WORLD 2-1. HIGH SPEED POWER-UPS

PUZZLE PLANK GALAXY 

(GALAXIA SERRERÍA ROMPECABEZAS) 

THE PUZZLING PICTURE BLOCK 

(CAMINO CORTADO)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?

This is the first Galaxy of World 2. Her you will find many sawing machines that can make the wooden path disappear.  So you must run. This Puzzle Plank will help you to learn the Bomb Jump, something that will be useful against some bosses. At the end you must solve a puzzle of a beetle. After solving it, a miniboss will appear.

ENEMIES.

Appart from the freaking sawing machines, there are two Wigglers (pacific animals that get angry easily), the Suicide Mosquitoes and one Mandibug, a beetle that you can smach with a Bomb jump, before the boss.

    

  

WIGGLER                                                                                                       MANDIBUG

MANDIBUG STACK (BOSS) 

After completing the puzzle, two Mandibugs will appear. You must defeat both of them to get the Star. How do I defeat them? Easy, do a Bomb Jump over the first one and the other one will get angry because of his partner´s death. Smash him and the Star will appear. 

MY ADVICE 

Run for your life. The sawing machines will not wait for you and they will destroy the wooden ground. Don´t waste time with the enemies. They are there to distract you. 

BUGABOOM´S BACK 

(¡DUELO CON EL ESCARABAJO REY!)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?

Here´s a Star that, in my opinion, is better not to collect until it is necessary. After giving 70 coins to a Hungry Luma, you will unlock a Star Ring to fight against Bugaboom.

This is a freaking boss, that only wants to drive you mad. This boss appeared in Super Mario Galaxy.

ENEMIES

As it is a hidden Star, the enemies are the same as in the Puzzling Picture Block. But, you should defeat them to get the  70 coins. 

BUGABOOM (BOSS)

He appeared in Super Mario Galaxy and he wants revenge. The difference is that, in the first part you needed Bee Mario, another Power- Up, and here, Cloud Mario will have to defeat this enormous beetle.  As the title says, his weak point is his back.  You must hit him there with a Bomb Jump three times. But it will not be so easy. After the first time you hit him, he will get angry and start flying. There is were you need Cloud Mario: to reach him. He can throw Bombs, and before being defeated he will turn red. 

MY ADVICE

Before the Luma (he asks you for a lot of coins, so you must defeat enemies and get the coins) there is a dark room where you can get tons of coins. This room will be protagonist in another star, but this is something we´ll talk about another day.  

BOULDER BOWL GALAXY 

(GALAXIA CANTERA BOLERA) 

ROCK & ROLODILLO

(ROCK & ROLODILLO)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY

In this Galaxy, you will learn to use a new Power-Up: Rock Mario. You will have to defat all the enemies by stomping them, with the rock. You must repeat this process with the final boss three times to get the Star.

ROCK MARIO

This is a new Power- Up that will give Mario the power of transforming into a giant Rock. By spinning, Mario can smash enemies until he hits a wall. Being a rock, you can also jump, altough it is not recommendable, and go through the sprint areas, like the one in the upper photo, and make walls fall. If you touch a Star Ring, you will lose your power. 

ENEMIES

Here there are plenty of enemies, that can be easily defeated by  Rock Mario, like the Octoombas, the Boulders (giant rocks with a red area which is their weak point), and Pinheads (like the bowls of a bowling alley). The only enemie you can´t defeat with Rock Mario are Chain Chomps: they will remove your Power-Up and you will lose 1 HP. 

  

BOULDER                                             PINHEADS

ROLODILLO (BOSS) 

He is the boss of the Boulder Bowl Galaxy. He is an armadillo covered by rocks in the front part. He will try to hit you, so you lose your Rock Mario Power-Up. But after trying to hit you several times, he will get dizzy, and there is when you can hit him in the butt. Do it three times, and you will get the Power Star.

MY ADVICE

Practise with Rock Mario, or you can have so terrible deaths because of suiciding. Don´t try to hit Rolodillo in his head. I died the first time I played against him because of that.

C´MERE, GOOMBA 

(¡SÍGUEME, GOOMBA!)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY 

In one point of the advennture, you will meet a Golden Gearmo that will tell you to attrack a Goomba to where she is. So she can give you a Star. The Goombas are trapped inside some pink glasses. You must break them and make the Goomba follow you until you reach the Gearmo. 

