Life Goes On

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Purple Badges Reference
By random 8
List of deaths and times needed to get the purple badges in every level, based on my experiments.
   
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Preamble
I'm not sure if this should be a guide or a forum post—i'll move this if needed. I couldn't find this information anywhere in the current Steam forums and (English) guides, so i compiled my own. Man, that was painful.

There are the gold badges, and then there are these. The game doesn't really tell you about them or what their requirements are for each level, so all of this data is considered spoilers. You've been warned.

These badges are necessary to get 100% of the achievements. They're also useful for gauging your pace for the Beat the Devs achievement, although the achievement is possible with just gold times. See this guide for more on that (and compare with the overall total here).

Note that, since i got this data experimentally, i could not get the time limit for the last level, since it doesn't give the usual results screen when completed. The time you see there is just what i had when i compiled the data. (I'll update it if someone can provide it.)
How to Interpret the Numbers
  • Deaths: the number of times you die in the level must be less than or equal to this number.
  • Time: the amount of time you take to complete the level must be strictly less than this. All times listed consist of a whole number of seconds, i.e. xx:xx.0, unless specified otherwise (i.e. the last level).
Note that the timer in the bottom left (if the on-screen timer setting is checked), which as far as i can tell matches that on the overworld if you just set a new best, is about 0.05 seconds higher than the time shown on the right in the results screen. The latter is what matters for the badges.

Note also that all of this is true for the gold badges as well.
World 1: The Mines
Level #
Level Name
Deaths
Time
1
Straight to the Point
02
0:08
2
Dead Weight
01
0:06
3
Doing the Impossible
02
0:10
4
Vertical Traversal
03
0:13
5
Leg Up
02
0:18
6
Fiery Alternatives
03
0:17
7
On the Shoulders of Giants
03
0:16
8
Belting it Out
02
0:17
9
Move Faster
02
0:31
10
Bottoms Up
02
0:17
11
Leverage
03
0:28
12
Ballistic Swingset
03
0:35
13
Tumbler
03
0:31
14
Checkpoint Madness
05
0:35
15
Caution, Hot Surfaces
02
0:33
16
Eruption
06
1:00
Bonus
Central Heating
03
0:42

World 1 total time (without Bonus):
06:15
World 2: The Mountains
Level #
Level Name
Deaths
Time
1
First Snow
02
0:17
2
Instant Carpet
01
0:10
3
Hitting a Snag
04
0:20
4
Pick Up
03
0:36
5
Long Distance Freight
01
0:35
6
An Electrifying Transition
02
0:24
7
Equipment Operator
03
0:36
8
A Shocking Elaboration
03
0:24
9
Think Conductively
08
0:27
10
Knightsicle
03
0:25
11
On Rails
02
0:16
12
Elemental Exchange
02
0:16
13
Ice-mobile
02
0:20
14
Companionship
02
1:38
15
A Tale of Two Flames
03
0:46
16
Avalanche
06
0:46
Bonus
Frozen Grotto
04
0:22

World 2 total time (without Bonus):
08:16
World 3: The Castle
Level #
Level Name
Deaths
Time
1
Learning to Fly
01
0:08
2
Defying Gravity
02
0:17
3
Spooky Action at a Distance
01
0:24
4
Repulsion
06
0:35
5
Equal and Opposite
02
0:42
6
Express Freight
03
0:20
7
Altered Trajectory
07
0:48
8
Ping Pong
03
0:44
9
Soul Power
02
0:17
10
The Right Knight in the Wrong Place
03
0:22
11
A Vexing Connection
01
0:27
12
What Do You Mean I Can't Die?
02
0:31
13
Two Halves
02
0:36
14
Mind the Gap
06
0:57
15
Tenuous Link
05
0:49
16
A Prize in Every Block
05
0:55
17
What Am I Missing
03
0:47
18
Maximum Security
01
0:33
19
Collapse
09
1:24
Bonus
Elevated Subbasement
04
0:48

World 3 total time (without Bonus):
11:36
World 4: The Ruins
Level #
Level Name
Deaths
Time
1
Suddenly, Sky-Islands
08
1:52
2
Interdimensional Garbage Chute
03
0:50
3
Alternative Means of Transport
08
0:55
4
Eggs In One Basket
02
0:46
5
Trust Fall
02
1:10
6
Circular Reasoning
03
0:53
7
Dead On Arrival
06
1:30
8
Undead Janitor
08
1:30
9
Stop, Lock, and Roll
07
1:12
10
Recycling Your Friends
07
2:25
11
Taking One For the Team
07
1:37
12
Death
24
3:05
Bonus
I <3 Zombie
04
1:11

World 4 total time (without Bonus):
17:45
??? and Total
Deaths
Time (lower bound)
Time (upper bound)
14
1:53.9
3:20.0

Overall total time (without Bonus levels):
43:52 + ??:?? (between 45:45.9 and 47:12.0)
In Spreadsheet Form
If you don't like hovering over every spoiler tag, you can instead view them here.[docs.google.com]
2 Comments
neo_retro 24 May, 2023 @ 11:10pm 
Thanks for this, really useful :steamthumbsup:
random 8  [author] 3 Feb, 2020 @ 8:01pm 
Hopefully i didn't mess up when copying from the spreadsheet. :)

Ideally, the branding image would have the original images of those badges, but i guess i'll settle for hand-cropped screenshots of a level's end screen.