Sideways Whale

Sideways Whale is a glitch in the Tower level that makes the Whale swim on its side. It can be achieved by activating specific triggers out of sequence.

The glitch is well defined, easy to reproduce and is understood to exist on all platforms.

How to get it
Several people reported different methods to get the Sideways Whales. Other methods should be added (and tested). It needs to be found out, which Glyphs can be activated, but are not necessary. Which ones must be activated and in which order? Is watching the vision necessary? In order to cause the whale to come out sideways in the temple, here is one way to do it:

Method 1
1. Dry climb the tower (do not activate the magic liquid) and make your way up to the shrine that is next to the whale room entrance (when you're looking at the entrance, the shrine located to the top right of the entrance). It's the shrine that tells the story of the broken bridge level.



2. Activate that shrine. This will cause the magic liquid to rise and the whale will come out as it normally does.



3. Climb the tower up to the very top and go through the "history lesson."



4. Make your way down to the shrine that tells the story of the underground level and activate the shrine.



This will cause some of the magic liquid to lower and the whale to return to the whale room and come out again. When it comes out, it will do so sideways. As it floats, at times it will be submerged and at times it will be floating above the magic liquid.



Simple method
This method has been tested by qtzl3000 on PS4.

The simplest method that I could find is to activate glyph #4 (after whale ride, Broken Bridge story) and then #5 (after ribbons, Sunken City slide story).


 * Skip #1, #2 and #3 (#1 and #2 do not matter but #3 is important)
 * Trigger #4 (Broken Bridge, north-east): whale comes out silently (no bubble), tower fills with magic goo, strong echo activated
 * Trigger #5 (Sunken City, south): more goo, whale turns sideways
 * You may see whale turning vertical right away depending on its position, otherwise just wait for it to swim near you.

This method doesn't create "luring carpet" or "psychedelic music" as the HL methods.

Other methods (info collection)
"I can activate 1st and 2nd shrine..doesn't really matter.. skip the 3rd (the whale).. activate the 4th (the ribbons)..then HL.. then go back for the 3rd...for sideway whale.. I am gonna try w/o HL as well.. sounds interesting to explore.. Then activate last shrine for some nice zen jump rush...as a bonus for me.. hehehe"

Quick reference for shrines/triggers:


 * 1) Chapter Select / flyers spawn
 * 2) Pink Desert / jellyfish spawn
 * 3) Underground / whale spawns, big bubble + jellyfish calls
 * 4) Broken Bridge / the one you get to riding the whale in a normal play-through
 * 5) Sunken City / after creating ribbon bridges (this disables triggers 1-4, but HL re-enables them)

The following seems to work:


 * #3 = "luring carpet" (invisible psychedelic jellyfish)
 * #4, #5 = sideways whale, silent
 * #4, HL, #3 = sideways whale, louder "luring carpet", stronger echo (on PS4 at least)

The following doesn't work:


 * #3, #5 = nothing unusual
 * #5, HL, #3 = glyph glows but doesn't work
 * #5, HL, #4 = glyph glows but doesn't work

Notes on out-of-order triggering

 * Activating trigger #5 (ribbons, Sunken City story) disables all other glyphs, but they are re-enabled after HL.
 * After that, either #4 (Broken Bridge story) or #3 (Underground story) activates sideways whale
 * if using Underground glyph (trigger #3), it will also activate "luring carpet" which is actually invisible jellyfish making sounds. This can be tested in a normal play-through, if you activate the first three triggers normally and then jump into the goo you'll see those sound bubbles coming from jellyfish with the same sounds.

Additional images
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Trivia
Chirp bubbles (and sound) in the goo, but no companion or carpet is there. "luring chirps":

Qtzl:

"On PS4 if using the first method (Trigger #3 to activate sideways whale), the glitch also results in a different sound effect (more echo and some distinct psychedelic tones), those tones apparently coming from sound bubbles created by non-existent / invisible creatures -- the bubbles appear in various parts of the tower coinciding with the sounds, but there are no creatures visible."

AgainstTheWaves:

"I saw it when I activated the glitch. You know the circular/spherical outlines created by the carpet dolphins and whales when they chirp? Well, they appear scattered throughout the magic liquid. I think they are related to this glitch because when I activated the sideways whale, I saw the outlines."

Ravingmadness (talk) 17:21, 13 August 2020 (UTC):

"i think the chirp bubble near bottom of the tower is seeable just with all or the right amount of goo. there was a talk on discord, people know that luring bubble. We see it and sometimes jump down, because we think its a companion there, which is maybe the intention of this bubble by invis carpet"

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