This is probably the longest blog entry I've made in a while. Enjoy the progress!
Stage 2
The Jungle
Want to reach that box at the beginning of that swamp section? Simple. Switch to the Sweeper Suit, then use it to suck the huge, square shaped rock that's nearby. Just face it and suck it towards you. From there, jump on it, switch to the Safari Suit and jump to it. You'll find a Mickey Mouse doll, which acts as a 1-Up.
You can also use the rocks to plug up the gaps with the swamp water, so the gas that emanates from said gaps won't be a problem.
The boss is a gorilla. Jump on its head, and use the Safari Suit to latch onto the walls and avoid the gorilla as he jumps to the other side of the room. He'll grab onto the wall and try to shake some nuts out of the tree. Avoid them, and use one of them as ammo with regular Mickey if you want to. He'll do another attack: rolling into a ball, and rolling up the wall into the treetops. Pay attention to the shaking leaves so you'll know where he's going to land, which he'll do after he pokes his head out twice.
He can also jump up and roll into a ball and hit both walls before returning to the ground, but you're less likely to be in the air when he does this anyway, making this painfully easy to avoid. This is yet another easy boss.
Stage 3
The Haunted House
(It should be mentioned that the Genesis/Mega Drive version has a changed room in this stage. I'll probably check out this version later.)
When you begin the stage, you'll find the ghosts as well as Pluto. Just as they said, Pluto is basically unharmed and really happy to see. The ghosts give you another suit: the Cowboy Suit. This is the last suit in the game.
Unfortunately, all isn't well in the ghosts' house, as Baron Pete's evil hench-ghosts have decided to bully their way in. Yep, Pete's involved again in some shape or form.
When you equip the Cowboy Suit, you'll bounce around a little bit as you go. This happens no matter what, and you have to be on the ground to jump, but you'll get used to it. The best thing to do is hold the B button and you'll be able to jump whenever you need to. You're also armed with a cork gun that can be used to blast enemies with. It has range, but it arcs upward slightly. You can refill ammo by picking up other cork guns.
The ghosts have skeleton-like creatures underneath the sheets. Hit them once to expose them, then hit them again to get rid of them for good. Watch out for the chandeliers, as they can crush you when you get close enough under them.
Let the broken stairway segments fall to the spike pit below to reach the blocks underneath the stairs. Inside the blocks will be a door. Open the box to get another Crystal Heart and pick it up to increase your max health by one. (We finally start seeing fruits inside the blocks, and those give extra points just like in the last game.)
To get past the spike pits and the hole after this, jump on the skeletons' heads when they poke their heads out of the holes in the background.
The second mirror contains a Pete ghost which comes out when you move past it, but you can instantly take it down with a single gunshot.
The next room has a painting of Baron Pete that comes to life after the room gets dark and the candles light up. It will send books at you with a blue eye laser, and after each attack the painting of Baron Pete will poke its head downward and look down. You can use this as an opportunity to either jump on him or hit him with the cork gun. (I recommend the cork gun.) After two book attacks, he'll spit a flame down onto the ground that goes in both directions, covering the center of the room. You can hit him as he pokes his head out to do this, too.
In the next room, switch to the Safari Suit and grab onto the lamp. This will cause the room to rotate. The ghosts here will go down in one hit.
Use the Suction Suit against the candle zombies to cut the flame off and use them as stepping stones.
Interesting thing about the Cowboy Suit: you can shoot at the giant Mickey blocks to automatically get the contents inside.
You'll then enter a tower segment (another Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts reference, which I have seen, and almost a sign of things to come with the upcoming Mickey Mania game which was delayed until 1995 - thanks, Sony Imagesoft). One of the sets of blocks you'll see has a door leading to the General Store. Finally. I'm sure every level has a door to it somewhere, but this is the first time we ever see it. As expected, you can upgrade the Sweeper Suit and the Cowboy Suit so that you can cut energy consumption by 1/2. The upgrades, of course, are 300 coins each. You can also buy a Crystal Heart for 200 coins, if you're in dire need of the extra hit points.
Also, the shopkeeper is Clarabelle Cow. Thank you, game credits.
When you make it to the top, you'll fight a huge ghost. Wait for the blue flames to go away, then shoot at the ghost with the Cowboy Suit when it comes at you. You'll cause the flames in its eye to extinguish, and the ghost will disappear and reappear again. The boss will shoot miniature ghosts out of its mouth, but these are easily avoidable.
When you beat the boss, you'll rapple onto a zipline with the Safari Suit, only to fall due to a gap in said rope. You'll end up in...
Stage 4
The Caves
Watch out for the crystals. They turn into crystal bats that fly at you.
When you go far enough to the right, you'll be at a dead end. Unfortunately, this dead end turns into a vertical auto-scrolling segment. Switch to the Safari Suit so you can grab on to walls when necessary. If you spend too much time in the water, you'll start losing health from drowning and/or lack of air. (Yeah, you don't have the Magic Turban to help you now.) You'll also see green ants come out of the ground and make getting around a little tougher in places.
You'll reach the end of this section after a short while, and go down a water slide.
The next section has some crystal stalactites that fall when you're under them. Just hang on to the hooks with the Safari Suit and swing around to get them to fall. You can then land on the broken segments and use them as platforms.
The next segment has crystals that shoot some sort of beams of light that act as platform extensions. The light extensions disappear after a few seconds, so be quick. If you check the left wall in this part, you'll find another Crystal Heart. That should be seven hearts for your maximum health now.
If you go right at the end of this segment instead of left, you'll find another General Store door.
The mid-boss is a weasel in a jackhammer, complete with the traditional carpenter gear (albeit a green tanktop and yellow pants and what appears to be a Mettaur helmet straight out of the Mega Man series). He'll bounce around on the jackhammer (a la Quint from Rockman World 3 - Mega Man III in the US and Europe) and crush parts of the floor while causing new parts to fall from the ceiling. Jump on his head when he comes your way.
The next segment contains mollusks that come out of the wall and try to stab you with their shells. There's a door above your head shortly after the start that contains a 1-Up. The dinosaur egg that breaks the bone bridge reveals a few secrets underneath.
The boss is a stegosaurus. Some of its segments are bad guys that you can jump on and throw at the boss's head when it shows up on screen. You can also jump on his head, too. Watch out when it sends its breath at you. It doesn't hurt you, but it will send you to the left and (usually) into its spiked tail, which you'll definitely want to avoid. Stay in the center as much as possible, and throw the stegosaurus segments as often as possible to clear the screen of enemies and get a shot on the boss's head whenever you can. The head doesn't always show up, so keep on throwing and you'll get a shot in when you least expect it.
You can use the Cowboy Suit and shoot at the head with the gun, but you'll probably spend less time against this boss if you don't use a suit at all.
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