Chapter Seven: The Palace Of The Fates

Time to get your ass kicked. Start jumping and gliding your way across the chasm in front of you. Don’t miss the red and green chests here; you can climb to them via the handholds.

When you reach the plaza in front of the palace, move to the right and flip the switch under the walkway, but be ready for a major fight. As soon as you flip it, two boarmen will appear and both blow their horns at the same time, summoning two cyclopes. In addition, a fireball-wielding soldier will continually spawn near one of the chests here, pelting you (or the enemies) with fireballs.

Cyclops!

Cyclopes will appear here, and if you’re not careful, you could face quite a few of them. Luckily, it’s fairly easy to avoid having to fight all but one cyclops if you wish to do so. Of course, the more enemies you face, the more red orbs you’ll likely collect. Feel free to adapt the strategies below depending on your skill.

Begin by slashing at the nearest boarman as soon as you’ve flipped the switch; that will interrupt his horn blast and cause only the horn summoned by the other boarman to appear. Start mashing away on your O button while engaging the boarman on the ground here; the other one will climb on top of the cyclops that is summoned, but don’t worry about that now. Keep throwing the boarman that’s running around; you’ll be immune to damage while you do so. If you stop attacking him, he’ll call for another cyclops, so just throw him until you kill him.

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Concentrating on the boarmen outside the palace will let you avoid most damage from the Cyclopes.
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When that’s done, another boarman will spawn nearby. Again, stop him before he can blow his horn, then throw him around until he’s dead. Repeat this until all of the boarmen from that spawn point are dead and no more appear.

Now, focus on the cyclops. If you want its eye, use your throw button to pull off the boarman on his shoulders, then start throwing him around. When another respawns, grab it before it gets on the cyclops, kill it, repeat until no more boarmen appear, kill the Cyclops, kill the fire-thrower, and you’ll be golden. This is assuming everything goes perfectly well, of course; it’s possible that you’ll be knocked down long enough for another Cyclops to get summoned. But still, if it works, it’s the easiest way to approach the fight.

Into The Palace

When all the enemies are dead, start moving the small spike near the mana chest off to the left. You have to move it as far as it’ll go, then run back to the blue chest and grab another spike and push that. Repeating this a few times will eventually lock the gear into place and open the door leading on.

The spike room here is going to be another annoying section. Before you begin, grab the red orb chest in one of the rooms here, then flip the switch in the middle of the room. Doing so will cause the gates in the room to begin rotating around, periodically opening up new rooms for you to enter. It will also cause spikes to begin popping up from the holes in the ground; you’ll be able to see them before they appear. Lastly, poison imps will appear and start spitting at you. Annoying! Grab them and kill them if they get close to you.

Anyway, wait in front of the door in the lower-left corner of the area, with the softly glowing item inside. When the door comes around and opens up, head in, grab the Crank Handle and the orbs, then wait for the next door to open up. Quickly grab the two orb chests and get out; spikes will instantly kill you if you wait too long. The next door is currently closed, while the door after that has a large stone you can pull backwards to lock the gate in place and open the passage moving on. (Notice that we didn’t try pushing the block forward; it might lead to some secret area. Worth a try!)

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