Gannon's Castle & Boss
Walk down the hall, past the two eye laser things (just run past them)
and through the door. Now turn right and follow the outside wall until
you find the door with the purple Shadow Temple emblem above it (look on
your Quest Status subscreen if you need to compare). Go through that
door, look to your left for a platform with a small chest on it.
Hookshot to it. Put on your Hover Boots. Now aim across the way at a
small platform with a torch on it, and use a Fire Arrow to light the
torch. Quickly run across the blocks that appear, past the shield-eater
and on to the next platform after it. You won't have time to make it to
the next block so don't try. Instead, use your Lens to see an invisible
walkway. Take the right-hand walk way and jump down to the platform with
the
switch on it. Step on the switch to make a big treasure box appear. Use
your Hookshot on the treasure box to get up to it and you'll get the
Gold Gauntlets. Now take the left invisible path to a switch. Hit it
with your hammer, then go back and take the right path again to the
door. Go through it and shoot the floating ball thing with a Light
arrow. You'll be transported back to the main room. Go back to the main
door you came in through and leave the castle. When you are outside go
across the bridge and loop around to your left. You'll run under a stone
arch and go down a passageway to a huge stone pillar. Pick it up using
your A button and go through the cave behind it. Use Zelda's Lullaby to
summon the fairy and get double defense. Now head back into the castle
and into the main room.
Now that you have the Golden Gauntlets it doesn't matter what order you
get rid of the barriers. So just head right and go through the first
door, the one with the green emblem (Forest Barrier). Kill the wolf,
then use Din's Fire to light all the torches. Look above the doorway and
there's another torch, so light it with a Fire Arrow and go through the
door. Make sure you have your Hover Boots equipped in this next room.
First, wait until the fan to your left is going and then walk toward it
to get the silver rupee, then turn right and the fan will help blow you
across to the next platform. Hover over to the next small platform with
the switch on it and step on it. Turn around and use your Hookshot to
get up onto the platform and get the silver rupee you couldn't reach
before. Turn toward the middle of the room and Z-target and toss a bomb
at the eye laser thing. Hover over to its platform then across to
another silver rupee. Hover back to the eye laser thing's platform and
forward to the one under the door. Now wait until the fan to the right
of the door stops blowing then hover across to the last silver rupee. Go
through the door and shoot the floating ball with a Light arrow to be
warped back to the main room.
Head right again and go through the next door, the Water Barrier. Empty
one of your bottles (NOT a blue potion) and use it to get some magic
blue flame from the center of the room. Walk around the room to find the
two ice statues and kill them to unblock the door. Melt the ice blocking
the door with the blue flame, then refill the bottle with more blue
flame. Go through the door. In this room, push the ice block furthest
from you right, then back (toward the door you came in through) so that
it falls down the hole. Then push the other block right, forward, and
finally left so that it ends up in the nook in the wall. Climb up it and
use the blue fire to melt the ice. Smash the switch with the hammer then
go through the next door. Kill the floating ball thing with a Light
arrow and you're back in the main room again.
Continue to the right, past the Shadow Barrier door since you already
beat it, and on to the Fire Barrier door. Equip your Hover Boots and
Goron's Tunic. Collect all the silver coins in the room. Watch out
because most of the platforms sink in the lava while you're standing on
them so keep moving. You'll have less of a problem with this if you're
wearing your Hover Boots. There's one on the platform with the rotating
fire-breathing statue and one just to the right on a block. Further down
on the left there's a big pillar. Lift it with your Golden Gauntlets to
reveal another one. Then the last two are on the far right side of the
room. After you've grabbed the last one get close enough to the door so
that you can Hookshot to the Hookshot target next to it. Go through and
kill the floating ball thing with a Light arrow and warp back to the
main room.
