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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Walkthrough
by The Lost Gamer (Michael Gray)
http://the_lost_gamer.tripod.com/
Copyright 2008
Table of Contents:
001.  General information
002.  Note to Wii Users
003.  Characters
004.  Walkthrough
004a. The Opening Triduum
004aa. Dawn of the First Day – 72 Hours Remain
004ab. Dawn of the Second Day – 48 Hours Remain
004ac. Dawn of the Third Day – 24 Hours Remain
004b. Forest Temple – Getting the First Fused Shadow
004ba. Wild and Wolfy
004bb. Dispelling the Twilight
004bc. Forest Temple – More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys
004bd. Forest Temple – Boomerang Adventures
004c. Goron Mines – Getting the Second Fused Shadow
004ca. Dispelling the Twilight
004cb. Getting to the Gorons
004cd. The Mines – The First Big Key Third
004ce. The Mines – The Second Big Key Third
004ce. The Mines – The Third Big Key Third
004d. Lakebed Temple – Getting the Third Fused Shadow
004da. Dispelling the Twilight
004db. Getting the Zora Armor
004dc. Lakebed Temple – East Side
004dd. Lakebed Temple – West Side
004e. Arbiter's Grounds - Getting to the Mirror of Twilight
004ea. Finding the Master Sword
004eb. Reaching Arbiter's Grounds
004ec. Arbiter's Grounds – Poe Hunt
004ed. Arbiter's Grounds – Spinner Time
004f. Snowpeak Ruins - Getting the Second Mirror Shard
004fa. What's that Smell?
004fb. Snowpeak Ruins, Part One – Finding the Pumpkin
004fc. Snowpeak Ruins, Part Two – Finding the Cheese
004fd. Snowpeak Ruins, Part Three – Finding the Key
004g. Temple of Time – Getting the Third Mirror Shard
004ga. Not the Sacred Grove Again!
004gb. Flashbacks to Ocarina of Time
004gc. Temple of Time, Part One - Bop to the Top
004gd. Temple of Time, Part Two – Getting Down and Funky
004h. Island in the Sky - Getting the Fourth Mirror Shard
004ha. Some Rather Boring Adventures
004hb. Dungeon and Dragon – East Tower
004hc. Dungeon and Dragon – West Tower
004hd. Dungeon and Dragon – North Tower
004i. Palace of Twilight – Time to Kill Zant
004ia. Midna Gets Some Backstory
004ib. The Western Sol
004ic. The Eastern Sol
004id. The Northern Tower
004j. Hyrule Castle – Time to Kill Ganondorf
005.  Bosses
006.  Howling Stones/Secret Moves
007.  Pieces of Heart
008.  Golden Bugs
009.  Poes
010.  Equipment (Upgrades)
011.  Credits
001. General Information
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This is a walkthrough for the Gamecube/Wii game called "The
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess". Bet you knew that
already.
You can e-mail me at ilovecartoonssomuch@yahoo.com, but
make the subject blank if you do, so I know it's not spam.
Note: If you have a problem with this game, please READ THE
GUIDE BEFORE E-MAILING ME. Why? I'm slow at answering
e-mails, and it'll be loads quicker for you if you try to
find the answer to the question yourself. After all, this
is a guide for the game, and it should contain the answer
to any question you might have about beating the game.
But if you've gone through this guide and you're still
stumped, then you can ask me a question. You might want to
check another guide, though, and often I will answer
questions by saying "Check someone else's guide". I'm kind
of lazy like that.
If you want to put a copy of this guide on your website,
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002. Note to Wii Users
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The Wii version of Twilight Princess is a mirrored version
of the Gamecube version. That is, Link is left-handed on
the Gamecube, and right-handed on the Wii. What this means
is that "left" for the Gamecube is "right" for the Wii. So
if any of you Wii users want to use this guide, remember
that when I say "left", for you, it means "right", and when
I say "right", for you, it means "left".
I mention this in the guide with annoying consistency, just
in case you Wii users forget about this.
003.  Characters
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Link: Our hero! In this game, he's a farmhand who lives in
the village of Ordon. Link gets forced into an adventure in
which he saves the Land of Hyrule. Again.
Epona: Link's horse. Ilia likes her a lot. I suspect that
she only likes Link for his horse.
Ilia: Link's girlfriend. Hey, way to go, Link, you have a
girlfriend! I always thought that Zelda would be Link's
girlfriend, but I guess I was wrong. Unfortunately, Ilia is
kidnapped early on in the game, and part of Link's quest is
to find her.
Colin: A little boy who wants to grow up to be just like
Link. Aw, isn't that sweet, Link has a fan!
Malo: A young boy who lives in Ordon Village. He's rather
sarcastic, and often mumbles to himself. He runs two
different shops in this game, one in Kakariko Village, and
the other in Castle Town.
Talo: A young boy who lives in Ordon Village. He's
enthusiastic about being a cool swordsman like Link.
Beth: A young girl who lives in Ordon Village. Actually,
she's the ONLY young girl in Ordon Village. Dating
opportunities are going to be tough for Malo, Talo and
Colin in the future, that's for sure.
Rusl: The leading fighter in Ordon Village. He helps Link
out a lot on his quest, and he also likes to share some
homo-erotic moments with Link. I guess he doesn't know that
Link has a girlfriend.
Uli: Wife of Rusl, mother of Colin. She's pregnant.
