Is there any kind of guide or tutorial on how to correctly do the jumps in the final area of the game? Just curious!

Thanks!

The palace trial skips are a bit difficult to explain in writing, (at least for me), but I'll try my best.

There are six steps to the skips: the jump, followed by a combination of three cannon shots and two hat deployments. To perform the skips successfully, you need to time each step so that it occurs at the highest possible point of the previous step (including the hat deployments). If it helps, a visual cue that was recently pointed out to me for when to fire the cannon after deploying the hat is right when the hat expands completely.

One thing to note in particular is that the second hat can only be deployed at the right time after at least two cannon shots, which means that there are (only) three possible combinations that work for the skips:

1. Jump → Hat → Cannon → Cannon → Cannon → Hat:

2. Jump → Hat → Cannon → Cannon → Hat → Cannon:

3. Jump → Cannon → Hat → Cannon → Cannon → Hat:

Personally, I find the second method to be the most reliable, although the first works pretty well too. With either of these methods, you can simply hold the hat button the entire time, and your hat will deploy at the right time both times... so long as your cannon shots are on point. I don't recommend the third method since it requires additional timing, but, it's listed as a possibility if you want to give it a shot.

By the way, this might be obvious, but just in case it's not, be sure to hold the jump button for both the jump and cannon shots to get the most height out of them. Same goes for the hat, of course, but if you use the first or second methods above, this shouldn't be an issue.

Hope this helps. Good luck!