Post by Dark Link on Feb 21, 2005 15:28:27 GMT -5
[shadow=dimgray,left,300]GANON'S CASTLE[/shadow]
Walk up the stairs to the broken bridge of Ganon’s Castle. The six sages will use their powers to build a new bridge so that you can walk across to the entrance of the castle.
Walk down the stairs and kill the two beamos at the bottom. In the next room, you will notice six light barriers preventing you from entering protect the main tower.
Forest Barrier
Defeat the Wolfos that appears in the center of the room to reveal a treasure chest. Light the main torches on the floor and shoot the final one above the door with a fire arrow.
There are four fans in the next room with a beamos in the middle. Hover over to each platform when the fans stop and collect each rupee. When the fans start spinning again, put on your iron boots so you don’t fall off the ledge. The switch will make a pillar rise up from the ground so you can hookshot to the last silver jewel that was previously unreachable.
Shadow Barrier
If you can, take out the green flame skull in the middle and the slimy thing on the other side. If you need a little bit of money, there is a blue rupee in the treasure chest to the left. The unlit torch on the right can be lit by shooting a fire arrow at it. Jump over the platforms to the other side; if you didn’t kill the skull, he might become a slight problem for you.
Once you get to the other platform in the middle of the room, jump over the next platform to the next big platform. If you’re short on time, don’t risk it and turn around and shoot the torch again. You’re definitely going to want to wait on this platform before jumping down the blocks to the switch. From the corner of the big platform, shoot the torch again and work your way down the blocks to the switch. Stay on the platform and grab on to the big treasure chest that just appeared with your hook shot. Open the treasure chest to get your Golden Gauntlets.
Using the Lens of Truth, walk across the ledge to the rusted switch and hit it with your hammer. Work your way back across to the now unlocked door still using your lens of truth to cross the invisible ledge.
Fire Barrier
Once again, you’ll need to collect silver rupees to open up the door. Put on your Goron Tunic and jump across the platforms. Make sure you don’t stay on any one platform for too long or it will begin to sink into the lava. Watch out for the flaming head jumping out of the lava and the slug at the opposite end of the entrance.
The only really tricky ones to get are the one behind the spinning flame and the other that is far in the distance and can’t be reached from any of the platforms. For the one behind the spinning flame, simply jump over to that particular platform in and jump up in between the gaps of the flame. Follow one of the flames, being careful not to get hit by the other, and grab the jewel. In order to get the one far in the distance, get the Golden Gauntlets from the shadow barrier if you haven’t already and lift the huge pillar to throw it in the lava to get the jewel underneath and the jewel across the way. In order to reach the unlocked door, stand on the huge platform and shoot your hookshot over before the platform sinks into the lava.
Water Barrier
Break the icicles around the blue flame and capture the blue flame in a bottle. Defeat the two frozen statues to unlock the door. There’s a heart in the treasure chest on the right but the one on the left is a trap. Make sure you have a bottle of fire before going into the next room.
In the next room, there are two blocks. Push the further one into the square hole and maneuver the second one to the area with the blue fire. Hit the rusted switch with your hammer and crawl up the small cliff to the Water Sage.
Spirit Barrier
Bomb the Beamos in the center of the room to get him out of the way. The rest of the room is filled with spikes and Armos statues. The spikes block the path to the rupees so pull the statues out further away from the wall to give the spikes more room to travel. This way, you’ll have more time to get the rupees in the spikes’ path. All of the rupees can be collected this way, except one, which is above the Beamos’ head.
Kill the slugs in the next room and hit the switch near the cage to reveal a chest with Bombchus in it. Take note of the hole at the top of the cage. Aim a bombchu through this hole so that it will hit the switch in between the two torches. Using your fire arrows, burn the spider web above to allow light to enter. There are four suns on the ceiling; aim your shield at the first one on the left to unlock the door.
Light Barrier
Using the Golden Gloves, lift the pillar that blocks the entrance to the Light Barrier. In the next room, use the lens of truth to find the Skulltula in the middle of the room and the bats scattered throughout. There’s a ring of treasure chests, some with prizes, others without… from left to right: blue rupee, freezing ice trap, heart, freezing ice trap, bundle of arrows, and freezing ice trap.
Stand on the triforce symbol in the next room to reveal a treasure chest with a key in it. In the next room are two boulders spinning around in a circle. Go around the circle with the boulders and collect silver rupees around the central part of the room. There are rupees located both inside and outside of the circle, some in small ‘caves.’ The final rupee is on top and can be accessed by standing inside one of the outer ‘caves’ and shooting your hookshot at it.
In the next room where it appears there should be the Light Barrier, it’s nowhere to be found. Use your lens of truth and enter the fake wall to the real light barrier.
The Tower
Kill the flame bats or simply ignore them altogether. Climb up the stairs and defeat what looks like Lizalfos’ cousins, Dinolfos. Kill them in the same manner that you would kill the Lizalfos and go into the door that unlocks. Climb up the stairs and go into the next room. In here, defeat the two Stalfos while avoiding the fire in the middle. Get the boss key from the treasure chest and go into the unlocked door.
Climb up another set of stairs to a room with two Iron Knuckle knights to defeat. Defeat them the same way you defeated the others in the Spirit Temple and go through the unlocked door. Walk up to the stairs to your final challenge: Ganon.
