Walk down the hall, past the two eye laser things (just run past them)
and through the door. Now turn right and follow the outside wall
until you find the door with the purple Shadow Temple emblem above it
(look on your Quest Status subscreen if you need to compare). Go
through that door, look to your left for a platform with a small chest
on it. Hookshot to it. Put on your Hover Boots. Now aim across the
way at a small platform with a torch on it, and use a Fire Arrow to
light the torch. Quickly run across the blocks that appear, past the
shield-eater and on to the next platform after it. You won't have
time to make it to the next block so don't try. Instead, use your
Lens to see an invisible walkway. Take the right-hand walk way and
jump down to the platform with the switch on it. Step on the switch
to make a big treasure box appear. Use your hookshot on the treasure
box to get up to it and you'll get the Gold Gauntlets. Now take the
left invisible path to a switch. Hit it with your hammer, then go
back and take the right path again to the door. Go through it and
shoot the floating ball thing with a Light arrow. You'll be
transported back to the main room. Go back to the main door you came
in through and leave the castle. When you are outside go across the
bridge and loop around to your left. You'll run under a stone arch
and go down a passageway to a huge stone pillar. Pick it up using
your A button and go through the cave behind it. Use Zelda's Lullaby
to summon the faerie and get double defense. Now head back into the
castle and into the main room.
Now that you have the Golden Gauntlets it doesn't matter what order
you get rid of the barriers. So just head right and go through the
first door, the one with the green emblem (Forest Barrier). Kill the
wolf, then use Din's Fire to light all the torches. Look above the
doorway and there's another torch, so light it with a Fire Arrow and
go through the door. Make sure you have your Hover Boots equipped in
this next room. First, wait until the fan to your left is going and
then walk toward it to get the silver rupee, then turn right and the
fan will help blow you across to the next platform. Hover over to the
next small platform with the switch on it and step on it. Turn around
and use your hookshot to get up onto the platform and get the silver
rupee you couldn't reach before. Turn toward the middle of the room
and Z-target and toss a bomb at the eye laser thing. Hover over to
it's platform then across to another silver rupee. Hover back to the
eye laser thing's platform and forward to the one under the door.
Now wait until the fan to the right of the door stops blowing then
hover across to the last silver rupee. Go through the door and shoot
the floating ball with a Light arrow to be warped back to the main
room.
Head right again and go through the next door, the Water Barrier.
Empty one of your bottles (NOT a blue potion) and use it to get some
magic blue flame from the center of the room. Walk around the room
to find the two ice statues and kill them to unblock the door. Melt
the ice blocking the door with the blue flame, then refill the bottle
with more blue flame. Go through the door. In this room, push the
ice block furthest from you right, then back (toward the door you came
in through) so that it falls down the hole. Then push the other block
right, forward, and finally left so that it ends up in the nook in the
wall. Climb up it and use the blue fire to melt the ice. Smash the
switch with the hammer then go through the next door. Kill the
floating ball thing with a Light arrow and you're back in the main
room again.
Continue to the right, past the Shadow Barrier door since you already
beat it, and on to the Fire Barrier door. Equip your Hover Boots and
Goron's Tunic. Collect all the silver coins in the room. Watch out
because most of the platforms sink in the lava while you're standing
on them so keep moving. There's one on the platform with the rotating
fire-breathing statue and one just to the right on a block. Further
down on the left there's a big pillar. Lift it with your Golden
Gauntlets to reveal another one. Then the last two are on the far
right side of the room. After you've grabbed the last one get close
enough to the door so that you can hookshot to the hookshot target
next to it. Go through and kill the floating ball thing with a Light
arrow and warp back to the main room.
Once again heading right, move the pillar out of the way of the door
to the Light Barrier. In the first room, use the Lens or just
Z-targeting to kill the 4 bats and big skulltula in the room. Get the
key in the chest that appears and go through the locked door. Use
Zelda's Lullaby in the next room for another key and go through the
locked door. Now you're in another collect silver rupees room.
