Walkthrough 006: escaping the guardhouse

After entering the hidden passage, you can go either east or west. However, since you don't have the Big Key to open the chest on the east side of the room, you have no choice but to head the other direction. Go through the next rooms and take the stairs down.

Secret passage - 1F (click to enlarge)

Guardhouse sewers - 1B (click to enlarge)

Make your way through the maze, while carefully avoiding the blade traps. My choice would be to go south, take the second intersection heading west. Keep going that way until your reach the wall and then go north again until you find the doorway.

In the next room, be careful for the pits and rats. There are a number of fake floor switches in this room. The only one that opens the north door may be found in between the two pits west of  the entrance. Walk on the tile and enter the door.

Make your way through the maze and take the stairs at the north of the room. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out using the map on the left. You will run into quite some rats and bats, so watch your step and use that shiny sword to finish them off.

By the way, do not take the south exit, as you will be back whence you came.





 You now enter the Church passage.

Church passage - 1F (click to enlarge)

Head south and follow the path which will lead you to stairs. Take them to find yourself near a maze of square pegs. Follow the open pathway through the pegs and head west to find the peg switch. Hit it once to invert the pegs' positions.

Church back room (click to enlarge)

Go back to the peg maze and follow the new path so you can reach the stairs going down. Move north to find other stairs heading back up. Head into the maze until you reach the doorway that will lead to another floor. Once above, you should see a chest. This chest holds the Big Key which is required to open the treasure chest you walked by earlier. It contains the blue boomerang.

Caution: you now have the choice to take it or leave it. If you take it, you cannot acquire the red boomerang, which has a longer range, later in the game. If you leave it, you will need bombs to advance to the exit.

Stand here if you have the boomerang

Whatever your choice may be, return to the church passage and make sure the blue pegs are up. Go back to the church back room, using the other set of stairs which you haven't used yet. Now move south. If you have the boomerang, position yourself as shown in the picture on the left and use it to hit the crystal switch to move the blue pegs down.

If you don't have the boomerang, place a bomb next to the switch and move to the same spot as shown on the left. Now you can advance to the next room. Pull the left switch and the passage to the church will open.

Read the story about Draegor and the parallel tower and take note of the clue of using the blue button (X) and the right shoulder buttons as this is important later on. Pick up a heart container on your way out if you didn't pick it up before entering the guardhouse.

Village church and heart container