The twelve islands are split into three major regions of four islands each: the Lakeside region, which contains Fur Step Island, Scamper Shores, Pounce Bounce Isle, and Fort Flaptrap and has a yellow color scheme, the Ruins region, which contains Slipskate Slope, Clawswipe Colosseum, Trickity Tower, and Crisp Climb Castle and has a blue color scheme, and the Wasteland region, which contains Risky Whisker Island, Pipe Path Tower, Roiling Roller Isle, and Mount Magmeow and has a red color scheme. On each island, three Cat Shines are obtained through unique challenges (though some are reused between islands), one is obtained by collecting the five Cat Shine Shards around the island, and the last is hidden behind a set of Fury Blocks somewhere on the island that Mario must coax Fury Bowser into attacking to access the Cat Shine. Every island contains five Cat Shines that are collected through gameplay challenges. By collecting any Cat Shine on the island, the goop on its lighthouse is removed and that lighthouse's light dissolves any goop nearby, sometimes allowing access to additional challenges. Each of the twelve islands contains a lighthouse that is covered in black goop when Mario first encounters it. Lake Lapcat is split into twelve named islands and various smaller pieces of land surrounding them.
Three Giga Bells can be found on large pedestals across the archipelago, each of which correspond to a set of four islands that share a similar visual theme. While collecting a Cat Shine during Fury Bowser's rampages forces him to retreat, he can only be directly battled through a power-up unique to Lake Lapcat, the Giga Bell.
When Fury Bowser becomes active, the clear daytime sky changes to nighttime during an intense rainstorm, and he shoots Fury Spikes that plunge into the ground and walls, becoming platforms that Mario can jump on and traverse areas differently with. In the middle of the lake is the Fury Sun, a large mass of black goop that protects Fury Bowser while he is not active. must work to remove throughout the course of the campaign by collecting Cat Shines. Lake Lapcat is entirely surrounded by black goop that Mario and Bowser Jr. Despite this, Cat Bullet Bills retain their homing functionality. However, all of these cat-like enemies function identically across both campaigns, with the exception of Cat Goombas, which are darker and do not dive. Additionally, cat-themed variations of little birds, as well as enemies and bosses that appear in the Super Mario 3D World campaign, can be found throughout the area with the same modifications. To match this theming around cats, nearly all of the elements of Lake Lapcat, including signs, archways, trees, shrubs, flowers, rainbows, and even the sun, include feline features such as fur, tails, and cat ears. It is a colorful, open area primarily inhabited by various colored kittens, including calico kittens and their Oyaneko.
During the introductory cutscene of the campaign, Mario falls through an M-shaped portal made of black goop, which transports him from the Mushroom Kingdom to Lake Lapcat. Lake Lapcat is a cat-themed archipelago exclusive to the Bowser's Fury campaign of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury ( 2021) Kittens, Oyaneko, Fury Cats, cat variations of enemies