Exploring the Surface of the Freezeflame Galaxy

Since the recent findings while messing around in Super Mario Galaxy's Freezeflame final planet, the below article includes all the interesting information and tidbits about what exploring the surface of the giant, hollow planet in Hot and Cold Collide happens to be like. Please expect to be slightly blown away by exactly where Luigi is in these screenshots, and possibly learn something.

Reaching the Surface

As you will know, you always start off this area inside the icy part of the planet, below what would have been one of the poles. Hence you will need to figure out the clever sequence of jumping needed to escape the caverns in it's core and back into the open. The walls are too high to be jumped up from these large open areas however, so you will need to use the area which links both open areas as your launch point.

So you must triple jump down this walkway, and at the right time, spin towards the slope at the top of the wall. You will sometimes be able to make it, so move up and keep spinning. If you start sliding, you are generally screwed. You must then do a jump and wall kick off of the lip of the wall above the slope to pass over it with a spin and land on the outside surface.

This is a video by Game-Spin Video:

And yes, this part will take a few tries. Lots of tries in fact, and possibly some hypothermia from the cold water, being impaled on spiky urchin enemies and much camera confusion. Sorry for it being difficult.

Exploring the Surface

When you do land, you may be relieved to know that it is much easier getting around that it was reaching the area, since the majority of this land is generally flat. And yes, it IS solid ground you are on now, so there is no problem of falling back in unless you deliberately jump through the openings in the planet surrounded by grass. Secondly, remember that because there was an area at the 'top' and 'bottom' of the inside caverns, you can go all round the planet in theory and will not fall off the level into the empty void.

Now, if you wonder why I said 'in theory', that is because while I managed to make the playable character explore the half of the planet near the ice part, the lip between areas causes your character to basically keep doing somersaults in the air like being caught between two gravity fields in Bowser's Dark Matter Plant. Hence, progress to the fire half was proven extremely difficult and I just couldn't be bothered to keep trying.

The Terrain

Yes, it does look all like the same kind of rock. However, there are multiple pieces of terrain here, and various effects of hitting it.

1. Normal Rock- You can walk like usual across this, and it makes up most of the planet's surface.
2. Slidey Rock- This kind of rock sends you plummeting down to another piece of Normal Rock and across the surface. And yes, it seems the slopes that have this are kinda random.
3. Icy Water- Right from the ice half of this galaxy, this causes damage if you spend too long in it. But you can swim. An important note though is that because of the camera angle and the fact you are OUTSIDE the rocky planet, this water is totally invisible.
4. Submergable Rock- Sometimes, Mario or Luigi will fall into the rock leaving just their head visible. There is no difference on the gameplay mechanics however.
5. Lava*- Same as normal lava, and I'd guess will probably be invisible like the water.

* means it's implied, since if the icy water stretches outside the surface, the lava probably does as well.

Nice Views

Well for one thing, you can see far out into the Freezeflame Galaxy from up here, and have a pretty nice view of the lava planet especially and from a unique angle.

You can see the start from here!

You can also see into the core with the icy water and the lava, seeing the tiny enemies moving about and the levels changing. Plus, you're viewing it from a nice bird's eye view and are nicely immune to the attacks from the enemies.

Since another glitch exists which turns parts of the planet invisible when you stand on them as the camera I think gets stuck inside the planet for a while, you can also see your character semi standing on what seems to be total nothingness, which can make for a very, very weird set of screenshots. In fact, I might use this for some quizzes...

Some Videos

This is in case you want more proof.

Luigi swimming air/invisible planet

Luigi looks into the crater

Nice view of the lava planet from the surface

General video of the planet surface

Jumping to the planet's core

Notes

This is a non fictional study of a fictional planet, and all information provided is true by experiment. If anyone wants to make a few videos to put on Youtube, feel free to do so and reference this experiment page.