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LAKEBED TEMPLE
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Here, swim down the tunnel until you get to the passage with the Clams.
Equip your Iron Boots, then slash at them (albeit sluggishly), until they die.
Continue along the floor to the opposite side, avoiding any enemies that you
can, then de-equip your boots and start surfacing. Along the way, you will
encounter some Jellyfish. Avoid them as well by staying far away from them,
until you can finally emerge from the water. At the top, open the chest right
behind you to the south for 10 Water Bombs, and another one to the east
partially hidden by the shadow of one of the rock pillars. I would also
recommend fighting the red Chus in here and scooping their remains up for some
helpful recovery items (but not the Purple Chus). Next, head up the northern
stairs, and once you get stopped by the gate, turn around and jump onto the
lever to pull it down and open the gate. Head up again and go through the next
door.
In here, head off to the end of the ledge, and a stalacite will fall
down. Midna will warn you about them, so equip your bomb arrows (go into the -
Screen, highlight your bombs, and press Z), and aim at each stalacite (you do
not need to hit their necks; hitting the bulk of each rock should be sufficient
to bring it down). Now head down the small ramp to the bottom, and use the
stalacites to climb up the ledges to the top. Just before the door, however,
head west and go up onto the cliff against the wall here via stalacite to open a
chest for another 10 Water Bombs. Go back down and head through the door.
I will refer to this next little area as the central room, so keep
advised. Head forward and kill the reptilian guard (via regular sword strikes or
a bomb arrow), then continue inside. Walk forward, watch a scene, then go down a
floor via the giant staircase. Head along either side of the circumference until
you get to the southern end of the circular floor, then go and jump off the
nearby ledge and weigh down the lever. This will cause the staircase to turn
around. Before going upstairs again, make sure to claim 20 Arrows from a nearby
chest at the end of the path (in the future, if you are lost, look towards the
floor. Blue and purple tiles will help point you in the direction that you
should go).
Up here, head left from the top of the staircase, and continue around
until you get to the wall. Break open the moving pot here to free Ooccoo, whom
you can once again use. Next, head back to the northern side of the room, then
continue down to the eastern side, where you should jump off the ledge and onto
the lever to once more rotate the staircase around. Drop down and head down the
stairs. Go right from here to open the chest for the Dungeon Map, then head back
and enter the doorway at the base of the stairs.
Coming in, confront the hard-shelled enemy. In order to defeat it, you
will likely want to circle it around and pull off an attack on it's back side
when you can, or else use the Back Slice a couple of times. Afterwards, continue
west and out into the next room. In here, head along the ledge to the west, but
before jumping over, take out your Bomb Arrows (again, go into the - Screen,
highlight your bombs, and press Z). Fire one each at the slagamites hanging
above the ceiling for them to fall down onto the wto geysers. Next, head through
the tunnel that is to the north, and you will emerge on a cliff right next to
the contraption in the middle. Climb up the vines here on the stone pillar, and
go around to the other side using the vines. Next, jump over first one ordinary
pillar, then a rock that goes up and down based on the geyser underneath it, and
finally onto a ledge containing a chest. Open the chest for a Small Key.
Now, head back across the pillars and vines and through the tunnel, then
make your way back to the staircase room. Up here, go left, and head all the way
to the northern end of the room. Open the locked door here, and enter. Cross the
hallway inside, ignoring the enemy, and continue onto the next area. In here, go
along the hallway south to come to a chest holding a five pack of some more
Water Bombs, then head to the northern end, where you will see a metal gate
blocking your path. Look up, and you should see some more stalacites. Shoot down
the one that is closest to the vines on the nearby wall, and use it as a ledge
to climb up the vines. Once you make it up, drop on the actual gate itself, not
onto the floor on the other side. Once on the top, head down the ledge and jump
onto the lever, which will cause the lever to drop.
With that out of the way, continue down the hallway, and you should see
a big rock at the end. Use one of your bombs to blow the rock up, and then
continue down, dodging the two enemies in your path. Ignore the bubble enemy
that comes around in here, and instead go through the door to the east side of
the room (just head straight south from your position and left a bit). Drop off
the ledge here, then continue straight down the hallway, and open a chest at the
end for another Small Key. Go west a slight bit along the hallway, and there
should be a door to your right. Enter.
