Walkthrough: Level 6: The Face Shrine

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[shadow=dimgray,left,300]THE FACE SHRINE[/shadow]

OBJECTIVES
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-Buy the Bow from Mabe Village’s Shop
-Defeat the Armos Knight for the Face Key
-Read the inscription of the Wind Fish
-Finish the Trading Sequence
-Get the Boomerang from Toronbo Shores


MARTHA’S BAY
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Since you defeated the Slime Eel and gained the Hookshot as a weapon, you can finally finish the Trading Sequence! Explore all of Koholint as explained in the Trading Section of this FAQ/Walkthrough to get the Magnifying Lens. This important item will be your guide through the final level. It also allows you to get a very important item - the Boomerang! This is the only way to defeat Sparks, and they always give you a faerie for defeating them! Anyway, after you acquire the Magnifying Lens, go to the screen on Toronbo Shores where you found your sword (Screen C-16).


TORONBO SHORES
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Go left 2 screens and bomb open the cave entrance. Enter it and you’ll find an old enemy in the Zelda series - a Goriya! It wants to trade its weapon, a boomerang, for an item in your B Button. I suggest trading your Shovel, since you no longer need it. This weapon is one of the best in the game, it’s very powerful and can be used to create a huge shortcut in level 7. Anyway, you need nothing else on the beach, so head back to Mabe Village.


MABE VILLAGE
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When you reach the village, head over towards the shop. Inside you’ll find a very expensive item, the Bow. This is very useful in level 6, so buy it if you have enough cash. If you don’t, explore the many caves on Koholint or win it in the Trendy Game. You don’t want to pass this item up! When you have the weapon in your inventory, walk right 2 screens from the shop and jump into the Warp Hole. Warp to Animal Village and exit it as soon as you arrive.


SOUTHERN SHRINE
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When you leave Animal Village, walk up a few screens and right a few screens until you meet up with Kaepora. After another long lecture, go right and lift all the stones in your way to open the path right. Kill any enemies in your way as well. After a bit of exploring, the path will open south. Walk down and you’ll be in a field full of statues. Some will awaken and attack you when touched. Simply use your new boomerang to destroy them. After some self-exploration, you’ll discover an entrance to a shrine. Enter it!


Once inside, walk up. You’ll awaken a huge Armos Statue. To defeat it, use your bow and arrows. If you run out of arrows, charge up your sword and use a whirling blade technique. When it jumps, hop in the air or you’ll be paralyzed from the shockwave. When hit a lot of times, it loses its shield. After a few more hits, its armor wears off. Hit it a couple of times after that to destroy it, rewarding you with the Face Key! Head up after your triumph.

Light the pots and look at the wall inscription. You’ll hear a riddle of the Wind Fish. Is the island true? Or is this only a dream? You’ll only know when you find all of the Sirens’ Instruments and awaken the Wind Fish. Exit the shrine and Kaepora will hoot at you until you shout ‘MERCY!’ out. Backtrack to the Animal Village.


ANIMAL VILLAGE & FACE SHRINE
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Exit Animal Village and go up a few screens. Dive into the water and swim up a screen and right a few screens. You’ll see an odd island with Armos Statues on it. Defeat the left one to reveal a staircase. Enter it and swim through the cave (use the Hookshot as well). Upon exiting, you’ll be on another island. Take the right path upwards and unlock the face. Face Shrine will emerge out of the ruins. Go around to enter.

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THE FACE SHRINE
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From the start of the level, go left. Ignore the Wizzrobes and continue up 2 screens. From there, go left and you’ll be face-to-face with a Mask-mimic. Eliminate him and set a bomb by the crystal switch. Quickly go to the upper right so you’re above the lowered crystal. The bomb will activate the switch and ‘trap’ you (the crystal will now be up). Walk up, it’s the only way to go. Bomb the right wall at its most obvious point. Head into the doorway you just made and walk around, defeating any gels you meet. After defeating four, a staircase will appear in the upper right. Walk down it!