Fado: Runs the Ordon Ranch. He's a nice person, but not
very good at running the ranch.
Sera: Mother of Beth. Runs the shop in Ordon Village.
She's a fat woman who loves her cat.
Haunch: Father of Beth. He is a timid fellow who spends
most of his time outside of Fado's house, looking at the
beehive.
Bo: Mayor of Ordon Village. Father of Ilia, and champion
sumo wrestler.
Jaggle: Father of Malo and Talo. He's a slacker who spends
most of his time lying down.
Pergie: Mother of Malo and Talo. You don't see much of her,
because she stays inside with the dog most of the time.
Midna: Midna is an other worldly creature who makes friends
with Link. By "other worldly", I mean that she lives in the
world of the twilight, thus making her the Twilight
Princess the game's title refers to.
Princess Zelda: Zelda is the Twilight Princess that the
game's title refers to. At least, I think she is. Link sees
her a grand total of twice in this game. Woo hoo!
Renado: Shaman at Kakariko Village.
Luda: Renado's daughter.
Barnes: He runs the bomb shop in Kakariko village. For
someone who makes bombs, he's kind of a wuss.
Darbus: The drama teacher at East High, who hates it when
people use cell phones in her class. No, wait, that's from
High School Musical. In Twilight Princess, Darbus is the
chief of the Gorons.
Fyer: The man who runs a transportation shop at Hyrule
Lake. He can send you to Gerudo Desert, the top of the
lake, and the city in the sky.
Falbi: The man who runs a transportation shop to Hyrule
Lake. He and Fyer are in business together.
Ganondorf: The evil bad guy who has been trying to take
over the Land of Hyrule for centuries now. Naturally, he's
trying to take over Hyrule in this game, too.
Zant: The bad guy who kicked Midna off of her throne (not
cool!) and is currently making plans for world domination.
Link is SO going to kick Zant's butt.
Agitha: Princess of the Bug Kingdom! She's a cute girl who
has a bug collection. She pays Link handsomely for finding
all of her bugs. I kinda like her.
Borville: A doctor who lives in Castle Town. He's grumpy,
and has a humongous tab waiting for him at the local bar.
Fanadi: The fortune teller in Castle Town, who can tell you
what to do next, or where to find a new piece of heart.
Jovani: A greedy man who can be restored to life if you
find and kill sixty poes.
Ashei: A woman who's a member of the Adventurer's Guild.
She studies the Yeti who live on Snowpeak Mountain. I think
she's kind of cute.
Auru: He's a member of the Adventurer's guild, and he gives
Link a letter which enables Link to travel to Gerudo Desert.
Shad: A man who's a member of the Adventurer's Guild. He
studies the Oocca, the creatures who live in the sky. He
has crazy glasses.
Telma: She runs the bar in Castle Town.
Impaz: An old woman who lives alone in a village with a lot
of cats.
Ooccoo and Ooccoo Jr: Link's sky creature friends who help
him warp out of dungeons.
The Postman: The Postman delivers mail to Link. He can be
seen hanging around in the barn at Ordon Ranch, at Telmia's
Bar, Kakariko Inn or the Cave of Ordeals.
Prince Ralis: Prince of the Zoras. Link saves his life, and
he helps Link get to Snowhead Mountain.
Rutela: Queen of the Zoras. She's dead, but still asks Link
to save her son's life. In return, she gives him Zora
Armor.
Purlo: The man who runs the Star Circus tent in Castle
Town. He is allegedly modeled after Tingle.
Yeto: A big, friendly Yeti who lives on Snowpeak Mountain.
Yeta: Yeto's wife, who is sick for most of the Snowpeak
Mountain dungeon, but she makes a recovery in time to fight
Link as the dungeon's boss.
004-Walkthrough
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004a. The Opening Triduum
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"Triduum" is Latin for "three days", in case you didn't
know.
004aa. Twilight of the First Day – 72 Hours Remain
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Pick a name for your character and a name for your horse,
and you're off to start the game! You can pick any name
you want (for example, I picked Teucer and Ajax), but for
the sake of this guide, I'm calling the characters by their
default names, Link and Epona.
So the game starts off with an oddly homoerotic scene in
which Link and Rusl sit by a pond, and Rusl starts talking
about how the twilight is so...MAGICAL...
Rusl gives you the job of heading to Hyrule Castle sometime
in the future, and he closes up the bridge that leads north
to the rest of Hyrule before he takes you home.
004ab. Dawn of the Second Day – 48 Hours Remain
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The next day, a girl named Ilia walks off with your horse,
and a guy named Fado asks if you could help him out at the
ranch.
Now the game officially starts. Talk to Fado to learn that
he wants you to go get Epona. Head down the western path
(east for you Wii users), using the map on the left part of
the screen to know where west is. There's only two paths,
and it's the one that doesn't have a gate, so it's not hard
to figure out where to go.
Go all the way down the road here. You can't go past the
bridge Rusl locked, so go to the pool of water that Link
and Rusl were sitting by in the opening scene.
Link walks up towards the girl (Ilia) and Epona. The two of
them are having a equus-erotic moment. I kinda get the
feeling that Ilia agreed to be Link's girlfriend only so
she could spend time with Epona...
Anyway, Ilia asks Link to play Epona's special song, also
known as Epona's song (see why I think Ilia has a thing for
Epona?). On the shore of the pool is a small clump of
reeds, which, oddly enough, resemble horse shoes. Pick a
reed up with A and use A to play the song.
