The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - Page 4
Forest Haven is one of the most tranquil areas in the game. While you?re here, enjoy the music and undeniably cute tree people. Here, you?ll find the Deku Leaf, a tool that can save you time in nearly every dungeon. The Deku Leaf has two functions, the ability to let you float with the wind and the ability to shoot a powerful burst of air. The Deku Leaf's burst of air is good at stunning certain air-based enemies and hitting hard to reach switches. Learn to use it well and your Zelda experience will be that much easier. Good luck, young adventurer!
Forest Haven (F6)
Follow the path of the waterfall back to its source and enter the cave at the top. Use your Grappling Hook to cross the gap by the double waterfall, and don't forget that you can use the R button to realign yourself. As you ascend, use your shield to deflect the water-dwelling enemies' shots back to them.
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Once inside the cave, go to the giant tree with the face (you can't miss it-it's a giant tree with a face) and execute a roll (press A while running) to knock all the ChuChus off of it. Kill all the ChuChus and the tree reveals the Deku Leaf at the top of its branches.
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To ascend the great tree, use the purple flower buds. Rocket yourself from bud to bud by rotating yourself until the next bud is directly at the top of the screen and then push Up on the Control Stick just as the flower you're in spits you out. If you're not aligned yet when you get spit out, just let go of the Control Stick and you'll drop back in the same one so you can try again. Once you have the Deku Leaf, look for the patch of grass shaped like an arrow and float over to it.
Go outside.
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Unfortunately, you can't get to the Forbidden Forest directly-you must take a roundabout route. First, use Wind's Requiem to change the wind direction to SW. Use the Deku Leaf (make sure your magic gauge is full first-cut down grass to find refills) to float over to the round plateau.
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Now change the wind direction to NW. Leap from the platform and Deku-sail just as the tornado is about to pass (see the above screen) so that it gives you an upward boost. Land on the small platform to enter the second dungeon, called the Forbidden Forest.
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Dungeon Two: Forbidden Forest
ITEM: Boomerang
BOSS: Giant Flower That Eats Cute Leaf Creatures
In the Forbidden Forest dungeon, you get lots of use out of that new Deku Leaf to float around and operate the native bio-machinery. Here are some parts that may give you some trouble.
If you encounter a door or chest that is covered by a vine with a blue flower, throw a nut, a bomb plant, a flaming stick (keep your eye out for torches), or your boomerang (once you have it) at the bud to destroy it. Don't get too close, or the bud will close, and the flower will be temporarily invulnerable.
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If you see a four-pronged propeller made of leaves, flap your Deku Leaf at it to generate wind and make the propeller spin. In this dungeon, propellers are used to operate wooden gondolas that help you cross gaps.
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To control yourself on the gondola (and the floating flower raft later in the dungeon), aim the Deku Leaf in the direction opposite of the way you want to travel and flap away. Don't try to use the Deku Leaf on the gondola propeller again-if you do, you'll just wind up backpedaling and frustrating yourself.
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In the room where the circle of vines pop up to protect the Deku Nut you need to pick up, use your Deku Leaf to generate wind and push the nut safely out of the circle.
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Later, in the room where vines pop up out of the ground in the shape of a maze, throw a Bomb through the vines at the wooden barrier located on the south side of the room to reveal a chest containing a small key-then try navigating the maze.
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To get the boomerang, you must kill a giant butterfly. Lock on with your Deku Leaf and then use your jump attack (press toward the butterfly while locked on and then press and hold A) to hack off its wings. Once it's grounded, simply attack with your regular sword combos. Use your 360-degree sword attack if the spiny black creatures latch onto you and slow you down.
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Once you've collected the boomerang, you may be surprised to find that the door is still barricaded. To remedy the situation, look up, lock your boomerang onto the two white crystals over the exit, and then throw it.
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In the room with all the nuts hanging from vines, use your boomerang to clear a path to the other side. Now use your Deku Leaf to parasail across the gap-it may seem too far, but you can make it with proper timing.
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Once across, use your boomerang (again) to sever the five blue cords suspending the giant plant. When you do, it will crash through the floor and reveal a new area in the basement. Once you're down below, whip out your boomerang again to sever the smaller flower and drop it into the river to use as a raft.
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The Big Key is locked behind a gate in this room. To open the gate, hit all five white crystals surrounding the center platform with one boomerang throw. To escape the room afterward, look for the hard-to-miss grapple point on the ceiling that leads to a high door.
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To get back up through the hole you fell through, use your Deku Leaf on the propeller to start a tornado and then jump into the tornado. Unfurl your Deku Leaf and ride the draft up again. Open the door protected by the two blue buds by smacking them with your boomerang and then head for the boss.
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To beat the Giant Flower That Eats Cute Leaf Creatures, first use your boomerang to cut down all the vines. Move fast (they regenerate!) and max out your lock-ons every time.
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Once it hits the ground and opens up, quickly run up and attack the small flower inside repeatedly with your sword until the giant flower closes up again and spits you out. Repeat the process until it's defeated.
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