

You’ll want to aim for the pool to your right for your fourth move, and again move as soon as the spikes have passed overhead.

Leap into the third as soon as the spikes pass above the second pool.

Move into the first pool and then wait for the spikes to be perpendicular to you before you move into the second. You’ll need to keep the dash button - Y - held down the entire time in order to successfully make each jump and keep the camera angle looking down from above. Then it’s time to fling Cappy onto one of the fire balls and make your way through the lava until you hit the platform. But, before you start this section, recoup some health by hitting the three yellow boxes to find one, single, heart and a few golden coins. Stage Four entails becoming one of those fire balls - officially known as a Lava Bubble - and leaping from magma pool to magma pool while avoiding roaming spikes. Do the same thing again with the last two poles - swinging and waiting until they’ve gone into the lava and are coming back up before you move. Don’t stop swinging until you hit the pole that’s set slightly higher than the rest. Wait for them to go into the lava, start winding up your swing and then leap when they’ve just emerged from the red stuff. The next three poles move up and down into the lava, so you absolutely have to time your jump. Shimmy to the right and, when you can, jump to the first red pole and then wait. Again shimmy around to the right, jump to the fifth and then wall bounce between it and the fence until you can reach the sixth. Move around to its right side and then wait a second until you can jump through the gap to the fourth column. Shimmy around the right of the first two columns and the wall jump between the second and the metal fence until you can jump to the third. In the column section try not to stop until you reach the poles. All of them eventually dunk you in the hot stuff, so you’re going to have to be quick. Then it’s a test of your timing and agility, as you’ve got to navigate your way across a series of columns and poles suspended over lava.
