Legend of Zelda Second Quest Walkthrough

Legend of Zelda walkthrough

From the start you will see a cave in front of you. Enter and talk to the old man and collect the WOODEN SWORD. Exit the cave and head right 4 screens and kill all the enemies you see, which are Octorocks and Blue Tektites. If you get bombs, destroy the wall here, second block from the left of the passage going up, and collect the heart container (4). If you don't have bombs, go all the way to the right and up, into the cave and buy some for 20 rupees. If you don't have that much go on a killing spree until you do.

From where you found the first heart container go up 5 screens and right one screen, see the big boulder? Bomb the right side of it (at the front) and collect the heart container there (5). Go right one screen and bomb the wall at the top, second tile from left, collect the 30 rupees. Go right, up (not the ladder), right. Go up to collect the letter. Now you can buy potions. Go back down and right. At the top of this screen is a wall you can walk up through. It is a tiny bit right from the centre, collect the 100 rupees and go back down one screen.

If you go left, left, down, down you will see two Armos statues. Touch the side or top of the right one (not the bottom or you will get hurt) and it will come alive. Either kill it or avoid it and go down the stairs to get 30 rupees. From here go up, up the ladder, and left 3 times. Go up the ladder and into the cave and collect the WHITE SWORD.

Go back down and go left until you can't go any further. Go down, right, down 4 times, and left, bomb the wall here just left of centre at the top for 30 rupees. Go left and buy the BLUE CANDLE for 60 rupees. Go left, up, right, and use your new candle to burn the bottom left bush in the middle of the screen. Collect the 10 rupees. Go up and burn the top left bush, and buy the MAGICAL SHIELD for 90 rupees. Here is also the bait, you need this for level 7.

Go right one screen and burn the fifth bush from the right for another heart container (6), now go left, down, left, down, left and enter the cave. Give the old woman the letter, and you can now buy potions. Don't buy one yet though. Go left twice, burn the top single bush in the middle of the screen and collect another 100 rupees. Go up, right, down, and right twice to get back to the potion woman. Go up one screen and you will see a cave. Remember you can buy the arrows from here later, you don't need them yet. Now if you have 250 rupees or more, go up, touch the top middle statue and buy the BLUE RING. If you have about 200 rupees, go and defeat enemies until you have it. Trust me, it is essential.

Now for level 1. By getting all of this stuff, the first few levels of the game will be a breeze. From where you found the blue ring go down 3 times, right, right, down, right. You will be back at the start now. It would be a good time now to save and quit, as you will appear back here (press start on pad 1, press up and A at the same time on pad 2 (can be done by switching pads if you only have one). When you are ready, go right one screen and up until you see a bridge. Walk left over it and enter Level 1.

LEVEL 1

Walk straight back out and then in again. The door in front of you will be magically unlocked. Don't ask how....Go left and defeat the 3 keese (bats) for a key. Go right one screen to the entrance then go right and kill the 6 stalfos (skeletons), one on them hides a key. Go back to the left one screen and go up this time. There are 3 stalfos here. Go up again and kill the 5 stalfos for a key. Go left, avoid the keese and unlock the door. Here you can find 3 zols and a block. Defeat the zols and push the block in any direction to open the door to the left, where you get a hint. But you don't need a hint when you have this guide, do you? From the hint room go right 2 screens and collect the map, then head up. Here there are 3 stalfos, one holds a key. Continue up. Defeat the 3 goriyas here (avoid their boomerangs) for another key then go left. The block to the far left can be pushed vertically to allow access to the stairs. Avoid the traps to the sides of the room and enter the stairs for the BOW. Once you exit to the room with the traps, go right and down twice to the room where you found the map. Go right and defeat the monsters for a WOODEN BOOMERANG, then continue right. Collect the key avoiding the wallmasters (if they grab you they send you back to the beginning of the level!) and go up to encounter the boss, Aquamentus, the dragon. If you have full health, this is easy, stand at the left of the room and swing your sword and avoid the fire. Otherwise, keep hitting it in the head but when its mouth opens up, move to avoid the fire. It only takes a couple of hits with the White Sword. Once it is defeated a heart container (7) will appear then go right to receive the first Triforce piece.

