Stage 4 (2)

As you enter, grab the key and make your way up the pyramid. Beware, as all the scarfies (enemies) will attack you while you are holding the key. Kill the scarfies and proceed to the locked gate.

Inside, inhale a little guy to get the Bomb ability and enter the nearby door.

Keep moving to the right, holding onto your bomb ability. Drop a bomb to break the blocks over the door when you reach it, and enter.

In this room, kill the enemy, then set a bomb near the switch. Run quickly to grab the [Energy Sphere] before the gate closes, then exit.

Continue to the right and enter the door at the end.

In the darkness, follow the path until you reach the candle. Pick it up. You can set it down by ducking, then pressing 1. This is recommended for fighting enemies.

Continue on the path until you notice the [Energy Sphere]. Go around to the left to grab it.

Now, continue along the path until you find the door, then go through it.

Discard your candle. Move forward, avoiding the magma blocks, and remember their location.

At the junction, pick up Cutter or Beam, or keep your current ability (Cutter is preferred). Battle Water Galboros, then swallow him.

The Water ability can cool off magma blocks, making them breakable. The magma blocks before only contain stars, so grab them if you wish.

When you reach the wall of magma blocks, break them and proceed forward a bit, stopping short of the spiky enemies.

Fire a shot to hit the bomb block, dropping the spiky enemies into the abyss. Grab your 1-up, then proceed to the next door and enter it.

Keep moving to the right until you find a crystal. This will make you blink out of existence but will break after holding it long enough. Grab it and run as fast as you can to some blocks that look like your crystal, through which you can pass.

Go in and notice the door on the other side of the wall. Get to and through that door, then through the blocks in this new room to grab the third [Energy Sphere], and exit.

Continue to the right and through the door at the end.

Take the sword, then slice the ropes, grabbing stars and imprisoning cannons.

Go down the ladder and inhale the sparkly guy to get the Ultra Sword ability. Slice through the giant rope in front of you and continue on, slicing everything as you go.

Once you reach two ropes in the same place, slice them both and enter the star gate that was behind the left one.

In this area, move to the right, then double back and run to the left. Drop cannons where possible and beat back the purple wave when it gets close.

At the end, you will drop down and have to run back to the right a bit to reach the door, so make haste!

In the next room, you are given Sword and Cutter abilities (Cutter is preferred). You will encounter a Fire Sphere Doomer. Be cautious about the breakable blocks that lead to pits.

After beating the Fire Sphere Doomer, grab the last 2 [Energy Spheres], and jump in the star gate.

After that, just go down the ladder and into the exit.