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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000)

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Kirby's next world he enters is Neo Star, and this one does get a bit challenging. Neo Star has a bunch of courses themed around various areas, like a forest, a cave, a mountainous area, and inside a volcano, so there is a lot of differences in each of the courses.

As for the rest of the description, I recommend watching the full video before reading past this point of the description

Time to start Neo Star, and the first course takes place in a jungle with tall cliffs, and there are some enemies, the spear-throwing Yariko, one of the worse enemies in the game, and Pteran, which you can use to glide. Going over the Crystal Shard locations, the first one is found underneath a grass trap, some of them have spikes, but the Crystal Shard is not in a spike trap. The second one is in the next area on the lower cliffside, then a mid-boss fight against Big Galbo, I am not sure if this enemy is the inspiration of Flame Galboros, which first appeared in Kirby: Triple Deluxe, and it has the Yariko minions to make it more difficult, and the third Crystal Shard is found later in the level with the logs, some of them fall when you step on them, and watch out for any Pteran that appear.
Then stage 2, and you do need Stone-Bomb, which is a very risky Power Combo, it is the dynamite power-up, and while it is very powerful, the explosion does hurt Kirby, if you crouch, Kirby puts on a hard hat to protect him from the explosion, and there are no enemies in this course that give Stone or Bomb, well there is really, but most of the first section is done on the minecart with Waddle Dee, the first Crystal Shard is found when falling down at the beginning, and the second one is on the mine cart track, and the third one is the one that requires Stone-Bomb, and you do fight against some Drops as a mid-boss.
Stage 3 is the mountain area, the first Crystal Shard requires Needle and it is in the first area, the second Crystal Shard is found in the middle of a bunch of Star Blocks, and before that room, Adeleine paints a picture, and you have to destroy the Star Blocks to form the shape of the painting, and it is random for each visit. The next area is where the third Crystal Shard is, and there are a lot of cliffs there, and near the end is some cliffs that spell out Kirby's name.
Stage 4 is inside a volcano, and there are no enemies that provide Ice, so you will have to backtrack to pick up the Ice power-up, watch out for burning rocks that are coming down, and after a few areas, you can get help from King Dedede to break the pillars, one of the Crystal Shards is hiding in one of them. The second Crystal Shard requires Ice to collect, and it is in the small room, and then you get chased down by a wave of magma, and at the end has it rising up, and on the left side of the platforms is the Crystal Shard.
Then time for the boss fight, and the boss is Magman, and he has two phases, the first phase you have to attack his tentacles, and you have to shoot out the fire enemies at his tentacles to damage him if you don't have a power-up. On the second phase, Magman has an attack where he shoots out a stream of fire, you have to be very close to him to avoid it, and he shoots out Burnis and rocks, and you have to hit him in the face, the lowerside of Magman cannot be harmed.
With Magman defeated, we unlock the next area, and at the time of this video going up, the underwater glitch is fixed, which I did show off in the fight with Acro in the last part, so this does make Acro more manageable than before.

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