Gerudo Lagoon
Items/Weapons: Hookshot
Masks: 2 // 18/28- Mask of Truth, Circus Leader’s Mask
Heart Pieces: 10 // 35/52
Empty Bottles: 1 // 4/6
Owl Statues: 0 // 8/10
Songs: New Wave Bossa Nova
Change back to normal Link and put on the Stone Mask. Jump into the water, then hop on a boat when a guard comes by. Take a Pictograph of the guard (you'll need it later). When you come towards a platform, jump off and onto it. Switch to Goron Link and pound the switch to open an underwater area. As normal Link, with the Stone Mask on, hop into the water. Change to Zora Link and dive down. Nearby is the opening (look for orange swirls in the water, then go just a bit forward from it, it's a big tunnel with a gold border). Swim into the opening. Once inside, dive down, pounding the board and you are in a maze. Okay, here's how to get out of it. Pull the stone block towards you as far as it will go. Go left and bang into the board to break it. Go right, breaking another board, and push the stone block as far as possible. Go right, then left twice and you're free! Step onto the orange swirls and you're pushed up to another type of maze, but not as hard (even though the last one wasn't all that hard!) Avoid the orange swirls and the spiked bombs. Walk on the bottom. If you get into the orange swirls, you'll be pulled back into the main area of the Pirate's Fortress and have to re-do the stuff before. When you're at the end, surface and go through the door. Almost the same room as the last one. Avoid the spikes and climb up on the ramp. You can see a Heart Piece in a caged-in room. Climb up the left ramp and bang into the barrels on the left. Quickly, step on the switch to open the door to the *Heart Piece*, put on the Bunny Hood and run to it. After you collect it, step on the switch behind you to open the door again. Go back up that ramp and shoot the diamond switch with an arrow then, as Zora Link, dive into the water nearby and swim through the opening to a new room before it closes. Swim over the orange swirl, then climb the ladder. This next room has a switch on the wall blocked by a gate, a switch on the floor and a grate. Stand on the floor switch to open the gate blocking the other switch. Scoot over to the grate and shoot the switch with an arrow before it closes up again. A water spout will act as an elevator pushing you up. Climb the ladder and you'll see a telescope. You can look through it to see the Gerudos walking around their hideout. Turn and shoot an arrow at the switch across from you. The door below will open, so enter it. Wear the Stone Mask and go around the bend, then through the opening. Now you're in the area that you may have seen through the telescope in the last room. Wearing the Stone Mask, go to the centre of the area and climb the ladder. Cross the bridge to the other side and enter the door. Walk forward and a cinema will start. You'll hear a couple of Gerudos talking. After it's done, shoot an arrow through the barred window at the beehive. The bees will scare away the guards. Exit to the bridge outside and turn right. Drop down a level to another door. Enter it and you're in the room where those guards were just now. Open the big chest for the *Hookshot*! This is useful for hooking onto targets and other things. In this room, hookshot to the wooden board above the aquarium. As Zora Link, dive down and scoop up the Zora Egg into a bottle. Climb out and exit back to the outside area with all those guards around. Keep the Stone Mask on all the time while around these guards or they'll see you. Go to the northwest part of this big area and hookshot on the black and white targets. Enter the door and walk past the guard. Enter another door and a Gerudo Guard will come out to fight. Just fight her like you do the Wolfos. Use the sword to attack and the shield to defend. After she's defeated, enter the door with the torches on either side of it and you'll find the Second Zora Egg in another aquarium. Dive down as Zora Link and scoop it up in another bottle. Backtrack to the big outdoor area. Go to the right side of the area and find another door. Enter and go past the guard. Go through another door to fight another Gerudo Guard. Same strategy as before. When she's gone, enter the other door and collect the Third Zora Egg in another bottle. You might be out of bottles by now, but you can play the Song of Soaring and warp to Great Bay, then drop the eggs off in the big aquarium in the Marine Research Lab any time. When you return to the Lagoon, hitch a ride on a pirate boat (wearing the Stone Mask), get off on the platform at left, hookshot to the black & white target, go up the ramp and into the big guard infested area. Head to the back of the settlement in the northeast corner of the map. Hookshot up to the last door. Walk past the guard outside and into the room. Pass the guards in this small room. Open the chest for a Silver Rupee, then go through the next door. Go through the room and fight the Gerudo Guard. Collect the Fourth Zora Egg. Warp to Great Bay and drop off all the Zora Eggs you have (4 total). In the first area of Great Bay on the beach, find the Fisherman's Hut. Remember that Pictograph you took of a Gerudo Pirate? If you don't have it, just go back to the first area of the fortress and take a picture of a guard. Talk to the guy, then to the seahorse and give the guy the picture when prompted