How many Power Moons are there in Sand Kingdom?

You can follow along with our Sand Kingdom walkthrough below to make it through the main objectives and grab enough Moons to progress in Super Mario Odyssey. From here, you’ll just need to collect enough Power Moons to fire up the Odyssey once again and you’ll be able to move on to the next kingdom. Once you clear the crystal boss, you will complete all of the main objectives and then you’ll have access to much more of Sand Kingdom without the ice blocking your path. At the end of all this, you’ll get to the Deep Underground section where you’ll come face to face with an epic boss that uses its huge fists to attack you, which you can see in the video below. When you take her out, a hole will appear underneath the pyramid and you’ll be able to jump on in to find an underground ice area with Goombas, Bullet Bills and plenty of slippery platforms to make it past.

These will let you travel to the inverted pyramid and enter the now open door, which will start the arduous climb up to the top to face Hariet Broodal. Once you’re past this, you’ll need to ride the moving platforms over to the Moe Eye area of the map and collect all of the Moon Shards to activate more moving platforms. This is a big and extended hike upwards past Goombas and Bullet Bills, taking in major 2D sections and involving some very well timed jumps, so expect it to take a good amount of effort. The first thing you’ll need to do in Sand Kingdom is to make your way up to the ruins to get the Moon atop the highest tower. Your job is to get on the trail of Bowser, fix some of the messed up stuff in Sand Kingdom and give the Broodals their first taste of wedding planning defeat. In addition to the frozen parts of the landscape that prevent you from picking up certain Purple Coins and getting to some locations on the map, there are also the Broodals sailing the skies and stinking up the place. You’ll start out in Tostarena Town, which has a Mexican theme with Dia de los Muertos overtones, but it doesn’t take long to see that things have gotten a little messed up. When you touch down, you’ll see Bowser’s big heffalump footprints in the sand and it turns out he’s here to steel a big old ring to give to his kidnapped bride-to-be, Princess Peach. You get to Sand Kingdom after making it through the main objectives in Cascade Kingdom and getting enough Power Moons to fire up the Odyssey. It’s got a desert full of Power Moons and a lot of space to improve your Mario moves in ahead of the challenge of the rest of the game.

Super Mario Odyssey is easily one of the crowning glories of Nintendo’s revival with the Switch, and Sand Kingdom is one of the biggest you’ll find in the entire game, so our guide and walkthrough videos should help you to get more out of it.

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