This level has the Crystal Flower as its hidden treasure. It's a good place to start, as you'll find plenty of opportunity to reacquaint yourself with Scrooge and his unique pogo abilities.
From where you fall on-screen, work to the right. There's a frog that'll come hopping down the steps. Pogo off his back, up to the ledge and the ring that hangs in the air above. You can grab the ring, then hop from it to the right to break open the two treasure chests that contain a small diamond, and a typical yellow diamond worth $10,000. There's a block at the end of this ledge. If you hit it with your cane from the left side, it will collapse to the right and kill the dangerous plant that lies in wait below.
Drop down to where the plant was and continue right. Another frog will greet you, and past him you can use your cane to hook a red block, pull it away, and snag the treasure chest, which holds an ice cream cone. Beyond that, continue right to find a rope descending into a pit. Above it rests a treasure chest that holds another large diamond. Drop down from there to the right, where your nephew mentions rubber rafts Gyro has built. You can jump through the waterfall just behind him and walk right. When you reach a stopping point, just hop up and continue walking right, until you emerge between two walls of water. Here, there are two treasure chests resting beneath a single crate. Pogo off the crate and hold right here, and Scrooge will find another hole in the second of the waterfalls. Walk through it to find a large treasure chest that holds a Scrooge doll worth an extra life. Now head back left and open those two treasure chests, which hold two rather unimpressive small diamonds.
Return to where you met your nephew and descend the rope into the chamber below. Here, there's a wall to the left, and also a red barrel. Pull the barrel left toward the wall, then use it to pogo up to a ledge where two small diamonds are hidden. Press left against the wall until Scrooge's tail feathers wiggle. Now jump up and swing the cane. If you do it right, you'll see a block fly toward the left.
You can now jump up onto the ceiling and walk left, into a room with some treasure chests. Left from there is a block wall, and beyond that you'll find a large treasure chest that contains a
piece of the map. With that done, head back right to the rope, and break open treasure chest you may have noticed just to its right. It contains another of the small diamonds.
Right from there, you'll see yellow, slug-like creatures oozing across the floor. These are frogs of some sort, and they'll jump out to catch you when you draw close. When they're airborne, you can bounce off their backs to grab the three rings that hang in the air. Jump from the right-most of these, onto a hanging treasure chest, which holds a diamond.
Continue right from there and you'll find Webby, who informs you that Gyro was caught in a landslide. The treasure chest on the ledge just to her right holds yet another of the large yellow diamonds. At this juncture, you can either descend a rope or continue right.
For now, descend the rope. You're now on the left side of a ledge situated between two pools of water. To your left, you'll see a square that you can bat with your cane. This will turn it into a raft, which is immobile. Stand on it, then face right and swat the wall with your cane. This will propel you leftward. Be ready to duck so the low ledge you find there doesn't knock you into the water. When the raft stops, you can jump up and break two crates to talk to Gyro, who will give you the Iron Adaptor for your cane. This allows you to break blocks you previously couldn't.
Now head back right using the raft again, so that you're once more on the ledge beneath the rope that leads up to Webby. Ignore the rope and walk to the right side of the ledge. Hit the block to send a raft into the water. Before you make that move, bounce from the flat surface onto the ledge to the right. The treasure chest there holds a large red diamond, and the space just to its right hides another small diamond. With those gathered, return to the raft and hit the wall so that you sail swiftly to the right. There's a frog waiting to greet you here, so be careful he doesn't knock you into the water.
Past the frog you'll find two blocks along the wall to the right. You can now break them with your cane, though you wouldn't have been able to previously. Below them are two treasure chests. One contains an ice cream cone, the other a large red diamond. Now you should climb the rope leading out of this room. Here, you'll see a ledge to your left, another to your right, and no ceiling as the rope allows you to climb to the room above. You don't want to climb that far just yet, however. Instead, head left.