to. He'll give you the seahorse in one of your bottles. You need to drop the seahorse off at Pinnacle Rock. Swim out in the water in the first area of Great Bay and look for two big pillars sticking out of the water. Sink down near there and walk forward. You are transported to Pinnacle Rock. Drop the seahorse off and talk to him. He'll lead you to the area where you can help him. Follow him (he'll stop at each sign). You need to defeat all the sea snakes in the underwater area ahead to free the seahorse's friend. Look in all of those holes to find them. Be careful and stand next to them, not in front of them, because he pokes his head out and might attack you. The ones at the bottom of the lake are easy, because you can stand on land, but the others are a bit trickier. You need to stand in the hole just next to them. Hit them with your boomerang twice to defeat them. Not every hole has a Zora Egg in it, but three of them do. Collect each Zora Egg found. After you beat all the sea snakes, the seahorses will appear and be reunited. They reward you with a *Heart Piece*. Head back to the Marine Research Lab (just float up to the top and walk forward. He'll reappear at Great Bay. Just go forward and swim) and put the remaining Zora Eggs into the big aquarium. The scientist will summon you to the front of the tank. Take out your guitar and play the song after it shows up. The new song is called the New Wave Bossa Nova. This song will get you to Great Bay Temple. Now, go out and collect 4 fish in each of your bottles. Come back to the lab and drop each fish into that other tank with the two weird-looking fish in it already. One fish will eat all the small fish, then grow big and eat his pal! He'll blow you a *Heart Piece* kiss! Play the Song of Time and save your game. Now that you have the Hookshot, you can collect a few things before actually entering the temple ahead. After 10 p.m., enter the Milk Bar in East Clock Town by wearing your Romani Mask. Talk to Toto as human, Deku, Goron, and Zora Link and play the notes as instructed to. You will eventually play Ballad of the Wind Fish, a classic Zelda tune, and Gorman will give you the *Circus Leader’s Mask*. Exit through the west gate and head towards Great Bay. Find a boulder in the sand and bomb or Goron punch it to enter. Shoot the beehives on the roof of the cave, then dive down as Zora Link to collect a *Heart Piece*. Get the Scarecrow’s Song from the observatory, then warp to Mountain Village. Head towards Snowhead and get over the first gap as a Goron. Walk towards the second gap, then use the Lens of Truth to see a series of ice platforms. Hop across them till you reach a big gap. Play the Scarecrow’s Song to summon him, then hookshot to him and get the *Heart Piece*. Warp to Great Bay Coast and head into the eastern area on the beach off Zora Hall. Head past the Zoras on the beach to a stretch of sand with some broken branches. Hookshot to the closest tree above, then across more trees to Waterfall Rapids. As Zora Link, dive into the water and meet up with the beaver jet-skiing on the water. Sink down and talk to him to race. Get through 20 rings in the course in 2 minutes, then race the big brother beaver through 25 rings to win an *Empty Bottle*. Exit the area, then re-enter and talk to them on the platform. Race through 20 rings in 1 ½ minutes, then 25 rings in 1 ½ minutes to win a *Heart Piece*. Outside the beavers’ home, dive into the waterfall pond and defeat the Like-Like with your shock attack (R+B) for a *Heart Piece*. With the Scarecrow’s Song still activated, buy a Magic Bean from the salesman in the Deku Palace maze and fill a bottle with spring water. In Great Bay, head towards the Pirate’s Fortress to a stretch of lands with platforms higher up. Look for a hookshot target and pull yourself up there. Continue hookshotting to a soft soil spot. Plant the bean, then water it and use the plant to reach a distant platform. Play the Scarecrow’s Song, then hookshot to him and get the *Heart Piece*. Now warp to Zora Cape and head back into Zora Hall. As a Zora, find the drummer inside his dressing room. Hookshot to the tree and read the diary. Write down or memorize both parts of the song (should be A, C-down, C-right, A and C-down, C-right, C-left, C-down). Exit and find Japas (the guitarist)’s room. Write down both of Japas’ parts and play your own after each of his. The song should be C-right, C-right, C-down, A, A, C-down, C-right, A, C-left, C-left, C-right, C-down, C-down, C-right, C-left, C-down). With the entire song’s tune, find Evan (the pianist)’s room and as human Link, play the entire song standing by Evan to win a *Heart Piece*. While here, in the Deku Merchant side quest, bring the Mountain Title Deed into Lulu’s room and, as Goron Link, show it to the merchant. Use the Deku flower to reach the *Heart Piece* above. Whew! Now, you have the ability to complete the 1st Skulltula House if you want to now. See my section on that. You’ll win the *Mask of Truth*. Remember that the mask is useful to get the Heart Piece at the doggy racetrack at Romani Ranch. Now, on Day 1 preferably, slow down time, then warp to Zora Cape and, as Zora Link, play the New Wave Bossa Nova to Lulu. She will sing and a huge turtle will appear to take you to Great Bay Temple. Hookshot to the palm tree on his back and away you go!
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