Honeyhive Galaxy

Bee Mario Takes Flight

Planet One: Head for the sign near where you land and use the D-pad to look around; you'll spot a 1-Up on the ledge there.

From there, head up the slope nearby and into the fountain area. Hit the large glowing coin to reveal a Bee Suit powerup nearby. Grab it, then fly up behind the waterfall (bee-ing sure not to hit the water, which removes your suit). A hole beyond it will lead you to the Bee Queen, eventually. You'll need to get another Bee Suit at the bottom of the slope, then hop your way to the launch star at the end of the path.

Planet Two: Grab another bee suit here, if need be, then head to the bottom of one of the flower stems and use the spin move to shoot upwards. You'll need to buzz from the apex of your jump to the central flower petal, with all the star bits on it; from there, you can jump to the higher flower, where another launch star is located.

Planet Three: Use your bee suit to latch onto the honey and start climbing upwards! If you lose your bee suit, you can find another one on the lower ledge of the planet by spinning into a plant. There's a giant coin in the middle of the honey, if you look for it; hitting it will cause a trail of real coins to appear.

When you reach the queen, use your bee suit to fly up and latch onto her fur. Crawl around and find the five star shards to free her from her itchiness.

Planet One: The launch star that appears will return you to the top of Planet One, where you'll meet with a number of toadstools. They'll give you a Power Star, allowing you to return to the observatory. You'll likely uncover a new galaxy from this star.

Trouble On The Tower

Planet One: It would appear that strange blocks have started to fall from the sky. You can bust them with the Ground Pound maneuver, which you can perform by jumping and then tapping the Z button. Destroy as many of them as you can find; most of them will have star bits inside, but one of them will reveal a Sproutle Vine.

Hop onto the vine and ride it off to the other platform here; just go as fast as you can on it, then shoot off, and you'll land on another vine, where you can spin again to reach dry ground. Use the ground pound on the trampoline here to smash the block above you.

Explore this area if you like; there's another trampoline here that you can use to reach a launch star. It's not a real launch star, though; it'll only shoot you up to the next platform. You'll come to an area where a caterpiller roams around a switch. Ground pound into the switch to extend a bridge, ground pound the wooden switch to lower a platform that will let you wall jump upwards to the real launch star.

Planet Two: You find yourself on a pair of bent cylinders here. Kill the Piranha plants, then jump down to the colorful world below you, where more caterpillars await. (You can kill them by spinning into them, then jumping on their undersides.) You may want to just avoid your enemies here instead of risking attacking them.

Planet Three: Hit the golden star here to pop an invincibility effect onto Mario, then run around hitting the piranhas and the caterpillar. When you've killed everything, jump into the hole above you to float back down to Planet One.

Planet One: You'll come out near the upper area of Planet One, where Mandibugs have taken over the bees' observation deck. You can kill the mandibugs by ground pounding onto them when they attempt to hit you with their pincers. Wall jump upwards here and pound the red switch to activate the windmill here, then ride it to the observation tower. A strong mandibug will be here; you'll need to ground pound it twice to finish it off and reveal the Power Star.

Big Bad Bugaboom

Planet One: The mandibugs have extended their reign over the bee kingdom, so it looks like you'll have to find a way to finish them off. Climb the ramp here until you find a water bulb shooter that will shoot you off to the far platform here, then drop down near the flagpole until you find another Bee Suit. When you have it on, drop into the pipe nearby and make your way up and past the waterfall. When you reach the Queen Bee, she'll open a launch star to the next planet.

Planet Two: The Bugaboom here is just like any other mandibug…except for the fact that it's absolutely huge, and it flies. Still, with basic principles, you should be able to defeat it.

Like other mandibugs, you need to ground pound the Budaboom in the back in order to defeat it. At first, this is easiest to do by getting in front of it, waiting for it to charge at you, then flying straight up and waiting for it to get underneath you before pounding it from above.

In the second phase, the Bugaboom will begin flying. It's tricky, but you can spin around the root of a flower to fling yourself into the air to get above the Budaboom. If you hover around up there, you'll eventually get into a spot where you can pound into the Buda's back while it flies. You will need to hit the button a bit before the Bugaboom is directly underneath you, though.

In the third phase, the Bugaboom will spit bombs onto the ground, making it dangerous to walk around. It'll also fly much more quickly than it did before. What you want to do here is fly up to one of the clusters of honey in the middle of the tree. If you hang onto the honey at the highest spot, you can wait for the Budaboom to fly around before jumping off and pounding it. You'll need to get above it well before it actually comes around underneath you, though; if you jump off from the tree and begin hovering in the middle of the path when the Bugaboom is still about 90 degrees around the circle from you, you should be able to start the ground pound while it's still in the distance and hit it as it comes underneath you. It'll take some practice, but eventually you will get your foe.

When the Bugaboom drops the Power Star, return it to the observatory to finish off this galaxy. A Hungry Luma will appear outside the observatory; feed it 400 Star Bits to reveal the Sweet Sweet Galaxy.

Luigi In The Honeyhive Kingdom

Later in the game, when Luigi starts sending you letters when he gets stuck, you can return to the Bee Mario Takes Flight level to find him. This should be the third mission he sends you on. To find Luigi, grab the Bee Mario suit, then return up to where the boulders roll. See the small branch that has the trapeze hanging from it? Jump onto the branch itself to regain your flight, then head up to the piranha plants. Jump from there to the ice crystals across the way, then jump from that ledge to the walkway behind the waterfall. When the slope becomes too high to climb, fall down to the ledge below you, where Luigi is stuck to a tree above a fly. Jump up to him to nab your star.