- After watching a lengthy movie with a tree that won't shut up and the
introduction of your annoying companion, Link will arise from his slumber. After
you've gained control, head for the door on the left.
~ Kokiri Village ~
- Outside, you'll see your childhood friend, Saria. Climb down the ladder
and speak with her if you wish. She'll exclaim her excitement about you finally
having a fairy and being summoned by the Deku Tree.
Speaking of which, we can't
actually see him yet. We need to get a few things.
- Using your map in the lower right corner of your screen (Press L if you
can't see it), head to the southwest corner of the village.
You'll find an area
up the ramp with many fences. Against the wall, there's a small hole. Stand in
front of it and press A to crawl through it.
- Hold forward until you reach the other side. You'll emerge in a small
area with large boulder rolling in circles. Wait until it passes and follow it
to reach the opposite corner. Open the large chest you find.
- This is the basic weapon you use early on in the game. It's dependable,
but it does little damage and doesn't have very much range either.
- That's just dandy. To put on this puppy, press Start and press Z and R
until you get to the Equipment subscreen. Once there, select the sword and press
A to equip it. Sweet.
- Make your way back to the village, avoiding the boulder along the way of
course.
- Now that you have a weapon, go wander around and speak with the people
to learn how to play the game.
If you don't care or already know, just skip to
collecting Rupees: our next goal.
- There's Rupees everywhere in this town and many ways to get them.
Walk through the tall grass, slash bushes, look behind the houses, make your way up
the bridge above you, jumping from platform to platform in the water, etc. An
easy, and lazy way to get money is to enter the house across from the Shop on
the far end of the village and throw the far jar against the wall repeatedly. It
will drop a blue Rupee (5) each time.
- Once you have 40 Rupees, enter the Shop and purchase a Deku Shield.
Ignore the other goodies, we'll get them for free later.
- This is the simple shield you get early on. Lightweight, dependable, but
vulnerable to fire.
- Be sure to press Start and equip this one too, I usually forget...
Anyway, go back outside and this time head towards the Deku Tree. If you use
your map, it's pretty obvious which way to go.
On the way, you'll be impeded by
an obnoxious little fellow named Mido who arrogantly talks about himself. After
shoving your new goodies in his face, he'll move, allowing you to continue.
- Head forward and you'll abruptly be confronted by Withered Deku Babas.
These things are harmless, kill them to find your first Deku Stick.
- These stick enemies are incredibly pathetic. They do
nothing but spin around and can only hurt you if you touch them. Kill
them with anything and they'll drop Deku Sticks.
THIS SECTION OF THE WALKTHROUGH IS MADE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE ORIGINAL
OCARINA OF TIME. IF YOU ARE PLAYING THE MASTER QUEST, CLICK HERE!
- After you enter, go ahead and practice your Z targeting and
shielding techniques on the Deku Babas nearby. They can be killed easily by
holding your shield and attacking in between their strikes. You'll probably pick
up some of the Deku Nuts they drop as well.
- These venis fly trap-like enemies pose more of a threat than
their wiggly counterpart. Their long, thin bodies allow them to
stretch forward and snap at you quickly. Use your shield to get
close and slice them in between strikes.
- Throw these puppies on the ground to stun nearby enemies. Very useful,
use them often.
- Make note of the web in the floor, then climb up either the nearby
ladder or the vines on the wall. If you choose the vines, Navi will rant about
their climbable nature. Once on top, head around the corner and open the chest
to find the Dungeon Map. Press L to show or remove the map. There's one in every
dungeon.
- We can't climb the nearby vines yet due to the Skullwalltulas (spiders),
so head right, jumping across the platforms. You'll come to a door, which Navi
will exclaim you can open using the A button. Do so.
- In this next room, use Z targeting and use R (shield) to reflect the Deku
Scrub's Deku Nuts back at him.
- These bushy enemies will burrow into their nests to avoid
damage. Use ranged attacks or reflect their nuts back at them
with your shield to force them out of their nests. Kill them
before they can return to it.
