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Contents

  • Welcome to the Sprixie Kingdom!
    • Introduction
    • How to Use This Guide
  • How to Play
    • Character Control
    • The Basics
    • Our Four Heroes
    • Power-Ups and Forms
    • Items and Objects
    • Multiplayer (Eight Legs Are Better Than Two!)
    • Enemies
  • Walkthrough
    • World 1
      • Introduction
      • World 1-1: Super Bell Hill
      • World 1-2: Koopa Troopa Cave
      • World 1-A: Chargin Chuck Blockade
      • World 1-3: Mount Beanpole
      • World 1-4: Plessies Plunging Falls
      • World 1-5: Switch Scramble Circus
      • World 1: Captain Toad Goes Forth
      • World 1-Castle: Bowsers Highway Showdown
    • World 2
      • Introduction
      • World 2-1: Conkdor Canyon
      • World 2-2: Puffprod Peaks
      • World 2-3: Shadow-Play Alley
      • World 2: Mystery House Melee
      • World 2-4: Really Rolling Hills
      • World 2-A: Big Galoomba Blockade
      • World 2-5: Double Cherry Pass
      • World 2-Castle: Bowser's Bullet Bill Brigade
    • World 3
      • Introduction
      • World 3-1: Snowball Park
      • World 3-2: Chain-Link Charge
      • World 3-3: Shifty Boo Mansion
      • World 3: Captain Toad Makes a Splash
      • World 3-4: Pretty Plaza Panic
      • World 3-A: Magikoopa Blockade
      • World 3-5: Pipeline Lagoon
      • World 3-6: Mount Must Dash
      • World 3-7: Switchboard Falls
      • World 3-Castle: The Bullet Bill Express
      • World 3-B: A Banquet With Hisstocrat
    • World 4
      • World 4-1: Ant Trooper Hill
      • World 4-2: Piranha Creeper Creek
      • World 4-A: Brolder Blockade
      • World 4-3: Beep Block Skyway
      • World 4-4: Big Bounce Byway
      • World 4: Mystery House Mad Dash
      • World 4-5: Spikes Lost City
      • World 4-B: Fire Bros. Hideout #1
      • World 4: Sprixie House
      • World 4-Castle: Lava Rock Lair
    • World 5
      • World 5-1: Sunshine Seaside
      • World 5: Captain Toad Plays Peek-a-Boo
      • World 5-2: Tricky Trapeze Theater
      • World 5-3: Backstreet Bustle
      • World 5-A: Chargin Chuck Blockade Is Back
      • World 5-4: Sprawling Savanna
      • World 5-5: Bob-ombs Below
      • World 5: Sprixie House
      • World 5-B: Fire Bros. Hideout #2
      • World 5-6: Cakewalk Flip
      • World 5-7: Searchlight Sneak
      • World 5-8 Castle: King Ka-thunks Castle
      • World 5: Coin Express
    • World 6
      • World 6: Sprixie House
      • World 6-1: Clear Pipe Cruise
      • World 6-2: Spooky Seasick Wreck
      • World 6-3: Hands-On-Hall
      • World 6-4: Deep Jungle Drift
      • World 6-A: Prince Bully Blockade
      • World 6-5: Ty-Foo Flurries
      • World 6-6: Bullet Bill Base
      • World 6-7: Fuzzy Time Mine
      • World 6: Mystery House Throwdown
      • World 6-Castle: Bowsers Bob-omb Brigade
      • World 6-B: Fire Bros. Hideout #3
      • World 6-C: Motle Bossblobs Big Battle
    • World Castle
      • World Castle-1: Fort Fire Bros.
      • World Castle-2: Switchblack Ruins
      • World Castle-3: Red-Hot Run
      • World Castle-4: Boiling Blue Bully Belt
      • World Castle-A: Brolder Blockade Is Back
      • World Castle-B: Prince Bully Blockade Is Back
      • World Castle-C: Fire Bros. Hideout #4
      • World Castle-5: Trick Trap Tower
      • World Castle: Captain Toad Gets Thwomped
      • World Castle-6: Rammerhead Reef
      • World Castle-7: Simmering Lava Lake
      • World CASTLE-Castle: Bowsers Lava Lake Keep
    • World Bowser
      • World Bowser-1: Spiky Spike Bridge
      • World Bowser-2: Plessies Dune Downhill
      • World Bowser-3: Cookie Cogworks
      • World Bowser: The Bowser Express
      • World Bowser-4: Footlight Lane
      • World Bowser-5: Deepwater Dungeon
      • World Bowser-6: A Beam in the Dark
      • World Bowser: Mystery House Claw Climb
      • World Bowser-7: Grumblump Inferno
      • World Bowser-A: Motley Bossblobs Encore
      • World Bowser-B: Hisstocrat Returns
      • World Bowser-Castle: The Great Tower of Bowser Land
    • World Star
      • World Star-1: Rainbow Run
      • World Star-2: Super Galaxy
      • World Star-3: Rolling Ride Run
      • World Star-4: The Great Goal Pole
      • World Star-5: Super Block Land
      • World Star-6: Honeycomb Starway
      • World Star-7: Gargantuan Grotto
      • World Star-8: Peepas Fog Bog
      • World Star-9: Cosmic Cannon Cluster
      • World Star: Captain Toad Takes a Spin
    • World Mushroom
      • Introduction
      • World Mushroom-1: Night Falls on Really Rolling Hills
      • World Mushroom-2: Spiky Mount Beanpole
      • World Mushroom-3: Deep-Black Jungle Drift
      • World Mushroom-4: Trouble in Shadow-Play Alley
      • World Mushroom-5: Back to Hands-On Hall
      • World Mushroom-6: Gigantic Seasick Wreck
      • World Mushroom-7: Broken Blue Bully Belt
      • World Mushroom: Mystery House Brawl
    • World Flower
      • Introduction
      • World Flower-1: Switch Shock Circus
      • World Flower-2: Floating Fuzzy Time Mine
      • World Flower-3: Piranha Creeper Creek after Dark
      • World Flower-4: Faster Fort Fire Bros..
      • World Flower-5: Sprawling Savanna Rabbit Run
      • World Flower-6: Shiftier Boo Mansion
      • World Flower-7: Pipeline Boom Lagoon
      • World Flower-8: Blast Block Skyway
      • World Flower-9: Towering Sunshine Seaside
      • World Flower-10: Honeycomb Skyway
      • World Flower-11: Spiky Spike Bridge Sneak
      • World Flower-12: Boss Blitz
    • World Crown
      • Introduction
      • World Crown-Crown: Champions Road
      • World Crown: Captain Toads Fiery Finale
      • World Crown: Mystery House Marathon
  • Secrets
    • Introduction
    • Star Ratings
    • A Fifth Hero: Rosalina
    • Secret Warp Pipes
    • Maximum Lives
    • Locked Levels
    • Stamping Miiverse
    • Luigi Mania!

