Temple of Courage

1st Floor

Head north here and avoid the rolling spikes; there's usually a small gap that you can hide in that will prevent you from getting hurt. When you wrap around and head south, watch out for the spinning blade trap. If you step in front of it, it'll snap at you; do this, then dodge away and move through the gap it left behind.

You'll find a Small Key in a chest atop the platform here. Nab it and head to the northeast to unlock the door there. Make your way to the combat room and attack the two worms there. Their weak spots are on their tails; aim for the pink parts of their bodies as they spin around. A few hits will finish them off and reveal the steps leading downwards.

B1 Floor

Smash the jars by the door here for some goodies, then hop onto the moving plate nearby and head to the west. The next platform has an unkillable enemy on it, but you can knock it off the platform by repeatedly hitting it. Ride the other platforms towards the stairway to the west, but use your boomerang to flip the switch that you see as you ride; it should be glowing blue, not red.

1st Floor, West

When you return to the first floor, start killing the enemies here and avoiding the electrical shockers that rotate around on the walls. To the north, you'll find a couple of signs. If you plant a bomb one spot to the east of the western sign, you'll reveal a passage to the north, leading to a couple of treasure chests, one of which will contain a Power Gem.

There's also a map on the wall inside this little chamber that will reveal a path that you need to follow when you return to the B1 floor. Mark it down on your map to save you some time later on. One of the signs in this area indicates that the pattern that rules the temple is "up, down, right, and left". Nothing to mark it down on yet, but keep this pattern in mind.

To the east, you'll come across more jelly enemies. These green guys will avoid your sword attacks. You can kill them with bombs, or by hitting them with the boomerang and then slashing them. There's one platform here with a blue pedestal that you can't use quite yet, and another one that will spawn a large bunny-like enemy on it. It's difficult to kill with normal attacks, as it will periodically leap at you and cause a full heart's worth of damage. If you've been reading the signs that have been posted thus far, you may remember something about enemies with large ears being stunnable by large sounds. Theoretically, this means that you can make this guy stop in his tracks by clapping your hands near the mic of your DS and then hitting it with your sword. Since we were playing the game in an office, though, we had to take it down the hard way, which entailed whacking it with your sword, running away just before it morphed and attacked, then repeating the process. It took a while, obviously. If you're forced to attack in this manner, be sure to flip the switch to the southeast first; that'll unlock the door to the beginning of the dungeon, making for a quick run back to this area if you happen to die.

One way or another, you need to kill the super-bunny; it'll drop a Small Key when you take it down. Move north and use it on the door up there.

2nd Floor

There are four switches here, guarded by laser-shooting turrets and more electrical balls. The turrets can be avoided by moving past them when they're not looking at you; you can also set off bombs near them to temporarily shut them down. Pull the north switch first, then the southern, eastern, and western switches. That will reveal the Square Gem. Nab it.

1st Floor

Take the Square Gem upstairs and place it in the receptacle near where you emerge, on the platform to the south. That will unlock more stairs going down.

B1 Floor North

You come out to a platform here that's apparently surrounded by nothingness, but looks can be deceiving. If you marked down the path here from when you examined the map on the 1st Floor (remember, after you bombed through the wall to find the two treasure chests?) then you can find your way across the invisible surface. If you manage to get yourself all the way to the northwestern corner of the map, you'll find the Bow And Arrows.

The bow can be used to fire on any of the eerie-looking eye targets that you've seen so far, including the one above the chest here. Hit it with an arrow to extend a bridge to the south. You'll notice another little arrow device here; these things will propel your arrow farther distances when you hit them. If you swing at this one so that it points to the east and shoot it with an arrow, you should be able to hit a crystal ball off to the east a bit. You may not need to, though; just make sure the ball there glows red, and you should be fine.

1st Floor West

If you can't bypass the stones here, head back down to B1 Floor, aim the arrow-pusher to the east, and shoot it to flip the switch. Hopefully you should be able to move to the south, though, where you can kill the worms and the jelly. Move to the east and shoot the target across the gap with an arrow to open the doorway leading to the north, then retrieve the Square Gem and move it back down to the southwest here and place it in the new pedestal you've uncovered. That'll open another door leading up.

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