Walkthrough: Level 7: The Eagle's Tower

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[shadow=dimgray,left,300]THE EAGLE'S TOWER[/shadow]

OBJECTIVES
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-Learn the Frog’s Song of Soul from Mamu
-Awaken the Flying Rooster from its grave
-Acquire the Bird Key
-Trek to Eagle’s Tower


ANIMAL VILLAGE & UKUKU PRAIRIE
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After your valiant defeat of Facade, you’ll hear another tale from Kaepora. After the long talk, make your way back to Animal Village either by water or land. Once there, go south and into the warp hole. Warp to the Ukuku Prairie and go southwest. You’ll see a long row of pits. Get a running start with your Pegasus Boots and leap over the pits using Roc’s Feather. Read the sign. It tells you to go down. Follow it!


SIGNPOST MAZE
“”“”“”“”“”“”“<br>Don’t be overwhelmed - the signposts do have an order, and it’s not random. Once you read a sign telling you which way to go, align yourself in front of the signpost in the direction it pointed. Walk that direction until a sign is in your path. Read that sign and do the same. After you get the hang of it, you’ll breeze through the puzzle.

A mistake will make you have to restart, but with the above trick, you shouldn’t mess up. After completing the maze, a staircase will appear. Enter it and pay Mamu the famous singer 300 Rupees to hear him croak. After surviving the singer’s music, you acquire the Frog’s Song of Soul, capable of awakening unliving things! Exit Mamu’s cave and go north to Mabe Village.


MABE VILLAGE
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Walk to the Rooster Statue and push it up with your new Power Bracelet strength. Enter the cave underneath the statue. You’ll find Rooster bones on a pedestal. Play the Frog’s Song of Soul and the Rooster’s Soul will flow into the room and bring the bones back to life! When you pick up this rooster with the Power Bracelet, you can hover in the air! Take this poultry just outside Mabe to the warp hole, warping to Tal Tal Heights.


TAL TAL HEIGHTS
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From the warp hole, go left many screens and go to higher ground. On the screen with 2 Elite Moblins and a stone, lift the stone and go left a screen. Climb up the stairs and lift the stones surrounding the cave. Enter the cave and destroy the enemies in your way. After emerging from the cave into the Tal Tal Mountain Range, go right a few screens and swim to the large staircase. Climb the stairs and go left until you find a suspicious cave.

Enter the cave and go left a screen when inside. Push the stones to make a path to the upper left. Hookshot to the upper right and go up. Pick up the Flying Rooster and float over the pit to safety on the left. Go left and pick up the Bird Key. Now with the key in hand, exit the cave and climb back down the long staircase into the pool of water on the Tal Tal Mountains.

Swim right and enter the cave. Fight your way to its exit and you’ll emerge on the opposite side of the screen from where you entered. Continue right and climb the staircase to the cave. Walk to its exit and you’ll see a cave on the right with a sealed cave on the bottom of the screen. Simply go left and enter the cave. Walk to the staircase and hop over the pit. Go up the small staircase and go right. Avoid the enemies, making your way down. Hookshot across the chasm and leap off the platform to the cave’s exit.

When you exit, bomb the sealed cave if you need health. Enter the other cave on this screen and go up to the stairs. Ignore the enemies and exit the skull-shaped cave. You will exit a building-looking structure. Kill the Gohmas and go left. Pick up the stone blocking the keyhole and unlock the rock. Eagle’s Tower will twist around, revealing a staircase to enter. Walk up the stairs.

[Dark Link]

THE EAGLE'S TOWER
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Before you start, I heavily advise you to copy your saved file if possible. In some areas of this level, it is possible to lose the ball you need to complete the level. A few unlucky people had top restart their games from getting the ball stuck in unreachable spots. Anyway, from the start,

Go right 2 screens and defeat all of the enemies on this screen (not the Anti-faerie)to get a key. Unlock the door on this screen and go up. Walk up the stairs. If you have to boomerang, you can get the Mirror Shield by throwing it diagonally at the crystal switch, if not, get it like it says later in the walkthrough.

