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The third stage of Cookie Country in Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe takes you through a variety of environments and gives you new challenges to tackle. You’ll often be dodging cannonballs fired from deadly canons, jumping across spikes, and lea🌠ping across moving platforms.
There are also some collectibles to find along the way, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for those. To🐽 make sure you get through Sta🧸ge Three in one piece, here’s everything you need to know, and everything you can find.
First Section
As you head into this stage, swallow the first enemy to gain the Spark Copy Ability, allowing Kirby to generate sparks of electricity.൩ You’ll reach a wall mღade of metal blocks, and one block has a bomb symbol on it. Attack the bomb block to make it all disappear and head through the star door.
While Kirby has the Spark Copy Ability, jump. Then, attack while holding down or up. Kirby will sho♔ot electricꦆity in one shot in the same direction.
Second Section
Go straight down the ladder and there’s a cannon shooting cannonballs. Jump o🧔ver it, grabbing the stars above, and go down to the section below.
There’s another cannon here, and two stars in the path of its cannonball. To avoid getting hit, jump over the cannonball just as it comes closer to your side, and grab theꦰ stars. Jump over the cannon and down the ladder to the 🎃left.
If you didn’t grab the Spark Copy Ability from the enemy at the very beginning of this stage, you can grab it on the right here.
Head down another ladder and you can either continue left or right as you go down. On the right, you’ll encounter blocks to destroy and stars to collect. On the left, there’s a cannon to avoid and a red star to collect. 𒆙There’s another cannon to avoid at the bottom.
To collect all the stars, you can simply float back up on the side you came down and take the remaining path.
Go down the ladder, and you’ll reach the star door to the next section. If you go down here before going through the door, you’ll get an Energy Sphere.
Third Section
Straight away, you’ll see a knight enemy below. Collect the stars before it, then destroy it. Continue attacking any enemies in your path, making sure to jump with the moving platforms.
If you’re low on health, you’ll come across a cupcake above you. Shoot an electric shock 🏅upwards to destroy the block and retrieve it.
Just past here, look upwards to see a Life-Up. Use the Spark Copy Ability to shoot electricity upwards, destroy the blocks, and collect it.
Now, you’ll need to drop the Copy Ability so that you can swallow the huge block in front of you, and then expel it to hit the Waddle Dees and wall of rocks that’s blocking food items. Collect the food items to refill your health and jump onto the moving platform to reach the level above.
There’s a fire-breathing enemy here, so be careful when you land. Either destroy it or swallow it to receive the Fire Cop𒈔y Ability.😼 Head through the star door.
Fourth Section
When you arrive here, you’ll see a one-eyed enemy dead ahead. It can shock you with its attack, so avoid it or destroy it. Continue on, and the Beam Copy Ability will be available above you. Grab it and dodge the cannonball🦩s coming from the cannon ahead.
Use the Beam sword to destroy a mound of blocks to reveal a red star underneath. Collect this and continue. You’ll spot an Energy Sphere below you, but it’s behind a locked door. Continue past it for now, jumping across the platforms to avoid falling through the gaps. At the end, you’ll see the key. Grab it and go back for the locked door and the Energy Sphere, then go back the way you came to continue.
꧅Float up to th🍌e high ledge above and destroy the one-eyed enemy on your way down. There are two cannons here — destroy them both.
If you’re low on health, there’s a pineapple above you just ahead — destroy the blocks to access it.
You’ll see another block with a bomb symbol. Hit this to destroy all the blocks and cannons in the area. Hop across the platforms. Beneath the star door, there’s a red star and two yellow stars. Grab these before going throughꩲ the door and heading to the next section.
Fifth Section
Don’t just run straight ahead here — there are spikes on the ground that can damage you. Jump above the first and second set, collecting the stars i🍷n the process. Continue up, grabbing t🌄he star to destroy the wall blocking your way. Carry on going right, destroying any enemies and blocks in your way and jumping over spiked sections on the floor.
You’ll see an enemy carrying a key below you. If you want to grab the Energy Sphere, you’ll need to chase it. When th🌸e paths conjoin, kill it to grab the key. The door it unlocks is just up ahead.
Continue to the right to reach the star door and the end of this section. There’s no boss fight, so the stage is cleared.