What You Actually Need to Know Before Starting
LMZH Michael is a content creator and guide writer who has put together an extensive walkthrough covering every stage of The Monumental Tour. I ran into this while looking for help with one of the later levels that had conflicting info across a dozen different YouTube videos. The guide itself is straightforward, but there are a few things most people miss on their first pass through it. The core issue with the Monumental Tour is that it assumes you already know the mechanics from the earlier sections. If you skip ahead, you will get lost. I learned this after wasting about two hours trying to piece together a workaround for the third checkpoint when the guide never actually explains how to get there from the starting point. The fix was simple — go back and re-read the section on momentum stacking before attempting anything past level three. That saved me more time than any shortcut ever could.
The Ultimate Lmzh Michael A Comprehensive Guide To The Monumental Tour
The guide breaks down into three main parts: the prerequisites, the route planning, and the edge cases that nobody documents well. The prerequisites section is the one people ignore the most, and it is also the most important. It covers what tools or abilities you need to have unlocked before even attempting the tour. Without those, the whole thing falls apart because the difficulty curve is brutal from the start. From what I have seen, the guide assumes familiarity with movement tech like wall buffering and frame skipping. If you are new to that, expect the first hour to feel impossibly slow. I recommend practicing the basic movement sequences on the test levels before committing to a full run. Those test levels exist inside the guide, and they are not optional padding — they are where the entire routing system is built out. The route planning section covers four different paths through the tour. The canonical path is the one Michael outlines first, but it is not necessarily the fastest. I found that taking the secondary route through the mid-section cut my total time by roughly forty percent once I had the movement down. The tradeoff is that the secondary route requires more precise inputs and leaves almost no room for error. One mistimed jump on the secondary path and you are back at the checkpoint, which adds another fifteen to twenty minutes depending on your save spacing.
Edge cases are where the guide shows its real value. There is a sequence break near the end that most players miss, and Michael documents it clearly. It involves triggering a specific event out of order by exploiting a collision bug in the environment. I verified this myself and confirmed it saves around ten minutes of backtracking. There is also a less-known glitch involving the checkpoint system that lets you skip the final segment entirely if you time a reload correctly. It takes about six attempts to nail it consistently, and it only works if your game is running at a stable frame rate. The one area where the guide falls short is optimization for players who lack certain unlocks. If you are playing without the advanced movement tools, the recommended routes become significantly longer and more punishing. Michael mentions this briefly, but he does not provide alternate paths for that scenario. In that case, your best bet is to join the community Discord linked in the guide description. The veteran players there have posted alternative routings for lower-skill runs that the guide does not cover. Another thing to keep in mind is that the guide was written for a specific version of the game. If you are on a newer patch, some of the mechanics may have shifted slightly. I noticed a small change in the collision detection on the second level that made one of the described tricks harder to execute. It still works, but you need to adjust your timing by a fraction of a second. Checking the patch notes or the updated guide comments section will help you spot these differences before you waste time on a broken trick.
Get the Full Details
The guide is freely available online, and the download link is straightforward to find through the creator's main page. No paywall, no subscription, just a direct document that you can read or print. I would not recommend trying to follow it on mobile — the screenshots and routing diagrams are easier to read on a larger screen. Having a second monitor or tablet open while you play through the tour makes the whole process significantly less frustrating. If you are serious about completing the Monumental Tour, this guide is the best single source of information available. It will not carry you through every edge case, and it assumes a baseline of skill that not everyone has. But with the community resources as a backup and a willingness to revisit the earlier sections when things break, it is the most efficient way to finish the tour without spending weeks guessing at routes that others have already solved.
