Stage 4 (2)

As you enter, grab the key and make your way up the pyramid. Beware of scarfies (enemies that act like Phanto while you hold the key); kill them and proceed to the locked gate.

Inside, inhale a little guy for 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 here, kill the guy, then set a bomb near the switch, and run to grab the [Energy Sphere] before the gate closes. Exit.

Continue right and enter the door at the end.

In the darkness, follow the path until you reach the candle. Pick it up and set it down by ducking, then pressing 1.

Continue along the path until you notice the [Energy Sphere], then go around to the left to grab it.

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

Discard your candle. Move forth, avoiding the magma blocks, but remembering their location.

At the junction, pick Cutter or Beam, or keep what you have. Battle Water Galboros, then swallow him.

Use the Water ability to cool off magma blocks, making them breakable. The ones before only have stars.

When you get to the wall of magma blocks, break them and proceed forward, stopping short of the spiky enemies.

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

Keep moving to the right until you find a crystal. 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 Ultra Sword. Slice through the giant rope in front of you, and continue on, slicing everything to ribbons.

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

In here, 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'll drop down and have to run back to the right a bit to reach the door. Make haste!

In the next room, you're given Sword and Cutter. Encounter a Fire Sphere Doomer. Be cautious about the breakable blocks that lead to pits.

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

Go down the ladder and into the exit.