First Light Light Cannon Guide: Capsules and Glass Bricks

What Does the Light Cannon Do?

Breaking a glass brick with the First Light light cannon earns Through the Glass. That gives you a specific achievement to pursue while clearing the game's memory boards. The cannon also connects to the capsule system, which lets you grow it as part of the arcade action.

Paddle-and-ball play remains central: returning the light, controlling angles, and breaking bricks carry you through the memories. Use the cannon to break a glass brick when pursuing Through the Glass, then keep the other glass objectives in mind as you clear boards.

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How the Cannon Fits Into Capsule Upgrades

Capsules bring several mechanics into play: growing the cannon, stacking multipliers, and banking speed. These give you additional goals to juggle alongside keeping the light in play.

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Keep your objective specific:

• For Through the Glass: Break a glass brick with the cannon.
• For Fully Medicated: Catch every bright capsule across your career.
• For Every Good Year at Once: Have a keeper power, a speed effect, and a multiply active together.

The last achievement rewards overlapping effects. Pursue that combination deliberately when working on achievements, while keeping your attention on the returning light.

Glass Brick Achievements to Track

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Through the Glass has a 100% global unlock rate, while In Case of Emergency sits at 62.5%. The latter requires 100 different glass bricks across your career, making it a longer collection goal alongside the cannon-specific achievement.

Achievement	How to Unlock	Global Unlock Rate
The Glass Ring	Break your first glass brick.	100%
Through the Glass	Break a glass brick using the light cannon.	100%
Both Panes	Break two glass bricks within one memory.	100%
In Case of Emergency	Break 100 different glass bricks across your career.	62.5%

Keep the different requirements straight: Both Panes needs two glass bricks in the same memory, while In Case of Emergency counts different glass bricks over your career. Focus on the two-brick objective within an individual board, and pursue the career total as you work through the memories.