Now that Epona and Ilia are happy, Ilia says you can take
Epona home. Stand next to Epona and press A to mount her
(Epona, not Ilia. Get your mind out of the gutter). You can
press A to get Epona to dash forward for a while, which
takes up one of the six whips on the "dash forward" meter
at the bottom of the screen. The meter refills
automatically, whip by whip, unless all the whips are gone,
in which case they are all refilled at once.
Basically, riding the horse here is the same as the other
Zelda games with Epona, with the difference that you can
pull back on the joystick to help change directions. Cool!
That makes it much easier!
Head back to Link's house, and go through the open gates to
enter town. I don't know why Link doesn't live in the town
with everyone else in Ordon Village, but I'm sure there's a
good reason for it.
Aw, you can't dash forward anymore. Anyway, time for you to
wander around and get an idea of who everyone is and how
Ordon Village is laid out, if you want. First on the road
is the family that runs the shop, Sera (a kinda fat woman),
Beth (the girl) and Haunch (a scared man).
Next down the road is Colin (a boy), Rusl (Link's homo-
erotic buddy) and Uli, Rusl's pregnant wife. They live in
the house on the hill, which you reach by following the
path.
There's a third family that lives in the house across the
bridge you can't cross while riding Epona, but they're not
at home, so screw 'em. Instead, go across the bridge that
you can cross while riding Epona, and you see Bo, the town
mayor, and father of Ilia. Okay, that's everyone! Time to
help out at the ranch! Head through the gate at the south
end of town!
Ride forward and Fado asks you to help herd all the goats
into the barn. You then start a minigame which is kinda
fun, I guess. All you have to do is ride around on Epona
and whoop with A to herd the goats into the barn. It takes
a long time, but fortunately, there's no time limit.
Fado then takes out some fences, so you can learn how to
jump fences while riding your horse, which will come in
handy when you're trying to jump the thousands upon
thousands (or maybe just three) fences in this game.
Anyway, the way to jump fences is ride at them straight on,
at a perpendicular angle. Woah, math terms! You have to be
going at least somewhat fast, so make sure to dash forward
with A if you want to jump fences.
Leave the ranch to end the day.
004ac. Dawn of the Third Day – 24 Hours Remain
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Okay, so I titled these three opening sections "Dawn of the
____ Day" in a Majora's Mask reference, and now we get to
start the only day of the three that actually _starts_ at
dawn. Fun!
Climb down the two ladders and exit through the door to get
out of Link's house. Go down and talk to the kids. Talo and
Malo, the two boys, are excited to hear that they have a
slingshot at the store, but Beth won't let them use it.
Meanwhile, Colin, the other kid in town, is by Epona. He
has a fishing pole for you, but his mom has it.
There's not much to do now except go into town, where the
people are having problems. Uli lost her baby cradle, and
Sera lost her cat, so she can't sell you anything.
If you wander near a vine-covered rock nearby a big rock on
the side of the road, Jaggle teaches you how to use
L-targeting to talk to people by pressing L, then A.
Climb up the vines to talk to Jaggle, who shows you where
Sera's cat is. He also shows you some grass that you can
blow on, like the reeds you used to make Epona happy.
When you blow on this grass, it makes...Link's hawk-buddy
appear! All right, hawk-buddy! I'm going to call you
Tobias!
You can aim Tobias at whatever you want (for example, the
bee nest above Fado's house), and Tobias flies straight at
it. How cool is that? Tobias rocks!
Oh, also, when you talk to Bo, goats get loose, and you
learn how to grab goats, a skill that you'll need to use
two different times in this game. When the goat runs at
you, press A to grab onto it. Hold onto A the hole time to
throw the goat aside. It's not so hard once you get the
hang of it.
Once you feel you've explored enough, swim to the north
part of town, where you'll see a monkey with a cradle. Hey,
that's Uli's cradle! That stupid monkey! We'll show her!
Go back to Haggle. Jump to where the Tobias grass was, then
jump to the roof of the nearby house. Jump from this house
to another platform, then jump from that platform to an
area with Tobias grass. Call Tobias.
Aim Tobias at the monkey with the cradle and Tobias steals
the cradle! All right Tobias! You are so COOL! It sucks
that this is the pretty much the only time you get to use
Tobias.
Take the cradle to Uli, then take it to her house, and she
gives you the fishing rod. Now you get to learn how to use
items! Press the up button to see your various items, and
set an item to X or Y.
Set the Fishing Rod to X or Y, then head to the small dock
(near the cat) and start fishing. Maybe fishing is
interesting on the Wii version, but in the Gamecube
version, it's kind of boring. All you do is throw the hook
out, and when a fish bites, hold down on the C-stick to
reel it in. No challenge at all.
Catch a fish, and you learn about the fish journal, which
is a list of how many fish you've caught, and how big the
biggest fish were.
Catch another fish, and the game makes you give it away to
the cat, who grabs it and runs home. Follow the cat to its
home, which is the store. Talk to the woman there to get...
a bottle with milk inside! Yes!
Now there's nothing else to do but buy the slingshot at the
store. Go around town, collecting rupees until you have
thirty, then buy the slingshot. You can get rupees by
smashing the pumpkins in the town, all of which magically
reappear whenever you enter/exit a house. You can get
twenty rupees from the roof of Rusl's house, by jumping
from his porch to the sign that says "Rusl's House", and
jumping from that to Rusl's roof.
