Oracle of Ages Walkthrough – Moonlit Grotto

Optional: Magic Potions and Gasha Seeds at Syrup's Potion Shop

Follow the path in Yoll Graveyard, past the large gate toward Spirit’s Grave, to find Syrup's Potion Shop in the far northeast corner of the graveyard. With the Flippers, Link can now swim across pool of water to reach the and enter the shop. Here, Link may purchase Magic Potions and Gasha Seeds for 300 rupees each. As with other shops, simply grab an item from the shelf and speak with the shop-owner, Syrup to purchase it.

Soft Soil Location #4 - South Shore (Tier 1-2)

From Rafton’s house, Link can head up a screen and left two screens, swimming across the shallow water. Dig the bare spot behind the mounds of dirt to unearth a Soft Soil patch.

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Speak with Ricky, who will reveal he has lost his gloves somewhere near the tree on the beach. Head down one screen, then clear the bushes on the left and continue left one and down two screens to the coast. Walk left one screen here and equip the Shovel. Use it to dig the patch of dirt closest to Link where Ricky’s Gloves can be found underneath. Now to return the gloves to Ricky, backtrack right one, up two, right one more and up one final screen. Speak to Ricky to give his gloves back and he will, as Moosh did before, offer his special abilities to Link for a moment. These abilities will be used on the mountainous location he just passed to reach the beach area.

Take Ricky down one and left one screen, then use him to jump onto the cliff here. Continue down one screen along the middle path, then jump across the holes on the left and head back up one screen along the leftmost path. Jump onto the last ledge here where a floating fairy-looking man is shown hovering above a stump. Hop out of Ricky’s pouch and use a combination of Roc’s Feather and Sword to jump and swipe down the balloon of the floating man, then speak with him.

The man reveals his name to be Tingle and believes that he is a true fairy. Truthfully, Tingle is merely a 35 year-old citizen of Labrynna, but his passion for fairies leads him to believe, and live his life as if, he is a reincarnation of a fairy. Tingle’s true specialty is sea charts, to which he will give Link one of if he agrees to be his friend. With the Island Chart in hand, Ricky will grow annoyed of Tingle and be on his way. Now its time to get back to Rafton’s place in the past and put this sea chart to use.

Jump from the cliff and head down one screen. Walk down the steps and toss aside one of the boulders on the right, then continue over the series of pits on the right and head up one and right one screen. Slash the bushes away and head up two, left and up one screen each, then right and up one screen each to reach Nayru’s House. Play the Tune of Echoes to activate the time portal outside and travel to the past.

Get on the raft and sail down two, right one, and up two screens. A storm will brew up with Link being caught in the middle, to which a flash of light will see him awakening on a mysterious island. Five green, lizard-like creatures will be shown surrounding Link before running off with his items. These “Tokay” will have completely cleaned out Link’s inventory, so the next step is getting it all back.

Walk down one screen, right one screen, and down a screen to find one of the creatures holding Link’s shovel. Speak with the Tokay who will admit to nabbing this item off a “tokay with no tail” from the beach before realizing it belongs to Link and returning it.

Head up one screen next and enter the cave at the top. Walk all the way up and push the farthest green boulder “left”. Use the Shovel to clear the patches of thick dirt below this and head all the way down to where the Tokay holding the sword is. Talk to the Tokay to have Link’s Sword returned to him, then exit the cave.

Head left one screen and push the vine sprout “right” twice so that it lines up with the indention in the wall, then continue up, right, and down one screen each. Chop away the bushes on the right and head right one screen. Here, a Business Scrub will be selling Shields for 50 Rupees each. Continue down two screens, then walk down the steps and head right one and up three screens. Cross the bridge here and enter the hut.

Inside, Link’s Roc’s Feather and Power Bracelet can be found, but the Tokay who has found them will only offer one or the other in a trade. Pick the Power Bracelet first, to which the Tokay will trade for Link’s Shovel. With the Power Bracelet now in hand, exit the hut and head down three screens. Continue left one screen, walk up the steps, and back right and up one screen along the path. Use the Power Bracelet to toss aside the boulder here and descend the stairwell above.

In this small cave area, push the very bottom green boulder “right”, then the one that is now above it “right” as well, clearing a path to the staircase on the upper-right. Head up this staircase into the rear of the Cucco House and grab the Bombs, then head back down into the underground area. Use the Bombs to destroy the cracked green boulders in the cave and open the chest above to obtain a Gasha Seed, then exit this cave via the staircase in the upper-left.

