Rightside Down Galaxy - The Great Crate Incinerator

Welcome Back to the Galaxy!

Upon arriving in the galaxy, we land in a green pipe on a castle, near which a Yellow Starshroom is parked. Since when did the Starshroom start changing colors? Maybe the Luma that created it periodically gives it paint jobs. It is another 2D ant-farm level. There are castle towers in the background, and the music is somewhat playful, but not too exciting. We meet up with Red Toad, who says the Toad Brigade is down further in the planet. Blue Toad draws our attention to a Red Switch, which we pound. Coins fall from the ceiling, just like they would had we used a POW Block in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We use a purple flower to launch up to another level, just like in Honeyhive and Gold Leaf. We enter an area with gravity arrows and blue flies with spikes on their heads. They resemble Fighter Flies from the earlier Mario games. We spin a switch to rotate the gravity arrows 180 degrees, flipping the flies on their heads, disabling the spike. We can now stomp on them. Near the switch in the upper left corner is a green pipe. Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to check it out, because I could now reach it. The Special Area music from Galaxy plays. The room has lots of crates and a Fire Flower. Henshining into Fire Mario (with the same music from Galaxy), I destroy the crates, one of which has a 1-up, and another has an orange pipe.

After going through the orange pipe, we meet a Gearmo on a flat planet covered in crates. This is reminiscent of the trash areas on the Battlerock and the Dreadnought. The Gearmo says this is the end of the line for all trash. He wants us to burn the trash. We agree to help him and are powered up with the Fire Flower. We have 20 seconds to destroy the crates (we had 30 seconds to destroy the trash heaps with bombs in Galaxy). We find out immediately that one fireball can take out many crates in succession if they and the shot are lined up. I burned all of the crates on my first try with 2 seconds to spare. The Gearmo is overjoyed and gives us a Star as thanks.

Star Get #10, 141 Star Bits, 366 Coins, 23 Lives

Well, that was a good session. I got in 10 Stars on my first time playing Super Mario Galaxy 2. Let's hope I can be just as, if not more productive, in subsequent sessions. (I am at 60 Stars went I write this post, so I have been doing well in terms of getting Stars, but there is an obvious backlog in the blogging.)