Tips, Tricks, and Exploits

This page lists the known **Tips, Tricks, and Exploits** in *Phoenotopia: Awakening*, particularly the ones not explicitly mentioned directly in-game. Most tips here should be applicable regardless of specific situations, so it is recommended to visit the main page as well for specific tips for enemies such as Katash.

The page is not exhaustive at the moment, so anyone is more than welcomed to contributed.

## General Tips

### Consumable Items

Most Consumable Items have different time usage, such as more time is required to consume Dried Cacti Bark than to consume Chocolate. However, the duration can be slightly reduced by pressing the [Item] button during the eating animation, either rhythmatically or by mashing the button.

### Hunting and Instant Cooking

Mystery Meat and Raw Bird can be obtained from dealing any amount of damage to Critters and Birds respectively. If fiery or explosive attacks are used, they would drop Cooked Mystery Meat or Roast Bird instead, saving the player's time and effort to cook it themselves.

## Combat Tips

### Boosting Effects

*See also: Boosting Effect*

(Test TBA)

## Movement Tips

### Turning in-place

Immediately after crouching there is a small window where holding left or right will not cause any movement, allowing Gail to stay in place while turning around.

This is especially useful since (at 60 fps or lower) tapping left/right will not always cause Gail to turn around, despite causing movement.

### Roll Cancelling

At the end of a roll, Gail crouches and cannot move or interact. By pressing the sprint button in the latter half of the rolling animation, Gail immediately stands up instead, allowing for movement and interaction.

Roll Cancelling into an interaction (such as talking to an npc or entering a door) is usually faster than just sprinting and slowing down, since Gail can not interact while the slowing-down animation is playing from holding the direction opposite to movement.

### Tumbling

Tumbling abuses the fact that doing an aerial attack right before landing causes a hard landing. By pressing the sprint button right before Gail is landing (at the same time or a bit after the aerial attack), Gail does an Ukemi roll at no Energy cost.

Tumbling is Roll Cancelling after every Ukemi, doing a small jump, and then initiating another Ukemi roll, et cetera. It is the fastest form of energy-free traversal.

### Somersaulting

Somersaulting is a combination of leaping and tumbling, the perfect blend of momentum and efficiency.

Best practice is to somersault whenever possible, and tumble if you need your energy to regenerate.

### Hard Landing Cancelling

When Gail falls from a height of 5 tiles or greater, she crouches and cannot move or interact. By doing an early aerial attack such that the attack animation finishes roughly when Gail hits the ground, Gail is free to move instead.

This is useful when you do not want the roll from Ukemi, such as when you want to jump or interact immediately after landing. Note that unlike Tumbling, the aerial attack still consumes Energy.

### Rocket Boots Jumping

If you leap (sprint-jump) and then use the rocket boots while traveling upwards, Gail gains more height than normally achievable with a jump.

## Miscellaneous Tips

### Slingshot

Hold [Up] allows the reticle to start from the top instead of from the bottom as usual. This is useful for quickly dispatching airborne enemies.

However, if the reticle travels from the bottom to the top, a higher angle is achievable than by holding up and shooting immediately. Similarly, shooting immediately without holding up does not reach the minimum angle.

### Throw/jump immediately after picking up

Normally when Gail is picking something up you can throw it or jump immediately after. The animation of the object rising to the top of Gail's head is purely visual, in reality the object is instantly teleported to the top of Gail's head. (This is not true when Gail does an 'attempt lift' due to lifting something heavy or while something is close to her head.)

### Going through doorways

After opening a door, there is a brief waiting period for the door to open in which Gail cannot pass through. Holding upwards on a controller's analog stick instead of the dpad triggers the room transition at the soonest possible moment, without having to mash any buttons.

## Exploits

### Trick: Slope Jumping

Simply done by jumping immediately after landing on a slippery slope while Gail is holding object above her head (such as a bomb). Becomes harder with higher frame rate.

It is also possible to Slope Jump by holding the directional key away from the slope and then jumping, but it is very precise and inconsistent. Unaffected by frame rate.

Used to skip Rocket Boots in Mul Caves.

### Trick: Bomb Boosting

Can be used to extend jump height or squeeze through gaps that are above or at some distance from Gail.

### Bridge skip

By exploiting Crate-Walking and using a precise throw to wedge a bomb into the wall, Gail can pass through Kingdom Bridge without having to pass through Moonlight Ravine with the Lifesaver.

Originally known as the Ouroboros skip due to bypassing the need to progress the Ouroboros substory and the accompanying Lifesaver as a reward.

This has the potential of soft-locking the game later if the Bandit's Flute has not been obtained, since the player is unable to leave the orphanage at Panselo Village before learning the Royal Hymn.

### Holding large crates

By pausing the game via the option menu when attempting to lift a crate, Gail is capable of lifting crates that are normally too heavy to be possible. The speed of the lifting is affected by the game's frame rate, but it's possible even at low FPS.

This also allows Gail to lift large pots and small boulders. (Or any object or stack of objects where an attempt at lifting causes the object to rise.)

Once the object is above Gail's head, it moves to the left regardless of which side Gail started lifting. Because of this, lifting heavy objects is normally only possible by standing on the left. Lifting from the right can also be done if the object is next to a wall.

### Air Floating

Secret ninja art passed down only to the most talented glitch-hunter, this technique allows Gail to slowly float mid-air. Since this technique is only possible in rooms with water transitions, its versatility remains questionable.

Contrary to its deceiving appearance, this technique does not require the possession of Lifesaver.