ENEMIES

Octoombas, Boulders and Chain Chomps will be there to kill the Goomba. Appart from that, the mud will also stop you, so the Goomba, that is also an enemy, can hit you. 

MY ADVICE

It is easy to get frustrated when the Goomba hits you or when he is killed before reaching the Gearmo. Keep calm. If you lose HP, as one Luma says, you can get coins to recover your HP, by throwing Star Bits to some yellow points. 

HIGHTAIL FALL GALAXY 

(GALAXIA CATARATAS LEJANAS)

HOT STEPPING DASH PEPPER
(¡CARRERILLAS CON GUINDILLAS!)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?
Here you will need Yoshi to use the new Power-Up: the Dash Pepper. Because in this weird Galaxy you will have to go extremely fast or to go running by the walls, in this the way you can get the Power Star.

DASH YOSHI
This is the first Yoshi´s Power-Up in the whole game. It is a big red pepper that will make Yoshi turn red and run extremely fast, until the effects disappear. You can see that Dash Yoshi appears at the beginning of the blog. I think this is the most difficult Power-Up to control (from Yoshi´s power Ups).


ENEMIES 
This is the Galaxy with the least number of enemies of the whole game!!! Can you belive that there are only three Paragoombas???

"YEAH!!! WE WILL DEFEAT MARIO. WE´RE THREE!!!"

MY ADVICE
It is quite difficult to control Dash Yoshi. If you hit a column while you are walking on the walls, you´ll probably suicide. Remember that you can press Z and A to get free from Yoshi. However, he will suicide. (10:20)

SILVER STARS IN HIGHTAIL FALLS

(ESTRELLAS DE PLATA EN LAS CATARATAS LEJANAS)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?

This is a hidden Star in a planet that you will reach after giving 30 coins to a Hungry Luma (Ok, I was wrong: not all Lumas are thieves who want to steal all your coins). In this secret planet you will have to steal 5 Silver Stars from some monsters to get the hidden Power Star. 

ENEMIES

Appart from those three Paragoombas, there are also some Kleptoads, these monsters. They have the Silver Stars and you have to use Yoshi to steal their Silver Stars.

MY ADVICE

Do not try to kill all the Kleptoads: they will appear new enemies as soon as you kill them. Focus on the ones with the Silver Stars on their heads. Those are the ones you must chase and kill.

WILD GLIDE GALAXY

(GALAXIA DESCENSO TROPICAL)

FLUZZARD FIRST FLIGHT

(¡A VOLAR CON GUACAPLANO!)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?

Mario will land in a platform over a jungle. Two Jibberjays will tell you to fly with a shy bird called Fluzzard. They will give you some lessons of flying abou how to hold the Wii mote and all that stuff before you start flying with this Fluzzard. After reaching the goal, a great golden circle, the Jibberjays will give you the Star.

 

JIBBERJAY                                                                                               FLUZZARD

ENEMIES

There are not enemies in this Galaxy but that is because there are thousand of ways to die here! This Fluzzard is extremely fragile, and by crashing against something you can die. There are many things that can kill you: walls, ice, plants... Just by hitting yourself against that you will die.

MY ADVICE

By moving the Wii remote onwards, you will do a sidedown. It will be useful in the next Star, but if you want to get the Comet Medal, you must pass through the five Red Doors. If you see that the barrier protecting the Comet Medal doesn´t disappear, don´t try to get it. You will DIE!

"NO!!!!!!! MY COMET MEDAL!!!!"

JUNGLE FLUZZARD RACE

(¡CARRERA EN GUACAPLANO!)

HOW IS THIS GALAXY?

This is basically the same Galaxy, but here you also have to deal with other Jibberjays that will challenge you and invite you to the race. Her there´s no Comet Medal. You must be the 1st and win this crazy race, so the Jipperjays give you the Star.

ENEMIES

As in the other Galaxy, the "only" enemies are are the walls, the ice, the water (where you can drown)... And the Jipperjays: you cannot kill them, but it is annoying to have 2 or 3 of them ahead of you.

MY ADVICE

Appart from running but not rushing, the only thing I can tell you is that these Jipperjays are not quite fast, so they are easy to win (I did the first time I participated in this race). There is a hard mode in other Galaxy, but we´ll disover that one in another chapter.