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Symmetry City and Talus Peaks Walkthrough

Oracle of Ages 100% Completion Walkthrough24 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversSymmetry City (present) and Symmetry Village (the past, 400 years ago), Talus Peaks and Tokkey’s hidden cave (past and present), Restoration Wall, and the first rooms of Skull Dungeon
DungeonSkull Dungeon (Level 4): Switch Hook, mini-boss Armos Warrior, boss Eyesoar, Essence of Time: Burning Flame. This chapter only opens the door, finds the Compass and the first Small Key, and reaches the first minecart room.
RewardsCheesy Mustache (trading sequence), Cracked Tuni Nut, repaired Tuni Nut, Tune of Currents, 1 Piece of Heart, bomb capacity 30 to 50, 4 Maple races, Compass, 1 Small Key; optional: 1 Gasha Seed chest and 2 soft soil spots

The Tuni Nut that holds Symmetry Village in balance has cracked, and the present-day city is in ruins because of it. You fetch the Cracked Tuni Nut from the past, learn the Tune of Currents from Tokkey, climb Restoration Wall so Patch can repair the nut, and put it back on its pedestal in the Middle House. The present city is then restored and the way into Skull Dungeon opens.

Symmetry City and Symmetry Village (present and past)

Travel to Symmetry Village

You begin in present-day Symmetry City, a scorched orange plateau with a fountain in the middle. Cut the bushes beside the Gale Seed tree to uncover a dormant time portal, stand on it and play the Tune of Echoes on the Harp of Ages. You arrive 400 years earlier in Symmetry Village, where the same square is reddish and a volcano glows over the town.

Link on the orange plateau of Symmetry City beside the fountain and the bushes
Link beside the Gale Seed tree where the dormant time portal lies
Link playing the Tune of Echoes on the Harp of Ages, music notes rising
Link arriving in reddish Symmetry Village as the time beam fades

Talk to the twins in the Middle House

Walk into the green-carpeted Middle House, the village’s town hall, and talk to the two brothers guarding the entrance. They explain that the village is built on perfect left-right balance and that the Tuni Nut at its centre is its sacred symbol. Since the nut broke, the volcano has been erupting and the Black Tower has been drawing nearer, and the nut must be repaired by a guru named Patch, who lives at the top of Restoration Wall.

Link entering the green-carpeted Middle House with the two brothers ahead
The brother says the Black Tower draws closer
The brother says the village must stay in perfect balance left and right
The brother says the center of the city is broken
The brother sends Link to Restoration Wall

Trade the Dumbbell for the Cheesy Mustache

Go down the stairs inside the Middle House. A muscular man is trying to build himself up but owns only one dumbbell. Hand over the Dumbbell you got from Mamamu Yan and he gives you the Cheesy Mustache, the next item in the trading sequence. The Funny Joke comes later in Lynna City.

Link standing before the muscular man in the room below the Middle House
The muscular man swaying left and right with his single dumbbell
The man asks about the Dumbbell Link carries
The muscular man happily says he can finally lift
Link receiving the Cheesy Mustache with the item message shown

Get the Cracked Tuni Nut

Leave the hall and enter the nearby house. The injured brother who lives there was hit by a rock thrown from the volcano and cannot make the climb to Patch himself, so he asks you to do it and hands over the Cracked Tuni Nut. Another villager mentions that the cave entrance was buried by lava long ago and may open if the volcano calms down, which is why Skull Dungeon is still closed.

A villager says the cave was covered by lava from the volcano
The villager says Link may be able to get in if the volcano calms down
Link walking up to the nearby house in reddish Symmetry Village
The injured brother says he was hurt by a rock from the volcano
The injured brother says he cannot leave the city
Link holding up the Tuni Nut with the item message shown

Talus Peaks and Tokkey’s Tune of Currents

Leave the village and find Ralph (past)

Walk south out of the village into the Talus Peaks, still in the past: red-brown rock, purple water and waterfalls. Beside the Owl Statue your friend Ralph is waiting, looking for an old hermit who studies tunes and who may have a clue to save Nayru. The statue reminds you that time changes the land, so the peaks are crossed by hopping between the past and the present. Dormant time portals dot the ground. Play the Tune of Echoes at one to reach the present and again to return.

Link walking through the red-brown past Talus Peaks beside purple water
The Owl Statue says time's flow can change the land
Link in the yellow present Talus Peaks beside a dormant time portal
Link playing the Harp of Ages at the time portal in the present
Ralph beside the Owl Statue says he does not know where the hermit is
Ralph says the hermit may have a clue that will help save Nayru

Maple’s races

Maple shows up more than once in the peaks. Each time, run for the rupees she drops before she can grab them. You gain roughly 10, 11, 11 and 27 Rupees in four races here, and nothing is lost by missing one. See Maple for her other appearances.

