Split Fiction - How To Escape The Sandfish

During the first Split Fiction side story, The Legend of the Sandfish, Mio and Zoe find themselves in a large sandy area with predatory sandfish swirling the area. Stepping foot on the sand around these shark-like creatures will cause almost instant death as they seek you out and attack, so it's important to work together as a team to overcome the problem.

The way to cross the sandfishes' area is for one player to position themselves at a large column, which you can use to distract the sandfish by emitting loud pulses through the sand. While you're doing this, the other player should quickly dash across the sand to the safety of the next platform. As we discovered, there's a specific order you need to do this in to be successful.

To do this, start at the beginning and send one player to carefully traverse the wooden beam to the platform on the left. As that player uses the column to send a series of pulses out, the second player should head straight forward to the platform in the middle. When the second player reaches the platform, the first player should go back across the wooden beam to the center. You cannot reach the third platform on the left from the first platform as the distance is too large and there are not enough available pulse charges to complete it in time.

When both players are on the central platform, the first player should again use the column to send the distracting pulses out to keep the sandfish near the platform. The second player should use the jump, jump, dash combination to traverse as much sand as possible to reach the platform directly ahead. Do not go to the third platform on the left.

With one player on the fourth platform, they should use the column to emit the pulses to distract the sandfish, while the other player follows them over. You should now both be on the fourth platform. From there you can jump safely across to the final platform and push the wooden beam down to traverse to the next area of safety.

To complete this side story, follow the platforming areas until you get to the section where you need to ride the sandfish to the end of the level.

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If the sandfish wasn't enough of a battle, you'll later be dealing with the Split Fiction piranhas.