The Hightail Falls Galaxy is a galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy 2. It is the first galaxy in World 2 where Mario will find Yoshi. It introduces the Dash Pepper, which transforms Yoshi into Dash Yoshi. This galaxy has a lot of very steep walls that the Mario must steer Yoshi up. Yoshi uses his high-power jumping to clear long distances and high paths.

Missions[]

Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper[]

When Mario arrives on the Starting Planet, he has to get Yoshi out of the Yoshi Egg by jumping on it. Mario must then ride Yoshi to the Dash Pepper and have him eat it to turn into Dash Yoshi so they can cross the slope and use the Launch Star at the end of it. After using it, both Mario and Yoshi arrive at the Giant Ramp Planet, where they must again collect a Dash Pepper to traverse the slope. The Launch Star is located on a platform to the right. After the Launch Star blasts the duo off, both Mario and Yoshi land on the Falling Platforms Planet. To get across, Yoshi has to eat a Dash Pepper again. The Launch Star can be found at the planet's end.

After using it, both Mario and Yoshi are led to the Double Slope Planet. Mario and Dash Yoshi must run across the slope to the other side while avoiding pegs. After crossing the bridge to the Left Turn Slope Planet, Mario and Dash Yoshi need to go up the slope and make a left turn at the top. After crossing a few flowers thereafter, Mario and Yoshi end up on the U-Turn Slope Planet, where Yoshi has to eat one more Dash Pepper. At the top of the planet, a sharp U-turn has to be made, the Power Star resides at the top right section of the bottom segment of the planet.

Hightail Falls Speed Run[]

The player repeats the Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper mission, but only with three minutes to complete it. Falling Meteors present throughout the mission act as obstacles for both Mario and Yoshi. As a result of the falling Meteors, pieces of platforms are missing and additional gaps are present. In this mission, Smeeches replace Paragoombas.

Silver Stars In Hightail Falls[]

This secret star is obtained by feeding the Hungry Luma thirty coins. After the Launch Star appears, the player needs to head to the new planet. There, five Kleptoads will be holding five Silver Stars, though there will be other Kleptoads as well. Yoshi can simply eat them, and the ones that are eaten with Silver Stars will drop the stars. The stars can be picked up by other ones though. Simply collect the five Silver Stars and the Power Star will appear.

Green Star 1[]

The player repeats the Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper mission. The Green Star is located on the top of the Giant Ramp Planet; in order for the player to reach it, they must use Dash Yoshi. When running up the Giant Ramp Planet, the player needs to stay to the left, avoiding the obstacles and getting a second Dash Pepper to make it to the top.

Green Star 2[]

The player repeats the Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper mission. This time, they must make their way to the Left Turn Slope Planet. The player must use Dash Yoshi to get to the top of the slope. However, instead of making a left turn, the player must go out of boundaries on the top portion and Flutter Jump to the purple block. The Green Star is floating in the air on the right and must be obtained by using a Flutter Jump.

Green Star 3[]

The player repeats the Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper mission. They must make their way to the Left Turn Slope Planet once again. However, they need to use Dash Yoshi to reach the end of the planet and the area with the flowers. The Green Star is floating in the air to the right of the flowers. The player has to climb to the top of the grapples and execute a perfectly-timed Flutter Jump to obtain the Green Star (or Flutter Jump and then jump off Yoshi).

According to page 82 of the Prima Games guide, this Green Star was originally located at the top-left corner of the Left Turn Slope Planet, floating in mid-air beside the pole above the upper blue ramp. The player would have had to steer Dash Yoshi off the wall's top-left corner to collide with the Green Star.

Trivia[]

• The Speed Run Mission has meteorites falling from the sky as well as hole in the areas where they fall, however, when they hit actual ground, nothing happens.
• The music for this level is a reorchestrated version of the Athletic theme from Super Mario World.