Super Mario 3D World Guide › Walkthrough › World Bowser

World Bowser-6: A Beam in the Dark

Note

If you want to collect everything in this level, Luigi is required to hit a Character Switch for the Stamp.

If you want to get through this level with relative ease, you will want to use the Beam Boxes located near the start. When ready, get on the circular platform and shine light on some ghosts!

Stamp

The Character Switch that triggers the Stamp to appear is found during this first platform ride.

Green Star #1

After the platform ride comes to an end, you are dropped to a lower level. Walk away from the Peepas in front of you until you find a small ledge containing the first Green Star.

This can be a tough platform ride to survive. Parabones fill the area, and even the Red POW Blocks can’t get rid of them if they fall on your platform. If you collect all of the Red Coins after grabbing the Red Ring, you can earn a Super Leaf, which can make this section much easier.

Green Star #2

After the Checkpoint Flag, another platform ride awaits. Watch out for a ledge on the right side of the corridor that the platform shoots through; it has a Mystery Box Box on it. The bonus room it takes you to gives you ten game seconds to wipe out a swarm of six Boos. The Beam Box is a requirement! Afterward, take the door next to the Mystery Box’s location to end up where you need to go.

When you get to a ledge with three doors on the ground level, take the one on the far right. It takes you to a ledge in the same room. Take the door on the right again to proceed to the next section.

This next platform ride is much more dangerous, as the platform has had two large chunks ripped out of it. The corridor is filled with Peepas and eventually Parabones join the fun, too. You can see the last Green Star in the distance.

Green Star #3

Be careful approaching the third Green Star; a Big Boo appear on top of it. If you still have the Beam Box, you can make the ghost disappear and take the star with no fuss.

Topping this Goal Pole takes good aim. You start on a platform high above it, but it quickly collapses. A Tanooki Power-Up or a Cat Power-Up can be very useful here.

Note

Beating 8-6 causes a pipe to appear on the World Map that leads to the World 8 Mystery House

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