Friday, February 22, 2013

New Super Mario Bros. U: Layer-Cake Desert-4 -- Spike's Spouting Sands

This level has lots of Spikes throwing spike balls and pillars of sand that rise from the void to give you a boost. Some of the Spikes are on item blocks. The Ice Flower is available here, so freeze the Spikes if you need to. Under a bridge and between two sand pillars is the first Star Coin. Go under the bridge and use the sand pillars to reach it. Soon after, you'll see three Red Koopas on flying item blocks. Nearby is a flying item block over a sand pillar. Hit it to make a vine appear. This will take you to the second Star Coin. The Star Coin is next to the right wall. There are shifting blocks that expand into a line and contract back into a single block. They will expand to form stairs so you can reach the Star Coin. Return to the main level and you'll soon come across the midpoint. Past the midpoint, you can go behind the small Stone Eyes. Some of them have invisible areas with pipes in them. Take the pipe down and you'll find an item block with a Mini Mushroom. Run up the walls into the pipe to the right. Keep running and you'll get the third Star Coin which is below the area you could normally reach. Keep going and you'll reach the flag. This opens the path to Layer-Cake Desert-6.

Another Stone Eye has a hidden pipe. This Stone Eye is the one past the midpoint and the pit with the Spikes with the arrow sign nearby. The pipe is a cannon that takes you to the red goal. This opens the path to Layer-Cake Desert-Ice.

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