Already, some old-school gaming trappings such as your health not getting restored after every level and brutal trial and error level memorization start to kick in.
When you complete a level, your health does not get restored.
From here, you'll be back in the overworld. The air duct hatch will now be open and have a down arrow above it, and the nearby fireplace will also have arrows pointing to it. Enter the grate first. You'll soon enter a surfing section.
Here, you'll have to avoid running into things like bricks and steel grates while shooting down purple dolphins, all the while tapping Left and Right to micro-manage which direction you're going exactly. While the purple dolphins' attacks will not instantly kill you, the bricks and sewer grates will, and you'll have to avoid the gray bricks that block the path while going through the openings in the steel grates. Make sure you're holding Square the entire time, too.
After you somehow make it past this section, you'll be in an underground passage and it will be back to side-scrolling platforming mode. Keep moving slowly and firing to take out red dragon worms, brown spiked enemies, and spiders. Also, be ready to jump over pits. There will be areas where rocks drop down; you want to avoid the rocks. When you make it to the mine cart, you'll enter the next section: a first-person mine cart ride.
In this section, if you do not lean to the left or right with Left or Right on the Control Pad respectively when you're supposed to, you will instantly die. Things that will kill you are paths that lead into other mine carts, iron bars that have come loose and even parts of the cave itself that block part of the track. You have to not only memorize where you have to lean left or right, but also when, and more than likely, you'll be doing it again...and again...and again. This is especially true because there will be things that you will not easily see coming.
When you somehow get past this part, you'll fight a spider boss. Stay all the way up at the start and shoot. When the spider starts spinning towards the wall, go down and shoot at it twice, then go all the way back up. From here, keep shooting to the right and the spider will die. You'll get the crushed fern fronds for the teleportation spell in the next cutscene. You'll get a new password, too: FOUNDATION.
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