You will appear outside level 1. From the entrance, go right one screen, up and continue to the right until you see the rock you bombed for a heart container earlier. Go right and down twice then go left. Follow the stairs up to reach level 2. If you saved and quit after level 1, to make it easier (instead of going back to level 1 to follow the directions) go right, up twice, right 5 times, up, left, and up from the starting point.

LEVEL 2

Start by going right and killing the ropes (snake-type creatures that run at you) for a key, then go up and left 2 screens and defeat the ropes for another key. Go 2 screens to the right again and head up. Kill the goriyas if you wish then head up once more. Defeat the ropes for another key and go right to find 3 blue goriyas, avoid the fireballs and kill them for the SILVER BOOMERANG. Go left again and up to find a moldorm, defeat it for a key. Go right for bombs then left and up. Defeat the ropes and head up through the door, kill the goriyas and collect more bombs. Go up to meet Dodongo, shove 2 bombs in his mouth to get another heart container (8) then go left for the second Triforce piece. Simple as that.

From the entrance to level 2, down, right, down, left 5 times, down, left 5 times, down, right. From the starting point go up, left 4 times, down, right.

LEVEL 3

From the start go left and collect the key, and head up. kill the zols for a key here and continue up. Now, here are darknuts, very annoying knights that can only be defeated by hitting them with your sword in the back or sides, or using bombs. Defeat all 3 here for some bombs. If you have the White Sword they only need two hits. Go left then unlock the door to the left to meet more darknuts. Defeat all 5 and go down through the door that opens. Here avoid all the darknuts and go down the stairs and collect the RAFT. Now you can sail the seven seas! Go back then up 2 screens, collect the key and go right, unlocking the door to the right and entering. Unlock the door to the right and go down, defeating more darknuts to open the door to the right, defeat all the enemies here and go up to encounter the boss, Manhandla. There are 2 ways to defeat this boss, you can either plant a bomb right in the middle of it, killing it instantly, or hack it to death with your sword. Beware, if you don't succeed in bombing it, it will get rather annoyed and move very fast around the screen. Once it is dead, collect the heart container (9) and walk up to collect the third piece of the Triforce of Wisdom.

Before level 4 you can get another heart container, from the entrance to level 3 go left, up, right 4 times, down, (here is the starting point) go all the way to the right, and all the way up until you see a dock. Cross the water using the raft and collect another heart container (10). From here to level 4, go all the way back down, all the way to the left until you reach the starting point again, then go up, left twice, up twice, crossing the sea (just walk onto the dock).

LEVEL 4

As soon as you enter, go left and defeat the keese for a key. Go right and up defeat the Vire, then go up for a key then go left. In this room you need to use your blue candle to light the room, then go up for another dark room with a key. Head up again. Yet another dark room. Go right, unlocking the door. Go right again and defeat all the enemies and push the left block to collect the LADDER. Go left twice and up across the water using the ladder, then up twice for a manhandla, go up to get advice then unlock the door the to the right and enter. Grab the key and continue to the right, avoid the traps and go down. Defeat the enemies and push the left block to unlock the door, in here you will meet a 2- headed Gleeok. If you have full health stand at a distance and attack with your sword. If not then run up to him and attack one of the heads then run away to avoid the fire he breaths at you. After one head is dead the head you killed will chase you. Avoid it and defeat the other head, collect the heart container (11) and get the fourth piece of Triforce.

From the entrance to level 4 go back to the starting point, you should know where it is by now but its down, down, right, right, down. Again, go all the way to the right and up once. Buy the arrows for 80 rupees, you'll need them soon. Go up from here and use the ladder to walk across the water and collect the heart container (12). Now, you can collect the magical sword now. Go back down and all the way to the left to the start point, then go up, left 4 times, down, left (the lower area) left again and up. Ok, this is the forest maze. To escape, go up, left, down, left. Then go up twice, (into the graveyard) right, and up twice. Now there are 4 vertical sets of graves, the one that can be pushed is the third from the left, middle grave. It can only be pushed up or down. Enter the cave and get the MAGICAL SWORD. Go down, right, right, up the right ladder, right. Here, the top right armos hides a power bracelet. To get to the next level from here, go up then right seven times, then you will reach the lost hills. To get here from the starting point, go right, up 5, left, up, right 4 times. To get to level 5 from the lost hills you need to keep going up. That's up 4 times, you will reach level 5.

