Temple of Helios II

Use the circle on the floor to create a path downwards, then take a left and head through the locked door there. You’re going to backtrack to the elevator that you took before and use it again to head upwards. This time around, though, a number of bird enemies will spawn as you ride upwards. All you should really have to do here is spam Cyclone of Chaos on them. We repeated that a billion times, managed to get our hit combo up to 250, and earned a couple thousand orbs from the little gauntlet while taking almost no damage. Enjoy!

At the top of the elevator, open the chests, then move up to the save point to find a Phoenix Feather and a save point. Save and move on.

Temple Courtyard

Another shielded enemy and some archers here. You may want to deal with the archers first; you can kill them straight out with a grab and a button press. When they’re down, eliminate the shielded enemy’s armor with a square, square, triangle combo, then go to town on him to finish him off. With that done, find the Gorgon Eye in the lower left corner of the room and the Red Orb Chest in the upper right.

There’s a light-based puzzle in this room that you’ll need to solve. Begin by activating the switch on the southern end of the room. That’ll pop up a crank which focuses a beam of light on anything you aim it at. Unfortunately you can only aim it at the northernmost pods on the walls here. Begin by aiming it at the northeastern pod, then running up there and dragging out the statue there and placing it on the pressure plate nearby. (Keep in mind that you can kick these objects with the R button to speed things up a bit.)

Repeat the process with the northwestern pod. This statue has a shield that faces west. Drag it down to the southwestern pressure plate and place the statue on top of it, then head back to the crank and aim the light beam at the statue. That will redirect the beam through the statue’s shield at the southeastern pod, which will let you nab another statue. This third statue has a shield that faces east, so place it on the southeastern pressure plate, redirect the beam of light, and nab the fourth statue from the pod there. Placing all of the statues on the pressure plates will open up the ground here, revealing a statue that will redirect the beam into two directions.

What you need to do now is make something of a closed loop, which will entail moving some of the statues around. The two statues with shields that face north should be placed on the southern pressure plates. The statue with the shield that faces east should be placed in the northwestern corner, while the one with a shield that faces west should go in the northeastern corner. If you then aim the beam of light at the splitting statue, it’ll hit the southern statues, then hit the northern statues, which will aim it at each other. If you jump up into the beam of light that is concentrated between them, you’ll be able to press L and mash O to power up the statue nearby and restore one of the steeds.

Return To The Temple

Head back to the crank which emitted the light beam and use the O button again to make the elevator pop up. Head downwards to the platform below you. To the west is a Red Orb Chest, to the north a Phoenix Feather, and to the east a doorway leading on.

Follow the corridor until you jump up the makeshift stairwell. There’s a Gorgon Eye in a chest along the right wall here. Push the statue on the right upwards into its little slot, then attack it to destroy its head. With that done, hop onto the head and use L + O to power up the horse statue above you. That will let you access it with your fist of light and complete the trilogy of horses outside.

Release Of The Steeds

Head out the doorway here and climb down the cliff to reach the bottom. You’ll be attacked by more enemies as you do so. Take them down and move on. The second group will feature multiple banshees, so you may want to weaken them up with a couple rounds of Efreet before starting the minigame on them.

When you reach the steeds, turn the cranks to power them up, then use the glowing spot nearby to move on to the next phase of your adventure.

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