Temple of the Ocean King: Third Visit

Head back to Mercay Island and return to the TOK. There's a cracked wall on the way; bomb it to find a Power Gem.

B1 Floor

There's a new shortcut here; just head to the northwestern corner, bomb the bricks there, step on the plate, grab the key, and unlock the door heading downward.

B2 Floor

There's another shortcut here, but this one's a bit more difficult to find. Begin by flipping the two crystal balls to drop the key onto the ground. Then look in the southeastern corner of the first room here for a cracked wall; it's just above the pressure plate that drops the spikes leading to the key. Bomb it, and you'll have a much quicker route to the key, which you can grab and take to the door.

B3 Floor

Not much in the way of shortcuts here; just grab the Force Gems and plant them in the pedestals. When you get past the door locked by the Force Gems, you'll come to a Spirit Door which you can now bypass.

B4 Floor

A new wrinkle is thrown into the mix here: Phantom Eyes, which summon Phantoms if they spot you. You can kill the Phantom Eyes, however, by hitting them with a boomerang from a position where they can't spot you, then running up and hitting them with your sword. If one attaches itself to you, be sure to head back to a safe zone quickly.

Head towards the southeast here, to the safe zone on the eastern wall. If you head south a bit from there, you can send your boomerang through the wind jet (wouldn't it be blown off course more easily than you would?) and hit the crystal ball to shut down the wind. Without moving, send your boomerang down again to hit the Phantom Eye; that'll knock it silly, allowing you to rush up and kill it. You can pause for a second and use the boomerang in the southeastern corner of the map to reveal a small bonus to your sand count.

What you need to do now is rush to the west. Move along the corridors in the only direction you can until you reach the western safe zone. It doesn't matter much if you get seen by a Phantom Eye, but you can try to hit them with boomerangs if you see them; being spotted will spawn another Phantom, but it won't matter much in the long run. When you reach the western safe zone, use your boomerang from inside of it to disable the remaining Phantom Eyes. Doing so will cause a large chest to appear far to the east, back in the eastern safe zone.

Before heading back, though, first head to the southwestern corner and dig up the soft spot on the ground there. That'll let you jump up to another crystal ball, which you can hit to disengage most of the wind jets on the level and make it a little easier to get around. (You can also wrap your boomerang around to the north here and hit the yellow jar to find an extra 30 seconds of time.) Secondly, you can head just to the east of the western safe zone to find a crack in the wall of the room there; blowing it and hitting the switch will lower the spikes leading to the small key on this floor.

Grab the small key and note that the skeleton on the floor wants you to stop by the next time you're in the Temple; he'll have something to teach you if you do. The eastern treasure chest will have a Power Gem for you, so grab it, then unlock the southern door and move down.

B5 Floor

Head to the west from the door's exit and run over the spikes when they retract. Use your boomerang in the southwestern corner to flip the switch there, then head to the east and smash the jars there for extra time and bombs.

There are two combat rooms on this floor. The first consists of electro-jellies. If you don't want to wait for them to become normal enemies, hit them with the boomerang to shut down their electrical powers. Kill them all, nab the 15 second time boost, then move on. The second room is simply goblins. Kill them by tapping them, nab another time boost, and move to the northeast. Flip the switch in the northeastern corner to move down to the next floor.