LEVEL 5

Start by going right and killing the 5 pols voice with arrows (its a lot uicker than using your sword) for a key. Go left again and up. Use your candle to light the area and kill the 3 gibdos, one of them holds a key. Go up. Here there are 3 Dodongos, kill them using bombs and collect the bombs they leave, head left. Kill the zols and collect the key, then head down. There are 5 gibdos here; one of them holds bombs. Bomb the wall to the left and kill the 5 blue darknuts, and push the block and enter the passageway. Go left (unlocking the door) kill the 6 blue darknuts and push the block to collect the FLUTE. Go right again and if you have 100 rupees, unlock the door to the south. Kill the keese, collect the key, bomb the wall to the right and pay the man to recieve more bombs. Go back up and return through the passageway. Go right twice from here (bombing the wall to the right in gibdos room) and up to get back to the Digdogger room. Go right here and kill the zols to get rupees (better than nothing) and go up. Kill the gibdos for a key and continue up. Kill or avoid the red darknuts, you get the compass if you kill them, continue up again. No point in killing here, just grab the key and unlock the door to the left. Kill the gibdos for a key, go left. Unlock the door to the left, either killing the pols voice or avoiding them, and you will meet Digdogger, give the whistle a blow and kill the small part, collect the heart container (13) and go up for the fifth Triforce chunk.

To get to level 6 from the level 5 entrance go down, left 6 times, down, left twice, down, left, up, and from the start go right, up 5 times, left, up, left twice, down, left, left, up.

LEVEL 6
Start by going right and killing the wizzrobes, they take one hit with the magical sword. You can block their attack with the magical shield. Kill them for a key. Go back to the left and unlock the door on the left. You will meet more wizzrobes here. Kill them if you want then go up and kill the zols for the compass and continue up. Here there are lots of keese, kill them all for a key and continue up. Go up again avoiding the traps. In this room you need to defeat all the enemies and push the left block to proceed. Go up. Instead of going up to face Gleeok, bomb the right wall and collect the key here, then head up. Continue up and defeat all the wizzrobes in this room and push the left block or the MAGIC WAND. Go back down and cross the water and into the right door. Light this room, collect the key, ignore the wizzrobes and head back left and down, ignore those damn wizzrobes and head down again. Kill the Vire and go right. Kill everything, push the block and enter the passage. When you emerge, head down. Kill the 3 Vire for yet another key and go left, unlock the door at the top and fire one arrow into Gohma when her eye opens, avoiding the fire, collect the heart container (14), go up to collect the sixth Triforce piece. Not too hard was it?

For level 7 you will need the bait, there are many places to get it. From level 6 go down, left, down, left, down, down, right, right, right, up, right, up, up, up, top middle statue. From there to level 7 its down, down, left, left, up. From the start to the bait its up, left, left, left, left, up, up, up. From the start to level 7 its up, left 4 times, up, left, up. The meat costs 60 rupees. To enter level 7 blow the whistle on the screen with the water in the middle. You also need 100 rupees is you want to carry more bombs.

LEVEL 7

Go right and kill the moldorms for bombs. Go up then right, then right again, then again. Get the key after killing the stalfos then go left until you reach the room with the goriyas, bomb up, then go left and unlock the door at the top, ignore the Dodongos. Buy more bombs if you have the money, then go down and right, kill the goriyas if you want, then go up. Kill everything in here (goriyas and keese) then continue going up. Bomb the right wall in the Digdogger room and defeat the moldorm for a key, then go left twice. Kill all the goriyas and unlock the top door, and feed the hungry goriya with the bait, then continue going up. Get the map here and bomb the top wall for 10 rupees. Bomb the wall to the right and kill the goriyas to open the right door. In here is more goriyas and a key. Kill them all, then go left and down. Bomb the right wall, kill the goriyas and get the RED CANDLE by pushing the block. Bomb the right wall here and unlocking the right door. Kill the Digdogger and go up. Bomb to the right and kill all the wallmasters while avoiding the bubbles, if the wallmasters catch you its back to the entrance, and a broken NES pad (or keyboard) will result. When you have killed them (you can't kill the bubbles) push the middle block to the right and go through the passage. Ok, bomb to the right, hit the Aquamentus on the head twice, collect the heart container (15), the seventh piece of Triforce and smile happily.