Head down one and left one screen, then walk down the steps and head back right one screen along the coast. Continue up two more screens and use a Bomb to blow open the cracked cave entrance at the top of the steps on the right. Enter the cave and speak with the yellow Tokay, apparent owner of this “game room” to which the winner will receive a Scent Seedling. The object of this game is to throw the meat that falls in the center of the room to each Tokay walking along the left and right sides. Link must not miss even one Tokay to win the seedling, but more attempts can be made at the cost of 10 Rupees.

Exit the game room once finished and head down two and left one screen. Climb the stairs and head up two screens, then continue left one, slash the bushes away and up another screen. Finally, head right one screen and speak to the Tokay on the other side of the boulders. He will take the Scent Seedling from Link and plant it in this location, though it will take hundreds of years before a fruitful tree will spawn from it. Jump down off the ledge to the right and head right one screen, then enter the hut of the trading Tokay and get back Link’s Roc’s Feather.

Leave the hut and head down three screens. Continue left one screen and climb the steps, then jump across the holes on the left and head left and up one screen each. Bomb the cracked portion of wall to the north and enter the cave.

Equip the Roc’s Feather and Bombs, then toss a Bomb at the two cracked green boulders just ahead. Use the Roc’s Feather to jump over to where the boulders were and continue along the path clockwise. Link will eventually make his way over to the Tokay holding a pair of flippers. Speak with the Tokay to obtain the Zora’s Flippers back, then exit this cave.

Head down one and right one screen, then walk down the steps and continue right another screen along the coast. Head up three screens and enter the trading Tokay’s hut again and get back the Power Bracelet. Exit the hut and head down three and left one screen, walk back up the steps, and continue up another screen. Toss aside the boulders on the left and head left one screen, then enter the cave at the top of the screen again.

Swim north to where three boulders block access to a small section of water. Toss the boulders aside and dive down in the deep square of this section to an underwater area below. Navigate this passage all the way to the opposite side, where a series of ladders will lead Link out of this underwater area and onto a crowded ledge in the cave. Toss aside the boulders here and head up the staircase, leading onto a central ledge on Crescent Island. Along this narrow path, head left one screen and speak with the Tokay here to retrieve Link’s Seed Satchel.

Walk back right one screen and jump off the ledge, taking Link down one screen in the process. Push the vine sprout in this screen “up” twice and “left” four times, then continue on down one screen. Walk down the steps and head right one screen along the coast, then continue up three screens into the hut again. Now that Link has his seed satchel back, he can obtain all of his items in the hut by trading seeds instead of other items. Keep the Power Bracelet in favor of the Shovel for now and buy back the Roc’s Feather for 10 Mystery Seeds, then leave the hut.

Head down three and left one screen, then climb the steps and scale the pits to the left. Continue on left another screen and enter the cave here. Throw aside one of the vases blocking the stairwell and enter it to a lagoon-type cave area below. Swim to the left side of the cave, then use the Roc’s Feather to jump from platform-platform until Link reaches the ladder leading out. Head up this ladder to be in the cave again, this time on the left side, and head down one screen exiting the cave.

Speak with the Tokay on the left to finally retrieve the Harp of Ages back. Now, head back inside the cave and push one of the vases on the right into the water. This gives access to the other side of the cave without having to trek back through the underwater area, so exit the cave from the right side now and head right one screen. Jump over the pits and continue right another screen along the coast, then head up one screen. Activate the time portal here by playing the Tune of Echoes and enter it, traveling to Crescent Island’s present for the first time.

Trading Sequence: Tasty Meat

Once you are able to reach the present, head down one screen and enter the hut here. Speak with the Tokay Chef, who because of a stuffy nose cannot smell and therefore cannot cook. Give him the Stink Bag and the pungent smell will clear the Tokay’s nostrils. As thanks, he will give Link the Tasty Meat, “the chef’s specialty”.

Soft Soil Location #5 - Crescent Island (Tier 2-4)

Once you are able to reach the present, head down a screen, left a screen, and up one screen. Climb the vines in the upper-left up one screen, then head left one screen and walk down the steps down one screen. Continue down and left one screen each, then climb the vines here up one screen and walk right one final screen. Lift the boulder on the bottom-left to uncover a Soil Patch for planting Gasha Seeds. This particular Gasha Tree is more uncommon, so it can produce some slightly harder to find rings.

Once you play the Harp of Ages and return to the present, head down a screen, left a screen, and up two screens. Continue left one screen and climb down the vines, then head left another screen and climb up one screen along the vines here. Continue right two screens to reach the tree nursery, now with a fully-grown Scent Tree in its center. Swipe the Scent Seeds down from the tree to add them to Link’s collection. Scent Seeds can be used to lure enemies to their smell wherever they are placed.

