Shadow Temple & Boss
If you haven't already gotten it, go back to the Quest for Truth section
and get the Lens of Truth. You need it for this level. Go down the hall
and turn the corner, use the Hookshot to get across the pit, and you'll
see a wall in front of you. Walk through it. Immediately turn left and
follow the wall two face tiles down and walk through the wall again (use
the Lens in any area to see where the walls can be walked through). Now
go through the hall and door and go through another wall to come to a
room that seems to have no exit (but we know better right?) As soon as
you enter head right and follow the wall until you find an opening (use
lens if you want). Go through the door behind it and then play the Song
of the Sun to stun the zombie and kill it, then hunt down and kill the
two bats. Get the chest that appears for the Dungeon Map.
Now go back out and head right following the wall to an opening behind a
walk-through wall with a pot on either side of it. Keep going down this
tunnel and you'll end up in a room that looks the same as the last one.
The opening to go through next is in the corner on the right with a pot
beside it. Go through the door there and you'll face Dead Hand, which is
the same guy that you killed to get the Lens of Truth in the bottom of
the well. After this easy kill, a chest with the Hover Boots will
appear. Snatch your prize then go all the way back through to the first
big room that had the statue in the middle of it.
Use your Lens and look at the skulls on the pillars around the circle,
and see which one does NOT disappear with the lens. Now walk up to the
tab sticking out of the side of the base of the statue and push the
statue until the tab you are pushing is pointing toward the skull that
didn't disappear. Don't stop pushing until it gets there or you'll fall
in a pit. Now put on your hover boots and walk across the pit to the
tongue-looking platform and go in the door and down the ramp. Kill the
laser eye in the middle of the next room by throwing two bombs at it,
then stand in the middle of the round platform it was on and play the
Song of Storms for a Big Fairy (Big Fairies heal both life and magic but
can NOT be captured into a bottle. Also note that all you have to do is
leave the room and come back in and you can get it again.). Go through
the wall on your right, kill the mummies (stun them with Song of Sun if
need be) and get the chest containing the compass.
Exit back to the eye laser room and go straight through the wall on the
other side. You'll end up in a big room with two Deaths swinging giant
scythes around the room (it's not enemies, it's just a giant statue).
Avoiding the blades, grab all the silver rupees in the room. Note that
one is on a platform that has a Hookshot target on the wall above it, so
use the Hookshot to get to it. Now go through the alcove it opened and
get the small key. Return to the eye laser room and use a bomb to blast
open the remaining wall leading North. Go through the locked door. In
this next passage watch for round small shadows on the ground. They are
Skulltulas waiting to drop on you. Kill the three Skulltulas and drop
down the ledge ahead and you'll be facing some dropping blades. Dodge
the first blade, kill the Skulltula, then go past the second and keep
following the tunnel. Now you'll be in a huge room. Take off the Hover
boots if you're using them, otherwise you might slide into a blade. Jump
over the pit, dodge the blade and jump over the next pit, dodge the
second blade and jump over the pit, and just before the third blade
watch out for a flaming skull to try to get you. Kill it then dodge the
final blade.
Now on this island you'll have to kill a Stalfos. Once he's dead, play
the Song of Storms in the middle of the island for a Big Fairy. Put your
Hover Boots on. Facing away from the last falling blade, turn left and
use your lens to see an invisible platform. Hover on over it and the
next platform, turn right, and hover on over to the door there. Go
through and use your lens to see the big spinning scythes thing. Kill
the Shield-eater and look on the walls to find 3 bats to kill. Kill them
and the door will open. Go through it to kill a gold
skulltula, open a chest for some rupees, and open the invisible chest
using the lens for some arrows. (Yes, that was just for two stupid
treasures and a gold skulltula but I didn't want people complaining that
I'd missed some treasures). Now head back out and hover back to where
the Stalfos was. You can use the Song of Storms for another Big Fairy
now if you want.
Wait until the platform in front of you falls and hover forward as far
as you can go to land on it (it's farther than it looks). Then wait for
its highest point (you'll have to time it) and hover over to the next
big island. Collect all the silver rupees here (there's on inside that
eye laser thing so kill it) and go through the door that opens. Follow
this passage to a room with falling spikes. Use your lens and look at
the right hand wall to see a movable block. Pull it out onto the face
tile and then push it in front of you and it will keep the spikes from
hitting you. Once it's on the second face tile walk around and start
pulling it until it's on the third face tile. The treasure box in the
cage to the right has arrows. Climb up on to your block now and
hover/hop to the ledge on your left. Now wait until the spiked platform
lowers and walk over it to get to the platform on the other side of the
room. The treasure box has rupees, but more importantly the yellow
switch makes a new treasure box appear on the other side of the room.
Hover there using the spike platform as before and get the small key.
Leave this room back to the big room.
