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Hall of Learning Courtyards (75%)
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Sand Fields        3
Fountain of Life   0
Description        Climb through the courtyards, and make wedding
plans for Farah.
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Drink some water from the pools here if you need to. In a corner you can
find a ladder. Climb up, and jump off to the beam behind you. Jump over
the gap in the beam, and the birds will attack you. You want to kill them,
because it's very hard to continue over the beam if you don't. To kill
them, you need to have split-second timing. Take out your sword, wait
until a bird attacks, and slash. If you can slash a bird out of the sky
this way, you're good. If you can't, here's a tactic I found works very
well: Stand on the beam, with your sword drawn, and wait for the bird to
attack. Let it hit you (or you can try to hit it anyway). When the bird
hits you, you'll loose your balance, and you'll hang from the beam. As
soon as you're hanging there, press [Square] to attack. For some reason,
there's a very real chance of hitting the bird. Should you fall, no
problem, it's not very far down and there's a pool down there anyway.
Once you've killed all birdies, continue over the beam, and jump the gap.
Walk around the corner. Jump off to the rope behind you, and then swing to
the beam sticking out of the wall. Now hop to the pole, and use it to swing
to the ledge up ahead. Run over the wall to the right. At the end of the
run you'll grab a beam. Turn, and jump to the flagpole. Swing to the ledge
with the two birds on it. to defeat them easily, grab your sword as soon as
you hit the ledge and smash the evil creatures to pieces before they can
even take off. If you're too slow, you have to do it the old fashion way:
press and hold [R1], wait for a bird to attack, then release [R1] and mash
[Square] for a lethal counterattack. Done with the birdies? Then run over
the left wall to the next beam. Jump off to the rope. Swing to the next
rope, and then to the awning up ahead. Now run over the wall to the right.
You should land on another awning. Press [X] as soon as you land to prevent
taking damage.
Drop down to the walkway below, and enter the room here. turn the lever
360 degrees to open up a whole bunch of doors - and activate some more
traps. As you exit this room, the Prince will start to talk about marrying
Farah. Alright then, time to meet up with your future wife. Cross the
spiked pit by hanging from the railing on the right side, and then moving
to the right hand over hand. Enter the door on the other side. Ahead are
some spinning blades. Walk over the wall to the left, towards the first
blade, and jump off when you're above the blade to avoid it. Get past two
more blades. At the bottom of these stairs, there's a whole bunch of
Scarabs to kill, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Grab the Sand
Field here, and then go into the corridor. You'll meet up with Farah. Turn
left to get back to the courtyard, where you can replenish your health if
needed.
Alright, back to the corridor, follow it to the end. You'll have to beat
more Scarabs on the way there, and you'll have to jump across some spiked
pits. For some fun, watch how the Scarabs on the other side of the pit
plunge themselves on the spikes in a failed attempt to reach you. Continue
to the end. You're outside again, on one part of a very big wall. There's a
gap in the wall ahead, and some enemies are waiting for you. Either jump
over the gap, or climb down it to start the battle. You'll have those guys
with big swords to deal with, use Wall-Rebounds to take quick care of them.
The other enemies are much easier, a simple vault followed by two slashes
will do the job. Done with fighting? Before you save, you might want to
check the area. Climb down the gap in the wall. In this lower, grassy area
you can find no less than two Sand Fields. There's one at each end of the
area. In the center there's a pool where you can restore some health. Once
you've got everything you wanted, climb back up and save your game.
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1) After getting past a couple of cutters, you'll have to fight a bunch of
Scarabs. The Field is in the area where you fight them.
2) After killing all enemies on the great wall, drop down to the area below the
wall. The Field is in one of the ends of this L-shaped area.
3) Like above, only this one is at the other end of the L-shaped area.