Duel the Komodo Lizard, then jump across the gear mechanism thingy to
the northern side, and enter the door here. Simply turn a left to go back into
the room with the bubble enemy. Head north a bit and then right to find a locked
door. Unlock it, then enter a large room. Here, head along the plateau until you
get to some vines going down, and climb/drop down. Head to the eastern portion
of the bottom floor, then climb up the vines. Up here, head up the (admittedly
lengthy) winding ramp around the room to the top, killing some spiders along the
way. Once you make it, open the chest at the end for 10 Water Bombs, then climb
up either ladder leaning against the nearby arch. Jump towards the golden lever,
then drop down once the stream of water begins to flow. Backtrack a bit down the
ramp, and you will end up being carted down by the current (or you could just
dive down from the top for a quicker trip into the water).
Once you hit the bottom, swim over to the pillar in the middle of the
room, and get onto the ledge. Jump towards the lever to activate another
floodgate that will cause the water to start flowing into the rest of the
temple. With that done, head back into the room with the bubble enemy through
the southeast, and then then go to the northeast door. Head north a bit, then
turn right into the room with the gear-like platform. After the scene, drop down
into the room below. Climb up the vines and ledges, and make your way to the
front of this room. Turn around, and you should see that because of the rotating
pillar, three platforms hanging off of it are also moving around. Jump onto one
of them, and when you get to the northern end, jump off onto the small ledge.
Head into the new room.
Head straight left from the entrance, and you will come to a chest
containing a Small Key. After you have obtained it, go back from whence you came
to the previous area. Jump onto a platform, and once it rotates over to the
western end, jump onto the platform and enter this door. In here, unlock the
door right in front of you, then head down the tunnel and into the water. Swim
along until you get swept by the current into a side path with a large chest;
when this happens, equip your Iron Boots, and open the chest for a red Rupee.
Head back out into the main area of water and go west into the part of the wall
that the jet stream is coming from (with your Iron Boots still equipped). A tiny
alcove to the north in here will contain 5 Bombs. Head back out, then continue
on north till you get to the webbed wall at the very end. Plant a bomb near the
rock to reveal a hole in the wall. Move north some more into the next room.
In here, de-equip both the Zora Suit and your Iron Boots, then swim
along the tunnel and exit out. Once the hole closes in on itself, look up to the
ceiling to activate a mini-boss fight.
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MINIBOSS: FROG
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Not too difficult of a battle to fight. Once he drops down, he will
stand up, and release frog eggs from his back. These eggs will quickly morph
into mini-frogs, whom you will have to kill. My advice is to get close to part
of the egg batch and use the Spinning attack to kill a good amount before they
can even grow up, use the Z-Targeting mechanism to slay any more that come
towards you, and, once you can use your Spin attack again, get close to any big
groups and take them down.
Once every mini-frog is dead (yes, every one of them), the big frog will
become active. It will jump up into the air, and try to land on Link. A good
rule of thumb is to run away from the shadow it casts, and try to roll out at
the last moment. The impact of landing will temporarily stun the Frog, so turn
around and head to it's mouth, where it's tongue will be lying out. Slash at it
a couple of times.
The frog will then get up and at this point opens it's mouth. IF you let
it be, then it will hatch out more eggs for you to fight off. However, if you
throw a bomb into it's mouth while it is open like this, then it will swallow
it, and indigestion plus the explosion will stun it again, allowing you to
strike it once. You can also Z-Target onto the frog's tongue and just use your
hidden skill to injure it. Repeat the process two or three more times to win.
After you win, open the chest to obtain the Clawshot. Equip it, then use
it on the targets on the three ledges up above in the room if you want some
Rupees (of which there is a good collection to ransack here). Perhaps the best
use for this in fighting enemies will be against the jellyfish enemies you may
occasionally see - using this on them will rip their brains out, instantly
killing them. Afterwards, go to the southern end of the room, where you will
find a gate. Look up above to find a target, and aim your Clawshot at it. Link
will cause the target to weigh down, opening the gate. Go into the next room,
and in here, head straight up the small slope and into the next room (by the
way, you can attack those pesky shell enemies with the Clawshot now).
