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Cookie Country is the beginning of your journey inKirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe, and the very first stage that you must complete acts as a tutorial, guiding you through Kirby’s many wondrous abilities. You’ll learn how to use his classic move of sucking in enemies, as well as how to complete various platforming sections.
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At the end of the section, you’ll also encounter a boss fight, where you’ll have to choose between two of Kirby’s Copy Abilities to win the battle. It’s the start of an exciting adventure on Planet Popstar, so you’ll want to start off on the right foot.
First Section
As soon as you enter the stage, follow the arrow right, and thensuck in the Waddle Dee (just like the tutorial board tells you to) and expel it to smash the blockahead of you — you’ll receive a star. Keep going, suck in the block, and expel this toward the block with the Waddle Dee on top of it.Keep doing this whenever you see a block or a Waddle Dee.
You’ll come across another tutorial board with directions, telling you toswallow the knight enemy. Do this, and you’ll gain theSword Copy Ability, giving you a green hat and a sword to use when attacking enemies. you may attack short-range to hit enemies directly or attack enemies from a distance, as it shoots a fireball too. You can alsohold the attack button to perform a spin attack.
Keep walking across the stage, and you’ll come across two ledges with three stars hanging above them. Collect these by jumping across the platforms, and continue.
At the next tutorial board, you simply need to run across to collect the stars. You’ll automatically run across the gaps, sothere’s no need to jump. Shortly after, there’s a high arch of stars. To collect them all,hold the jump button down longer than normal, and guide Kirby across the gap.
Further along, you’ll learn how to use Kirby’s ability to hover.Repeatedly press the jump button to get Kirby to take in air and float. At the top of the ledge, there’s a flying enemy, so make sure to kill it with your sword. Carry on until you reach a wall of rock with a doorway surrounded by stars. Kill the enemy here and go on through.
Second Section
Now, you’re in a cave-like area, and you’ll see a fire-breathing enemy below. Watch out for its fiery breath when you attack it and continue past it. Hop down the ledge, mindful of the knight swinging its sword, and kill it. You’ll come to a ledge with no gap for you to jump down — as the tutorial board suggests, you’ll need to make a hole yourself. Jump up, and then force Kirby down.
Keep going right, andgrab the glowing, star-shaped key. The mushroom enemies ahead throw up their caps, and if they hit you, you’ll get hurt.
If you attack the mushroom enemies first,they’ll lose their caps, and won’t be able to throw anything at you.
Jump over the first one, landing on the platform between, then jump onto the second to reach the door. Kirby will automatically unlock it.
Grab the Energy Spheredirectly ahead. Continue until you see a large block with a star on it — to suck this up and access the extra life behind it, you’ll need todrop the Sword Copy Ability. Feel free to suck it back up once you’ve got the block out of the way.
Float up onto the platform above, and you’ll see a giant patchwork Waddle Dee.Attack it, and it’ll split into three Waddle Deesthat you can attack as normal.
As you cross the bridge here, you might notice the pathway to the bottom.you’re able to jump and press down here to access the lower floor, where you’ll see various blocks in front of a red star. Swallow the blocks to get it.
Continue past here and up the ladder to read the next section of this stage.
Third Section
You’re now out in the open with grassy fields all around. Follow the arrow right, and a knight will appear from a star-shaped hole in the sky. Swallow it, andyou’ll receive the Ultra Sword Super Ability. It attacks with great power, destroying the blockages in the path as well as any enemies. However,the time you can use it is limited, which is shown by the gauge below Kirby.
Use it here todestroy the platform with Waddle Dees on it and continue ahead. Do the same when you reach the next blockage, and when you come across the giant patchwork Waddle Dee surrounded by smaller enemies.
Continue using the Ultra Sword to clear your path, and you’ll eventually see another star-shaped hole appear in the sky. Kirby will be sucked into it, and you’ll be taken to the next section.
Kirby’s Ultra Sword ability will be removedwhen you enter the hole.
Fourth Section
Now you’re without any Copy Abilities, you’ll have to suck up the block to attack the Waddle Dee, andcontinue swallowing any enemies you come across.
As you walk through this section,a wall will close in on the left, following you. It doesn’t move too fast, so you don’t need to worry about rushing ahead of it unless you fall and it catches up to you.
When you come across the huge Waddle Dee,hold the swallow button until Kirby sucks it up, then expel it at the blocks and Waddle Dees ahead.
There’ll be another cluster of large blocks to swallow after this, so do the same to remove all the smaller blocks and Waddle Dees ahead. At the next giant Waddle Dee, do the same.
Now, you’ll come across another group of blocks.Suck all of these in to clear the pathwayahead of you for a while. Destroy the patchwork Waddle Dee up ahead and enter the door to clear this section.
Sphere Doomer Boss Fight
Just before the boss fight, you’ll be able to eat a chunk of meat to restore Kirby’s HP, andchoose between two Copy Abilities: the Sword you’ve used before, as well as Fire, which Kirby uses to breathe fire. It’s up to you which you choose here, butthe Sword is the easier option to use.
Once you’ve made your choice, go ahead and face the Sphere Doomer.
How To Defeat The Sphere Doomer
The Sphere Doomer isa flying enemywho regularlythrows projectiles at youthat bounce around the arena. You can hit these with the Sword to destroy them or bounce them back at the boss. If you’re using Fire, simply breathe fire on them to destroy them.
The Sphere Doomer will alsodive down to charge at you from above or from the back of the arena, but this is easily dodged.
It’s a relatively simple boss — dodge the projectiles and incoming attacks if it dives at you, then attack when near. It often flies away from you, soyou may need to jump after it to get your hits in.
Once you’ve reduced its health to zero,you’ll get two Energy Spheres to collect. Head into the blue star at the end to be taken to the section with the exit — just head through the door with stars surrounding it.
Above the door,there’s a platform with a big blue starfor you to collect. Get Kirby to jump up there to collect it.
