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Sword & Shield Maze (Dungeon 8) Walkthrough

Oracle of Seasons 100% Completion Walkthrough26 chapters
Walkthrough overview
CoversThe Sword & Shield Maze in Subrosia, from its entrance to the Changing Seasons essence, in the order the rooms are cleared.
DungeonSword & Shield Maze (Dungeon 8): Compass, Dungeon Map and Hyper Slingshot in chests, Small Keys, Boss Key; mini-boss Frypolar; boss Medusa Head; Essence of Nature: Changing Seasons
RewardsCompass, Dungeon Map, Hyper Slingshot, Boss Key, Small Keys, Heart Container, Changing Seasons essence. No Heart Pieces, rings or Gasha Seeds are on this part of the route.

Sword & Shield Maze is the eighth dungeon, and it is the only one in Subrosia. You enter through the large red doorway in Subrosia and work through ice rooms, pink-block puzzles and rail carts before reaching the boss room where Medusa Head waits. The shortest summary: collect Small Keys for the locked doors, get the Compass, Dungeon Map and Hyper Slingshot, defeat Frypolar, take the Boss Key, then defeat Medusa Head for the Heart Container and the Changing Seasons essence.

Title card reading Level 8 Sword and Shield above the icy entrance hall of the dungeon
Link walking through an icy room flanked by red chests and yellow eye statues
Link in a pink-block room facing a yellow skull enemy and red-hatted foes

Dungeon entrance and first Small Keys

Enter the dungeon from Subrosia

The entrance is a blue-floored hall with two red chests and yellow statues. Walk through it into the first rooms, where the maze begins. Keep going east and north through the first rooms, and deal with the enemies as you meet them.

Link entering the blue-floored Level 8 hall between rows of yellow statues
Link walking north in the entrance hall past red chests and yellow statues
Link slashing green enemies with his sword in a room of pink blocks

Shoot the eyeless statue for the first Small Key

Turn east after the first room and shoot the eyeless statue with a Slingshot seed. A Small Key drops among the nearby pots. Pick it up and use it on the next locked door you reach.

Link at the foot of a pink-block corridor below a yellow eye statue, before any Small Key is found
A Small Key lies on a yellow tile beside the pink blocks
Link standing on the yellow tile after picking up the Small Key, with the key count at one

Compass and Dungeon Map

Compass

Find the Compass in the spiked icy room

The Compass chest sits in an icy room with rows of spikes, east of the spiked beetles. Use Roc’s Cape to fly over the spikes to reach it. Opening the chest gives you the Compass, which shows where the dungeon’s boss and chests are.

Link in the pink spiked room where the Compass chest sits
Link holding up the Compass beside the box reading You found the Compass
Dungeon Map

Open the chest with the Dungeon Map

The Dungeon Map is in a chest on the upper icy level, in a blue-floored room lined with pink blocks. The chest message explains that you can press Select to view the map, and that darkened rooms are the ones you have not explored yet.

Link in a blue-floored room lined with pink blocks, where the Dungeon Map chest is
Link holding up the Dungeon Map, with the box reading you haven't been to yet
Link beside a red chest in the pink-block room where the Dungeon Map was found

Hyper Slingshot and the block puzzle

Hyper Slingshot

Move the face block with the Magnetic Gloves for the Hyper Slingshot

The Hyper Slingshot is in a chest in a room with a face-shaped block in front of it. Use the Magnetic Gloves to pull the iron sphere onto its button, which creates a bridge, and then push the face block aside to reach the chest. The Hyper Slingshot is the upgrade you use for the switches and statues for the rest of the dungeon.

Link in a room with a face block and chests, where the Hyper Slingshot chest sits
Link beside the face block in the chamber holding the Hyper Slingshot chest
Link holding the Hyper Slingshot over his head, with the box reading You got the Hyper Slingshot

Take the Small Key from the rotating platform

Cross the rotating magnet platform in the next room and open the chest beyond it. It holds a Small Key. Keep your keys for the locked doors that come later.