Maple flying by the waterfall while rupees scatter across the ledge
Link running to pick up the rupees Maple dropped
Link racing for the rupees Maple drops on a later visit
Maple hurrying away as Link's rupee count climbs

Dive to Tokkey’s cave

Climb to the top of the peaks in the past and swim out across the lake, which is Talus Lake. Zora’s Flippers let you dive from the ledge near the far shore. Swim underwater beneath the rock wall and surface by the ladder to find Tokkey’s hidden cave, a library with a white-haired researcher inside.

Link at the edge of the purple Talus Lake in the past
Link diving under the surface of Talus Lake with Zora's Flippers
Link swimming underwater beside the rock wall
Link swimming toward the ladder at the far end of the underwater passage

Learn the Tune of Currents

Tokkey says he is one step from perfecting a tune that moves you forward in time but is stuck on the riddle “Echoes produce waves”. Equip the Harp of Ages and play the Tune of Echoes for him. That completes his research, and he teaches you the Tune of Currents. From now on, choose it on the Harp of Ages to travel from the past to the present anywhere, without needing a time portal. It does not go the other way, so you still need the Tune of Echoes or the later Tune of Ages to return to the past.

Link entering Tokkey's library cave
Link playing the Tune of Echoes on the Harp of Ages for Tokkey
Tokkey says he can finish his tune
Link holding up the harp after learning the Currents Tune

Piece of Heart south of Tokkey’s lake (present)

Swim back out and go to the screen directly south of Tokkey’s lake in the past. Stand in its bottom-left corner and play the Tune of Currents. You arrive in the present on a ledge, so cross the plank bridge to the right and pick up the Piece of Heart on the other side (see Heart Piece locations). Play the Tune of Echoes at a portal to return to the past.

Link leaving Tokkey's lake in the past by the stairs on the south side
Link playing the Tune of Currents in the bottom-left corner of the south screen
Link arriving on a yellow present-day ledge with a plank bridge to the right
Link crossing toward the Piece of Heart on the far side of the ledge
Link holding up the Piece of Heart with the item message shown

The bomb-capacity fairy and the route to Restoration Wall

Change the river and grow the vine

The peaks are a puzzle of past and present. In the past, enter the cave near the signpost, take its east exit and push the red boulder, which makes the river change course. Then push the small sapling in the past to a spot beside the ledge, because in the present it grows into a vine you can climb. Return to the present with the Tune of Currents and check that a vine now leads up the cliff.

Link coming out of the cave stairs by a small sapling in the past
Link crossing the cave room with the four red chests
Link beside the river that changes course in the past peaks
Link pushing the small sapling beside the ledge in the past
The yellow present-day ledge where a vine now hangs from the cliff
Link climbing the new vine up the cliff in the present

Throw a bomb into the pond (present)

In the present, climb the vine to a pond between two statues, with a sign saying to throw nothing into the water. Throw a Bomb into the pond, then stand between the statues, and a fairy appears. She asks whether you dropped a golden bomb, a silver bomb or a regular one. Choose the regular one: any other answer is a lie and costs you either your hearts or all your bombs. The honest answer raises your bomb limit by 20, to 50, and refills your bag.

Link at the pond between the two statues in the yellow present
Link holding a bomb to throw it into the pond
The fairy asks whether Link dropped a golden, silver or regular bomb
The fairy raises Link's bomb capacity to 50 Bombs

Optional: Gasha Seed chest and soft soil

South of Restoration Wall, play the Tune of Currents from the past to reach a ledge area in the present, where a chest in the southeast corner holds a Gasha Seed. Two soft soil patches are in the peaks as well: one on a high ledge in the past, under a single rock, and one on the west side in the present, on a high ledge reached by warping from below the rock formation and cutting the bushes. Plant Gasha Seeds there and read about the rings they grow into on Gasha Seeds.

Link on a yellow present-day ledge below a time portal stone
Link at the edge of a blue lake and small waterfall in the present peaks
Link climbing toward spear-wielding enemies on the yellow present ledge
Link fighting spider enemies on the yellow sandy ground

Restoration Wall and Patch’s ceremony

Climb to Patch (past)

Follow the signs for Restoration Wall in the past. Cross the thorny vines and climb the wall by the vines to reach Patch’s house at the top. Patch calls himself a guru of restoration and offers to repair your nut, but first asks whether you will take part in his ceremony. Answer Yes and follow him down to his sandy ceremony room.

