Yoshi Star Galaxy - Spiny Control

Welcome Back to the Galaxy!
We launch from Starship Mario once again to collect more Power Stars. The planet is crawling with Spinies and Mario will get hurt just touching one. Yoshi can eat the Spinies and hold them in his mouth. Shooting out his tongue once will make them curl up and shooting it out again will bring them into his mouth, but he doesn't swallow them. Using the Star Cursor, you can aim the arrow so he can shoot the Spiny in the desired direction. Spinies can break cages like Bob-ombs and Bullet Bills can. Yoshi can also eat Lakitu's cloud, and Lakitu yells if given a tongue-lashing. The Lakitus respawn, however. Unfortunately, I died during the Bonus Area.

Take 2- I failed the Bonus Area because I stomped the Goombas instead of using Yoshi. I got a 1-up Shroom and fell in a black hole.

Take 3- I reached the Launch Star, with a similar volcano eruption sequence. I reached the midgate, but was knocked into the black hole.

Take 4- I shot a Spiny at a cage to free the Luma inside. We launched to another midgate. The music changes to something spacey and eerie. We use the Swing Flowers to launch onto the top of the hill. A large purple cloud descends and from it pop out a large Lakitu with a red/white fur collar and a crown pops out. We'll call him King Lakitu for the time being- he looks like the King Lakitu in Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. He throws Spinies at us from a distance. We can use them to hit him, but he does have the ability to dodge. After jumping, we get in our first hit with a Spiny. He turns red in the face. However, we get knocked off Yoshi frequently, and die from the Spinies. I could really use a Life Shroom here, but I couldn't find one. (There's one on a planet accessed from the Launch Star en route to the planet where we battle.)

Take 5- I get in two hits. After each hit, his glasses get knocked askew and King Lakitu passes over the hill, pounding his cloud, which sounds like a timpani drum, while shooting lightning down to the hill. We died from too many spiny hits.

Take 6- We finally got in three hits and we fought for them- I had 1 health bar remaining at the end of the battle. He explodes into a Star, which we gratefully take before we can take more damage.

Star get 4, 595 Star Bits, 38 coins, 18 Lives

Interlude
We find a Hungry Luma on the World Map. He wants 300 star bits. We have enough and give 300 to him for a henshin into Flip Swap Galaxy and the path branches.