Forest Temple

1. Clear the Entrance Courtyard

When you arrive at the overgrown trees and entry pillars of the Entrance Courtyard, bait the paw swipe of two Wolfos and counter their vulnerable tails with jump slashes. Climb the nearby vines up to the tree branches to defeat a Gold Skulltula for its token, then open the small chest perched on the boughs to grab a Small Key. Before leaving through the front doors, remember that Sheik taught you the Minuet of Forest outside in the Sacred Forest Meadow, which allows you to warp back here at any point during the adult era without permanently missing any items or chests.

Tip: Bait the Wolfos' swipe while locked on, dodge, and immediately hit its unarmored tail with a jump slash.

2. Investigate the Main Foyer and Northern Wing

Enter the Main Foyer to watch the four color-coded torches extinguish, then turn around facing back toward the entrance to spot a Gold Skulltula token clinging to the wall near the northern door frame. Proceed through the north door into the Giant Blue Block Room with a Song of Time block to explore the Northern wing, where you can open a chest to claim the Dungeon Map.

3. Explore the Flooded Courtyards and Claim the Fairy Bow

Head out to the flooded grounds of the East and West Courtyards, dealing with Deku Babas and using Hookshot targets to navigate around the wells. Look high up on the exterior stone brick wall in the East Courtyard and use your Hookshot to grab another Gold Skulltula token. Make your way to the west wing miniboss arena, defeat the Stalfos by blocking its heavy strikes and punishing its attack recoil, then open the revealed chest to obtain the Fairy Bow.

Tip: Keep your shield raised against the Stalfos, maintain your spacing with lock-on targeting so you are not flanked, and strike with the Master Sword during its recoil.

4. Untwist the Red Corridor for the Boss Key and Hunt the First Poe Sisters

Navigate the Twisted Hallways and locate the eye switch in the red corridor to shoot it with your Fairy Bow, straightening the warped room into a flat ceiling and walls. Drop down into the newly revealed floor cavity beneath the straightened corridor to secure the Boss Key, and land on the secluded high ledge drop-off to collect a Gold Skulltula token from the wall. In this area, engage the Blue and Red Poe Sisters, Joelle and Beth, by shooting their wall paintings with your bow, waiting for them to manifest from their cloaking spins, and defeating Joelle to unlock the chest containing the Compass.

Tip: Leaving the red and blue corridors twisted allows you to walk along the warped wall to high doors, while shooting the eye switches straightens them to open pit drops to lower floors and chests.

5. Solve the Sliding Block Puzzle and Spiked Ceiling

Advance to Amy's domain and complete the picture-block sliding puzzle (the remake removed its time limit, but you still need the right pieces) to force the green sister to appear, circling around her spinning lantern attacks while firing Fairy Bow arrows until she falls. Proceed into the Falling Ceiling Room, watching the descending spiked ceiling above so you can run between the marked safe squares across the floor.

Tip: Keep circling Amy while she attacks with her spinning lantern so you can cleanly line up arrow shots.

6. Confront Meg in the Central Foyer

Return to the Main Foyer where the final sister, Meg, appears as four identical illusions. Watch closely as they manifest and identify the authentic Meg who performs a single spin, immediately targeting and striking her with an arrow before she attacks. Defeating Meg re-ignites the final torch, restoring light to the room and lowering the central elevator shaft down into the lowest sublevel.

Tip: Target only the copy of Meg that spins once right as the group materializes, ignoring the non-spinning decoys.

7. Align the Rotating Basement Mechanism

Step into the Rotating Basement Mechanism and push the rotating perimeter wall segments around the central elevator shaft. Rotate the walls until an alcove is exposed, then destroy the Gold Skulltula waiting inside to collect its token before entering the final chamber.

8. Slay Phantom Ganon in the Gallery of Paintings

Descend the elevator into the circular Boss Room arena lined with paintings to confront Phantom Ganon. In Phase 1, scan the walls to find which painting he gallops toward, shooting him with an arrow before he bursts through and summons lightning; in Phase 2, deflect his magical energy spheres back and forth with the Master Sword until his guard breaks, then rush in with sword combos. Collect the Heart Container from the floor before stepping into the warp portal to awaken Saria as the Sage of Forest in the Chamber of the Sages and receive the Forest Medallion.

Tip: In Phase 1, shoot Phantom Ganon with an arrow the moment he charges out of his genuine painting before he unleashes lightning.