Here, jump onto one of the platforms, and once you get to the eastern
end, head over to the main platform, then backtrack to the centralized room with
the staircase.
!!!HEART PIECE ALERT!!!
Watch a small scene with the water rising, then go up the staircase to
the top. Up here, head around to the southern end, and turn to face the middle
of the room. Look up to the ceiling, and you can see a glass chandelier, with
half a dozen targets. Use the Clawshot on any one of them to take yourself up to
the ceiling, and drop down. Open the treasure chest up here for another Piece of
Heart.
Drop back down into the water, and head to the pillar in the center. In
an alcove here, you shall find a chest containing a red Rupee. Now go back onto
the staircase from whence you entered via the vines on the walls, then head
west. Look up above you to see some vines on the ceiling, and use the Clawshot
on them to get over the small fence. Continue down the room 'til you get to the
eastern side, then turn around to face the center of the room. Look up, and use
the Clawshot on the target right above you. This will turn the staircase to face
you, along with causing the direction of water to change. Enter the door near
here into the eastern hallway. Inside here, go through the waterwheel as it
turns around, and into the next room.
In here, jump onto the first platform, then aim at the target towards
your left that will place you above a small pillar. Drop down and open a chest
for 10 Water Bombs. Aim towards the north to some vines, and climb up the pillar
and around and onto a safe ledge. Tilt your view south for another stone pillar
with vines, and do the same thing. Finally, aim northeast towards some more
vines, climb across, and drop onto the floor. Enter the door here.
Walk east in this room to find two geysers. Look to the ceiling above,
and you should see a stalacite above the larger geyser. Equip a bomb arrow
(again, go to the - menu, highlight the bombs, and press Z), then shoot at the
stalacite. Quickly jump on the make-shift platform, and once the geyser shoots
it up, jump across the hole in the wall and drop down on the other side. Quickly
kill the enemies, then use the Clawshot to weigh down the target right in front
of the gate to open it for future purpose. With that done, head down the
hallway, and use the Clawshot on the target in front of the door to get onto the
ledge. Go inside.
Ignore the bubble enemies here, and quickly aim your clawshot at the
vines on the ceiling to the east. Climb across the wall into the opposite side
of the room, and drop down. Turn to your right and Clawshot the vines on the
opposite wall, then climb up and onto the ledge. Now, make your way to the top
of the room. While doing so, you will come across two gaps. At the first one,
aim your Clawshot at the target on the other side of the gap, but do so right
after the geyser drops so you do not get hit by the water. The second is more of
the same.
Once you make it to the top, open the chest for 10 Water Bombs, then
turn right and head down the small walkway. Use the Clawshot to hook onto the
target on the ledge (it must be the left one since the right one has a lamp on
it). Drop down once you get up top, and open the chest for the Compass. Jump off
this ledge, then head back behind the arch, and climb either ladder. Jump onto
the golden lever to trigger the floodgate, then jump off from the top into the
water below. Head to the central ledge, and jump onto the lever here to open the
second floodgate.
Now go back to the entrance to this room, and head into the
smaller portion across the gate by targeting the vines on the ceiling with your
Clawshot and climbing over it. Take the left/northern door here into the next
room. Inside, drop into the water and head to the southwest corner of the small
pond, and equip your Iron Boots to drop to the bottom, while all the time
avoiding the jellyfish (or you can perform an instant kill on them via the
Clawshot) and clam enemies. Open the chest here for a red Rupee, then resurface,
and climb onto the western ledge. Head through the door to your north to enter
the room with the two big gears. Jump onto the right one, then make your way
over to the southwest corner, killing a Lizalfos in the room. Exit out.
Outside here, head south, and open a chest for a red Rupee. Go north now
until you get to a gate, and use the Clawshot on the target right above you to
bring down the gate. Open the chest on the opposite side for 15 Water Bombs,
then continue northwest through the waterwheel and go through the door on the
side wall. Here, head to the western side of the ledge, and aim at the stone
pillar with vines to the west. Once you successfully make it over, aim towards
the west wall, where you should see some more targets. When you make it over
there successfully, open the chest for 20 Rupees. From here, Clawshot back to
the first stone pillar.
