Bowser’s Big Lava Power Party
You land at the beginning on a kind of small castle. Go straight ahead, soon a camel will appear. Defeat him and a Pull Star appears. Use it to get to the next planet.
Continue by crossing the lava either with a pike jump or using the wooden platforms. Keep going up, use the trampoline to get to the next planet.
Go back up to the next planet. With this lava river you almost do not get over using a pike jump. Use the wooden platforms to reach the other side unharmed.
Go upstairs, free the Launch Star and use it.
Follow the path and activate the checkpoint. Further forward, you will encounter platforms that spin randomly, even if you stand on them.
»Tip Links is a 1-Up Mushroom on a platform«
Go ahead and defeat the Hammer brother, after doing this, a Launch Star will appear.
You come to rotating fire bars.
Avoid them, then move on. Stamp the platform further down to continue in the level.
Follow the path and avoid the bone dry. Go ahead and jump quickly over suddenly rotating platforms because you can easily lose a life here by falling down. In the next part there are two Thwomps that you can defeat, if they want to crush you, they fall down. This is your opportunity to jump on their backs and use a ground pound.
Comet Medal
The Comet Medal is located above the second Thwomp. Either you wait until he tries to jump on you. Then jump on his back and perform a backflip and, if necessary, a turn. A second method would be that you somehow go to the other side, but this does not have to be, of the Thwomp and then reach the Comet Medal using a wall jump and then possibly in addition to a spin jump.
Continue to the right to a golden ball. The ball has its own gravitational field, go up on it and stamp it towards the seal. If you destroyed it, the big door opens and a kind of gravity pulls you towards the next planet.
Activate the checkpoint. Now go ahead, the next part can be a bit tricky. The vacuum dryers “eat” the way, shortly afterwards it appears again. If you fall into a hole, you lose a life. So walk carefully along the path.
Go ahead and you come to a large lava lake. Go to the Pink platform, this one will start to move. There are many obstacles on the way, such as Fire bars.
A camelella also appears, this camel makes fire flames appear. Now go ahead if the Pink platform is no longer moving. Almost immediately afterwards there is still a pink platform. Go back up on it and it starts to move. In this part, the Bowser statues begin to shoot laser beams that you have to jump over. When the Pink platform has arrived at the finish, jump off it, you don’t have to defeat the Hammer brothers here. Follow the path and activate the checkpoint. You come back to such a big door, but this time with three seals. Make sure you have to aim. Once you have broken all the seals, the path to Bowser will be opened.
Boss Fight: Bowser
The boss fight against Bowser is not easy. At the beginning, three meteorites strike. Then he tries to hit you with his fist. Dodge this blow and jump on a meteorite that just floats on the planet by the fist blow. Stamp him down so that he meets Bowser. After doing this twice, he gets angry and fires again between meteorite impact and punch. If you have met him twice more, another Grand Star is yours.
Lava Lair Speed Run
Select this challenge when the Prankster Comet appears.
This mission is almost exactly the same as the first mission, except that it is somewhat shortened. And you have a time limit that you can fill with watches. You have to run very fast and also risk if it is scarce to pike or jump in the middle of the lava. After the lava lake shortly before the big door is the Power Star.
Comet Medal
Find the second Thwomp and climb onto its back after it drops. Backflip and spin into the medal above it, or use the adjacent wall for extra height.
Green Stars — unlock requirement
Collect all 120 regular stars and defeat Bowser again to unlock the Green Star hunt. Choose the corresponding Green Star mission from this galaxy’s mission screen. Follow the detours below rather than collecting the normal mission’s ending star.
Green Star 1
On the lava planet, reach the platform with the stone switch. Look left towards the rock beside it. Long-jump around that rock into the star hidden behind it.
Green Star 2
On the later lava planet, watch the Mattermouths eat through the stone floor. The star is underneath one section. Wait until the correct opening appears, then drop through it while aligned with the star.
Check each numbered Green Star on the mission screen after collecting it. The routes finish immediately when the star is touched, including stars suspended over a gap.