You can get above it by spinning around a flower, which will whip you into the air. You'll need to ground pound it when it charges you, but the boss makes things more complicated by flying around in the second phase of the fight. You'll need to face off against the Bugaboom, an enormous Mandibug.
Super Mario Galaxy Bugaboom (Image credit: iMore) The star will be yours once you ground pound it twice. You can ride it to the observatory where you'll need to fight a stronger Mandibug. Kill the Mandibugs on the observatory deck of Planet One, then ground pound a red switch to turn on a windmill. Talk to their captain and he'll give you a Power Star which will send you back to the Observatory. There you'll meet the Toad Brigade, a group of five Toads that will help you throughout the game. Take it to the top of a tree in Planet One, the central area of the Honeyhive Galaxy. They'll make a Launch Star appear behind her. Use your bee suit on Planet Three to latch onto the queen bee's fur and find the five-star shards that are making her itchy. Here's the buzz on where to find all the Honeyhive stars. This is also the first one where you'll be using one of the game's special costumes Mario must don a bee suit. Super Mario 3d All Stars Bee (Image credit: Nintendo)Īfter defeating King Kaliente, you'll return to the observatory and can set out to your second galaxy. After gathering your last 10 in space, you'll land on a planet right next to the Power Star. You're going to repeat this process launching in and out of space and onto planets until you've collected everything. Use it to grab 10 coins in the area and then reach another Launch Star for another 10 coins. For this one you'll find 15 on the planet you land on and then break a crystal to access a Launch Star. In all the Purple Coin Challenges you have to collect 100 purple coins. Talk to Luigi and he'll give you the star. It will take you to an underground area where you can grab a ? coin and music notes then travel down another Warp Pipe to reach the house. Walk to the bottom of the planet and you'll find a red Warp Pipe tucked between two trees. Choose the first Star, the Dino Piranha planet. It contains a picture showing him on top of the house at the beginning of the Good Egg Galaxy. You'll receive a letter from Luigi letting you know he found a Star but can't get back home. That will take you to the Dino Piranha, which you defeat the same way you did to get your first star. Hit a green bulb into the purple Piranha Plant at the end of the path to spawn a vine you can climb to another planet.Ĭlimb to the top of the structure there and the Spin attack the glass to uncover a Launch Star. Run along the path avoiding Chain Chomps and pits. Kill the Piranha Plant closest to your landing spot to spawn a vine to get to the next planet. Grab them all, then enter the launch star. Three will be within sight when you land and two will be on the other side of the planed in the path of a Chain Chomp. Get to the next planet and gather up five Star Chips. Talk to the Luma who will create a Sling Star so you can reach it. Run to the underside of the planet and climb the tower to reach the Launch Star. You'll have just four minutes to get to and defeat the Dino Piranha again. The first coconut will hit him the first time you spin it, but the next two will require some volleying. The boss will release the Power Star after you've hit him in the head three times. Wait for King Kaliente to shoot coconuts at you, then spin to send them flying back at him. Keep doing this until you hit the Power Star, which will take you back home. You'll need to hit him three times to win.įind all the star pieces on the galaxy's seventh planet to create Pull Stars, which you can lock onto to float upwards. Circle around him to avoid getting hit yourself. Damaging him requires spinning near the bulb coming out of his tail, which causes it to slam into his head.
You'll earn your first star by winning a boss fight against an angry fusion of a dinosaur and a piranha plant.