No messing around, straight to level 8. From level 7 go down, right 3 times, down, right 7 times, up, right (top passageway) right, down. From start, right, up, right 4 times, up, right, down, right. To enter, burn the standout tree with the red candle.

LEVEL 8

Go right and get the key then go left then left again. Bomb the manhandla, go left, kill enemies and get the MAGIC BOOK. Return to the entrance (right twice) and go up. Avoid or kill the manhandla and bomb the top wall. Kill the darknuts (blue), get the key, go left, get the key, go left, get the key, go right then right again, then up. Up again, unlocking the door. Bomb up, go up then bomb left. Collect the 10 rupees then go up. Bomb to the right and fire an arrow into Gohmas' eye when it opens, do this 3 times then go right. Kill everything then collect the MAGIC KEY, you don't have to worry about keys anymore. Then go left, down and down again. Kill the darknuts that you passed earlier on if you haven't already then go right when the door opens. Avoid everything and go into the passageway, use your arrows on the pols voice when you emerge then bomb up to fight Gleeok. Ok, same tactics keep attacking the heads while avoiding the flying dead heads and fire. Collect the heart container (16) and the last piece of the Triforce of Wisdom. Bet you thought this level would be a lot longer, didn't you?

Ok, now for level 9, Death Mountain. From the entrance to level 8, go up, left twice, up three times, left 4 times, up twice, left twice. From the start (it is recommended that you save and quit now) right, up 5 times, left, up twice, left twice. You need the silver arrow to defeat Ganon, it is the only thing that can kill him and it can be found in Death Mountain. The entrance lies in the left rock, bomb the middle to enter. Make sure you have a red potion as well...

LEVEL 9: DEATH MOUNTAIN

Start by going up twice and bombing the left wall. Kill the lanmola and push the block and enter the passage. When you emerge go through the locked door on the right, then go right again. Go down in this room, avoiding the patra, and kill the gels for a blue (5) rupees. Bomb right and kill the patra for the map if you want then bomb up. Kill everything here and push the left block and take the RED RING. Now apart from Link looking a lovely shade of red, you will recieve even less damage than the blue ring. Go down twice, left and up. Go through the locked door at the top of this room, killing the patra for bombs or avoiding it. Bomb to the left in this room, kill those damn wizzrobes, push the block and enter the passage. In the next area, go through the locked door on the left, and go to the left again. Kill the patra here and push the block to enter yet another passage. Bomb up in the next room. Kill everything in this room and push the stone to get the SILVER ARROW, an item essential to your victory over Ganon. Go back down and into the passage again, and go up, up, up, bomb the left wall, push left block after defeating all enemies here, in next area, bomb the left wall, kill everything, and push the block to enter the final passage. Kill the patra here and go up. Time for the Final Battle! Link will hold up the complete Triforce of Wisdom and Ganon will appear.... then disappear. Walk around the room stabbing air with your sword and eventually you will hit him. Watch out for the fire, you can't block it, even with the magical shield. After 4 hits, he will turn brown, toss a silver arrow at him and watch him crumble. Grab his Triforce of Power and head up, hit the fire with your sword and walk up to Zelda to complete the first quest. Well done!

What's wrong? The First Quest too easy for you? Press start after the wonderful ending to appear back at the game select screen, and you will see Link now holding a White Sword. Time for the Second Quest! Everything is mixed up,items are in different places, levels are in different places, and levels are totally new and different. It is a LOT harder than the first quest. Back in '87 I could complete the first quest easily cos I played it so often, but I needed to use Game Genie codes for the second. I never used a guide back then so I literally clocked up HUNDREDS of hours walking around aimlessly. When I found my old copy of Zelda in mint condition from my attic, I finally managed to do it (eventually).