Through the horizontal passage ahead, you'll see a field of spikes lining the ceiling and floor. The trick here is to hop forward, tap the 'B' button so you land with the pogo stick ready, but release it before you rebound too high and hit the spikes above. Just repeat this trick to move left without taking damage, where you'll find a large red diamond (worth $50,000) in a treasure chest situated on a ledge. With that gathered, turn around and head back left to the rope.
Ignore this rope yet again, and instead hop over the gap (be ready for another of the frogs). Use the frog to bounce up onto the treasure chests just above, which hold a large diamond and an ice cream cone. With those gathered, you can go ahead and climb the rope up into the next passage. Here, you should climb as high as the rope will let you go. You'll see another dangling to your right, so drop sharply right from there, grab that rope, and shimmy up it to the passage above.
In this room, you'll see a treasure chest nestled in the upper left corner. To reach it, you must first drag the barrel left, then break the right of the two stones with your cane. Stand where it was positioned, face left, and swat the other one with your cane so it flies to the diagonal left and breaks open the treasure chest. Your reward is a large, red diamond. Now climb the rope up into the next room. Here, you can catch a ride back to Duckburg, courtesy of Launchpad. Do so only if that intrigues you. Otherwise, pogo up to the ring, then jump to the ledge from there and proceed to your left.
You'll find a treasure chest that contains a large yellow diamond, and left from there is a series of logs drifting slowly down a wide waterfall. You should pogo left across two of these, starting when the nearest of the two is just barely within range. From the second one, be ready to pogo onto the back of a bird, and left from there to a ledge where a treasure chest contains an ice cream cone. You now have another set of logs to traverse, then another (the second one is guarded by a large bird). Now you should land on a final rocky ledge, where another log must be used to bounce to a rope that dangles in the area.
Climb the rope into the next room and pogo up to another ring. From here, hop right against a wall to reveal a large yellow diamond. Otherwise, jump left to another ledge. The two treasure chests in view hold a large and small diamond. Note that the bridge to your left is faulty. Start across it and it will collapse under you. Also, you can't safely manage a regular jump because of a bird patrolling. Instead, just pogo across the bridge, carefully landing on the gull's back so you're not knocked into the abyss. On the other side, there's solid ground.
As you will see, there's a narrow passage below you and a rope to the left. You can descend the rope partway and drop into the passage for a large diamond, if you wish. Two treasure chests to the left hold a large diamond and a red diamond. With those gathered, go ahead and climb down the rope into the next room. Here, a frog will bounce toward you. The wall to its right holds a hidden large diamond. Grab that, then climb down into yet another room.
Here, you'll see your blue-clad nephew, standing against a wall. He tells you that a Firequacker was released by a landslide, and that you should bounce on the fiend's head five times with your pogo stick. To the right, there's another raft waiting to be used, and rings that lead over the water. Hop along the rings to find a treasure chest that contains a large red diamond. Then use the rings to move back left and deploy the raft. Ride it back to the right, to the ledge under the platform where you snagged the red diamond. Here, there's another raft just to the right. Deploy it, and be ready to pogo immediately from it to a ledge for a treasure chest with a large diamond. Then hop right to another ledge, bust a crate that's in your way, and keep moving right to the ledge where your raft now rests. When you move through the opening to the right, you'll finally have reached the area boss.
Firequacker
This guy has a few simple patterns. One has him move in a 'w' shape across the screen, with two low dips. See him doing that and it's your cue to pogo him from above during the low point of one of the two inverted arches.
Another of his favorite moves is to take a slow diagonal dive toward you, which again puts him in a good position for you to pogo him from above. Usually, he'll make such a dive and retreat, then either throw a fireball or start another 'w' movement.
If you see the fireball coming, obviously you'll want to pogo over it. Since it doesn't move all that quickly, that shouldn't prove difficult. Then you're free to continue with the old grind, until you've bounced on your opponent the required five times (note that he has a short period of invulnerability after taking each hit). When you win, a treasure chest will appear that holds a flower worth $1,000,000. Score!
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