Once you have the slingshot, you can go back to the kids
who were talking about the slingshot earlier, just to show
off to them. When you do so, you meet Rusl, who has a
surprise for you left in your house.
You can get in your house by using your slingshot on the
spider (L-target it, then shoot at it). In the treasure box
is...a wooden sword! Cool!
Now show off to the kids, who force you to do a training
routine. Sigh...Use L-target to hit the two pumpkins
easily, then hit all five targets by aiming manually.
Then the kids ask you to do a training routine in sword
fighting, where you learn how to horizontal slice (B), a
vertical slice (L-target, then B), a stab (L-target, then
up and B), spin attack (hold B, then release), and the jump
attack (L-target, then A).
The monkey who stole the cradle shows up. What the heck?
Kill it! Kill it! The kids run off into the woods, chasing
the monkey.
Looks like you have to stop the kids from doing something
stupid...grab Epona and ride off into the woods, after
them. Beth and Malo have given up the chase early on, but
Talo has managed to cross the now-unlocked bridge and kept
going. Ride across the bridge and north to enter the Faron
Woods.
Run forward along the path, and jump over the fence. Go
forward, and you end up near a pond. Go through the small
tunnel near the pond, and you end up near a gate with a
Deku Baba (a monster plant). Ignore the Deku Baba for now,
and go north.
Hey, it's a dude in a shack! Awesome. Talk to the dude to
get a free lantern. All you have to do is swing your
lantern by pressing the button the lantern is set on.
Go back to where the Deku Baba was, kill it, and head to
the tunnel it was guarding. In the tunnel, you find Talo's
sword...Talo must have been here!
It's dark in the tunnel, so pull out your lantern to light
the way. See the thing right in front of you? It's a
lantern post. Light it, and it stays lit, so you don't have
to use your lantern all the time. Nice!
Head through the tunnel, and use your lantern to burn the
spiderweb that gets in your way. Shortly after this, the
path branches. Head down the path that doesn't go north if
you want a yellow rupee (that is, ten rupees). Then go up
the north path, burn the spiderweb, and exit the tunnel.
You end up in a swamp, which is conveniently empty, and has
some very convenient red dots on the map to tell you where
to go. Head towards the eastern dot (western for you Wii
users), which leads to a cave containing a small key. Get
the small key, then light the lamp posts here to get...a
PIECE OF HEART!!!
Now, head to the other red dot. You reach a gate, which is
locked. Open it with your small key, then head through the
gate and keep going towards the red dot. When you reach it,
you find Talo and the monkey have been taken hostage.
Weird, who kidnaps a monkey and a small child? Kill the
enemies here, then cut all the bars of the cage off with
your sword.
Talo thanks you, then runs off. Rusl shows up, and he's
surprised and pleased to learn that Link has saved Talo.
It just goes to show that Link IS capable of going to
Hyrule Castle all on his own!
Rusl jokes that Link might even get to see Princess Zelda!
Ha ha ha ha ha! What a kidder!
004b. Forest Temple – Getting the First Fused Shadow
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004ba. Wild and Wolfy
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Leaving Town
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Okay, finally, it's time to leave the city of Ordon! Fado
wants you to herd all his goats back into the barn, so pick
up the reeds and blow on them to call Epona.
This time, there are twice as many goats, and there's a
timer. It's kind of stupid, because you get no hassle for
getting the goats in slowly, and you get no reward for
getting the goats in quickly.
When you're done, leave the ranch to see the mayor, and get
a SPECIAL goodbye present from Ilia, who was busy making
you a gift all day yesterday, in case you didn't know.
Bo starts talking to Link about how he has to deliver the
gift to the Royal Family on time, because the Royal Family
requested it especially from the Ordonians, and he wants to
make a good impression.
Ilia doesn't pay attention to Bo or Link, and instead, she
fawns on Epona...until she sees a scratch. Then Ilia yells
at Link and Bo for a while, and leaves to wash Epona in the
Forest Spring again.
So it's off to get Epona back. Head there to find out that
Malo and Talo are mad because they got in trouble, so they
won't let Link or Colin pass, unless Link gives Talo his
sword (to replace Talo's lost sword, presumably).
Sheesh, what is up with these kids and weapons? Little
punks...Anyway, Colin is glad that you managed to get rid
of Talo and Malo, because they're bullying jerks. Colin
wants to grow up to be just like Link, in that he wants to
help other people (he doesn't want to be a fighter).
While you're here, you might as well go in Link's house, to
the basement, and pull out the lantern to find a treasure
chest with a purple (50) rupees.
Head after Colin to the Forest Spring, where Ilia is
washing Epona. She's mad, and won't let you in. Colin says
he'll smooth things over with her for you, while you crawl
in through the back entrance. So head to the back entrance,
which is a hole in the rock a little forward and left from
the entrance of this particular area (right, for you Wii
users).
Crawl through the hole. Cutscene time! Ilia hears that Link
rode Epona into the forest to save Talo. Epona sees Link
and snorts happily, which makes Ilia a little sad (she
wants to be Epona's favorite human).
Ilia wishes the best for Link, who two enemies riding a
giant boar show up, and knock out all the humans. The
enemies pick up Colin and Ilia, and drag them off.
