Forest Fortress

Master Super Mario World's Forest Fortress! Learn strategies for avoiding crushers, saws, and fireballs, find secret 1-Ups, and defeat Reznor.

The screen for the first area will move to the right automatically, and if you don't keep up you will probably get crushed. This is very much the same like the first Castle, where the giant crushers come from the ceiling; however there are now spinning saws that are on set paths throughout. When you come across them, quickly watch their pattern and direction then go past them. When you begin, keep the left to avoid the first crusher, duck in the far right of the next pit, and same again with the next pit, go right of the next crusher, go either side of the next one, and to the right of the final one. Enter the door to reach a new area.

Jump over the saw that came from the above ceiling, then go right over the pit (after the two fireballs have jumped) and up the steps of ledges. Here, with the pit of two saws in the ground, jump down to the right when they are at the left so you run up the side before they get you. Hit the yellow ! block for a mushroom, and over the pit afterwards (the order of the fireballs is the right one then the left). At the next part, use either the stone blocks in the air or the ground (mind the saws; although they are somewhat easy to avoid) and watch out for the fireballs as you go. You can wait for the fireballs to jump then carry on if you wish to play safe. At the pit, jump across and land on the ground, then go under the platform to avoid the above saw, then left and up onto the platform to avoid the one coming along the ground. Go the far right of the platform and wait until the saw falls and then jump right. Do the same to make the next one fall down. You can if you want go up and hit the ? block above for a powerup, but if its a mushroom then don't run after it otherwise there is a high chance you will get caught by a saw. Afterwards, there are two routes; run up the wall and below the line of stone blocks to get to the boss door now, or jump onto the stone blocks and right. If you take the boss door route, go to the boss strategy below.

If you take the route above the stone blocks, then make sure Mario is caped. If not, get the powerup from the ? block at the top of the screen not long back (Any Mario bar Small Mario, where you will get a mushroom). If you cannot get a cape, turn back and go under the stone blocks and enter the boss door. If you are, go onward. Go down off the ledge. From the left, run to the right and fly over the giant lava pit to the right, and stay AT THE TOP all the way across until you reach some yellow blocks, where it is safe to land. If you don't stay at the top, fireballs will get your ass. This is kinda tough to pull off, and you should be experienced in the art of flying. So what's the reward? Well these yellow blocks each contain a 1-Up Green Mushroom. Nine blocks, nine 1-Ups. Not bad, no? The boss door is here also. Enter.

BOSS: REZNOR

You are faced against four dinosaurs on rotating platforms, of which spit fireballs your way. To kill them, hit the platform from underneath. When you have hit all four off the platforms, the boss is over. But (a big but) is the ground is slowly disappearing, so you must be hasty in doing this. Hit one off as you start, and when the ground is no long under where you can hit the dinos from below, you may have to jump onto one of the rotating platforms. The fireballs are easy enough to dodge, and if you do this fast enough it isn't that tough. A good idea is to knock one off, jump on his platform and take out the others as it rotates round.

Once you have done the Forest Fortress, you unlock a path to the Star Road and Star World 4. Now bowl onward to Chocolate Island.