Forest Sanctuary

Guide to The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks' Forest Sanctuary. Learn the Song of Awakening and Song of Healing, solve puzzles, and prepare for the Forest Temple.

We're here at Gage's home. However, we must go through a couple of trials before we can reach him. Head up north, kill the Spinuts and the Crow, and climb up on the right side. Head south to find bomb flowers. Now we can do two things with these. First, take one, then head up near the top left of this area to find some blocks at the top of a ramp. Blow them up with the bomb flower to open a bit of a shortcut up there. Now head back, pick up a bomb flower, and cross the bridge. See the switch? Well, place the bomb beside the switch, then run to get another bomb flower. Rush back and the switch that activated should create a bridge temporarily. Run across that and use the bomb flower to blow up the blocks to the left, allowing the way further into the Sanctuary to open.

Move left and you'll find a stone that looks like a space shuttle with a hole in the middle. Check it and you'll hear it makes noise along with colored bubbles of light emitting from it. Bring out your Spirit Flute. Now, to use this Flute, you have to have the stylus held onto the Flute so you can switch which pipe you want to blow out of. As a help, there's a line on the center of the top screen to tell you where you need to line up the pipe. To blow, just blow at the DS. The microphone will pick up the noise and play it. Notice how each pipe is colored differently? Also, notice the color of the light bubbles from the sound stone? Play the color of the corresponding pipes in order, which is light blue and red. Play these and you will have learned the Song of Awakening!

This is just practice to prepare for what's coming up. Move ahead to find a circle of statue heads. Draw a line in the direction each of them are facing, then read the sign in the middle. It says, "Connect the two stone statues that face each other." Well, that should be simple. Just in case you don't want to waste time, you connect the lower rightmost statue to the uppermost left statue. Head through the door that opens to arrive at Gage's domain. Talk to him and he will say that the way to the Forest Temple will be opened if you play the Spirit Flute with him and his instrument. Now, these Lokomo duets seem to be a problem area with a lot of players. There's just a few things to know:

• Only play your notes when the top screen focuses on Link.
• Don't blow too hard or too soft.
• Keep the rhythm as close to the background tone as possible.
• The game doesn't register a note being played if it lasts less than a second, so if you have to skip over a pipe, you can keep blowing but skip right over the note.

The notes you need to play are Red, Yellow, and Purple. You need to play your notes after Gage does his number and switches to you. Don't let his number confuse you, just stay with the notes on the top screen. After you have completed the duet, your Forest rail map will start glowing, showing some new Spirit Tracks! Now you can enter the Forest Temple! Exit the room and return to the train station so you can take off.

Just draw a path to the giant tree icon to the north, towards the Forest Temple. Along the way you may come across Skulltulas hanging down from trees. Just sound your whistle to scare them away. Once at the temple's station, head north and you'll find another sound stone. Check it and it will play a green note, a white note, then a green note. Play those pipes on your Spirit Flute to learn the Song of Healing! This one lets you use a fairy when played, which restores your health. However, it can only be used in temples, and it can only be used once in a given temple at that. Think of it as using your last bottled fairy when in a temple, and you can't get another fairy until the next temple. Anyway, enter the Forest Temple now.