Explorer's Crypt Walkthrough Contents

Samasa Desert

    Now that you have beaten the Acient Ruins, you must make your way to Sabrosia, in order to get a ride over to the next dungeon, the Explorer's Crypt. To get to Sabrosia, make your way back to the portal at Mt. Cucco. Once in Sabrosia, go left 1 screen and down 3 screens. Enter the building on the left, to find a room full of pirates. Talk to the Captain in the middle of the room. The Captain will ask you to find his Bell. The Captains bell is somewhere in the Samasa Desert. Now go up the stairs on the upper left corner of the room. Talk to the pirate on the right side of the screen. He will show you the code that will open the Samasa Desert gate. Once you got the code, go up the stairs again to reach the top of the building, where there is a pirate and a warp leading back to Holodrum. Once back in Holodrum, hit the switch to your left to make a bridge extend to the exit of the cave. Once outside the cave, you will find yourself in Horon Village. To get to the Samasa Desert, go up 1 screen, right 3 screens, down 1, and right 2 screens to reach the Samasa Desert gate. Talk to the pirate in front of the gate to make him move. Now enter the code on the gate, walk up to the 3rd to the left panel and hit it 2 times, hit the 2nd to the left 1 time, hit the 1st panel 2 times, then hit the 4th panel at the far right end 3 times. Once the gate is open, walk up 1 screen and right 2 screens, to find a sunken ship in the sand. Enter the ship to find a ghost of a pirate. He will tell you to retreive his skull. To find his skull, leave the ship, go up 3 screens and right 1. You will find the pirates skull to the right of a small lake of water. Pick up the skull using your power bracelet. Now walk around the quicksand areas to see if the skull thinks the bell is close. When the skulls teeth start chattering, drop down the nearest quicksand pit. If the skull was right, you will find the Rusty Bell inside the cave. Once you have the bell, the ghost will pass on to the afterlife. Now go up the stairs on your left, then go down to exit the cave. Once outside the cave, go down 1 screen and right 2 screens to get back to the ship. Enter the ship, then push the brown box ahead into the hole, to get to the stairs ahead. The stairs will lead to the outside of the ship in Sabrosia.

    Now go up 1 screen, left 1, down 1 and left 1, to get back to the House of Pirates. Enter and speak to the Captain again. He will tell you to get his bell polished. Now leave the House of Pirates and go to the Sabrosian Smithy. To get there, go up 2 screens, right 3 screens, up 2 screens, into the door, through the hall and out the other door, then left 2 screens. Enter the Sabrosian Smithy, talk to the manager, then he will ask if you want your bell to be polished. Ask him to do it now, and you will get a polished bell. Now return to the House of Pirates with the bell. Talk to the Captain, and he will plan to set sail. You will then make your way on to the ship with the Captain and crew. The ship ride will take you from the Samasa Desert to the Holodrum Graveyard. Once off the ship, go down 1 screen, across the bridge, then up 2 screens and you will see a house. Enter the house to find a chest with 10 bombs. Now use the bombs to bomb a weak wall on the right side of the house. Enter the room, then go down to the exit. You should be outside, where a tree stump is. Change the season to summer, then leave the house. Make your way back to the ship, then go to the left 2 screens and climb the vines on the wall above. Go up 2 screens to find the Explorer's Crypt dungeon and enter.