Simply go left and ignore the giant Bubbles until you climb out of the underground passage. When you submerge, kill the two Wizzrobes and the Moldorm. The door will open, so go in! Get the chest in the upper left corner for the Power Bracelet L:2! If you need life, pick up the pot in the upper right for a faerie. Continue up into the man-shaped door and you’ll wind up back at the room with the Maskmimic and the crystal switch. Hit the crystal switch. This time, go into the upper left (place a bomb by the switch in the same way you previously did).

Go up and pick up pots until you discover a switch. Stand on it and the door on the left will open. Walk in and use you bow/bombs to kill the Wizzrobes. Hit the switch to get the chest (map). Go up and to the right. The chest here has the Stone Beak. Continue back left and throw a pot at the door to break it open (you may have to go down and hit the crystal switch to make the pots accessible). Walk into it and go right. Open the chest (compass) and hit the crystal switch. Continue right and go down a screen. Head right 2 screens then up a screen. Defeat the Wizzrobes here for a key.

Backtrack to the screen where you got the compass and go left. Break the door in here with an elephant statue. Walk up and get the chest for 100 rupees. Exit at the staircase here and you’ll emerge in the Rapids Ride. Open the chest for a secret seashell (or 20 rupees). Re-enter and go back to the start of the level. The easiest way to do this is to play Manbo’s Mambo, but it’s a good idea to save frequently, so do what you like to get back. Once you’re there, go right. Avoid the traps and walk right again. Defend against the tiles with your shield.


Once they’re all gone, go into the door that just opened. Pick up an elephant statue and throw it at the right door. Continue in and defeat all 4 of the Wizzrobes to open the upper door. Go up a bunch of screens until you find a chest that holds a small key. Backtrack to the room with 4 Wizzrobes. Walk left and unlock the door with a small key. Bomb the upper wall near its middle and enter. Defeat Smasher by picking up its ball and throwing it at the mini-boss about 4 times. After its defeat, walk up and lift the left elephant statue to reveal a staircase. Go down.

Make it to the left by jumping from ladder to ladder until you get to the underground tunnel’s exit. Exit the cave and you’ll be in a room full of tiles. After they perish, a key will fall. Get it, unlock the block, and continue up. Break the door on the left with an elephant statue. Go left and throw the horse head statues until they both land heads up. The door to the left will open. Walk in and go down the stairs there.

Dash past the Thwimps and get to the underground tunnel’s exit. Once exiting, you’ll be in a room full of Pol’s Voices. Play the Ballad of the Wind Fish and they’ll self-destruct. Go up 2 screens if you want 50 rupees. Whatever you decide to do, from the room that had the Pol’s Voices in it, go down and defeat the Dodongos. Continue left and hookshot across the chasm. Unlock the block and go up two screens. You’ll find that the chest won’t open! Throw a pot at it to force it open and get the Nightmare Key.

Once again, Save and Quit (or mambo) for a shorter trip and enter the mini boss’s warp hole. Continue up and lift the elephant statue on the left. Enter the underground passage, making it through the way you did before. After you exit, walk down after defeating the tiles. Destroy all of the gels without getting sucked into the vortex to make the door on the right open. Once scared out, they’ll most likely be sucked into a pit. After the door opens, go into it and push the block near the lower wall right. Shoot arrows vertically up to the Wizzrobe to defeat it. Continue up a screen.

If you need life, powder the two unlit pots. The two Sparks will turn into faeries. After you’re satisfied, unlock the Nightmare Door and do battle with Façade. Place bombs on its face. The bombs will explode and it’ll suffer damage. It may make tiles come up and fly at you, so be ready with your shield. Jump the pots, for you can’t shield them. Eventually, holes will appear and disappear (they’re not hard to avoid). After bombing him awhile, get the heart container and go up to claim the Coral Triangle!

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