- Rush over and touch him before he tries to get
back in his nest to learn some handy info. If you hold the forward in the
direction you're facing when falling,
you'll roll when you hit the ground to
avoid damage.
- Go through the next door.
- In this room, there's a platform that will crumble when you touch it.
You can jump on it and use it to get to the opposing platform, or you can jump
down (or simply fall) and climb up the vines. Either way, at the top, open the
chest to find our dungeon item.
- This ammunition for your Slingshot can be found in bushes and
occasionally inside chests. There are upgrades to be found that allow you to
carry more as well.
- There's some vines leading up to a chest with a Recovery Heart inside.
Either way, our next objective is to get back to the main room. If you already
touched the platform, you'll have to shoot the ladder against the wall (Navi
will fly over to it) which leads back to the previous room. Anyway, shoot it and
it'll drop down. Climb up and out.
- Go back through this room.
- These spiders are found only on vertical surfaces. If you get
too close, they will rush towards you and knock you off the
wall.
- Use ranged weapons to show them who's boss.
- We're back in the main room. Head back to the chest where we got the
Dungeon Map.
Shoot the Skullwalltulas on the vines and climb up them. At the
top, either go left or right, then press A to drop down onto the platform.
- Now that we're on the third level, start making your way around. You'll
probably notice the Big Skulltulas here, which are vulnerable from the
backside. Wait for them to turn around and either stab them with your sword,
shoot them, or stun them with Deku Nuts.
- These giant skull spiders are very territorial. Although very
limited in movement, they pose quite the obstacle and are
awkward to defeat.
- Only their backside is vulnerable, so wait until they turn around and
strike them with your weapon of choice.
- Make your way to the door and enter.
- In this room, step on the switch to make the platforms rise. Use them to
reach the opposing platform and open the chest to find the Compass. These items
show where elevators, chests and the bosses are in each of the dungeons.
- When in the room where you get the Compass, use the switch to make the
platforms rise, then jump to the alcove on the left. The Skulltula is against
the wall, behind the small chest.
- These spiders are part of a curse that keeps a family in
Kakariko in the form of Skulltulas. Defeat them and collect
their tokens to get nifty rewards.
- Collect these mystical tokens after defeating the Gold Skulltulas to
slowly break the curse of the Skulltula Family.
- To clarify, there are 100 Gold Skulltulas scattered throughout Hyrule
that will drop tokens when you kill them. After collecting a certain amount of
tokens, you will break the curse for certain individuals who have become spiders
themselves and they will give you rewards. Although it's only really worth it to
get up to 50, it's quite the challenge to get all 100, and as such, I will be
listing all of them in this guide.
- In any case, jump down, climb up the vines, and you'll notice the door
is blocked back to the main room. This can be easily rectified by lighting one
of your Deku Sticks using the nearby torch by simply standing next to
it. Now, run over and touch the tip of your lit stick on the other torch (you
don't have to swing it).
Go through the now opened door.
- Alright, so, you may have tried jumping onto the circular cobweb on the
floor earlier from a higher level and it bounced like a trampoline. Well, kill
one of the Big Skulltulas up here on the top level, and use its little overhang
to jump over top of the cobweb. If you land close to the middle of it, it will
burst through, allowing you to fall into the next area of the dungeon.
- After you fall down the hole that was covered with the cobweb in the
main room, look back at the vines leading back up to the entrance. Use the
Slingshot to kill it, climb the vines to grab the token.
- After you fall down the hole that was covered with the cobweb in the
main room, check out the grate at one side of the water to find a lone spider
there. Kill it with anything, then jump from the nearby ledge to grab the token.
- Climb up the nearby ledge and step on the switch to make the torch
light, burning the cobwebs surrounding it. Whip out a Deku Stick, light it, then
jump into the shallow water.
Use this to get to the opposing platform with the
Deku Baba. Run past it and set the cobwebs covering a door on fire. Go through.
- In this small room, reflect the Deku Nut back at the Scrub and chase him
down. He'll reveal a nice tid-bit of information for later on.
Next, we need to
get through the closed door. Shoot the silver eye switch above the door to make
it open.