Jump off the ledge on the far right and head right one and down two screens. Play the Tune of Echoes to activate the time portal and use it to go back to the past.

As before, head through the lagoon passage to reach the left side of the cave and exit. Head up, left, and down one screen each from the cave’s leftmost exit to reach a hidden time portal tile. Dig the piles of dirt away to access it, then play the Harp of Ages and return to the present.

Optional: Dungeon Map

Right from the entrance room, we can get the Dungeon Map almost immediately. Head to the upper-left corner and toss a bomb at the uppermost cracked block. Push the red block that was directly beneath the cracked one to the “left” and head left one scree.

Play the Harp of Ages to defeat the the two Pols Voice in this room and a chest will appear. Open it to obtain the Dungeon Map, then head back right one room. Bomb the same cracked block again and push the red block beside it “right” to get through.

From the entrance of the dungeon, head up one screen. Defeat the two Mini Moldorms in this room to unlock a doorway on the right, then head through. Here, a new enemy is present known as an Iron Mask. These little guys can only be attacked from the rear as it is the only part of their body not protected by their mask. Defeating them is not a necessity. Link just needs to slash the blue crystal in this room apart to cause a reaction elsewhere in the dungeon. When done, head up one screen.

Step onto the rotating platform and it will turn Link towards the rightmost path. Each time one of these platforms are used, the direction in which it will turn when stepped on will alternate. Head right one screen along the path.

Over on the right side of this room, bomb the cracked red block in the square arrangement of green statues. Toss a bomb passed the gate which the block was setting beside to blow up the cracked block above the crystal on the left. Walk up to the top of the room and left as far as Link can go, then push the red block directly below him “down”. Toss another bomb passed the next, horizontal green gate to blow up the cracked block just beside the crystal, then walk all the way around to the red block that was under it and push it “up”. Slash the crystal with Link’s sword to cause another reaction somewhere in the dungeon.

Next, push the red block beside the crystal “up”. Push the lone green statue “right” twice, “up” twice, “left” once, and finally “down” once to have a Small Key fall onto the green tile. Pick up the key and head left one screen.

Step onto the rotating wheel and head down one screen. Continue left one screen from here and head through the locked door at the top of this room. Once you arrive, fall into the pits straight ahead to get down to the basement level.

Play the Harp of Ages to defeat the enclosed Pols Voice in this room. Head back up one screen through the doorway that unlocks, then walk along the path on the left up one screen. Head up the staircase here to get back to the upper floor, now on the other side of the red blocks with the blue crystal. Slash the crystal with Link’s sword, then head back down the staircase to the basement level again. Continue down one screen.

Toss bombs over the green gates towards the Mini-Moldorm until he is defeated. Now, head through the unlocked doorway at the bottom left part of the room. Continue left one screen.

Toss a bomb towards the blue switch at the bottom of this room so that it explodes and turns the switch red, activating the Armos Statue above. Sneak by him and head up the staircase to get back to the first floor.

Optional: Compass

The Armos cannot be defeated using a sword, but it can be by using a Bomb. Use a bomb to defeat the enemy and a chest will appear containing the Compass.

Jump off the ledge and head right one screen to get back to entrance of the dungeon. Bomb the cracked blocks to get by as before and continue up two screens. Walk right a screen to get back to the wheel room. Step into the rotating platform to have it turn Link towards the southern path. Walk down a screen, left, up, and right to get back to the wheel room. This time when you step into the rotating platform, it will take Link up, so head through the doorway.

Be careful not to get sucked up by the Like-Likes here as they will eat Link’s shield. Slash the bushes to fill up your bombs and then and head right one screen. Step on the switch in the upper-right corner of this room to activate the four Armos Statues, then defeat them all to have a Small Key fall onto the blue tile in the center. Defeating them requires Link to use Bombs, which you only have 10 bombs in your inventory. If you are unable to defeat them with the 10 bombs, leave the room to the left, fill up some bombs and then head back right to try again. Grab the key and head back left one screen, then continue up one screen through the locked door.

The dark red tiles in this room will lift off the floor and fly towards Link, all the while three Red Zols will also prove to be a burden. Defeat the Red Zols and when all the tiles are done lifting from the floor, both doorways will open so head left a screen.

Some of the bushes in this and the next room are disguised Beetles, so pay close attention to which ones do not have a full yellow square beneath to pick them out. Head down one screen, then over to the left side of this room and back up one screen so Link is now on the left side of the room. Use the Small key and head up through the locked door.

