Stuck in Waterloo World

[TrashQueenAndKing]

At the part where you have to remove the obstruction from the castle's gears. Tried looking up a few FAQs and video walkthroughs, but never got a good answer. Here's the part where I'm stuck at. http://imgur.com/cgQPD06 All the video walkthroughs I skimmed through have the cannon enemies gone, but IDK how to kill them, or even how to jump to the other side. Feel like I'm having a derp moment.

[SuperDean]

if i remember corectly you have to light them on fire and then keep blasting them so there mouth cant come out of the shell and then they blow up

[genoforprez]

There are a couple of ways to kill them. One way is to run up and just hit them to make them go inside of their shells, then use pyro to light their fuses. The other way (and in my opinion the easiest way) is to just pick them up with TK and throw them in the water. They just drown. Piece o' cake.

If ever you're having trouble with a particular enemy, don't forget that you can call Ford Cruller on the bacon and ask him how to do it. He'll give you the same advice about these shell guys if you ask him, I'm pretty sure.

[TrashQueenAndKing]

I know how to kill them. I just can't reach them.

[Osprey Hawk]

Have you tried using the Levitate to bounce onto the platform then punch them?

[genoforprez]

Originally posted by madax91:

I know how to kill them. I just can't reach them.

Ah, okay. I misunderstood.

There is just a pin you need to remove from some gears. You don't actually HAVE to jump onto that particular enemy's platform. His little platform is just there so you can use it to jump onto the OTHER snail cannon dude's platform on the other side of the drawbridge area. I usually just cheese it by floating right onto the left platform and pulling the pin without even bothering with the dudge in your screen shot. (Dude in your image can be easily reached once the bridge is down.) Trouble is that I don't recall at the moment exactly where I jump from to reach the other platform with the pin, but it's possible. I think maybe just the roof of one of the houses in front of the moat?

But if you want to do it the way the devs intended, here is a video of one guy doing it from the place in your screenshot:

https://youtu.be/JzP4B2oKJX8?t=16m27s

[Mr. Moyer]

Using levitate with a little creativity you can reach the pin by first jumping INSIDE the castle. Then jump up on top of the wall above the pin and just drop down to it. Once there, simply punch the pin and it falls out. You don't even have to kill the cannon things.

[Mr. Moyer]

Even with the castle gate shut, you can still jump in by going over the walls. Where the luggage is near the ladder, jump up to that platform and work your way up the neighboring platforms until you are high enough to jump over one of the holes in the top of the wall.

[Sherman™]

This is the worst part of the game IMO, literally stuck at that screenshot 8 years later.

Finally got it by going invisible, then double jumping + levitating over the $%%&ing wall thing attached to the tightrope
https://youtu.be/iQ-5KwSzA94?t=2078