Then another green enemy, a big fat guy, shows up and blows
his horn, which causes a portal to appear in the sky. Okay,
that's kinda weird.
Later on, Link wakes up from his unconscious rest in the
water, and without waiting to get his sword or anything,
starts running after the long-gone enemies.
He goes across the bridge, and, woah, wait. There's some
big black portal door blocking the way. That wasn't there
before...it must have been summoned by this portal-summoning
enemy.
Link stops in front of the portal, not sure what to do...
when a hand reaches and drags him in. Oh no, it's a strange
monster! Kill it, Link! Kill it!
Link's hand starts glowing, and he turns into a wolf, and
falls unconscious again. Okay, Link, that makes the second
time you've fallen unconscious in this cutscene. It didn't
work last time, and it doesn't work here, because Wolf Link
gets dragged away...into jail.
Til Kitten's Out of Jail...
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Yep, you're certainly chained up in jail now. Does anyone
understand what the heck just happened? Yeah, me neither.
Anyway, let's see if we can escape from the jail.
Run around for a while to see that, no, you can't escape.
Then, a kind of evil-looking, but happy, creature appears
and shouts, "I found you!"
The creature messes around with Link for a while, and
leaves the cell. Looks like we have to escape on our own.
Break the box in the corner of the cell by biting with the
B button, and dig through the newly-revealed hole with Y to
exit the cell.
The creature lands on top of you, and commences to ride you
like a horse. She also says she can talk to you with Z.
Try this out by pushing open the door to the other jail
cell, and press Z when the Z button appears on the screen,
along with a picture of the creature.
She tells you to L-target the chain, so do so, and then
press A to pull it down. This opens an exit to this room.
Great! Go through the tunnel to end up near a water area,
where there's a floating...thing.
The creature tells you to use X to hone your new animal
senses, to see what's happening. It turns out the floating
thing is a soldier. Listen to what he's saying with A.
The creature tells you the floating thing was actually the
spirit of the soldier. Okay, that's kind of weird. Let's
get out of here quick, okay? You want to reach the circular
area on the map.
So go straight forward through the waterway, and make a
right turn through the gate (left turn for you Wii users),
which is the way you have to go to reach the circular area.
Unfortunately, your path to the circular is soon blocked by
a spiked floor.
Go south from the spiked floor, and you find another chain
that you can pull down, which fills the entire area with
water and lets you keep going on. You can now feel free to
explore this area, where you'll find more soldiers, and
chains which you can pull to find enemies and rupees.
Once you reach the circular area, the creature leaves you
and hides on the other side of the bars that block your
way. Let's see...that looks like a hole in the wall near
these bars, but you can't get through it, so...you'll have
to lower the water.
Turn around and walk in a straight line to reach another
chain near a gate. Pull the chain, and the water is drained
from the area. Turn around again, and head towards the
bars. Use A to enter the hole, then follow through the
tunnel to reach the creature who has been alternately
helping and teasing you.
Head to the circular area, which turns out to be a
stairwell. Go up the stairs, and there will be a gap in
the stairs. Jump over the gap, and, hey, what? You can't
jump that far!
Your creature friend isn't happy you didn't make the jump
correctly. Well, gee, maybe if she wasn't riding on top of
Link, he could make the jump! And, in fact, this is the
case. Go up the stairs, and at the gap in the stairs, press
Z. She floats over the gap, and now that Link doesn't have
such a heavy weight holding him down, he can make the jump.
Plus, your friend makes a convenient L-target! So L-target
her and make two jumps with A (as if you're jump attacking
your friend) to get past this part of the stairwell.
Keep going up the stairs, jumping over the next two gaps in
the stairs by yourself, without the help of your friend.
You end up near a large piece of stone you can't get
around. Press Z, and L-target jump attack your friend twice
to get to the next level of the stairwell.
Keep going up the stairs here, and at the end of the
stairs, you find a rope. Walk across the rope (for some
reason, this is not difficult, even though you'd think it'd
be really hard for a wolf to be a tightrope walker) to
reach more stairs.
Here you have to press Z and jump attack your friend three
times to get across the gaps in the stairs, and you end up
reaching the end of the stairs. Finally!
But the door is locked. Uncool! Stand on the two broken
steps near the door (there's a box near these steps). You
have to press Z and jump attack your friend four times to
reach the exit. Head outside.
We're...at a palace, which I assume is Hyrule Palace,
seeing as that's the only palace we've heard of so far.
Your friend says she wants to introduce you to someone
inside the tower, and there's nothing else you can do, so
I guess it's off to the tower!
The map shows that we have to go north, take a turn, then
head north again, and then we're at the tower. So go north
and you find another spirit, which the creature tells you
to listen to, so you know that the spirits can't see you,
and that you're at Hyrule Castle. Looks like I was wrong to
assume we were at Hyrule Palace. Whatever, Hyrule Castle,
Hyrule Palace, they're pretty close.
Make the turn, and your way is blocked by a tall wall. See
the big crate here? Push it against the wall by using R,
and then use A to climb on top of it. Get down onto the
other side of the wall, drop to the area below, then start
going north again.
Go north until the path breaks off, so you can't go north
any further. Stand on the wooden patio here, when the Z
button appears. Jump at your friend three times to reach
some sort of roof. Head along the roof, which leads to the
tower. Reach the end of the roof, then climb up to the top
of the roof, and into the tower.
