Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Stome doesn't need to follow you all the way to the end on this level either, since you can use a Morph Pounce to get there earlier than normal. You do have to activate one trigger before moving toward the exit, though -- otherwise the level will break.
Morph Pounce: [ youtube.com/watch?v=4EqND43sh4M ]
Dart Jump: [ youtube.com/watch?v=5UuXH4--esQ ]
On level 21, the exit is opened by a triggered cutscene. Get past the initial fight to the precarious stealth tracks next to the Sync Node. Activate it, then climb the stealth tracks until you can shoot the enemy spawner. The spawner is the central trigger here, and once it's destroyed, the cutscene where the cutscene door explodes will play.
Go back down to the lowest part of the stealth track and angle yourself on the downward-angled part of one of the track, Morph Pouncing toward the opposite side of the environment. Be careful to avoid Pouncing when the Pounce Nub is nearby. From here, it should be a straight run for the end of the level.
If you Morph Pounce over to this area before destroying the enemy spawner, the level is rendered unbeatable. Crossing over the treshold for the trigger makes it so that it never reactivates, so since the previous elements of the sequence weren't properly activated, the link in the chain -- which only activates once -- doesn't work. The door is impassable without the cutscene.
You can tell the developers were very careful with this area since it's completely covered in invisible walls. That being said, I have no idea why they would make the enemy spawner the trigger instead of the Sync Node, or why they would bother to make it work in this sequence. Maybe they figured it was impossible to leap over to the opposite path and never really considered it.
Still, this is a pretty nice and simple trick which anyone can pull off with enough Morph Pounce experience. It doesn't save a huge amount of time in comparison to some other levels, but the level is so structured otherwise that it's nice to know it's possible to get around it. Depending on how fast Stome moves through the tunnel normally, this should save about a sixth of the total level time.
As one last note, the Dart Jump can be used to leap over to the Sync Node before the Pounce Nub appears, but the enemies draw your targeting away and make it basically impossible to avoid the fight.
Stome doesn't need to follow you all the way to the end on this level either, since you can use a Morph Pounce to get there earlier than normal. You do have to activate one trigger before moving toward the exit, though -- otherwise the level will break.
Morph Pounce: [ youtube.com/watch?v=4EqND43sh4M ]
Dart Jump: [ youtube.com/watch?v=5UuXH4--esQ ]
On level 21, the exit is opened by a triggered cutscene. Get past the initial fight to the precarious stealth tracks next to the Sync Node. Activate it, then climb the stealth tracks until you can shoot the enemy spawner. The spawner is the central trigger here, and once it's destroyed, the cutscene where the cutscene door explodes will play.
Go back down to the lowest part of the stealth track and angle yourself on the downward-angled part of one of the track, Morph Pouncing toward the opposite side of the environment. Be careful to avoid Pouncing when the Pounce Nub is nearby. From here, it should be a straight run for the end of the level.
If you Morph Pounce over to this area before destroying the enemy spawner, the level is rendered unbeatable. Crossing over the treshold for the trigger makes it so that it never reactivates, so since the previous elements of the sequence weren't properly activated, the link in the chain -- which only activates once -- doesn't work. The door is impassable without the cutscene.
You can tell the developers were very careful with this area since it's completely covered in invisible walls. That being said, I have no idea why they would make the enemy spawner the trigger instead of the Sync Node, or why they would bother to make it work in this sequence. Maybe they figured it was impossible to leap over to the opposite path and never really considered it.
Still, this is a pretty nice and simple trick which anyone can pull off with enough Morph Pounce experience. It doesn't save a huge amount of time in comparison to some other levels, but the level is so structured otherwise that it's nice to know it's possible to get around it. Depending on how fast Stome moves through the tunnel normally, this should save about a sixth of the total level time.
As one last note, the Dart Jump can be used to leap over to the Sync Node before the Pounce Nub appears, but the enemies draw your targeting away and make it basically impossible to avoid the fight.