Continue up and you'll see a ball on a platform and some blocks moving together quickly. Pick up the ball and throw it by the blocks. Walk over to the lever and pull it all the way down to make the blocks separate. Quickly dash over to the ball, pick it up, and go in between the 2 blocks. Continue left. Hit the giant pillar with the ball and it'll crumble. Pick up the ball and throw it over the blocks on the left side of the screen. Jump sideways over the pit and go down. If you fall, make your way back to this screen and try again.

Go to the left side of the screen and walk up to get the ball back. Pick it up and go down again. Throw it at the pillar to make it crumble. Heave it up from where you last threw it (if it ever falls down a hole, it'll return to it's original screen) and continue down. Throw it over the small square border around the crystal switch so it’s on the other side of the screen. Hit the crystal switch and go up. Go to the upper right of the screen and go up a screen. Fall down the pit purposely and you'll fall to the first floor.

From where you landed, ignore the crystal switch and go left following the crystals that are down (the blocks, I call them crystals, hence the name, crystal switch). Follow the path and you'll be on a screen with many crystals (blocks) in a pattern. Follow to the right and you'll see 2 traps and a Gibdos. Dodge them and go down. Head up into the first door you unlocked and up the stairs.

Open the chest for the Mirror Shield(if you didn't already)and hit the crystal switch so you're standing on upraised crystals(blocks). Go down. Head to the left, ignoring the block with a keyhole. On this screen, you'll find the ball. Pick it up and continue left. This screen hold Three-of-a-Kind. Defeat them and a chest will appear out of reach. Throw the ball over the small square border so it goes over the pit and onto the upper right side of the screen. Continue left.

Defeat the Hinox in this room for a key. Use your Boomerang or, if you don’t have it, your Hookshot. If you fall down a pit, you will have to defeat the card symbol enemies again(not to mention getting back to where you were). Continue up and go into the door shaped like a body. Defend yourself in the bottom right corner of this room and the tiles will break on your shield. Once they're all gone, head right. Bomb the wall in between the two lanterns on the bottom wall on this screen.

Walk into the new passage and go down. Continue down again and you'll be on the screen where you defeated the Three-of-a-Kind. Hookshot to the chest to make it over the chasm and get the bomb inside the chest. Grab the ball and head up. Destroy the pillar and pick the ball up again. Go down and throw it over the chasm to put in on the side of the screen where the enemies were. Fall down the pit and you’ll land on the level’s starting screen. Go right 2 screens and up where you unlocked your first door. Go up the staircase.


Go down a screen and left 2 screens. Recover the ball and walk left and up. Enter the body-shaped door and toss the orb safely in the corner, away from all tiles. Pick a corner and defend yourself from the tiles with your shield. After they’re all gone, pick up the ball and go right. Chuck it at the final pillar to see the tower’s 4th floor crumble into the 3rd. The entrance to the 3rd floor is the staircase a screen right from the Three-of-a-Kind were destroyed (where you made the chest with the bomb appear).

Trek over to that screen and walk up the steps. Continue up and right. Defeat the mini-boss by killing all of the bats that fly at you. You must defeat all 6 successfully to defeat it. Go up after it left and push the two blocks in the middle of the room together to make a chest appear that contains the Nightmare Key. Return to the mini-boss's room and go left 2 screens.

Unlock the Nightmare Door and go up. Walk up to the upraised platform and hookshot onto the block. Go down, jumping on the Goombas if you need life. Continue right and up the stairs. Walk up the ladder and defeat the Evil Eagle by hitting him with the hookshot in its head. When it blows feathers at you, defend with the shield. If you get blown off, you'll have to restart the battle. After the Evil Eagle is vanquished, return to the screen with the staircase leading to the tower’s top and jump off to the right. Go into the door and claim the Organ of Evening Calm!

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