Link beside the sign pointing the way to Restoration Wall
Link crossing the thorny vine area on the way up the wall
Link entering Patch's house at the top of Restoration Wall
Patch asks whether Link will take part in his ceremony, with Yes selected

Patch’s Crazy Cart

The broken nut sits on a green tile beside the minecart track. Hardhat Beetles appear in the room and you must push all four into the holes in the corners by walking into them. A minecart circles the track and will smash the nut if it hits it, so step on the switch just before it reaches the nut to send it around again. Once the last beetle is gone, Patch hands over the repaired Tuni Nut. He offers to fix anything else you bring, which you will do later with the Broken Sword.

Hardhat Beetles in the sandy ceremony room while Patch waits by the cart track
Link pushing a Hardhat Beetle toward a hole in the corner
Link holding up the repaired Tuni Nut with the item message shown
Patch tells Link to bring him anything else that needs fixing

Put the nut on its pedestal

Return to the Middle House in Symmetry Village and walk to the dais at the end of the hall. Place the Tuni Nut on the pedestal, and the nut glows inside a red ring. The brother says the volcano should now calm down and that he must clean out the cave.

The Middle House in reddish Symmetry Village with Link beside it
Link walking down the Middle House hall toward the dais
The Tuni Nut glowing inside a red ring on the pedestal
The brother says the volcano should calm down and he must clear the cave

Symmetry City restored (present)

Return to the present

Play the Harp of Ages and choose the Tune of Currents to go back to the present. Symmetry City is now green and bright, with its fountain and houses restored. Visit the villagers and the two men who are not identical twins. One says he is too small and the other too big. Then walk to the waterfall pond where the lava used to be. The cave mouth of Skull Dungeon is now open behind the falls.

Link at the restored green Symmetry City fountain in the present
Link beside a restored house and fountain in bright Symmetry City
Link before the waterfall pond with the cave mouth now open behind the falls
A villager in his house asks whether he has to be bigger

Dungeon: Skull Dungeon (Level 4)

Entrance and lava rooms

Enter the dungeon and a title card announces Level 4, Skull Dungeon. The first room has a door to the north. You will need a Small Key before you can reach the east wing, so go north and then west through the rooms. In the second room, defeat all the enemies to open the door. Hop the lava pits with Roc’s Feather and keep an eye out for the Spark that circles the walls.

The Level 4 Skull Dungeon title card over the first room
Link at the south door of a lava room with stepping paths in Skull Dungeon
Link crossing a red lava room along a narrow stone path
Link in the second room facing the enemies that guard the door
Link fighting enemies beside a ring of lava

Compass

Cross to the west exit and enter the first room to the south. Push the eastmost block down to clear a path to the chest, and open it to get the Compass.

Link in the west room with pushable blocks and a fire enemy
Link clearing blocks toward the Compass chest
Link holding up the Compass with the You found the Compass message shown

First Small Key: the colour-block room

In the last room of this wing, beat the monsters and jump over the lava. Push the coloured block onto the marked square so that its blue face is up. A shortest path is four pushes down, one right, one up, one left, one down and two left. When it settles, a chest appears with the first Small Key.

Link beside the colored block and the blue squares in the last room
Link pushing the colored block down toward the marked square
Link lining the block up beside the blue squares
The block settled with its blue face up and the chest appearing
Link receiving the Small Key with the item message shown

The east wing and the first minecart

Go back to the first lava room, using the shortcut on the right, and continue east to the locked door. Make the jumps across the lava toward the island at the centre, push one block left to make the next hop safe, cross, and push the next block to the right to clear the way. Use the Small Key on the door. Beyond it is a room with minecarts, where lava and bats wait. This is the minecart room that continues the dungeon.

Link entering the first lava room from the west
Link hopping across lava between blocks beneath a bat
Link crossing the lava toward the island at the centre
Link pushing blocks to clear the way east
Link standing in the doorway after using the Small Key
The minecart track room past the locked door, with a bat over the lava and a minecart on the rails

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere (era)
TradeCheesy Mustache (for the Dumbbell)Downstairs in the Middle House, Symmetry Village (past)
Key itemCracked Tuni NutInjured brother’s house, Symmetry Village (past)
TuneTune of CurrentsTokkey, hidden cave under Talus Lake (past)
Piece of Heart1 Piece of HeartTalus Peaks, south of Tokkey’s lake, on a ledge reached by playing the Tune of Currents (present)
UpgradeBomb capacity 30 to 50Fairy pond at the top of the vine, Talus Peaks (present)
MinigameMaple‘s races, 4 timesTalus Peaks (past)
MinigamePatch’s Crazy Cart: repaired Tuni NutRestoration Wall (past)
Gasha SeedChest south of Restoration Wall (optional)Talus Peaks (present)
Soft soil2 spots, high ledges (optional)Talus Peaks (past and present)
Dungeon itemCompassSkull Dungeon, first south room
Small Key1 Small Key (colour-block room)Skull Dungeon

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