There's 2 in nooks on the outer wall, two in the structure in the
middle, and one on the ceiling you can get with the hookshot. Go
through the door and...the ball thing is missing! But not really.
Go straight through the wall in front of you and you'll be in the
real room with the ball thing. Destroy it and warp back.
On to the final door, the Spirit Barrier. In the first room, once
again collect silver rupees. Blow up the eye laser thing with two
bombs or bombchu's. Just roll attack (forward+A) through the spikes
to get most of them. Don't forget the one floating in the middle of
the room - hookshot to the ceiling to get it. Go through the door and
kill the torch slugs. Use a spin slash to trigger the first shock
switch, which makes a chest drop containing Bombchu's. Use a bombchu
on the fence to have it climb up the fence, go through the hole up
there, then climb down the other side to finally blow up the second
shock switch (good use for a bomchu eh?). Go through the door now and
through an entryway to a room with some sun symbols on the wall.
Shoot the hole in the ceiling with a Fire Arrow to let in the
sunlight. Use your Mirror Shield to reflect it onto the symbol just
to the right of the entryway (NOT the doorway!) to unblock the door.
Go on to the final floating ball thing. Kill it with a Light Arrow.
Now leave Gannon's Castle to stock up. Use the Great Faerie's
fountain to heal your life and magic. Make sure you have at least 1
blue or green potion because you may need it to refill magic during
the final battle. Fill the rest with faeries. Also be sure you have
a full quiver of at least 40 arrows. Now go back into Ganon's Castle
and go into the tower in the middle of the room. Go up the stairs and
through the door. Now you'll just have to keep killing all the
enemies in the room to unblock the next door, then go through and up
more stairs. About halfway up you'll find the Boss Key in a chest
surrounded by fire that you need to kill all the enemies in the room
to get to. Evantually you'll also have to fight two Iron Knuckles at
the same time. Don't worry though they're slow enough you can just
work on one at a time. Remember to wait until they get close enough
to swing, then backflip with back+A, then push A again when you land
for a jump slash. Once you've climbed enough stairs you'll end up in
a huge room with a giant pillar in the middle of it and pots
everywhere. Don't break any pots, you'll need them later. Find the
other door and go through it and up a huge flight of stairs. You'll
pop in on a small story sequence when you go through the door the top.
Afterwords you'll face the big guy himself, the Evil King....
The Final Boss: Ganondorf
Immediately put on your Hover Boots and run to one of the corners of
the room. Now face Gannondorf, tap Z to center the camera, and wait
until he throws a ball of lightning at you. Remember Phantom Gannon?
Hit the ball to reflect it back at him and be ready for when he knocks
it back at you. Keep hitting it until it hits him. He'll be stunned
for a second, so take this opportunity to shoot him with a Light
Arrow. Turn run over to his platform, Z-target, and wail on him with
your sword. When he gets back up quickly run back to your corner.
If you fall off, break the pots to get some life/magic/etc. and then
use the Longshot on the side of the middle pillar to quickly get back
up. Then as soon as you climb over the top, turn to face the nearest
corner, tap Z to center the camera, and run over to it before he
knocks you back off again. After a while he'll try a more powerful
attack. When you see him start gathering a big dark ball of energy
above his head, hold down B to start charging a spin attack. When he
lets it go it will fire 4 lighting balls at you. Release the spin
attack to reflect all 4 back at him. Then he'll be stunned like a
regular one and you can use the Light Arrow and sword on him.
Eventually you'll defeat him. I'm not going to give away the rest of
the game after this, but if you get stuck, here are some hints: 1)
Take off those Hover Boots! 2) Follow instructions, and be quick about
it 3) If you're looking for a weak spot, try the tail 4) What Light
Arrows can't kill, they can stun 5) If you didn't get the Big Goron's
sword, you may need the Megaton Hammer. Enjoy the ending of this
awesome game!