Mutoh's Temple

1st Floor

As Ciela will warn you here, there are going to be plenty of traps in your path here. Get ready to fall into trapdoors a lot. Feel free to mark them on your map, if you wish.

Your goal on this floor is to head up to the north and drop the spikes in front of the northern set of steps. This involves proceeding through both the western and eastern portions of the room here to stand on pressure plates on either side of it.

Western Side

Begin with the western side. Plant a bomb near the western switch at the beginning of the room, and while it's ticking down, run to the northwest and hop over the moving blocks there. If you can make it to where the bridge is extended (planting a bomb to set off the switch gives you extra time), then you can cross over it, head north, kill the enemies in the combat room, then move across the northern bridge and flip the switch there.

Eastern Side

The only clean way to get across the bridge that you extend to the east is to bomb the wall to the south of it. There's an apparent dead end here if you look around, but there's also a tile on the floor. Bomb the wall to the south of the gap to create a shortcut, then flip the switch and run across the bridge, avoiding the trapdoor. Head to the north, defeat the skeletons, flip the switch, and head downstairs.

B1 Floor

Uh oh, this place looks annoying. Luckily you won't have to deal with it much right now. Head to the east, then south a bit, and find the stairs leading upward.

1st Floor

You can't kill the turtle enemies here; that'll come later. Avoid them for now and head upwards.

2nd Floor

The worms were easy to avoid before, but in these tight spaces you're going to want to kill them. Repeatedly hit them with your grappling hook for free kills; no need to waste bombs or arrows. There's a treasure piece in a treasure chest on the western side of this room. Kill the worms and make your way to the south to move up.

3rd Floor

Kill all the enemies here to grab the Hammer. This last piece of equipment will let you hit things from a distance, and you can also tap and hold the stylus down for a second to gain energy for big hits.

2nd Floor

Smash the switch on the floor with a hammer shot to open the door, then proceed upwards by standing on the footprint markers and hitting the targets. That'll launch you up to the top of the room, where you can kill the turtles and drop down to move on.

1st Floor

Kill the turtles and flip the switch to return to…

B1 Floor

Smash the boulders to the west and follow the path that they open up to reach the northwestern corner of the map. Use your hammer on the two skels in the combat room to kill them, then proceed down the stairwell to floor B2.

B2 Floor

Smash the switches here to move off to the west, then hop onto the platforms that hover above the chasm. As you ride, smash the skeletons and switches off to the left and right. When you get all of the switches, the log to the south will start rolling, letting you move on. You can find a Courage Gem in the southwestern corner of the map.

Heading up the stairs near the block will net you a Small Key. Nab it and head upstairs.

B1 Floor

Unlock the door in front of you, then head north across the bone path to reach the locked door. Unlock it with the key, then hit the switch inside of it to drain the water in this level.

Jump down to the floor and move to the west to find a puzzle. You need to change all of the symbols on the ground so that the blue X's become red O's. With a little bit of hammering you can manage this by luck, but if you want an easy solution, simply hit the lower middle tile first, then the central middle tile, then the lower middle tile again. That'll flip everything around to the way you need it.

With the way to the south opened, head there, use the seesaw to get up to the platform above you, grab some arrows, then shoot to the southeast and hit the pyramid switch to refill the water in the level.

Head to the south now and pound the floor there until it's one solid color; doing so will open a door nearby. That will let you move around to the east and fire an arrow through the space where the door way. Do so to flip the water back down, then drop down to the southeast and find the ladder leading downward.

B2 Floor

Another color puzzle here. One thing to keep in mind is that you can stand on one tile to prevent it from flipping. It may be necessary to do that here since there are so many diagonal patterns here; try flipping the switches until you get vertical lines of two X's and one O, then standing on the O and flipping the other blocks to make the entire vertical line a solid color. You can also tap the gray tiles outside the puzzle area itself to flip smaller portions of the puzzle.

Solving the puzzle will unlock a bridge to the southeast. Head across to return upward.

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