Zelda: Link's Awakening

Part 4 - Color Dungeon Speedrun (100%)

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This is a page for Speedrunning Color Dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Remake) for the Nintendo Switch. Read on for a speedrun walkthrough on finishing this dungeon on 100%!

Getting to Color Dungeon

Secret Seashell #8

Estimated Time: 37:51 - 38:01

Outside Key Cavern, go up the stairs on your right and dig the spot surrounded with grass for the Secret Seashell #8.

Shell

Piece of Heart #7

Estimated Time: 38:01 - 38:42

Jump off the ledge to your left, go up, and activate the warp point nearby.

Warp Point

On your right is a row of trees. On the right of the third tree is a breakable wall. Blow up that wall and enter.

Secret

Travel to the upper right part of the room, blow up another breakable wall, and enter through it. Get the Piece of Heart #7, reload your autosave, then go back outside.

Heart

Obtaining the Honeycomb

Estimated Time: 38:42 - 39:10

Travel east until you see Tarin. Let him borrow the stick to obtain the Honeycomb after the scene.

Honeycomb

Secret Seashell #9

Estimated Time: 39:10 - 39:19

Blow up the large moblin skull south of the tree and dig the center spot for the Secret Seashell #9.

Shell

Obtaining the Pineapple

Estimated Time: 39:19 - 40:17

Go up the stairs on your right and down the ladder on the other side. Travel north, east, south, east past the apple tree, then cut down the only bush here to reveal a secret staircase. Go down the stairs and ascend on the other side.

Secret

Travel south and enter the Animal Village. Go inside the house located at the southeastern part of this village. Talk to Chef Bear and trade the honeycomb for a Pineapple. Go back outside.

Pineapple

Piece of Heart #8

Estimated Time: 40:17 - 40:46

Head south, activate the nearby warp point, and use it to warp to Dampe's Shack.

Warp Point

Make your way south until you reach Crazy Tracy's Health Spa. From here, head east then jump over the holes to pick up the Piece of Heart #8.

Heart

Secret Seashell #10

Estimated Time: 40:46 - 40:54

Jump over again and from the isolated hole, walk a little to the southeast, then dig the single tile of soil for the Secret Seashell #10.

Shell

Entering Color Dungeon

Estimated Time: 40:54 - 41:15

Travel south until you reach the Cemetery. Find the set of 5 tombstones on the southeastern part. You have to push the tombstones in a specific order and direction.

Open Color Dungeon 1.png

Proceed to the revealed staircase to enter the Color Dungeon.

Color Dungeon

Color Dungeon Speedrun

Obtaining the Nightmare Key

Estimated Time: 41:15 - 43:04

Talk to Gar and Dion to pass. In the next room, defeat the camo goblins by attacking them when they pop up. Afterwards, move three rooms right, then down.

Defeat the camo goblins in this room to continue. Use the green tiles in the next room to jump over to the chest. Open the chest for a small key then proceed to the next room.

Go to the room on your right then move two rooms up. Hit the lower right switch once then hit the upper left switch until all switches are blue. Pick up the small key that will fall down then go to the next room.

Unlock the door then proceed to face the Giant Buzz Blob.

Giant Buzz Blob

When it transforms into a giant Green Buzz Blob, sprinkle some Magic Powder on it to make it revert to its initial form. Quickly attack it with properly positioned spin attacks before it transforms again. Repeat these steps until it is defeated and it will leave a fairy and unlock the doors. Enter the room on the left.

Push the top and the bottom blocks first before the middle block to open up a path to the chest. Open the chest to obtain the Nightmare Key. Reload your autosave.

Nightmare Key

Defeating Hardhit Beetle

Estimated Time: 43:04 - 45:23

Go up one room, right two rooms, then unlock the door to proceed. In the next room, you will face the Stone Hinox.

Stone Hinox

Just use spin attacks to defeat it. Jump before it lands from a jump and avoid the falling debris. It will leave behind a fairy after the battle and unlock the doors. Continue to the next room.

Jump your way to the upper left part of the room, lift the jar here, and step on the button to unlock both doors. Go up one room then right.

In this room, hit the orb monsters and place them on their corresponding holes by lifting or attacking to make another small key fall down. Pick it up then travel west, south, then west.

Hit the switches in this order: right, bottom, left, top. Go to the next room, unlock the door and enter, jump onto the other side of the red blocks, then enter the Nightmare Lair to face the Hardhit Beetle.

Hardhit Beetle

Shoot it thrice with arrows, then use jump attacks continuously until it is defeated. It will leave a fairy and open a portal.

Proceed to the next room to receive a reward from the Fairy Queen. Choose the Red Mail to boost your attack and finally complete the dungeon.

Red Mail

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