Explorer's Crypt

Once inside the Explorer's Crypt, walk up 1 screen, left 1 screen, up, then to the right 1 screen and up 1. You should now be in a darkened room with some blocks inside as well. Walk up 1 more screen and you will be told to leave the room before the fires go out. So quickly walk 1 screen to the right. Inside this next room is some enemies. Defeat all of the enemies to earn a chest with a small key. Now go back to the second room of the dungeon by going left 1 screen, down 2 screens, left 1, and right 1 to find a locked door on the right side of the room. Open the door with your small key to reach the next room, where you will find some enemies. Defeat some of the enemies, then walk up the first set of stairs, then walk left 1 screen and up 1. You should now be back in the darkened room. Use your slingshot to light the 2 torches on the opposite platform. A poe will then appear and fight you. You can now jump down and fight the poe by using your sword. Once the poe is defeated, walk up 1 screen. You will notice now that the torches do not go out. Now walk to the left and use a bomb to blow open a cracked wall, revealing the next room. Inside is a chest with the compass. Now walk to the right 1 screen and walk to the right side of the room. Push the blue rollers using your Power Bracelet, in order to reach the stairs between the 4 torches in the center of the room. Go down the stairs, walk left 1 screen, then climb the stairs above to reach a switch. Once the switch is activated, a trampoline will appear to the left. Push the trampoline down 2 times and to the left 1 time. Then jump on it to reach the next floor, where there is a platform with a switch on it. Land on the switch, which will activate a key to fall down to the floor below. Jump back down and collect the small key and go back to the right 1 screen. All of the armos statues surrounding the stairs will come alive when awaken, except 1. Wake them all up by walking into them, then defeat them with your boomerang. The real armos statue will not come alive. When you find the real one, push it onto the switch on the lower right corner of the square of statues. This will open the door below. Enter the room below, then walk down and to the right, then up to the stairs in the upper right corner of the room.Once down the stairs, you will enter a large room with a green floating platform and a large pit. Ride the floating platform, equip your Magnetic gloves, then when you reach the end of the line, use the gloves to go backwards to the ground on the left. Now go up 1 screen, cross the bridge ahead before it comes apart, then walk to the left 1 screen. This room will have 8 armos statues in it and 4 switches, 2 on the left side of the room, and 2 more on the bottom of the room. You must align the statues so that they surround the middle blue square. Use the switches to move the statues. First, press down the bottom switch on the left side of the room, then press the left switch on the bottom of the room, then the top switch on the left side of the room, then the last switch left on the bottom of the room. The armos statues should now be lined up and you will get a small key on the blue tile. Now go back right 1 screen, down 1 screen, use your magnetic gloves to pull you to the metallic object, until the floating platform comes to pick you up. Now go back up the stairs and walk down 1 screen, through the locked door. In this room, you must reach the trampoline surrounded by the blocks, in order to jump up to the upper floor and reach a chest with the Dungeon map inside. Follow the diagram below for moving the trampoline.When you have moved all of the blocks, move the trampoline left 3 times and up 1 time. Now jump onto the trampoline to reach the 2nd room of the dungeon. Walk left 1 screen to find a chest with the Dungeon Map inside. Collect the dungeon map, then walk back right 1 screen and jump into the hole that goes back to the floor below. Now walk to the right and enter the locked door on the right. This next room will be darkened, with 4 unlit torches. Use your pegasus seeds and your slingshot armed with ember seeds, to light all 4 of the torches and to have all 4 lit at the same time. Once you have done this, a poe will appear and fight you. The poe shoots out fireballs in an arc shape. Stand underneath the arc and hit the poe with your sword. Once the poe is defeated, walk back to the left 2 screens. In this room, jump into the water and swim towards the left side of the room. Dive under the water to avoid the spike blue rollers when necessary. Swim over to the left then up to find some stairs going down to the second basement. Once downstairs, walk left 1 screen. There will be a large gap in the middle of the room and enemies on both sides. Defeat the enemy on your side, then defeat the enemies on the other side, using your slingshot with scent seeds. After they are defeated, a bridge will form on the lower side of the room. Now cross the bridge and walk up 1 screen. Hit the switch to activate it, then walk back down 1 screen, across the bridge, and up 1 screen. In this room, use your Magnetic gloves to pull you to the spinning metal blocks. Pull yourself to the first metal block ahead, then when you are facing the left side, switch the polarity of your gloves. You should run into a block on the left. Now hold the magnetic gloves active, then quickly face towards the north and use your gloves to pull you toward the metal block above. When you are facing towards the left on this block, switch the polarity and fly away from the metal block. Then quickly face north and use your gloves on the last metal block. Now land on the land below, where the blue and red trampolines are. Jump on the blue trampoline to reach the next room. In this room, defeat the enemies, then use your pegasus seeds and Roc's feather to cross the gap on the top side of the room, to make it to the upper door. In this room, there is no floor and a green floating platform. First defeat the bats inside of the room, then jump onto the moving platform. Then when you get close to the front of the chest on the opposite platform, jump onto it. Inside the chest is Roc's Cape, which can be used to fly farther by pressing and holding down the button that controls Roc's Cape.

