frogun – Foundry Expert Time Medal Guide

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The Foundry, レベル 6-4, is the level near the end of the main game which starts you off in a hub with a door in each of four compass directions. The expert time medal requires you to complete the level in 30 秒. In the author’s opinion, this time requirement is far, far crueler than any other in the game. This is the guide I wish I had been available while attempting to do this myself.

Getting past the red gate

The route we need to take is to skip opening the red gate and go straight for the goal. There is no time to do anything else. This section covers how to skip the gate.

A hint for the method explained by this guide, if that’s all you want:

There’s nothing clever you’re missing. You likely just didn’t expect the game to require execution this tight.Full explanation:

Stand on the chest on either side of the red gate. Face the wall with the red gate at about a 45 degree angle. You’ll be tongue-grabbing onto the back corner of that wall, so point yourself there. Jump towards the wall, and at the peak of the jump, shoot the wall as close to the back as possible.

This jump is tight. You need as much height as possible when you shoot, and you want to aim so close to the back of the wall that only half of the crosshair is on the wall.

After you grab, very briefly move diagonally to clear the wall, then move diagonally towards the ground behind the red gate. In the middle of this, fire your gun at nothing, just to reset your falling speed. All of this is also tight. If you are successful, you will land safely behind the red gate.

This can also work if you fire your gun at the back of the wall, maybe more than once, but I found this harder to pull off correctly.

Another alternative is to bounce on the pot instead of standing on the chest, which the video below uses. I am not sure which obtains more height; it seems about equal.A short video showing how it looks done properly.

After the red gate

ここから, everything is typical of an expert time medal.

The only other shortcut you may want to use is right after the mushroom spring, before the turquoise orb. Jump and shoot the wall just as the orb reaches the top of its motion, then hold forward. You should make it on top of the wall in front. This doesn’t have a ton of margin for error, but it’s way more lenient than the trick you used for the red gate.

I hope this helps you obtain what is likely the trickiest medal in the game.