Saturday, March 12, 2011

Big Boo's Haunt - Go on a Ghost Hunt

Big Boo's Haunt is the fifth course.
N64
In the courtyard is a big Boo. If we punch or pound the big Boo, a small carousel cage appears. If we approach the cage, we enter Big Boo's Haunt. Creepy, low-pitched music starts playing. We get a message: "Come on in here... ...heh, heh, heh..." Periodically, we here the sounds of Boo laughter. There is a large mansion in front of us, with Big Boo waiting on the roof. We go inside the house. The first door on the left has a piano. The next door has a couple of bookcases and a large painting of a Boo. If we turn our back to the painting, Boos will appear from it. I ground-pounded the two Boos that came out. With each Boo we take out, we'll get the message: "Ghosts... ...don't... ...DIE! Heh, heh, heh! Can you get out of here... ...alive?" Each Boo has a blue coin we can get when we take them out. The door next to that has another Boo, as well as a Mr. Eye. I took a hit from Mr. Eye and defeated it by running around it in a circle while the iris and pupil follow Mario. The next door has a fallaway bridge with Boo. But the Boo is on the other side of the bridge, and I fell off it twice. You won't die from falling off the bridge, you'll just land in the water near the carousel with the carousel music playing. We swam around to the shallow water, and walked to the metal door in the brick wall. We enter a flooded hallway and took a grate elevator up into the small house near the mansion, with a Mr. Eye. We took out the Boo once we finally made it across the bridge. The door next to that also contains a Boo. Once we take out all 5 Boos, we get a message: "Boooooo-m! Here comes the master of mischief, the tower of terror, the Big Goo! Kahahaha..." We hear a chime and the tempo of the music goes up. We go back into the foyer to find the Big Boo in the center of the room. We turn our back to him and ground-pound the Big Boo when he gets close. Big Boo makes the same sound as the Whomp King and Big Bob-omb when they are hit. We get in three hits. The Star flies to the 2nd floor and stairs appear in the center of the foyer. We ride the stairs to the 2nd floor. We hear a chime. We tried to get 100 coins, but gave up, after taking damage from flying books, and Mr. Eye, so we just got the Star.
Star Get #32, 70 Coins, 5 Lives
Nintendo DS
As Yoshi can't hurt Boos, we need Mario to get this Star. We access the course the same way as in the N64. We see a red item block on the balcony instead of the Big Boo, but otherwise not much has changed. We enter the mansion. We go through the second door on the left. We take a hit from a flying chair, and take out a Boo from the painting. The message is the same (minus some ellipses). We take a hit from the other Boo from the painting, then take it out. We get the last three Boos without incident, in the same rooms as in the N64. We get a similar message: "Boooooo-m! Here comes the master of mischief, the titan of terror, the Big Boo! Ha ha ha ha..." The tempo of the music goes up. We go back into the foyer and find Big Boo, with an updated sprite. We get in the first two hits, but Big Boo doesn't make much noise. We take a hit from Big Boo and get in the last hit. He poofs into the Star, which flies to the second floor. We ride the stairs to the second floor and get the Star.
Star Get #38, 25 Coins, 4 Lives
The next Star is Ride Big Boo's Merry-Go-Round.

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