Checkpoints before the dream
These are the main gates, including the tool you need for later charged attacks.
Train Ticket and the hijacking
Board from West Bizville, sleep in your assigned room, then fight toward the front. Green and Purple are the final train battle.
Cemetery gates
Use Rocket Boots for the ledges and Shrinking for the tight passages. The Crypt provides a bed before the Manor.
Ghost Chef’s requests
Bring Spider Cider, Dust and Raw Turkey in his requested order. Completing the quest grants Ghost Potion and cooking.
Catacombs
Prepare for Slasher’s Malevolence / Jump Stab, then follow the Ghostwalker story into the Dream World.
Emotion order
Avarice / Greed → Isolation / Solitude → Terror / Fear → Wrath / Hatred. After Fear, the return to Dream House and changed hub lead into Wrath; the other branches are not new required badge loops.
What is not required here
Mutant is behind a Brigand’s Sword gate in the normal Manor. That later optional unlock is not part of a first Chapter 3 clear. Finish Hatred for the Ghostwalker story reward.