- This next room is filled with water, and there's a platform going back
and forth underneath a spiked log. Unfortunately, the water is too high for you
to pass under it, so jump in the water and swim over to the switch that's
underwater. Press and hold A to dive, as Navi noted moments earlier.
- With the water level temporarily lower, run back up the ledge and jump
onto the platform as soon as possible. Once you reach the other side, jump up to
the platform.
- Here, you'll have to kill the Big Skulltula, then use A while standing
next to the block to push or pull it. After that, walk against it and press A to
climb it. Now climb up and through the door.
- This next tiny room is filled with Deku Babas. Stock up on some Deku
Sticks, then light both of the torches using a Stick to open the door.
- In this large room, you'll abruptly be confronted by a Big Skulltula
above you. If you stand back far enough, you can shoot him from behind without
him coming down. Go forward and watch out for the Gohma Larva that fall from the
ceiling. You can shoot their egg sacks on the ceiling to kill them before they
even appear.
- These two legged enemies that look like some freakish bug robot
will change color shortly before they jump at you.
- They can be killed with two strikes of your sword, but also can
be killed with one hit before they hatch from their eggs. Take
advantage of that when possible.
- Once all these foes are defeated, whip out a Deku Stick and light it on
the torch.
Head to the far side of the room to burn the cob webs (there are
those other spider webs nearby, but we can't do anything with that yet). Crawl
through the small hole.
- We're back in the bottom half of the main room. You'll notice a block
off to the side. Grab it and push it into the shallow water bellow, creating a
shortcut.
Now, our next objective is to get through the cobweb. We can't jump
through this one, so we'll have to burn it.
The nearby torch is too high, but the other one we used earlier isn't.
- Using our shortcut (block), go back to the lower area and light a Deku
Stick on the torch we used ages ago. Jump back across using the block, climb up,
then run over to the new cobweb and either swing your Deku Stick or roll using A
to set the web on fire.
- Now that we've fallen into a pool of water (dive for the nearby Recovery
Hearts if you need them), get out and witness our new task. There are three Deku
Scrubs shooting at us, but when you reflect their shots back at them, they
instead get stunned.
After you stun them all, they revert back to normal.
- Using the code the Deku Scrub gave you earlier, 2, 3, 1, annihilate them
in that order, from left to right.
- After you've done so, the last one will run around. Chase him down to
learn another useful secret about the upcoming boss. Make sure you're full on
health and enter the door.
"Gohma.
It's one of those parasitic monsters
inside the Deku Tree! Its eye is
vulnerable when its red!"
Threat:
Attacks:
Lunges at you. Gohma Larva.
- At the start of the battle, use either C-up or your
Slingshot to look up at the queen on the ceiling, which will
begin the battle. Although she looks pretty intimidating,
she's a piece of cake.
- Her main attack is to wobble towards you and then try to basically
fall on top of you, which can be easily defended against
using your shield or simply moving out of the way. Her other form of offense is to climb
onto the ceiling and make three eggs, which will fall to the
ground and hatch to become Gohma Larva after a short bit.
- The Larva are easily defeated with two sword swipes, but they can be
killed quickly by simply slashing their egg once before they
hatch.
- To harm Gohma, you have to use either Deku Nuts or your
Slingshot when her eye is red (right before either of her
"attacks"). This will cause her to fall down and be
vulnerable to your sword. Of them all, the Slingshot is by
far the most effective.
- The easiest way to defeat her is to simply wait for her to climb on the
ceiling. Her eyes turn red when she's... giving birth... So
simply keep her Z/L targeted and shoot her. She'll fall down
and be stunned for a very long time. Slash away my friend.
Summary:
- Use Z/L targeting, defend against her main attack with
your shield. Shoot her with Fairy Slingshot whenever her eyes
turn red to stun her (especially on the ceiling). Slash away.
Repeat.
- After she's been defeated, grab the nearby Heart Container,
which will extend your life energy by a whole heart! Afterwards, step into "the
light" to leave this dungeon.eon.
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