    Once you have Roc's Cape, walk down 1 screen, jump down the hole on the right to land back in the 2nd basement. Use your Roc's Cape to fly along the right wall of the room, to make it to the lower screen. Go down 1 screen, right 1, up the stairs, right 1 screen, up 1, to the right and up to the stiars leading back to the 2nd basement. Now you should be back in the room with the floating platform and the large hole in the room. Now use the platform to go up 1 more screen. Then cross the bridge, walk to the right and use your Roc's Cape to fly against the right side of the room, to go right 1 screen. In the next room, defeat the all of the enemies to get a trampoline to appear on the right side of the room, leading to the upper floor. Push the trampoline 3 times up to reach the upper floor, then jump on it. Land on the floating green platform, then climb the stairs to the left to where a metal ball is. Use your Magnetic Gloves to move it to the left and down, to activate a switch. The activated switch will reveal a chest on the left. Jump down and get the small key inside the chest. Now walk to the left 1 screen, find the lifeless statue and push it onto the switch, then walk down 2 screens, left 1, through the water to the left and down the stairs. Now open the block below with the keyhole, and use Roc's Cape to fly from platform to platform, to reach the floating green platform on the lower left side of the screen. Once to the platform, use the platform to reach the bottom of the screen and go down 1 screen. In this room you will notice some enemies that are unreachable on the right of the screen. To reach them, walk down 1 screen, walk to the right, walk up 1 screen, and to the left where there is a ledge overlooking the enemies. When they come close to the ledge, use your sword to defeat them. If you fall in, walk to the lower left of the screen to find solid ground. Once defeated, the door on the lower side of the screen will open, go through it. In this room, there is a switch on the opposite side of the gap. Use Roc's Cape and some Pegasus seeds to reach the switch. Activate it, then fly back to the other side. Now go down the screen, move the block blocking your exit on the stairs, walk to the right and go right 1 screen. In this room is the dungeon mini-boss. This time the poes that you defeated are back. They use the same attack strategies as last time, however this time they attack simultaneously. Also, you must keep one of the torches lit, or you will be sent back to the begininng of the dungeon. Once you have defeated both they will leave, a fairy will appear and a warp to the entrance of the dungeon will appear. Now go right 1 screen to find a large maze with many stairs. Follow the numbered guide below to find what stairs to take, starting from the door on the left screen, next to the stairs marked with the 1. Take the stairs marked with the 1 then 2,3 and so on. You should make it to the upper right corner of the first room.

Walk up 1 screen. In this room, you must use the same technique that you used earlier, with the rotating metal blocks and your magnetic gloves. Once you make it to the last rotating block, go to the area above with the cracked ground. Equip your Roc's Cape and fly towards the green floating platform on the bottom of the screen. Let it take you to the left, then use Roc's Cape to fly and go up 1 screen. Destroy all of the enemies in this room to earn the final key. Collect the key, then go back down 1 screen and jump onto the green platform. Ride it to the far right, then use Roc's Cape to fly toward the right. When you get to a dead end, push the block above you into the large hole in the ground. Now walk up 1 screen and to the right 1 screen, using your key. In this room, cross the gap above with Roc's Cape, then walk up 1 screen, walk down into the water, then walk down 1 screen. You should now see some switches and some statues. Use pegasus seeds and your Roc's Cape to jump to the switch with the 1 statue next to it. Now jump to the switch with 2 statues next to it, then finally jump to the switch with 3 statues by it. Now fly towards the bottom of the screen and jump across the bridge that was just activated and go up 1 screen. Walk up to find a switch on the upper right side of the screen. This will activate a red trampoline below. Jump onto the trampoline to go up 2 floors and land on a green platform. Ride the platform to the left side of the gap, then go down the stairs below. In this room, use your sword to make the upper switch blue and the lower switch red. Now go back up the stairs, get back on the platform and ride it to the opposite side of the gap. Now go down the stairs on that side now. Now use your sword to make both of the crystal switches red. This will open the door above. Use Roc's Cape to make it to the opened door and go up 1 screen. In this room, defeat all of the enemies to earn a chest. To defeat these enemies, stun them with your boomerang, then hit them with your sword. Once all are defeated, you will earn a chest with the Boss Key inside. Now go back down 1 screen, jump into the hole in the ground. You should land in the water. Now walk to the left, walk down 1 screen, jump across the bridge, walk left 1 screen, and down 1 screen to get back to the maze. Take the stairs, then the next stairs, then walk down to the bottom of the screen and take the stairs there. Now walk to the far left of this room to reach the boss door and enter.

Gleeok

To defeat Gleeok, the two-headed dragon, you must hit its heads with your sword or using a powered-up sword attack. Destroy the 2 heads while using Roc's Cape to jump over the fireballs. Once you have defeated both heads, the dragon's body will attack you. It will jump up and land and cause an earthquake. Jump off the ground when it comes down to land. Hit the dragon's body after it lands and jump over it to dodge its attacks. After a few hits, Gleeok will be destroyed and you will earn a Heart Piece Container. Now walk to the left 1 screen to collect the next essence of nature, the Seed of Life. Now you must find the last essence of nature, in North Holodrum.

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