We're here! Where's the person Link's friend wants him to
meet? Ah, but of course, at the top of the tower! Go up the
stairs here, push open the door and you meet...
A cloaked figure looks out the window, while lightning
flashes. Link growls, while the creature rolls her eye and
moves Link forward. The cloaked figure turns around and
says, "Midna?"
Hey, our friend's name is Midna! Midna is happy to hear her
name was remembered. The cloaked figure notices Link, and
figures he's the one Midna was looking for.
Midna figures Link will work. Okay, why are they talking
about Link like he's not there? Cloak gets down on its
knees to look and Link, and notices Link was imprisoned.
The cloak apologizes. Midna then says, "Poor thing, he has
no idea where this is or what's happened..." Good point,
Midna. EXCELLENT POINT. I don't know what the hell has
happened! First Link was walking into the forest, and then
his friends were kidnapped, and now he's a wolf who's
escaped from some sort of Wolf Jail in another dimension.
Explain what's going on, please!
Midna calls the cloaked figure Twilight Princess. Twilight
Princess then explains that this was once Hyrule, the land
where the gods housed their power. But the king that rules
the twilight (ie. the twilight king) has transformed Hyrule
into a world of shadows, ruled by twilight/light-hating
creatures.
Flashback time. Twilight Princess remembers the attack of
the twilight creatures, who easily destroy her forces. The
twilight king, who wears a really freaky looking helmet
that covers his whole head, tells her to surrender.
The princess drops her sword and surrenders. Then we see
the castle on fire for some reason, while a crowd of people
watch. Anyway, it seems that since Princess surrendered,
Hyrule got transformed into a twilight land, where everyone
with the exception of Midna, Link and herself, are now
spirits.
Twilight Princess says that even though the land is in
twilight, she is still the Princess...Princess Zelda. WOAH!
She's Zelda? How...totally obvious!
Midna tells Zelda not to look so sad, cause Midna thinks
the twilight is kind of nice to live in. Zelda tells Midna
that the shadow beasts are looking for her...why?
Midna doesn't tell, and Zelda says time is short, because
the guard will soon appear. That's our cue to leave. Go out
the door, and down the stairs. The guard opens the door
below, so Midna and Link head out the way they came in,
through a window.
Midna says she'll take you back to where she found you, but
that won't do much good, because Colin and Ilia are still
kidnapped. Midna briefly takes the form of Ilia...that's
really freaky, Midna.
004bb. Dispelling the Twilight
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Finding a Sword and Shield
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Midna takes you back to the Forest Spring, using the portal
that is hanging in midair over the spring. Midna tells Link
that he's still stuck in Wolf Form, and won't be changing
back to normal anytime soon. Great.
Try leaving, and Midna pops up as Link's shadow. She tells
you that she won't let you get back into the Twilight Zone
until you get her a sword and shield, and seeing as you
need to get back into the Twilight Zone to save your
friends, you'll have to get that sword and shield.
Head to Ordon Village. Bad guys are here, but you can fight
them as Wolf Link just like you did as a human. A squirrel
(oh, yeah, since you're a wolf, you can talk to animals
now) warns you that the bad guys went on ahead and
kidnapped the other three annoying kids in the town, so the
town is on high alert now.
But there don't seem to be anyone on guard anywhere, except
the slacker guy, who's doing nothing, as usual.
Head to Malo and Talo's house, which is the house with the
windmill. Mayor Bo is talking with someone outside the
house. Sneak up near enough to them to listen with A, but
don't get too close, or they'll see you.
When you listen, they talk about where the sword and shield
are (how convenient!), and then they notice you and run
away.
Slacker guy now takes initiative, and uses Tobias to start
hurting you. Tobias! Nooooo! How could you???
Head to the rock near the path outside of the town shop.
Midna lets you do the Z-jump here twice to reach the roof
of the shop. Sneak up on the guy with Tobias, and he
screams and runs away. CHICKEN!!!
You can howl at the reeds here to talk to Tobias, who
apologizes for hurting you. But more importantly, you can
Z-jump twice to enter the house with the shield in it.
Enter the house, then get on the table and Z-jump to the
shield. Smash against the wall with A or B to get the
shield.
Midna points out that the shield is kind of cheap-looking.
Whatever, we have a shield now. Go through the open window
to exit the house.
We see Rusl tell his wife that he has the sword hidden on
his couch. Sneak around to the side of Rusl's house, the
side that's close to the source of the tiny river. Make
sure Rusl and his wife don't see you, or they'll start to
hassle you.
Use your senses to see that there's a big hole in the
ground, right next to the log on the side of the house.
Use Y to dig through the hole and get in the house. Pick up
the sword from the couch.
All right, now that we have a sword and a shield, we're
ready to go...do something. Get the kidnapped children
back? Maybe.
You Have Now Entered...The Twilight Zone
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Anyway, Midna says to head back to the Twilight Zone, so
exit the house the way you came in and head for the Forest
Spring, where a cutscene occurs.
A disembodied voice speaks to Link, and...a trap! A shadow
beast drops out of the sky through the twilight portal in
the air above this place! Kill it, quick!
The spring starts to glow, and out pops a light being. It
looks like a big bull with a giant tail. The being says its
name is Ordona, and it is one of the four light spirits in
Hyrule.
The shadow monsters have stolen the power from the other
light spirits, which is how the world got cast into
twilight (except, of course, for Ordon, because Ordona
still has his/her power).
