This is a page for Speedrunning Key Cavern in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Remake) for the Nintendo Switch. Read on for a speedrun walkthrough on finishing this dungeon on any%!
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Starting from the entrance of Bottle Grotto, travel east while lifting and throwing the rocks on your way until you see a rock covering something glowing underneath. Lift that rock to uncover a warp point.
Head south past the first house and through the grass and enter the purple house to the left.
Talk to Tracy and have her apply her Secret Medicine on you for some rupees.
Go back outside and proceed south until you reach a ladder which leads to Ukuku Prairie. After you climb down the ladder, go west to get back to Mabe Village. Enter the Town Tool Shop, which is the first building you will see.
Buy bombs twice, making it a total of 20 bombs. This will make the game autosave.
Pick up the Deluxe Shovel and make the owner face away from the door by walking to the counter area near him.
Now run outside while still carrying the shovel.
If you do this quickly, the owner will not be able to catch you and you will get the shovel for free. Immediately head back inside and the owner will strike you with lightning, killing you in the process.
Just choose "Retry" on the game over screen to reload and get back inside the store. You will still keep the bombs you bought and the shovel you stole!
Now, pick up the Bow and steal it the same way you did to the shovel but this time, do not go back inside.
Equip the bombs on either X or Y and the Roc's Feather to the other. There should be a fox on your west. Lure it by slashing it with your sword then dodging by jumping. You must do this in quick succession to prevent the fox from escaping.
Go back to Ukuku Prairie, while still luring the fox, and head east until you see a platform with a warp point. Activate the warp point.
Now proceed south until you reach Pothole Field. Behind the cave to the east is a stone block where you should perform Villa Skip using Tracy's Boost. You must have exactly one and a half heart to do this. You can take hits from the fox to decrease your health by half a heart.
Once on top of the stone block, get down on the right side and cut the bush in front of the owl statue. Use your shovel to dig the Slime Key underneath it.
Throw the boulder blocking the path northwest and jump over the hole. Walk a little north and use the Slime Key on the statue with a keyhole to unlock the entrance to Key Cavern.
Go around the field by travelling south, east, north, then west to the lake. Jump over the platforms and enter Key Cavern.
Immediately after you enter the dungeon, a door will shut. Break the door by throwing a pot at it and proceed north. Defeat all the enemies inside this room, which can be done easily by hitting the bombites and let it explode on the other enemies, to make a chest appear containing a small key.
Proceed north and defeat all the zols here to unlock the doors and make another chest appear. Ignore the chest and continue moving north. Ignore the stalfoses in the next room and in the last room, climb down the staircase surrounded by more zols.
Unlock the door on the right and proceed. Walk around this area to reach the stairs while slashing the pairodd and keeses out of your way.
Walk around the floor above to make the zols appear. Defeat all 5 of them and pick up the small key that will fall down. Go to the next room.
Walk west and defeat all the red zols to unlock the two doors. Enter the one on the north.
Defeat the two Dodongo Snakes in this room by feeding them three bombs each.
You must place the bomb in front of them right before they open their mouth and move forward or they will avoid it. They will leave fairies behind and open a portal upon defeat. Enter the room on the right.
Walk through the path until you reach the end. Push the block on your left then push the other block upwards and open the chest containing the Pegasus Boots.
Press L or ZL button to dash and break the crystal-like objects blocking the path at the bottom of your screen. Push the block away and exit south.
Blow up the wall on the right between the two candlesticks and proceed. Jump over the huge gap by dashing and using Roc's Feather near the edge. Climb the stairs at the top right and proceed north. Dash and jump again over this gap to reach the chest containing the Nightmare Key.
Jump off to the left and proceed north. Defeat all the enemies here to open the door on the left before entering it. Throw a bomb on the wall near the shrouded stalfos to reveal a secret room.
Defeat all the bombites inside and pick up the small key that will fall down. Reload your autosave slot.
Back at the entrance, move north and travel through the narrow path on the left. Continue until you reach the northernmost room. Ignore the chest here, push away the block, then enter the room south.
Defeat the enemies here and loot the chest for 300 rupees. Reload your autosave slot again.
This time, enter the room on the right. Use a dash attack to destroy the vacuum mouth and get another small key from the chest. Go back to the entrance and use the blue portal.
Enter through the door on the bottom of your screen then through the door left of the next room. Defeat the enemies here for a small key. You can defeat the pairodds with dash attacks.
Go back to the previous room and use a small key on the locked block nearest to you. Proceed to the newly opened path while unlocking more locked blocks until you reach a staircase and descend.
Below, dash attack the large red thwomp to make it go down. Continue moving to the right, use a dash jump over the spikes, then climb down the ladder.
Defeat all the pairodds to unlock the door on the left, then proceed. Move through the conveyor belts and enter the Nightmare Lair where you will face Slime Eye.
Upon entering the room, dash to a wall to make Slime Eye appear. This battle can be won very easily and quickly. Immediately slash its eye so that it will try to split in two. Slash it three more times then dash through its center to separate them. Focus on taking down one of them before moving on to the other.
After the battle, pick up the Heart Container that will appear. Continue to the next room and get the Sea Lily's Bell to complete the dungeon.
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