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Characters	Protagonists	Mario • Luigi • Yoshi • Co-Star Luma
	Non-playable	Baby Luma • Bill Board • Black Jibberjay • Bob-omb Buddies • Bowser • Bowser Jr. • Co-Star Luma • Coach • Cosmic Spirit • Fluzzard • Gearmos (Gold · Silver) • Honeybees • Hungry Lumas (Coin Lumas) • Jibberjays • Lubba • Lumalee • Lumas • Penguin • Penguru • Piantas • Princess Peach • Queen Bee • Rosalina • Seagull • Star Bunnies • The Chimp • Toad Brigade • Toads • Whittles
	Antagonists	Bowser • Bowser Jr.
Enemies	Enemies	Amp • Astro Goomba • Banzai Bill • Bat • Big Amp • Big Gringill • Big Wiggler • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bomb Boo • Bomp • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bullet Bill • Cheep Cheep • Chomp • Chomp Pup • Choppah • Clam • Cluckboom • Cosmic Clone • Crabber • Digga • Dry Bones • Elite Octoomba • Fizzlit • Flaptack • Flipbug • Flimp • Fuzzy • Gargantua Koopa Troopa • Gold Chomp • Golden Gummit • Goomba • Grand Goomba • Gringill • Ground Urchin • Gummit • Hammer Bro • Huge Paragoomba • Jack O'Goomba • Jammyfish • Kleptoad • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Li'l Brr • Li'l Cinder • Magikoopa • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mandibug • Mattermouth • Mega Boo • Mega Thwomp • Micro Mecha-Bowser • Micro Goomba • Mikey Mine • Octoboo • Octoguy • Octoomba • Octopus • Paragoomba • Pinhead • Piranha Plant • Piranhacus Giganticus • Podoboo • Pokey Head • Preying Mantas • Prickly Piranha Plant • Puffer Fish • Pupdozer • Rhomp • Ring Beamer • Sentry Beam • Silver Chomp • Skeeter • Slurple • Smeech • Snoodle • Spiky Gummit • Spiky Piranha Plant • Spiky Topman • Spiny • Spiny Hermit • Spiky Stretch Plant • Spiny Egg • Spoing • Sprangler • Spring Robot • Spring Topman • Starbag • Swaphopper • Thwomp • Topman • Topmini • Tox Box • Twirlip • Undergrunt • Undergrunt Gunner • Urchin • Venus Flower Trap • Whimp • Whomp • Wiggler
Obstacles	Obstacles	Banzai Bill Cannon • Bars • Bill Blaster • Black Hole • Bob-omb Dispenser • Bowser Statue • Boulder • Buzz Saw • Cactus • Chomp box • Current • Dark matter • Electric rail • Electricity Shooter • Fire Arm • Fire Shooter • Gravity field • Lava • Lava Plume • Ledge Hammer • Meteor • Millstone • Mud • Poison Swamp • Prickly Plant • Quicksand • Ring of Fire • Space Mine • Spike Block • Water Shooter • Wind
Bosses	Bosses	Peewee Piranha • Giga Lakitu • Digga-Leg • Gobblegut • Mandibug Stack • Bugaboom • Rollodillo • Sorbetti • Megahammer • Glamdozer • Squizzard • Prince Pikante • Boomsday Machine • Whomp King • Fiery Gobblegut • Giant Bowser • Dino Piranha • King Kaliente • Major Burrows • Bouldergeist • Fiery Dino Piranha
Galaxies	World 1	Sky Station Galaxy • Yoshi Star Galaxy • Spin-Dig Galaxy • Fluffy Bluff Galaxy • Flip-Swap Galaxy • Rightside Down Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla
	World 2	Puzzle Plank Galaxy • Hightail Falls Galaxy • Boulder Bowl Galaxy • Cosmic Cove Galaxy • Wild Glide Galaxy • Honeybloom Galaxy • Bowser's Lava Lair
	World 3	Tall Trunk Galaxy • Cloudy Court Galaxy • Haunty Halls Galaxy • Freezy Flake Galaxy • Rolling Masterpiece Galaxy • Beat Block Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet
	World 4	Supermassive Galaxy • Flipsville Galaxy • Starshine Beach Galaxy • Chompworks Galaxy • Sweet Mystery Galaxy • Honeyhop Galaxy • Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet
	World 5	Space Storm Galaxy • Slipsand Galaxy • Shiverburn Galaxy • Boo Moon Galaxy • Upside Dizzy Galaxy • Fleet Glide Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker
	World 6	Melty Monster Galaxy • Clockwork Ruins Galaxy • Throwback Galaxy • Battle Belt Galaxy • Flash Black Galaxy • Slimy Spring Galaxy • Bowser's Galaxy Generator
	World S	Mario Squared Galaxy • Rolling Coaster Galaxy • Twisty Trials Galaxy • Stone Cyclone Galaxy • Boss Blitz Galaxy • Flip-Out Galaxy • Grandmaster Galaxy
Items	Items	? Coin • 1-Up Mushroom • Bee Mushroom • Berries • Blimp Fruit • Boo Mushroom • Brick Block • Bronze Star • Bubble • Bulb Berry • Clock • Cloud Flower • Coin • Comet Medal • Dash Pepper • Fire Flower • Grand Star • Green Power Star • Key • Life Mushroom • Music Note • Power Star • Purple Coin • Rainbow Star • Rock Mushroom • Silver Star • Spin Drill • Spring Mushroom • Star Bit • Star Chip • Star Crystal • Watermelon • Yoshi Egg
Objects	Objects	? Block • Airship • Arrow Sign • Assembly Block • Balloon • Banandelion • Bar • Beacon • Beat Block • Big Block • Blue Switch • Brick Block • Bubble • Bubbler • Cage • Cannon • Chance Cube • Checkpoint Flag • Cloud • Coconut • Crate • Divot • Empty Block • Flip-Out Wall • Flip-Swap Platform • Flipswitch Panel • Floaty Fluff • Flower Grapple • Flower (platform) • Flowers • Flying ? Block • Galactic Tornado • Gate • Glass case • Golden peg • Grate • Gravity switch • Green Shell • Ground-Pound Switch • Honeycomb wall • Ice block • Ice Meteor • Item Crystal • Key Door • Launch Star • Leaf raft • Lever Switch • Lift • Lucky Cube • Mega ? Block • Meteorite • Nail • Picture block • Pink block • Pipe • Pole • Portal • Pull Star • Purple Coin Ball • Ramp • Ring • Rock • Rubbery Bulb • Sand Bird • Shrinking platform • Sign • Sling Star • Snake Block • Snow sculpture • Snowball • Springboard • Sproutle Vine • Star Ball • Star Barrier • Star Piece Cluster Rock • Starship Mario • Starshroom • Stone circle • Stone Wheel • Stump • Swing • Teeter-totter moon • Teleporter • Tip Network • Torch • Treasure chest • Tree • Underwater ring • Warp Pad • Water Ball • Water spout • Watermelon
Moves	Moves	Backward somersault • Crawl • Crouch • Dash • Double jump • Double kick • Eat • Flutter jump • Ground pound • Head Shake • Jump • Kick • Long jump • Side somersault • Skate • Slide • Spin jump • Star Spin • Stomp • Sweep kick • Swim • Triple jump • Wall jump
Missions	Sky Station Galaxy	Peewee Piranha's Temper Tantrum • Storming the Sky Fleet • Peewee Piranha's Speed Run*
	Yoshi Star Galaxy	Saddle Up with Yoshi • Spiny Control • Spiny Rainbow Romp*
	Spin-Dig Galaxy	Digga-Leg's Planet • Silver Stars Down Deep • Digga-Leg's Daredevil Run*
	Fluffy Bluff Galaxy	Search for the Toad Brigade Captain • The Chimp's Stomp Challenge** • Every Planet Has Its Price
	Rightside Down Galaxy	Breaking the Laws of Gravity • The Great Crate Incinerator
	Bowser Jr.'s Fiery Flotilla	Gobblegut's Aching Belly • Fiery Flotilla Speed Run*
	Flip-Swap Galaxy	Think Before You Shake • Purple Coin Flip 'n' Sprint*
	Puzzle Plank Galaxy	The Puzzling Picture Block • Bugaboom's Back • Purple Coin Shadow Vault*
	Hightail Falls Galaxy	Hot-Stepping Dash Pepper • Hightail Falls Speed Run* • Silver Stars in Hightail Falls
	Boulder Bowl Galaxy	Rock and Rollodillo • C'mere, Goomba** • Rolling Crabber Romp*
	Cosmic Cove Galaxy	Twin Falls Hideaway • Exploring the Cosmic Cavern • Catch That Star Bunny
	Wild Glide Galaxy	Fluzzard's First Flight • Jungle Fluzzard Race**
	Bowser's Lava Lair	Bowser's Big Lava Power Party • Lava Lair Speed Run*