Ordona bids you save Hyrule by restoring power to the three
defeated light spirits. As a bonus, the light spirits can
turn you back into normal. Good, so now the plan is to save
the three light spirits, and save Hyrule in the process.
Head north across the bridge, and have Midna pull you into
the twilight version of Faron woods.
Midna messes around a bit, and tells you that she's going
to make you do some MORE work for her, sometime in the
future. Oh, joy. Go north along the path.
Uh oh, another trap with shadow beasts! Kill two of them to
learn that the shadow beasts know how to shriek, which
brings the other shadow beasts alive. That means you have
to find a way to kill more than one shadow beast at once.
Fortunately, Midna knows what to do. The spin attack! Hold
B, and any enemies nearby will be covered in, uh, red
stuff. Let go of B, and the enemies will all be killed in
one blow! Nice!
This fight is kind of hard, and you might die like I did.
What you're supposed to do is kill all three enemies at the
same time with the spin attack, but you can make things
easier by killing ONE enemy with the spin attack, and then
killing the remaining two enemies with the spin attack at
the same time.
Once they're dead, head north some more to find a spring
pool thing. Check the top of the spring with A to find the
remains of a light spirit.
The light spirit gives you a vessel of light, and bids you
to collect the tears of light in the vessel, which will
restore his power. The tears of light are in the hands of
some insect creatures that you can see only with your X
senses, but to help you find the creatures, their locations
are marked on the map.
And as your map tells you, two bugs are in the tunnel next
to the spring, so go into the tunnel, find, and kill the
bugs. Get the blue "tears" that float in the air over the
bugs' corpses.
Now head to the shack where the lantern oil salesman lives.
The bugs are inside his house, so you have to get in by Z-
jumping off of the ramp on the side of the house. Once in
the house, drop to the floor, and listen to the salesman.
The bugs suddenly appear when you listen to the lantern oil
salesman, so kill them when they appear, then leave the
house.
On the side of the house opposite the side with the ramp, a
bug is on the wall (your map tells you this). L-target, and
jump attack the bug to get it to fly down, so you can kill
it. Alternately, you can use Midna's "hold B" technique to
kill this and the other bugs without much chasing.
Now time to head to the rest of the Faron Woods. If you
remember, you had to go through a tunnel to reach the rest
of the woods, and the tunnel is found west (east for you
Wii users) of the exit of the tunnel leading from the
spring.
There's a fence blocking your way, but use your senses to
find a hole, and dig under the fence with Y. Kill the two
bugs here, then go through the tunnel to end up at the
swamp.
Oh, man, the swamp is poisonous now! First off, kill the
two bugs hidden against the wall here.
Near the wall where the bugs were is a little rock that
sticks out. Stand on it to start a Z-jump sequence. Jump
four times, then climb up to the top of the overhanging to
start another Z-jump sequence, and jump until you reach the
tree in the middle of the swamp.
There are three bugs here, so kill them. Then, go to the
other side of the tree (the side that you didn't land on)
and Z-jump eight times to reach a tree.
There is a series of branches with Deku Babas on them, in
front of you. Z-jump four times across these branches, but
do it quickly, so the Deku Babas don't have time to hurt
you.
You end up on more trees, and the next Z-jump is across a
gap that has a swinging pendulum. Z-jump over the gap when
the pendulum is NOT in your way, or else it'd knock you
down. Then Z-jump seven times to reach the ground.
You see that the bugs in this area are...digging something?
Use your senses, then dig the bugs up, and then kill them.
Now it's off to the only remaining part of the forest,
where you found the captured Talo and the monkey. But
first, there are shadow beasts to fight. You remember how
to fight them, right? Hold B to capture them in an energy
field, so you can kill more than one at once.
Beat the shadow beasts, then go north to find the last two
bugs, along with the monkey. She's happy when the bugs are
killed, and mentions that the boss has been acting weird
lately.
Now you should have all the tears of light, and the forest
reverts to normal. The light spirit, now that all its power
is back, reveals itself to be Faron, a big...tailed beast.
Faron names Link as the hero chosen by the gods, made
obvious by Link's new costume, a green tunic! Cool!
Faron then calls upon you to go to the temple (where the
monkey was) and retrieve the dark power within, to help
defeat the king of twilight.
Off to the Temple
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So now it looks like you have to go to the temple, do
something there, and leave with the dark power housed in
the temple, so Midna can use it to defeat the twilight
king. She's a twilight creature, in case you couldn't tell,
so it makes sense that she can use the dark power (which
turns out to be an artifact from the ancient Twilight
People) against the mean old twilight king.
Head to the lantern oil salesman to get a key, and to learn
about his new deal: 100 rupees for a bottle of oil. Sounds
good to me, so buy it if you can afford it. If not, just
take the key, and use it to open the locked door in front
of the tunnel to the swamp.
Go through the tunnel, to the swamp. Walk out onto the
wooden deck, and pull out your lantern. The monkey shows
up, grabs your lantern, and beseeches you to follow.
Follow the monkey, who uses the lantern to dispel the
poison clouds. She makes you take the long way across the
swamp, on a path that has some enemies. Kill the enemies
when they show up, and keep following the monkey.
Eventually, you make it across the swamp, where you can
pick up your lantern again.
