Vacuum Mouth

The Vacuum is a strange 'enemy' featured in Link's Awakening.

Appearances

There are only three Vacuums in the game.

The first one appears in the Bottle Grotto, in a room along with three Keese. The first Vacuum is located at the bottom-left corner of this room, and it will use an ability that sucks you in like a vacuum, hence it's name. It will most likely suck you towards the corner, or to the holes. Vacuums can also suck up enemies, killing them in the process. It's sucking ability will only last a few seconds and then turn off, before turning on again. If you want to kill it, you can make a suicide jump with Roc's Feather and hit it with a Sword slash. Interestingly enough, if you land on top of the vacuum you'll automatically be taken to the very beginning of the dungeon.

The second one appears in the Key Cavern, in the room to the right of the entrance. This Vacuum has the opposite ability from the first one. It prevents Link from being able to approach by expelling using an ability that pushes you away instead of sucking you up like the previous Vacuum. Use the Pegasus Boots to dash quickly across the screen and hit this vacuum to defeat it.

The third Vacuum is found in Turtle Rock and behaves by drawing link to it, while also serving as a partial obstacle for Link. This Vacuum also has a brief off period making timing essential in order to access a nearby Treasure Chest.

Gallery

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  Vacuum Sprite from Link's Awakening

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  A Vacuum in Turtle Rock. (click to see animation)