	Honeybloom Galaxy	*Bumble Beginnings • The Secret Wall Jump
	Tall Trunk Galaxy	The Flotacious Blimp Fruit • Tall Trunk's Big Slide • Tall Trunk's Purple Coin Slide*
	Cloudy Court Galaxy	Head in the Clouds • The Shadow Lining* • Silver Stars in the Purple Pond
	Haunty Halls Galaxy	A Glimmer of Bulb Berry • Sneaking Down the Creepy Corridor • Spooky Cosmic Clone Chase*
	Freezy Flake Galaxy	Bowser on Ice • Sorbetti's Chilly Reception • The Chimp's Skating Challenge
	Rolling Masterpiece Galaxy	Silver Chomp Grudge Match • Masterpiece Speed Run*
	Bowser Jr.'s Fearsome Fleet	Bowser Jr.'s Mighty Megahammer • Megahammer's Daredevil Bash*
	Beat Block Galaxy	Step to the Beep • Silver Stars in Double Time*
	Supermassive Galaxy	Huge Trouble with Big Wigglers • Big Wigglers Speed Run* • In Full Bloom
	Flipsville Galaxy	Flip-Flopping in Flipsville • Flipsville's New Digs • Purple Coin Spin Speed Run*
	Honeyhop Galaxy	The Sweetest Silver Stars • The Chimp's Score Challenge**
	Starshine Beach Galaxy	Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars • Climbing the Cloudy Tower • Purple Coin Beach Dash*
	Chompworks Galaxy	Where the Chomps Are Made of Gold • Spring into the Chompworks • Cosmic Clones in the Chompworks*
	Bowser's Gravity Gauntlet	Breaking into Bowser's Castle • Gravity Star Speed Run*
	Sweet Mystery Galaxy	Bulb Berry's Mysterious Glow • Bulb Berry's Purple Coin Glow*
	Space Storm Galaxy	Follow Me, Bob-omb • To the Top of Topman's Tower • C'mere, Topman**
	Slipsand Galaxy	Squizzard's Sandy Sinkhole • Sailing the Sandy Seas • Squizzard's Daredevil Run*
	Shiverburn Galaxy	Prince Pikante's Peppery Mood • Octo-Army Icy Rainbow Romp* • The Chimp's Ultimate Skating Challenge
	Boo Moon Galaxy	Silver Stars Pop-Up • Haunting the Howling Tower • The Star in the Sinking Swamp
	Upside Dizzy Galaxy	A Walk on the Weird Side • Burning Upside Dizzy
	Bowser Jr.'s Boom Bunker	Bowser Jr.'s Boomsday Machine • Boomsday Machine Daredevil Run*
	Fleet Glide Galaxy	Fluzzard's Wild Battlefield Glide • Fastest Feathers in the Galaxy**
	Melty Monster Galaxy	The Magnificent Magma Sea • A Stroll Down Rolling Lane • The Chimp's Bowling Challenge
	Clockwork Ruins Galaxy	Time for Adventure • The Adventure of the Purple Coins* • The Ledge Hammer Trap
	Slimy Spring Galaxy	The Deep Shell Well • The Chimp's Coin Challenge**
	Throwback Galaxy	Return of the Whomp King • Silver Stars in the Whomp Fortress • Whomp Silver Star Speed Run*
	Battle Belt Galaxy	Mini-Planet Mega-Run • Mini-Planet Daredevil Run* • Snacktime for Gobblegut
	Bowser's Galaxy Generator	Bowser's Fortified Fortress • Bowser's Big Bad Speed Run*
	Flash Black Galaxy	Jumping Around in the Dark • Dark Octo-Army Romp*
	Mario Squared Galaxy	Make Mario a Star • Luigi's Purple Coin Chaos*
	Rolling Coaster Galaxy	The Rainbow Road Roll • Purple Coins on the Rainbow Road*
	Twisty Trials Galaxy	Spinning and Spinning and Spinning • Turning Turning Double Time*
	Stone Cyclone Galaxy	Silver Stars on the Cyclone • Tox Box Speed Run*
	Boss Blitz Galaxy	Throwback Throwdown • Throwback Throwdown Speed Run*
	Grandmaster Galaxy	The Ultimate Test • The Perfect Run*
	Flip-Out Galaxy	Wicked Wall Jumps • Cosmic Clone Wall Jumpers*
Miscellaneous	Minigames	Crate Burning • Fluzzard Gliding • Star Ball Rolling
	Other	Star Pointer• Mario Mandate
Missions marked with an asterisk (*) are exclusively available while a Prankster Comet is in orbit. Missions marked with two asterisks (**) are only available when receiving a letter from Mailtoad.