There are random bits where you'll be speeding alone on a broken minecart track, swerving in and out of a ski slalom course, or taking the form of a bubble and traversing over a pit of spikes and fire.
Much of the game's frustration comes when the game removes any kind of safety net and challenges Noodle to traverse bamboo poles that hang over a dangerous spike pit, lava, or just an endless abyss.