You can refill your lantern with the bottle of lantern oil,
if you bought it, or just go on ahead and purchase some at
the makeshift bird-run shop in the next area (you have to
kill the enemies before you can shop, though).
Head north from here, going to the temple. Link meets up
with a golden wolf. He is then transported to another plane
of existence, where it looks like you have to fight a
skeleton enemy to get past.
Fight the enemy, and Link loses. The enemy, who turns out
to not be an enemy after all, teaches you how to do the
Finishing Blow. Whenever an enemy is lying on the ground,
L-target them and press A to hit them with the finishing
blow, which kills them before they can get back up.
The skeleton creature tells you to search for the statues
that howl with the wind, and then, as Wolf Link, howl at
these statues to learn more secret fighting techniques.
I have a list of all the howling stone locations in the
"howling stones" section of this guide, but since you're
not Wolf Link right now, it'd be stupid to try to find
them.
Instead, head north, and use your lantern on the spiderweb
covering the temple door, and head in the temple.
004bc. Forest Temple - More Fun Than a Barrel of Monkeys
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Room One
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The first room here is pretty straightforward. Go north
until you see Link's monkey friend, who is held hostage in
a cage. No way! Kill the enemies, then break the cage and
set her free.
The monkey then beckons you forward to the next room. Kill
the spiders with your slingshot (this is the only time in
the game you ever have to use your slingshot--you will not
use it ever again after this), then climb up the vines to
reach the door. Use A to open it.
Main Room
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Now you're in the main room of the dungeon. Go north onto
the platform in the middle of the room to find a big
spider. Kill it, by hitting its legs from the side (the
beast isn't hurt if you hit its back).
Your monkey friend wants you to go north, where the boss of
the monkeys lives. Before you do that, go the northeast
(northwest for you Wii users) corner of this room, where
you can find a bug that turns into a bomb when you hit it.
Use the bug bomb on the brownish/cracked rock leading north
to open a small alcove with 20 rupees. Nice!
Now go back to the platform in the middle of the room, and
light all the torches to make a platform rise, which lets
you go north. But first, open that treasure chest there for
the DUNGEON MAP! All riiiiiiight!
Now go north.
Biggest Room
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Link's monkey friend heads north, when the boss monkey
shows up and breaks the bridge. Link's monkey friend was
right when she said he was acting strange.
Well, not much to do now except go back through the door.
Main Room
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Link's monkey friend leads you to the east (west for you
Wii users) pathway. Follow her to the main platform, then
use her arms to swing to the doorway. Go through.
East Water Room
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There's a bomb bug near the door here. Use it to blow up
the cracked rock to find a small room with pots. Break the
pots to find...Ooccoo! She's a friendly creature you'll
meet in all the dungeons, who can warp you out of the
dungeon whenever you need a quick escape. Great!
Now it's time to get to the rest of the room. Follow your
monkey friend, and burn the spider web in the way. She
leads you towards a door, but she doesn't want you to go
through it.
Go through the door anyway.
Biggest Room
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The bridge here rotates, due to the wind. Walk across the
bridge to the other side of the room, and go through the
door to the north. If the bridge rotates while you're on
it, you have to wait for the bridge to rotate again to get
across.
Cross-Shaped Room
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Open the treasure chest here for a key. Then go south two
rooms to rejoin your monkey friend.
East Water Room
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For reasons I don't quite understand, your monkey friend no
longer wants to lead you to another room. Either way,
there's only one other door in this room, so hop to the
next platform (where a giant spider awaits), and use your
key to open the door.
Monkey Room
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Another monkey is locked up in this room! The horror! Link,
you have to do something!
So go to the floor of this room, and roll into the totem
pole three times to set the monkey free. Two monkey-hating
bad guys show up, and attack Link.
Kill the enemies, then follow the monkeys out of the room.
You have to swing on the hands of both monkeys to exit the
room, so make sure to swing by pressing A when the A-button
action icon appears (if you press the A-button prematurely,
you drop to the ground, which I did three times because I'm
a dummy).
East Water Room
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Head back to the main room.
Main Room
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Now that you've saved two monkeys, you can visit the
western rooms! Use your monkey friends to swing there, and
use the lantern to burn the spiderweb covering the door.
West Bug Bomb Room
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Directly across from the door are stairs. Climb up them,
and you'll see a big plant blocking your way. Turn and go
up the steps next to the plant, where you find a bug bomb.
You'll notice the platform here leads to an area directly
above the big plant that blocked your way. Set off the bug
bomb, and throw it so it drops down on the big plant. The
big plant eats it, and dies. Ha!
Jump over the gap where the big plant was to find two
torches flocking a big rock...suspicious. Use the bug bomb
to blow open the rock, and reveal a door. Go through it.
Westernmost Room
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Another monkey is held hostage here! Ye gods! Who designed
this evil dungeon? Link has to save the monkey!
Go down to the floor level. See the two totem poles near
the door? Roll into them, and one of them has a treasure
chest with a small key. Yes! We can use the key to save the
monkey!
You want to go north across the bridge here, but look out!
See how some sort of creatures are poking their heads out
from underneath the tiles? Tile monsters! They can't hurt
you unless you step on the tiles they're under, so cross
the bridge, making sure NOT to walk over a tile that has a
tile monster underneath.
Light the two unlit torches here, while still making sure
not to step on some tile monsters. Then climb the makeshift
stairs, kill the giant spider, and free the monkey. Then