Now look at the left hand corner of the platform you are on (the one
furthest corner from you) and you'll see a small rock ramp. Use it to
get to a platform with a falling blade. Use your lens to see the ledges
behind the blade, then dodge and hover to the platforms and finally to
the locked door on the wall. In this room use your lens to see the
invisible spikes on the floor. Kill the two zombies and a rupee chest
will appear. Now to get all the silver coins here, Hookshot to the
Hookshot targets on the wall. To get the last one, use your lens to see
an invisible Hookshot target above an invisible platform. Hookshot up
and hover walk off the platform to get it. Once you have them all a door
will open, go through it. In this room kill all the bats to reopen the
blocked door that shut behind you. Climb up the steps and pick a bomb
plant then toss it into the hole in the top of the giant skull to blow
it up and get the small key it drops. Go back into the last room. Use
your lens and look on the ceiling above the raised platform for an
invisible Hookshot target. Use it to
get on the platform and go through the locked door.
Now I know this sounds weird but, put on your Iron Boots. This will keep
the fans in the tunnel ahead from blowing you away. Make your way
through the tunnel until you come to a pit. Watch the fan on the other
side of the pit and as soon as it stops blowing, equip the hover boots,
walk across, and then reequip the iron boots. Drop down off the ledge
and walk across the bridge to the door. You can kill the eye above the
door that's shooting fire at you by hitting it with an arrow while the
eye is open. In this small room kill the two zombies to reopen the door,
play the Song of the Sun (not storms) in the middle of the room for a
Big Fairy, open the invisible chest for some arrows, use z-targeting and
Navi on the face for a hint, then leave. Use your lens to see a hole in
the right wall, then stand even with it. Look at the fan behind you and
when it stops, turn around and equip the hover boots. Stand on the side
of the bridge closest to the fan. Watch closely and when you start
moving from the fan run across to the opening in the wall. The fan helps
blow you across. Go through the door.
As soon as you walk in this room, look to your right and there's a pile
of dirt there. Blow it up with a bomb, then use your Lens to see the
invisible chest containing a key. Kill the two mummies for another rupee
chest and go through the locked door. Once you're through this door turn
left and go to the movable block. Pull it onto the path of green bricks
and then pull/push it onto the face tile under the ladder on the
opposite side. Climb up onto it and go up the ladder. Hop over onto the
ship, stand on the Triforce symbol, and play Zelda's Lullaby. As the
ship moves you'll have to fight two Stalfos. When the ship completes its
journey, whether or not you're done with the Stalfos, it will
start sinking. Jump off to the left (if you're facing the front of the
ship) onto the platform there before it sinks. Go through the door
that's on the platform.
This next room has 4 doors at North, South, East and West (you came in
the East door) and is a small maze of invisible walls. It's inhabited
with those hand things like from the Forest Temple. Use your lens to
navigate it. The West room contains three giant rotating skull heads
that give you some rupees and a gold skulltula. The South room contains
an invisible hand monster (use Lens of course) and a chest that appears
once it's dead containing a small key. The North room contains two
spiked walls that close in on you to kill you. Use Din's Fire to burn
down the walls and recover the Boss Key and some rupees. Once you get
the Boss Key and small key, return to the room where the ship
dropped you off (through the East door).
As soon as you're back in this room, look up and to your right to see a
high platform. If you have the Scarecrow's Song you can play it to get
Pierre to appear up there and then Longshot to him to get across. If
not, go to the other end of the platform and look over to a large statue
and some bomb plants. Shoot one of the bomb plants with an arrow to blow
them up and make the statue fall over the gap creating a bridge. Once
you're over go through the locked door. Use the Lens and Hover Boots to
walk over the gaps and invisible platforms and go through the Boss Door.
Make sure you're still wearing the Hover Boots and fall down the hole in
the middle of the room to face...
Phantom Shadow Beast: BONGO BONGO
Now here is a classic Zelda boss....large and a pain in the butt!
Nothing but Z-Targeting will get you through this battle. Bongo Bongo is
nothing but two GIANT hands, poundong the drum you landed on (which
doubles as your battle platform) and a really ugly head. Your main
objective is to stun Bongo Bongo's hands with
either a single arrow from your trusty Fairy Bow or a slower, ammoless
Longshot. Z-Target a hand and shoot it once. Watch out as the second hand will try
to retaliate! After it goes back into place, shoot that one as well. When
that is done, Bongo Bongo charges at you. As fast as you can, swing your sword
at its giant red eye. It will drop stunned for you to take a good 5-6 swipes of
your sword. After that, he will get up and move around pounding the drum,
making it harder to shoot the hands. Repeat this process, but watch out for the
hands, which do several different attacks, ranging from a two handed slap, a
one fisted pound or a one handed push. Keep your energy up and hold on! As the
battle goes on, it becomes easier to win (duh)!
