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Desert Colossus

Ocarina of Time N64 Desert Colossus Title Card

Desert Colossus is a place in Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64. It has 2 chests, 3 Gold Skulltulas, and 1 Piece of Heart.

CategoryFields and Forests
Rooms1
Map ScreenOcarina of Time N64 Desert Colossus Map Screen
EnglishDesert Colossus
FrançaisColosse du Désert
DeutschWüstenkoloss
日本語巨大邪神像

Map

Seen from above, north up. The pins mark chests, Gold Skulltulas, Pieces of Heart, people, shops, enemies, and exits, and each one links to its page. The buttons show or hide each kind; + and - zoom in and out, and a zoomed map can be dragged. The grotto maps come last, numbered as in the Grottos table.

Grotto 1

Ocarina of Time N64 Desert Colossus Grotto 1 Map

Chests (2)

ItemRoom
Mirror Shield0
Silver Gauntlets0

Gold Skulltula, Piece of Heart

Gold Skulltulas and Pieces of Heart lying in the open or hidden in the walls, by room. Pieces of Heart in chests are in the chest list.

RoomGold SkulltulaPiece of Heart
031

Found here

Characters here

Story

What happens in Desert Colossus in the main story, with the lines from its cutscenes. All the steps in order are on the quests page.

Step 24 (Adult Link)

Free the carpenters from the thieves' fortress and cross the desert. The temple is cleared twice, once as a child and once as an adult, and the witches who rule it take its Sage away.

Past, present, future...

The Master Sword is a ship with which you can sail upstream and downstream through time's river...

The port for that ship is in the Temple of Time...

To restore the Desert Colossus and enter the Spirit Temple, you must travel back through time's flow...

Listen to this Requiem of Spirit... This melody will lead a child back to the desert.

You have learned the Requiem of Spirit!

Hey! Where are you taking me?!

Yeearggh! Let me go!!

You, you fiends! Ganondorf's minions!

Link! Get out of here! Now!

These witches! They're using black magic on me!

These lines in the text section

Side story

Blow open the wall near the oasis and play the royal lullaby for the Great Fairy of Magic.

Welcome Link! I am the Great Fairy of Magic!

I will give you a magic spell. Please take it.

You got Nayru's Love! Cast this to create a powerful protective barrier. It's defensive magic you can use with C.

Nayru's Love is in effect for only a limited time, so use it carefully.

When battle has made you weary, please come back to see me.

These lines in the text section

Enemies here

Grottos (1)

Holes in the ground in Desert Colossus and what is down each one. Some lie open, some open when Link plays the Song of Storms on the spot, and some only show after an explosion there.

MapOpensInside
1Open

Getting around

Leads toHaunted Wasteland, Spirit Temple, Great Fairy's Fountain

In the official guides

Ruins with a statue of an evil goddess. Nabooru allies with child Link here against Ganondorf, and seven years later stands against him.

砂漠の奥に密かに建造された太古の遺跡

ゼルダの伝説 時のオカリナ 完全攻略ガイドブック (NTT出版, 1999), p. 84, Translated by 101Leafy

Neither Spirit Temple entrance is open to adult Link: the left one is a narrow shaft only a child fits through, and the right one is blocked by a rock the Goron Bracelet cannot move.

Der linke Eingang ist ein schmaler Schacht, den höchstens ein Kind betreten kann. Der rechte Eingang wird von einem riesigen Felsen blockiert

Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo of Europe, 1998), p. 82, Translated by 101Leafy

A Piece of Heart floats above the monument and is reached from a bean planted years earlier.

Seine Aufmerksamkeit erregt besonders ein oberhalb des Monuments schwebendes Herzteil. Glücklicherweise hatte er vor Jahren eine Wundererbse gepflanzt.

Der offizielle Nintendo Spieleberater: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo of Europe, 1998), p. 103, Translated by 101Leafy