I am writing this with the purpose of helping beginner players finish the Achievement, so I may go a little bit too in-depth for more veteran players. I will be taking into consideration on how beginner players would play through the levels and counting the amount of checkpoints it gets to certain spots.

If you want a video guide go ahead and check out the guide made by Cyber Cobra:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1517480146
Now, basically there's a cube you can find in a vending machine in pretty much every stage. The only stage where it's not inside a vending machine is on A Deeper Void, in which case that one is inside a building. The final stage "Echoes" does not have a cube inside it so don't go wasting time over there. You can only enter the vending machines/find the cubes with cheats turned off and within Campaign mode, so arcade is a no go.

With that said, you'll have to excuse my bad looking graphics. My computer is quite awful. I'd also like to thank BA for reading through my guide to see if it made sense to her, since she's a beginner to the game as well.

This is basically what the inside of the vending machines looks like, you'll be seeing it a lot.

In Forgotten Utopia there are two different ways you can go about this, with one technically being easier than the other but taking a bit longer. You can see the first in the video CyberCobra made as well.

At the 5th checkpoint you'll see a road across from you like this.

Pretty much just go slightly ahead until you see this arch, jump on it and start driving on the wall.
After that, drive/jump off the building and try landing on the road, turn left, and boom you find a nice looking vending machine.


Keep going through the stage until around the 10th checkpoint. You'll see a different white road below it. Just simply jump off and start driving on it.

Keep going the wrong way (it will warn you) through that checkpoint where the white road. You'll then run across this.

I'm jumping so it's easier to see where the other blue road is. Get a head start, if you have to grip fly across. A easier way to float would be to jump and tilt the car upwards to get more air time. Then you simply keep following the road and you'll end up in the same spot as last time.

For this level you will be going to until 6th checkpoint or so you'll see the area looks like this.

Move just a little bit ahead and look to your right, you'll see a pink looking road going that direction. You'll want to jump on that and follow it.


At the end of the road you'll find the Barret Co. building. Just go towards the door I'm facing at and enter it.
There's a few vending machines in here, but all of them are broken. The cube you're looking for will be floating above one of the belts. Either use the ramp or do whatever you need to to get to it. In the screenshot you'll see me grip flying towards its general location.

Apparently there's another way to get to this one, but I couldn't figure out a easy way to do it. Anyway, before the 7th checkpoint, which is also the area where the game will send you to the past/when it looks corrupted, you will stop before it. Don't trigger that cutscene. Instead, look to your right and you will see a floating ring:

Using what you probably did in Forgotten Utopia, jump towards the ring and tilt upward to float towards the road that's somewhere below it. Once you land just keep following the road.
At the end of the road you'll reach a park with a vending machine. You know what to do.

At the 8th checkpoint, jump over the first set of rollers you'll see and look to your right. You'll see a path in the wall leading to a road. Go through the path, and then do a bit of platforming to said road.
After making it to the road, just drive a little bit more and there's your vending machine. Done.

At the end of the track at one point it will show you a glimpse of the past as you see the core (that big tower) in its former glory. You're going to have to climb the core. Not in the past though, that's a bait. Left is no good, right is your cue to start climbing.
While climbing, you'll reach a point where there's a gap between you and a larger piece floating in the sky. There's technically another piece that acts as a platform to assist with getting to the larger piece, but I just chose to jump towards it without said assist.
Upon making it to the top of that large floating piece. You'll find your prize.

At the beginning of the stage, you will be sent to the past eventually and things will look VERY orange. At this moment, stop immediately and turn back.
Your goal is to try and make it back to the beginning from this point. You have multiple ways to go about this, such as running along the walls like CyberCobra does in his video, or attempt to grip fly/float across. I chose to just fly. After your trek back, there it is.

Don't bother counting along with this, but basically at a certain point you will reach a section with six lasers leading to the 15th (or so) checkpoint in the stage. It'll look something like this:

When the door opens up you'll see the 15th checkpoint. You don't HAVE to hit it, but if you want to play it safe go for it. Either way after dropping turn around immediately, you'll see a path below where the lasers were.

Just go down there, follow the path, and you'll find your last vending machine.