Optional: 30 Rupees

If Link climbs up the steps and heads down a screen, he’ll find a treasure chest here. Open the chest to get 30 Rupees.

Continue left a screen and defeat both Mini-Moldorms and Mimics to have a chest appear in the center of the room. Open it to obtain the Seed Shooter! This item can be used to shoot the various types of seeds Link obtains at objects or enemies, having varying affects depending on which seed is shot. Head back right one screen and use the Ember Seeds in the Seed Shooter to light the torch in the center of the room, unlocking the doorway to the south. Head back down a screen.

Continue down two more screens and head right one screen to get back to the wheel room. Step into the rotating platform and then head down, left, up, and right a screen. Step into the rotating platform again and head up a screen.

Walk over to the far left side of the green gate on the left and aim the Seed Shooter at the blue crystal. Once shot, the crystal will break, causing yet another reaction somewhere in the dungeon. As this is the last blue crystal that needs broken, a loud noise far off will sound as if something heavy fell in the levels below.

Head back down one screen where the rotating platform is now replaced by a solid floor with a chest in the middle. Open the chest to receive a Gasha Seed. As for the platform, those reactions Link caused throughout the dungeon has made it fall to the lower level, allowing access to new rooms now. Head left one screen and fall down the pit to the basement level again.

Optional: Gasha Seed

Over on the right side of the red blocks, push the first three in the vertical row “left” so that they fall into the holes. Equip the Seed Shooter with Ember Seeds and stand on the middle yellow tile of the three closest to the bottomless pit, then aim diagonally up and left and shoot to ignite the closest torch. Now, stand on the tile just above this one and aim diagonally down and left, then shoot. The seed should ricochet off the first green statue, bounce from the red blocks, and light the farthest of the two torches. A chest will appear above Link in this room containing a Gasha Seed.

Continue up one and right one screen to the wheel once again and step onto the rotating platform, turning Link towards the northern path. Walk up two screens where Link will face the dungeon’s mini-boss.

Head left one screen, then immediately up one screen. There are two Mini-Moldorms that must be defeated before pushing the out-of-place red block here, so leave and come back to this room if the Moldorms are not on this side of the red blocks. Once defeated, push the out-of-place red block “left”, making a rectangle out of the four arranged blocks and having a Small Key fall onto the green tile in the center. Pick up the key and head back down one and right one screen.

Continue down two screens and step onto the rotating platform again, turning Link towards the western path. Head left one and up one screen. Walk along the vertical bridge above and strike the blue switch so that it turns red, also slightly turning a red bar to the right. Shoot the red bar with any seed from the Seed Shooter to have it ricochet down and flip the green level below, altering the arrangement of the bridges in the room. Head across the bridge that connects to the right side of the room, then strike the switch on this side twice, moving the red bar to another diagonal angle. Shoot the red bar, causing the seed to again bounce off and strike the green lever, to connect the vertical bridge on the right side of the room, then head down and open the chest to obtain 20 Rupees. Head up one screen through the locked door.

Shoot the blue switch on the left, turning it red, then shoot the red bar in the center which turns diagonally as a result. The seed will ricochet and hit the green lever above, connecting the horizontal bridge in this room. Head across the bridge to the left side and hit the red switch twice, turning the red bar again now at a different diagonal angle. Shoot the bar again to have the seed strike the green lever, changing the arrangement of the bridges and connecting the one above Link. Head up along this bridge to the top half of the room, then continue up one screen.

Push the out-of-place red block in front of the boss’ door “right” and head over to the ride side of the room. Continue down one and right one screen to get back to the mini-boss room. Walk down two more screens to get back to the wheel. Step onto the rotating platform which should now turn Link towards the eastern path, then head right one screen.

Walk over to the button on the right side of the room and step on and off of it, turning the red bars on the right both vertical. Now stand back on top of the button so that the bars are diagonal and shoot a seed diagonally up and right. The seed should bounce off the walls and fly straight through the red bars, hitting the green lever below and unlocking the doorway above. Head up through the opened door.

Climb up the steps and grab the Boss Key from the chest, then jump off the ledge to the left and head left one screen. Continue up one screen, left a screen, and up a screen. The block should still be pushed out of the way, so walk to the left and use the boss key to enter the next room where Link will meet the dungeon’s boss, Shadow Hag.

After claiming the third Essence, a cutscene will show Queen Ambi and Veran talking about the Black Tower, referring to it as Ambi’s Tower, nearing completion. Shortly after, a message from the Maku Tree will encourage Link to search the peaks northwest of Lynna City for the next Essence of Time…