PrinceWatercress plays Kirby's Adventure - Part 9 of 14

At this point in the game, finding all the secret is about to get a bit harder.

Level 5-4

You'll be taking down star blocks and flying between rows of spikes in the first section. If you carefully use the Fireball ability at the lower fork near the end, you'll come through with a 1-Up. It'll come in handy since you're fighting Meta Knight's little flunkies after the beginning. Again.

Thankfully, fighting them is a little easier, since you'll spend more of your time swallowing just about every single one of them, due to the three platforms you can jump onto and drop down from that litter this room.

After climbing the ladder in the beginning of the third section, you'll meet a green ball-shaped creature jumping around. If you swallow him, you'll get another ability exclusive to [i]Kirby's Adventure[/i]: Ball. Though you cannot attack enemies in ball form unless you're flashing (and that happens only for a brief instance), you can bounce really high into the air, and hang time is comparable to high-jump...except it's better. Of course, that's considering that you can press the A button at the right time and can keep doing it for a while. At least you have a slightly better chance of knowing exactly where you're going to land. It won't prove very useful here, since you'll probably be floating over this whole section. Unless...

Unless you notice the lone waterfall flowing out of what looks like a partially hidden doorway. If you go inside it, you'll find out it is indeed a door. The lower door leads to a switch that opens up the Level 5 Arena, while the higher one leads to the last section. It's a long drop to a pool of water...and the goal. Just stay on the far-right edge of the waterfall and just drop straight down, and you're there.

Level 5-5

The first section takes place in the trees. If you go low and look around in this section, you'll find a cannon. If you can light the fuse and get in, you'll find a switch that opens up the Crane Game for Level 5. To do that, you'll have to inhale the Fire enemy, face the fuse, swallow it, then quickly ditch it, inhale and swallow the Hi-Jump guy, then jump through the blocks and get in the cannon before the lit fuse can travel all the way to the cannon. If you manage to beat the fuse, you'll blast off and land right on the switch.

When you make it to the end of this section, you'll find a Warp Star. It'll whisk you away to a castle. Go in and fly over the pillars to meet a new mini-boss: Flame Mane. Whatever you do, keep your distance and do not let him touch you. When he performs an aerial dive, wait for him to hit the ground and cause a star to pop up out of the ground. This is your ammunition. If you swallow him, you'll get the Fireball ability.

When you finish him off, you'll be able to come out of the other side of the castle and into the woods. If you get the Laser ability at the beginning of this final section of the level, you'll be able to take down some of the guys climbing the walls, who will take to following you through the area if you walk past them.

Arena

The Arena here will let you battle Bonkers for the Hammer ability, should you want it.

Level 5-6

You'll be dealing with some Wheelies in the first section, so be careful, especially with the little bit of slowdown that will be happening on the screen. You'll find a Maxim Tomato above one of the hills. Swallow one of the Wheelies. You'll need it for the second section.

Since you have the power-up, use the Wheel ability to destroy the bomb block, then use the Wheel ability to move it on down to the other bridge. You'll get a 1-Up to fall down to you for your efforts. From there, float to the door at the end of the section.

In the third section, you'll find a door in a palm tree. If you have the Stone or Hammer ability, you'll be able to break the blocks in the center of the room in here and access the switch that opens up the Warp Star room for Level 5 (you'll also snag another 1-Up).

Leave the room and head to the right. You're done with this level.

Level 5 Boss

This boss is awesome. He'll dig through the screen, which slowly moves up and down while scrolling slowly to the right. Don't swallow the little clones he sends out, they give you the Sleep ability and make you rather vulnerable to screen-scrolling related deaths. Just use them as ammunition against this thing. One thing's for sure - you're gonna be on the move when you're against this guy, and you're gonna want to be careful!