Now, aim down and to the west again to see a smaller pillar with more
vines. Get down onto the ledge here, then aim west at the ceiling of the one
rotating gear. Now, for the really hard part. You must wait until the target
that does not have a platform attached comes around, and you must aim at it.
However, since it is moving, you must also shoot the Clawshot about a second
ahead of the target to successfully target it. Once you do get on, wait until
you have rotated about 270 degrees. Drop down by pressing down on the analog
stick, and use the C button to view the three ledges here. Once you are somewhat
above the ledge in between the two gears, drop down onto it. Aim at the other
gear in a similar manner, and drop yourself off at the eastern end. Enter.
Dive into the water inside, then swim down. Go first through a northern
passage guarded by a clam, then head east in the next large section. Swim up a
bit and onto a ledge, and plant a Water Bomb next to the boulder here (or else
kill a nearby fish that will turn into a water bomb upon it's death), making
sure to deal with any of the pesky fish enemies. Head into the next section, and
resurface. On a small ledge to the east, climb up onto land and claim a five-
pack of bombs from the chest. Dive back into the water, equip your Iron Boots to
sink down to the bottom, and blow up another rock in the southeast corner.
Continue down the tunnel, and once you hit the dead end, de-equip your Iron
Boots and resurface. Enter the door once on land.
First, Z-Target the bubble enemy, then let loose your Clawshot. This
will pull the enemy in the bubble out. Slash it with your sword a few times to
kill it, then use your Clawshot again on the block right above the platform.
This will open up a hole in the floor right underneath Link. Lower Link down
(don't drop off, or else the hole will close faster than you can get down
there). At the bottom, open the chest for the Big Key. Equip your Iron Boots,
roll off the platform, and head through the door underwater going east.
Swim through the tunnel while dodging/Clawshotting our favorite
Jellyfish enemies. Once you make it out into open space again, do not surface or
go down to the ground yet; rather, head through the hole to the west where you
bombed a boulder a few minutes ago, then surface. Head north and west onto dry
land, then continue west. Swim across another small stretch of land and head
through the western door. In here, use the targets on the gears to go across the
room, and once on a platform under the western gear, target the vines to the
west. Head up the ledge, and head through the western door. Continue back into
the central room. In here, watch the scene as the water level rises once more,
then drop down into the lake.
!!!HEART PIECE ALERT!!!
Make sure that the bottom of the staircase is facing west (if not, go up
to the second floor, and trigger the west switch). Head through the west room
into the area with a single cog. With the water coming into here, the water
levels will rise, causing the bridge in this room to connect from the central
platform to a new unaccessible room. Go onto the center platform and head south.
Here, you shall be blocked by a gate; step onto the switch, and once the gate
has opened all the way, pull yourself through by using the Clawshot on the left
target. Kill the Lizalfos, then open the chest for a Heart Piece. To get back
out, use the Clawshot target on the ceiling.
Head back to the central chamber once more. For one last piece of
treasure, go up to the second floor, and head through the west door. Inside,
loop around to the northern side, then continue down west and up the hill tunnel
into the next room. Here, continue west into the room with the giant water
slide. To obtain your last treasure, you will have to trudge to the top; against
the water. There are only two ways to do this, both of which are a mite
inconvenient. The first is to equip your Iron Boots and crawl all the way to the
top (although rolling would make it go by faster), additionally using the
Clawshot targets to bring yourself up quicker. The second is to get onto the
inside railing, and follow it up to the top, taking a few seconds to equip the
Boots and go into the water when you hit a support column.
At the top, continue west and across the bridge. Use your Clawshot on
the left target to pull yourself across the waterfall, and open the chest for a
red Rupee. Now head back all the way to the center room, and dive down to the
first floor. Swim to the central platform, and climb up onto dry land.
Unlock the boss door here, and enter and drop down the hole. Equip your Iron
Boots to initiate the boss of the Lakebed Temple.
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Originally Posted by Virg
Yeah, LOL, that might bother me if FFXI was my life.
If by "hot shit" you mean a fresh case of Diarrhea, sure.