Once again heading right, move the pillar out of the way of the door to
the Light Barrier. In the first room, use the Lens or just Z-targeting
to kill the 4 bats and big skulltula in the room. Get the key in the
chest that appears and go through the locked door. Use Zelda's Lullaby
in the next room for another key and go through the locked door. Now
you're in another collect silver rupees room. There's 2 in nooks on the
outer wall, two in the structure in the middle, and one on the ceiling
you can get with the Hookshot. Go through the door and...the ball thing
is missing! But not really. Go straight through the wall in front of you
and you'll be in the real room with the ball thing. Destroy it and warp
back.
On to the final door, the Spirit Barrier. In the first room, once again
collect silver rupees. Blow up the eye laser thing with two bombs or
bombchu's. Just roll attack (forward+A) through the spikes to get most
of them. Don't forget the one floating in the middle of the room -
Hookshot to the ceiling to get it. Go through the door and kill the
torch slugs. Use a spin slash to trigger the first shock switch, which
makes a chest drop containing Bombchu's. Use a bombchu on the fence to
have it climb up the fence, go through the hole up there, then climb
down the other side to finally blow up the second shock switch (good use
for a Bombchu eh?). Go through the door now and through an entryway to a
room with some sun symbols on the wall. Shoot the hole in the ceiling
with a Fire Arrow to let in the sunlight. Use your Mirror Shield to
reflect it onto the symbol just to the right of the entryway (NOT the
doorway!) to unblock the door. Go on to the final floating ball thing.
Kill it with a Light Arrow.
Now leave Gannon's Castle to stock up. Use the Great Fairies fountain to
heal your life and magic. Make sure you have at least 1 blue or green
potion because you may need it to refill magic during the final battle.
Fill the rest with fairies. Also be sure you have a full quiver of at
least 40 arrows. Now go back into Gannon's Castle and go into the tower
in the middle of the room. Go up the stairs and through the door. Now
you'll just have to keep killing all the enemies in the room to unblock
the next door, then go through and up more stairs. About halfway up
you'll find the Boss Key in a chest surrounded by fire that you need to
kill all the enemies in the room to get to. Eventually you'll also have
to fight two Iron Knuckles at the same time. Don't worry though they're
slow enough you can just work on one at a time. Remember to wait until
they get close enough to swing, then backflip with back+A, then push A
again when you land for a jump slash. Once you've climbed enough stairs
you'll end up in a huge room with a giant pillar in the middle of it and
pots everywhere. Don't break any pots, you'll need them later. Find the
other door and go through it and up a huge flight of stairs. You'll pop
in on a small story sequence when you go through the door the top.
Afterwards you'll face the big guy himself, the Evil King....
Great King Of Evil: GANONDORF
Your near then end =O( Don't worry! Knowing how hard these last battles
will be, you'll be playing the end for some time. But luckily, I'll
supply you with the ingredients needed to kick butt! Off the bat,
Ganondorf starts the fight like he did when you fought Phantom Ganon in
his second form. This time, you have to reflect the electric bolts at
him when he reflects it back at you. You must do this over and over
until he gets hit! Once he gets hit, quickly take your Fairy Bow out and
peg him with a Light Arrow. It you take too long, Gannondorf will
actually reflect it back at you! YIKES! Now quickly, dash to the
platform he falls on and smack him with your sword (Biggoron is
preferred because it is twice as strong as the Master Sword). One swing
and run back because if you stay too long, Ganondorf will smash the
platform knocking your platform down and slowing your progress. Repeat
the attack about 4-6 times and Ganondorf does an extremely powerful and
hard to dodge energy attack. This attack sends about six homing energy
bolts towards you. When it starts to come towards you, dash from one side
of the room to the other and it could miss you doing minimal damage to
the platform. Get hit and your in danger. Have all your bottles filled
with Ultimate Blue potions because you WILL get hit a lot and the Light
Arrows take magic points that will decrease pretty rapidly if you shoot
them off like a madman. If your daring, peg him with a Light Arrow while
he is summoning the
magic. Keep at it....hit the electric bolt at him, shoot the arrow and
strike him....8-10 times should do him in. Now things get pretty screwed
up....
