The Baseball Boys
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The Baseball Boys is the second level in World Two in the games Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and its remake, Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island. This level introduces a variety of new enemies, such as Sluggers and Green Gloves, which are capable of stopping Yoshi's eggs. It also introduces Blow Hards, enemies that cannot be defeated, only stunned. Additionally, strange, purple-colored versions of Toadies make their debut in this level, as well as Little Mousers.
As the level starts, the player will see a new landscape with crayon blue-colored mountains in the background. He or she should immediately notice the Help Block, which is recommended to be hit. Yoshi should refill his egg supply and throw an egg at the nearby purple-colored floating Arrow Cloud to collect some coins. After that, Yoshi should either jump or Ground Pound on the Sluggers and Green Gloves to defeat them and get some more coins, and then throw an egg at the Winged ? Cloud. This will lower the platform blocking the path. Yoshi must jump over it and make contact with the Special Flower next to it.
To proceed, Yoshi should continue his way right and jump over the two Shy Guys on the way up to the slope, or rather defeat them somehow. At the top of the slope, Yoshi should Flutter Jump over the menacing Blow Hard, collecting the coins in the way and landing on top of the next slope. He should then repeat this action with the next Blow Hard between the two next slopes, landing on a Milde. The player may either jump over or eat the two other Mildes and continue right to come to three platforms. Here, Yoshi should temporarily stun the Blow Hard by throwing an egg at it, and quickly throw another egg at the Winged ? Cloud for an extra life. He should then quickly jump over the Blow Hard and land on the other platform. The player should continue right until he or she sees a Pipe, from which Shy Guys come out of. Yoshi should refill his egg supply with these Shy Guys and then throw an egg at the Winged ? Cloud above for a beanstalk sunflower to grow. Climbing the beanstalk will lead to a small tunnel. The player must climb up the tunnel, avoiding the Blow Hards. Like before, the player may OPTIONALLY throw an egg at these Blow Hards to temporarily stun the Blow Hards, although it is completely unnecessary. Once on the top, outside of the tunnel, there will be two Fly Guys floating around carrying a Red Coin each. Yoshi can throw eggs at them or eat them to obtain the coins. Yoshi should now jump on the grass patch and jump down into the gap to land near a Help Block, which teaches Yoshi about Superstar Mario. Yoshi should continue right along the platform and drop down through the outline blocks to land on some wooden-colored steps; run them down for two red coins and then drop down the new gap. After landing, Yoshi should shoot an egg at the purple-colored Arrow Cloud pointing left to destroy a small block of soil and allow the Super Star to fall.
Collecting the Super Star will transform Baby Mario into Superstar Mario. Upon collecting it, the player should aquickly run through the Flipper Paddles on the left to find the second Star, and then continue left up the slope and along the red-dotted egg blocks to find another star, and a bit more to the left to find yet another star. Baby Mario should now run up the steep slope to collect another star, and run up the wall for a sixth one. Baby Mario will now be outside. The player must jump to the platform above and quickly collect the star here, and keep running until the now familiar gap. There will be another star floating over it. Baby Mario should collect it and drop down, then quickly run right, go through the small hall, walking over the spikes, and reach the new area.
In this new area, the player should wait for Pink Yoshi to go back to normal and touch the Middle Ring next to the spikes to obtains some stars. Next, he or she should hit the Egg Block just to the right to refill the egg supply. After that, Yoshi should walk down the slope and wait for the Slugger to be facing right, and quickly throw an egg at the ? Cloud below the platform for it to reveal a Special Flower. The player should repeat this to obtain the second Special Flower of the level. After that, Yoshi should hop on the long wooden platform above and continue right. Once on the edge of the platform, Yoshi should jump over the gap and to the platform to the right, avoiding the Green Glove below. Once on the edge of this new one, Yoshi should Futter Jump, making sure he collects the red coin in the way, and land of a Moving Platform. Quickly jump to a small, stick-like platform above and then to the grass patch. Upon moving right and dropping down a little bit, there will be a small hole. Yoshi should throw an egg into the tunnel so it bounces against the wall and is received by a Green Glove. Yoshi should now quickly move to the right, next to the Red Arrow Sign. The Green Glove will throw the egg at the wall, hitting a Winged ? Cloud in the process. This will make Yoshi obtain another red coin. Upon continuing right, Yoshi will change "screen" and get to a new area.
This new area looks nothing different than last one. Yoshi should go right until he finds a light-blue colored lemon hanging from a tree. This fruit can be optionally eaten to defeat the Piranha Plant and Shy Guy to the right. After that, the player should use the Large Spring Ball to bounce up to a platform above. Yoshi should go left, jump on the grass patch and go through the wall to find a Middle Ring, which will award 10 stars. If the player has not been hit in the whole level, then he or she should already have all 30 stars. Yoshi should now get out of the small tunnel back to the grass patch, walk to the edge and from there, jump into the small block of soil. This one looks like a regular floating mass of soil, but it can be entered through the middle. Now Yoshi should jump from the right-most edge of it to the mass of soil to the right, and from there, to the one to the left, which is the top of the one accessed before. From here, Yoshi should jump into the block to the right, throw an egg at the cloud inside it and collect five yellow Coins. After that, he should go back to the last platform and jump to the left, and then into the above block for a single red coin. Then, he should exit the hidden tunnel and jump on the grass patch on which there is another Large Spring Ball. To its left is also an Egg Box to refill the egg supply. The player should bounce up using the Spring Ball to land on top of a soil block, then drop down to the one below and jump into the one to the next for an ? Cloud containing the third Special Flower. After that, Yoshi should hop back to the last block and jump on top of the one that had the ? Cloud (the one with a red arrow sign on it), and Flutter Jump all the way to a secret tunnel to the right.
In-Game Help Instructions
- Hit [Cloud with an Arrow Pointing Up] with an egg and it'll fly off in the direction [Cloud with an Arrow Pointing Up] is currently pointing.
- Touch a Super Star and become Superstar Mario! Talk about super! Dash with B! Float in the air!! Run up a wall!!! You're invincible!
- Warning: Only someone small go on from here.
