The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was released on the Nintendo DS and is the direct sequel to the first DS Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

Controls

The controls for yet another DS Zelda game are basically the same. Use the stylus to move, swipe to attack, tap to use a jump attack, make a circle to do a spin attack, and thrust forward to stab. Tap the Menu button to open the menu and the items list to select an item. Tap the items icon to use it and tap on the screen. Double-tap to roll, it just wouldn't be Zelda without it.

Items

Whirlwind: Blow into the mic. to create a whirlwind. Other : None

Boomerang: Draw a line to create a path for the boomerang to follow. Other Games: The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past Ocarina of Time The Wind Waker Twilight Princess Phantom Hourglass

Whip: Tap the screen to grab items, swing from branches, attack enemies, and more! Other Games:Skyward Sword

Bombs: Throw them at walls and enemies and such to blow them up. Other Games:The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Majora's Mask The Wind Waker Twilight Princess Phantom Hourglass Skyward Sword

Sand Wand: Tap sandy areas to raise them up, occasionally revealing hidden treasure like rupees. Other Games: None

Heart Containers

In Spirit tracks you start of with 3 hearts and can collect 5 more via comlpeting dungeons/temples. But beside these there are 8 more you can collect.

1. Take 'em all on For this one, you must beat level one of the "take 'em all on" minigame in Castle town. The woman will give you the container for completing it.

2. Rabbit Hunt Catch five rabbits from over the world and return them to the guy at rabbit haven. He'll give you the heart container in return.

3. The inflation of sanctuaries There is a shop in the snowfall sanctuary, which happens to be selling a heart container. Buy it for a whopping 2,000 rupees.

4. Swordsman's challenge You can get this by playing the Swordsman's challenge minigame. You must get at least 60 hits for the heart container.

5. Whip race Do the whip race minigame. Beat it in under 75 seconds for the heart container.

6. Pirate rescue The pirate rescue minigame holds this heart container. After beating this minigame for the first time for the forcegem. Do it again so that there is a goron you have to save. Beat it with at least 4,000 points for the heart container.

7. Golden Beedle After spending at least 5,000 rupees at beedle's air shop, you will have 500 points and will become a gold member. As a gift beedle will give you a heart container.

8. Block puzzle Beat all the three block puzzles at the ends of the earth station to find it in a golden treasure chest.

Characters

Link

Zelda

Chancellor Cole

Malladus

Niko

Alfonzo

Byrne

Walkthrough

As always, Zelda Dungeon has a text walk through for The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, found at the official ZD website.

Text Walkthrough [[1]]