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World 2-3: Sandshifter Ruins

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So many sarcophagi

Once you enter the level, cross the bridge and go into the ruins. There you choose right path and fall down through the plates. Continue to the right and through the door. Open the middle sarcophagus. If you now pull on the belt, you get access to a passageway that leads you to the magnifying glass. Leave the room again and fall down through the plates. Go through this door and open the third sarcophagus. Behind here is a MAX UP Heart. Leave the room and go down again. Here you can use the door again. At the end of the aisle, you have to activate the secret blocks with a jump to reach the Bowser Tape. Behind it are three stickers.

Name Max. HP
Pokey (green) 20
Swoop 9
Sombrero Guy 15
Paragoomba 6
Spiny 8

And again from the front

Now leave the room and jump right on the sandblast. You land at the entrance again. Go right, then left. Now you should see a plate under which it goes vertically down. Stand here and you end up with a jackhammer. Collect this and then use the beam for the entrance again.

Next, you go twice to the right through the plates, then once to the left and then you should see a plate on the left that again has a deep pit under it. Stand up and you land to the right of a platform.

Name Max. HP
Pokey (green) 20
Swoop 9
Sombrero Guy 15
Parakoopae 10
Paragoomba 6
Spiny 8
Hammer brother 22

The end is in sight

Follow the desert sand until you reach a door. Here you will find in the third sarcophagus a bat that is mummified. Then go left and jump on the sarcophagus, jump now from sarcophagus to sarcophagus, you can overcome the spike trap. Now only cross the quicksand and you are at your destination.


The second exit

Before you go any further, start this level again. Go right again twice through the platforms, then once left and finally use the left platform where a deep pit is under. This time you should land at the door on the platform. Go through it and you come into a large room. Climb the stairs and go to the left. Here you can see a sarcophagus one floor lower, through which you can pass to the right. On the other side, there is a sarcophagus on the floor. Jump in and you land another floor down. Open the third sarcophagus and walk up the aisle. You can now go behind the wall, where a jump sticker sticks on it. Now open the last sarcophagus and the sand pours out. Go back up, where you reach the comet part.

Name Max. HP
Pokey (green) 20
Swoop 9
Sombrero Guy 15
Parakoopae 10
Paragoomba 6
Spiny 8
Hammer brother 22