Friday, November 14, 2014

HCBailly plays Link's Awakening DX - Part 20 of 32

We do some more trading before we head off to the fifth dungeon!

Overworld maps by Osrevad. Dungeon maps by Revned.



Head back to the Seashell Mansion. Now that you have twenty Secret Seashells, you'll be able to get something really, really nice. You don't need it to beat the game, but it's definitely useful and makes the game easier.

In case you haven't found 20 yet, here's the list again. I'll wait for you.

Secret Seashells


1. The empty lot full of bushes and grass in Mabe Village contains a Secret Seashell in one of the bushes.

2. The chest blocked by a rock in the Mysterious Forest contains another Shell.

3. Go back to the doghouse near Madame Meow Meow's house where you got the Ribbon, and use the Shovel. You'll find a Secret Seashell in one spot.

4. The crack in the wall in the Tail Cave requires a bomb to open up. Going inside takes you to a chest with a Secret Seashell.

5. The screen south of the lone grave contains a Secret Seashell underneath the bush.

6. When you collect five Shells, don't collect any more until you enter the Seashell Mansion. You'll get a sixth one. This one is pretty easy to screw up at getting if you're overly eager to explore Koholint Island.

7. Go one screen east of the Seashell Mansion and cut the bushes. You'll find another one.

8. In the pig-man maze just southwest of the Seashell Mansion, lift the rock with the Power Bracelet to get another Secret Seashell.

9. Go into the cave in the pig maze. Go one screen west and use a bomb on the small nook on the west end of the room to find a staircase. Go up and get out of the cave from there, then go north. Use the shovel on the ground where the owl head is to find another Secret Seashell.

10. On the other side of the screen with the mermaid statue is a lone bush. Cut it with the sword to get another Shell.

11. Come back to the Seashell Mansion with exactly ten shells. You'll get another Secret Seashell. Just like the sixth, being too eager to explore the island will cause you to miss out.

12. It's located in the chest in the dungeon that leads to the Slime Key maze.

13. On the path to the Key Cavern, there is a space in between four patches of grass. Use the shovel on it to get another Secret Seashell.

14. Go to the phone booth near the Key Cavern and run into the tree next to it with the Pegasus Boots. You'll cause a Secret Seashell to pop out of the tree.

15. One of the Armos Knights in the Armos Knights maze hides an underground passage to a Secret Seashell.

16. The owl head near Animal Village is the site of another Secret Seashell. Use your Shovel to find it.

17. Run into the tree west of the Tail Cave to knock a Secret Seashell out of it.

18. After you leave the quicksand cave in the Yarna Desert, go south and use the Power Bracelet on the rocks. You'll be able to get a Secret Seahell.

19. When you get the flippers, swim up to the island with the lone bush near the pig-man maze. Destroy the bush to get another Secret Seashell.

20. The bush on the island just southwest of the mermaid contains another Secret Seashell.

/Secret Seashells

Anyway, bringing 20 Secret Seashells to the Seashell Mansion will give you the Level 2 Sword. It works just like the Master Sword in A Link to the Past: when you're at full health, you'll be able to fire beams from it. It's also more powerful, too.

Anyway, go back to the bridge near the Mermaid and the Catfish's Maw, and go under it. You'll find a fisherman fishing underneath it. Give him the fishing hook, and he'll catch the Mermaid's necklace for you. Bring it back to the mermaid to get a mermaid's scale. If you go offscreen, return to where she was and get back on land, she'll show up again. When you talk to her, she'll mention that an artist who wanted her to pose for him wanted a scale as well, and she also mentions something about "the legend of the Magnifying Glass." Hmmmm...

Anyway, head south of the screen where the Mermaid was to find the Catfish's Maw. Go into the little alcove in the west wall near the Maw and dive. You'll enter a side-scrolling section where you'll find a secret tunnel in the rocks under the dungeon, where you'll be able to get to the other side and enter the Catfish's Maw.

Catfish's Maw



The little lizards with the masks can only be hit from behind. You'll find an item that deals with them better than this soon enough.

The weight platforms move like the balances on a scale when you stand on them. Jump at the right time to get to the other side.

When you come out of that side-scrolling section, destroy all the crystals on the floor move the blocks so they form a square. You'll get a small key for your efforts.

The Owl Statue will tell you that if you can't destroy a skeleton with your sword, use a bomb instead. Hmmmm...

The mini-boss here is Master Stalfos. Yep, he's a skeleton. Hit him with a bomb and keep whacking him with your sword. If you have the Level 2 Sword, you can just get back to full health, nail him with a sword beam and keep beating on him from there. He'll run away, and when you enter the next room to open the chest, you'll find out he took what was in it. You'll have to hunt him down and find him to get it.


The next Owl Statue will tell you to dive where the torchlight beams cross. Hmmmm...

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