Link standing on the rotating magnet platform in the Level 8 room
Link holding up a Small Key, with the box reading You found a Small Key

Mini-boss: Frypolar

Frypolar

Fight Frypolar with the right seed for each form

Frypolar switches between an ice form and a fire form, and each form takes damage from a different kind of attack. Use Ember Seeds against the ice form. Use Mystery Seeds to change the boss’s form and to shrink the ice pillars it creates. In the fire form, Frypolar is hurt by the ice blades it throws, so pick them up and throw them back. Rely on seeds rather than the sword, which does little against it.

Frypolar in its flame-face form at the edge of a tiled room, with Link nearby
Frypolar in its fire form at the top right of the room with Link below it
Frypolar in its fire form beside Link, with a fire trail and a dark shadow on the floor

Use the Power Bracelet to lift the ice blades

Equip the Power Bracelet to pick up the ice blades. Lift each blade and throw it back at Frypolar. Repeat this until the boss falls, and then continue into the rooms beyond.

Link beside a blue ice blade in the room where Frypolar fights
Link holding a blue ice blade over his head in the Frypolar room
Link lifting a blue ice blade in the Frypolar room

Boss Key and the rooms before the boss

Clear the rail-cart and pink-block rooms

Past Frypolar, the rooms combine rail carts, pink blocks, gold discs and moving green platforms over black gaps. Ride the carts along the rails, hop across the platforms and clear the enemies in each room. Use your Small Keys on the locked doors as you reach them.

Link crossing white ice tiles beside pink blocks and moving platforms
Link beside a yellow locked door, with pink blocks and white platforms nearby

Find the Boss Key

The Boss Key is in a chest in a side alcove with a yellow floor, reached by crossing the moving platforms. The chest message reads that you found the Boss Key. Take it before you head to the boss door.

Link standing on a green platform between gold discs on the way to the Boss Key alcove
Link at the entrance to the yellow-carpet alcove that holds the Boss Key chest
Link holding up the Boss Key, with the box reading You found the Boss Key

Boss: Medusa Head

Medusa Head

Stun Medusa Head with seeds, then strike

Medusa Head stands in the centre of a room with a yellow floor and a green border, and she throws orbs and beams that can turn you to stone. Roc’s Cape lets you jump over the orbs. Shoot her with Pegasus Seeds from the Hyper Slingshot to stun her, then close in with your sword while she is stunned. Dodge her beams between attacks, and repeat the seed and sword pattern until she falls.

Medusa Head firing blue beams down from the top of the yellow-floored boss room
Link with his sword raised above Medusa Head in the yellow-floored boss room
Medusa Head surrounded by a ring of blue orbs in the yellow-floored boss room
Changing Seasons

Claim the Heart Container and the Changing Seasons essence

After Medusa Head is defeated, a Heart Container appears and you collect it. Leave the boss room and walk to the blue essence room beyond it. The Essence of Nature there is the Changing Seasons, the eighth essence, and taking it completes the dungeon.

Link holding up a Heart Container, with the box reading You got a Heart Container
Link walking across the yellow-floored hall toward the purple room with the blue pedestal
Link holding up the Essence of Nature, with the box reading Essence of Nature

Chapter checklist

TypeNameWhere
Small Key Small KeySmall Key Small Key (first)Dropped by shooting the eyeless statue in the first long room
Small Key Small KeySmall KeysChests and drops across the rooms with pink blocks and carts
Dungeon itemCompass CompassIcy room with spikes, reached with Roc’s Cape
Dungeon itemDungeon Map Dungeon MapUpper icy level, in a blue-floored room with pink blocks
Dungeon itemHyper Slingshot Hyper SlingshotFace-block room, opened with the Magnetic Gloves
Key itemBoss Key Boss KeySide alcove reached by crossing the moving green platforms
Heart Container Heart ContainerHeart Container Heart ContainerAppears after Medusa Head is defeated
Essence of NatureChanging Seasons Changing SeasonsBlue essence room past the boss room

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