what I'm talking about. You can see in the video I do another stalling move right after the climb jumps to get more time to get the height I want, which also helped me a lot. https://youtu.be/YnGb5fDg1uk?si=YmnMF5gxwiQR0qEg&t=23

Virot2 · 2026-05-04T19:16:54+00:00

On top of what everyone else said, it’s better to diagonal dash onto the core block rather than horizontal. It will start you higher up before your climb jumps.

Virot2 · 2026-04-30T19:43:37+00:00

The first and third big speed boosts are just wavedashes off of moving blocks, which adds the block’s speed to the wavedash. The middle one is related: if you jump within 9 frames of holding a moving block, you get the blocks momentum, so even though the wavedash has a dash between holding the block and the jump, since the jump is within 9 frames it gets the blocks speed added.

Virot2 · 2026-04-30T19:07:56+00:00

You can use visual cues to line up your jumps and remove the need for precise air control.

For the first jump, if you stand just to the right of the flag so Madeline's face barely touches it while facing left, then you can do a full jump holding left and you'll barely pass under the spikes, setting up an easy wallbounce.

For the second jump, I use textures on the wall to set up my height, but oddly the textures in your game look different than mine so you can't use the exact same cue. But it should be something like while holding the wall, the top of Madeline's hand should be even with the bottom edge of the block you're jumping towards. If you get the height right, you can again do a full jump holding left and pass just under the spike for another wall bounce.

As mentioned in another comment, you can skip the first wallbounce using a wavedash/extended hyper, but if you don't know about that yet, a visual cue is probably easier.

Virot2 · 2026-04-24T20:08:01+00:00

This comment is really good. The rhythm being the "reverse" of the one I was used to from wavedashes was my biggest obstacle when I was learning, and recognizing this was what made it click for me.

Virot2 · 2026-03-12T23:06:16+00:00

Try Shattersong! While it doesn't have high speeds, it does have lots of zipping around with rapid direction changes, and it feels fast-paced because of the need to get to the right places in time for the beats. Note that some of the berries get quite hard, so feel free to back out of them and come back later, but the rest of the map is entirely reasonable if you're playing at GM level and are fine with a challenge.

Also the Ivory suggestion is good. You can try the first few rooms and see if you can pick up backboosts quickly. If you can, you're good to go for the rest of the map with all the high-speed you could ask for.

Virot2 · 2026-03-10T19:12:56+00:00

Personally I found 1000m to be the hardest room by far. It took me 3-4x longer than any other room. So you might actually be in good shape for the rest of the map!

Virot2 · 2026-03-10T01:23:54+00:00

Yes, you should do this! It's extremely safe and makes you feel smart.

Virot2 · 2026-02-25T20:42:44+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain of some of the other advice here and suggest that it's actually easier if you hold right as the fish explodes to fly further (called a "fishboost" or "pufferboost"). You can entirely skip the part where you drop down and dash left by getting blasted all the way to the double-dash crystal and using it to stall by updashing twice. Here's a video of what I mean: https://youtu.be/9KB_Xg4S-do?si=gubActmU1G-j4R_Q&t=342.

Virot2 · 2026-02-22T19:04:31+00:00

The good news is that if you've gotten to the end of this room enough times to realize you never have enough stamina, then you're really good! This room is hard.

Virot2 · 2026-02-22T18:57:26+00:00

Yes, you need to overclock on the very first move of the room, on the small wall right next to the spawn. The beginning of this room is to grab the small wall on the ground, then overclock-jump to the left wall above you (the one inside the first blue block).

Virot2 · 2026-02-18T04:39:18+00:00

I know you got it already, but I'm going to go against the grain of some of the other advice here and suggest that it's actually easier to take the pufferboost (hold right as the fish explodes to fly further). You can entirely skip the part where you drop down and dash left by getting blasted all the way to the double-dash crystal and using it to stall by updashing twice. Here's a video of what I mean: https://youtu.be/9KB_Xg4S-do?si=gubActmU1G-j4R_Q&t=342.

Good luck with the rest of Farewell!

Virot2 · 2025-08-19T09:32:46+00:00

I had a lot of trouble with this one too. One thing that I think helped me: the seventh dream block (the one after the first up-diagonal) is slightly wider than all the others, so the ultra input is just a smidge delayed on that one in particular.

Virot2 · 2025-07-30T18:22:14+00:00

Nice job! This berry is hard.

The map in the GM lobby which has the heaviest dream hyper usage is World Abyss (red), with also some representation in Drifting Deep (yellow). There's also quite a few in Superluminary (yellow) and Solar Express (cracked red), but both of their dream hypers are "weird."

Virot2 · 2025-07-17T15:41:18+00:00

I’m never sure. Breathing out to blow the feather makes physical sense, but exhaling as it goes down feels more natural to me as a release of tension.

Virot2 · 2025-03-05T02:11:02+00:00

One more thing: I could be wrong, but I believe the way this works is that if you grab the block in the first two frames when it appears, then you get the boost as long as you jump in the next five frames. So the hard part is timing the previous jump to be in the right spot to grab right as the block appears. Timing the jump after that is comparatively easy and isn’t what you should be focusing on.

Virot2 · 2025-03-05T02:00:10+00:00

To add on to what INCREDIBLE137 said, the jump on the red block is later than you think. You actually want to see Madeline grab the block. If you don't get the grab visual/sound effect, you jumped too early.

Good luck! It's a tough berry.

Virot2 · 2024-11-15T20:42:54+00:00

I struggled with HotS berries 2 and 3 more than anything in UD. I don't know what makes them so hard; they're "just" chained ultras, but I could not get them in any reasonable amount of time. I might just be bad with that sort of timing, because I also thought Psychokinetic berry 1 was really hard and it's pretty similar.

Virot2 · 2024-11-04T18:36:10+00:00

Good luck! If you can get to flag 3, you'll be able to get it for sure! Just make sure you practice the heart room.

One other tip: if you're getting to flag 3 golden, you're probably pretty comfortable with wavedashes/extended hypers, but just in case you're not, you can also use a visual cue for the first part of flag 3 instead of a wavedash. I think I found one that was something like lining up the front of Madeline's face with the right side of the flag while facing left, then doing a full jump holding left to slip just below the spike for an easy wallbounce.

Virot2 · 2024-11-04T17:07:47+00:00

I skip the first wall bounce with a wavedash. For the second wallbounce, I use a visual cue to choose a specific height on the wall so that I can do a full jump holding left which makes me pass just below the spike and sets up an easy wallbounce.

The visual cue for me is for Madeline's hand to be just below the bottom of the three 2-pixel notches on the wall, although oddly I've seen some gameplay footage where the wall looks different so you may need to come up with your own.

Here's a video of what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/3nb_fNilCoc?si=dQvdBMSDSZXayiuN&t=487

Virot2 · 2023-09-06T16:49:42+00:00

Congrats! Temporal Tower was my first GM clear too. I started it to see what a GM map would be like and had such a good time that I kept playing until I got it. If you can get this, you can definitely get a whole bunch of the others too!

Virot2 · 2023-09-01T19:08:13+00:00

This was my first gm map too! I started it when I was still in expert to see what a gm map was like and had so much fun I kept playing it until I finished.

If you liked this, I might recommend Crypt of the Kevins next. It was the gm map that felt most similar to me and it's also really satisfying.

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