Question about spike chamber on descent to seahorse flame room

[indigozeal]

Hello; I have a question about the small chamber with a chest on spikes you can access on the descent to the seahorse flame room by jumping through one bit of the spike-lined wall to the left. There's a narrow passage directly above your head as you enter the chamber, with a section of passthrough wall above a pair of spikes near the top.

I've been trying to use the B. B. Wand to send a flotilla of bubbles above and climb them to reach the passthrough wall, but they bust before I can get there due to the passage being so narrow and the disturbance me jumping up causes. I note the passage is just wide enough for you to blow another bubble that won't pop on which to jump if you're pixel-perfect hugging the wall, but the RNG of me making that pixel-perfect adjustment before I've sunk far enough down on the bubble to negate any height I got is nil - and it seems that sometimes, the bubbles I blow will just pop even if I am hugging the wall.

Am I correctly perceiving the challenge here, or do I need to approach this chamber in a different way?

Thanks for any help.

[Sum]

Perhaps you may press jump, then cast the bubble downward which is directly below your character. I've seen a video to perform this technique.

[indigozeal]

If it's the trick where you press jump and X to jump and blow a bubble simultaneously to traverse large gaps, I have indeed done this. (Some people seem convinced it's an "exploit," but it seems pretty clearly planned and accounted for in the level design.) It doesn't work here, as it still blows the bubbles to the side, and the problem of the narrow passage width still comes into play.

I did try jumping and casting the bubble directly downward, but that makes you sink, not ascend, unfortunately.

[[TBG] Mai]

It is possible to do that chimney upwards by spamming the wand downwards, it's been used on speedrun videos to sequence break. But the intended method is to enter that passage from above. It's a whole another puzzle involving cats so try exploring on the nearby cells.

[indigozeal]

Originally posted by TBG Mai:

It is possible to do that chimney upwards by spamming the wand downwards, it's been used on speedrun videos to sequence break. But the intended method is to enter that passage from above. It's a whole another puzzle involving cats so try exploring on the nearby cells.

Ahhhhh, okay. I'm actually doing the cat puzzle, and I thought the final bit of it was up there, since I thought it was the only part of that color section I hadn't explored. Guess I'm overlooking something. Thank you for the help.

ETA: Just tried spamming the wand downward in that passage and, well, damn - I am not getting anywhere. Guess the speedrunners have turbo controllers.