Or so you thought. Don’t get to pot crazy and destroy all of the pots because you might need them later on. Enter the door to the right of where you just came in up to the final set of stairs.
Walk up the stairs to the broken bridge of Ganon’s Castle. The six sages will use their powers to build a new bridge so that you can walk across to the entrance of the castle.
Walk down the stairs and kill the two beamos at the bottom. In the next room, you will notice six light barriers preventing you from entering protect the main tower.
Forest Barrier
Defeat the Wolfos that appears in the center of the room to reveal a treasure chest. Light the main torches on the floor and shoot the final one above the door with a fire arrow.
There are four fans in the next room with a beamos in the middle. Hover over to each platform when the fans stop and collect each rupee. When the fans start spinning again, put on your iron boots so you don’t fall off the ledge. The switch will make a pillar rise up from the ground so you can hookshot to the last silver jewel that was previously unreachable.
Shadow Barrier
If you can, take out the green flame skull in the middle and the slimy thing on the other side. If you need a little bit of money, there is a blue rupee in the treasure chest to the left. The unlit torch on the right can be lit by shooting a fire arrow at it. Jump over the platforms to the other side; if you didn’t kill the skull, he might become a slight problem for you.
Once you get to the other platform in the middle of the room, jump over the next platform to the next big platform. If you’re short on time, don’t risk it and turn around and shoot the torch again. You’re definitely going to want to wait on this platform before jumping down the blocks to the switch. From the corner of the big platform, shoot the torch again and work your way down the blocks to the switch. Stay on the platform and grab on to the big treasure chest that just appeared with your hook shot. Open the treasure chest to get your Golden Gauntlets.
Using the Lens of Truth, walk across the ledge to the rusted switch and hit it with your hammer. Work your way back across to the now unlocked door still using your lens of truth to cross the invisible ledge.
Fire Barrier
Once again, you’ll need to collect silver rupees to open up the door. Put on your Goron Tunic and jump across the platforms. Make sure you don’t stay on any one platform for too long or it will begin to sink into the lava. Watch out for the flaming head jumping out of the lava and the slug at the opposite end of the entrance.
The only really tricky ones to get are the one behind the spinning flame and the other that is far in the distance and can’t be reached from any of the platforms. For the one behind the spinning flame, simply jump over to that particular platform in and jump up in between the gaps of the flame. Follow one of the flames, being careful not to get hit by the other, and grab the jewel. In order to get the one far in the distance, get the Golden Gauntlets from the shadow barrier if you haven’t already and lift the huge pillar to throw it in the lava to get the jewel underneath and the jewel across the way. In order to reach the unlocked door, stand on the huge platform and shoot your hookshot over before the platform sinks into the lava.
Water Barrier
Break the icicles around the blue flame and capture the blue flame in a bottle. Defeat the two frozen statues to unlock the door. There’s a heart in the treasure chest on the right but the one on the left is a trap. Make sure you have a bottle of fire before going into the next room.
In the next room, there are two blocks. Push the further one into the square hole and maneuver the second one to the area with the blue fire. Hit the rusted switch with your hammer and crawl up the small cliff to the Water Sage.
Spirit Barrier
Bomb the Beamos in the center of the room to get him out of the way. The rest of the room is filled with spikes and Armos statues. The spikes block the path to the rupees so pull the statues out further away from the wall to give the spikes more room to travel. This way, you’ll have more time to get the rupees in the spikes’ path. All of the rupees can be collected this way, except one, which is above the Beamos’ head.
Kill the slugs in the next room and hit the switch near the cage to reveal a chest with Bombchus in it. Take note of the hole at the top of the cage. Aim a bombchu through this hole so that it will hit the switch in between the two torches. Using your fire arrows, burn the spider web above to allow light to enter. There are four suns on the ceiling; aim your shield at the first one on the left to unlock the door.
Light Barrier
Using the Golden Gloves, lift the pillar that blocks the entrance to the Light Barrier. In the next room, use the lens of truth to find the Skulltula in the middle of the room and the bats scattered throughout. There’s a ring of treasure chests, some with prizes, others without… from left to right: blue rupee, freezing ice trap, heart, freezing ice trap, bundle of arrows, and freezing ice trap.
Stand on the triforce symbol in the next room to reveal a treasure chest with a key in it. In the next room are two boulders spinning around in a circle. Go around the circle with the boulders and collect silver rupees around the central part of the room. There are rupees located both inside and outside of the circle, some in small ‘caves.’ The final rupee is on top and can be accessed by standing inside one of the outer ‘caves’ and shooting your hookshot at it.
In the next room where it appears there should be the Light Barrier, it’s nowhere to be found. Use your lens of truth and enter the fake wall to the real light barrier.
The Tower
Kill the flame bats or simply ignore them altogether. Climb up the stairs and defeat what looks like Lizalfos’ cousins, Dinolfos. Kill them in the same manner that you would kill the Lizalfos and go into the door that unlocks. Climb up the stairs and go into the next room. In here, defeat the two Stalfos while avoiding the fire in the middle. Get the boss key from the treasure chest and go into the unlocked door.
Climb up another set of stairs to a room with two Iron Knuckle knights to defeat. Defeat them the same way you defeated the others in the Spirit Temple and go through the unlocked door. Walk up to the stairs to your final challenge: Ganon.
Or so you thought. Don’t get to pot crazy and destroy all of the pots because you might need them later on. Enter the door to the right of where you just came in up to the final set of stairs.
