Engine Room

Gold Leaf Galaxy

Star Bunnies On The Hunt

You need to find five blue star pieces here, but they're fairly spread out. The bunnies will give you clues as to their locations; if you spot a bunny, you know a piece is nearby. One can only be found by using the bee suit and flying above the flower; one is behind the waterfall in a crate; one can be found by walljumping up behind a bunny near the edge of the world; one can be found by stomping three tree stumps into the ground; and the last is located at the top of a swing. Grab onto the swing and swing into the launch star to find it.

When you land on the next planet, the bunny will dare you to catch it. Let it run away and look for the groundpound switch. The switch will raise barriers all over the planet, confusing the bunny and letting you catch up to it. It'll give you a Power Star when you nab it.

Cataquack To The Skies

Make your way up to the Cataquack and let it hit you up to the launch star above you.

If you hit the top of the tree here, you'll pop.

When you return to the mission, get the bee suit and let the Cataquacks and your flying take you upwards. Eventually you'll hit a launch star. That'll lead you to a few small planets where your goal will be to lead the Cataquacks to one side where they'll launch you to another planet. The last planet consists of a number of small sticks; you need to stand directly under the launch star, on the small landing there, to be hit up into it.

In the next planet, destroy the hedgehogs by ground pounding them, then grab the bee suit and lead a Cataquack underneath the Jenga tower here. A combination of a launch and flying will let you reach the top. When you reach the flower petals, buzz your way across them to reach the Power Star.

When It Rains, It Pours

Kill the piranha plants near the storm clouds here to find the Bee Suit atop a storm cloud. You may be able to see a large gold coin underneath the planet here; if you buzz down to it, you'll be able to gain a lot of coins and find a hidden room with a number of boulders and a Rainbow Mario suit.

When you get the Bee Suit, though, you can ride the flower petals and rainclouds up to the observation deck. Make your way across the wood until you reach the tower; use a combination of jumping and flying to get to the top without getting drenched by the storms. The storms here move from point A to point B, then disappear and reappear where they started.

Having a bee suit here will make the fight much easier.

Eventually you'll reach the top and face off against the mean mole. Your goal here is to get behind the mole, groundpound the switch there, and then return to the front side of the observation deck, jump on top of the mole's position, and groundpound his head. It will get difficult if you lose the Bee Suit, as it actually makes it a lot easier to get past the spikes on the ground, but it's still doable (try using the long jump by tapping Z + A while moving). When you groundpound his head three times, you'll wind up receiving the Power Star for the planet.

Sea Slide Galaxy

Going After Guppy

You'll land on a large ring of water here; you're told that the shark in the water is “causing trouble”. Sounds like a capital offense to us.

Go talk to Guppy to learn that he has a challenge for you: he wants you to follow him through the galaxy and through the eight rings that he lays in his wake. Use your spin move to keep up with him initially, then grab a red shell and use that to follow him the rest of the way. The rings will disappear eventually, so don't dawdle. When you get through eight of them, Guppy will give you a Power Star.

Faster Than A Speeding Penguin

Win the penguin race here to claim the Power Star. You'll start off slow, but grabbing the red shell near the starting line will let you catch up a bit. Keep in mind that if you see an enemy in front of you, you can shake your remote to throw the red shell at them, just like in Mario Kart. You'll only want to do so if you're close to a replacement shell, though. There are also a couple of speed boosts near the end of the course.

They get swim caps and you don't! That's no fair!

The Silver Stars of Sea-Side

The first silver star here can be found by jumping over to the Bee Suit near where you start, zipping up into the tree, then floating over to the cloud and then jumping to the rock arch nearby.

The second star can be reached with the cannon. Launch yourself towards the blue pullstars above the mushroom, then pull yourselft to find the shard. When you're ready to return, pull yourself above the launch star and tap Z to fall into it.

The third star can be found near the lighthouse. Grab the Bee Suit, hop onto the tree nearby, across the bridge, and fly upwards to nab it. With that one grabbed, pop down and head into the nearby launch star; that'll launch you over to the tree on the far side of the ring. Use your Bee Suit to climb the branches and clouds here until you reach the top, where the fourth star piece is located.

With that done, drop down to where Guppy is located and unscrew the screw there to make a water pipe heading to the central egg planetoid appear. You can find the final star piece here. Ride the launch stars to find the Power Star.