Phantom Hourglass - video guide
Our video guide to Link's latest legend
Heart Containers
No pieces of heart this time, just whole containers! Up to 13 extra can be nabbed - here are the ones you can't get by beating bosses.
Molida Island - Score more than 2000 points in shooting range game.
Masked Ship - Beedle's assistant randomly appears on the map. He'll sell you one.
Bannan Island - The Wayfarer will give you a heart container if you fulfill his mermaid fantasy. First talk to him. Then kill all the enemies on the island. Talk again. Head outside and you'll briefly see a mermaid in the water just below his house. Hit her with the boomerang, talk to the Wayfarer and then to Linebeck. Then talk to the Wayfarer again. Now you have a rod. Land Neptoona, a real mermaid, and you'll get this too-much-trouble heart.
Traveler's Ship (NW sea) - Hit the guy 100 times (yeesh).
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Island Shop - After you have Bombchus, buy a Bombchu bag from a shop (we did it on Mercay Island). A heart container will replace the Bombchu bag.
Maze Island - Near the end of the game you can beat the maze on expert for a heart.
Power Gems
There are 20 of each gem. After 10 you can visit Spirit Island for a boost in each category. Power imbues your sword with fire, Wisdom ups your shield strength and Courage sends blasts of energy out of your sword (a nice nod to the first Zelda). Note that some won't appear/can't be grabbed until a certain point in the game. Odds are you'll find most on your own.
Mercay Island shop - 500 rupees and it's yours
Cannon Island - It's in a chest
Isle of Ember - Astrid's gift to you after the first dungeon
Isle of Gust - In a chest to the west (use the shovel)
Temple of Wind - On B2
Oshus' House - Gift after the wind temple
Temple of Courage - Two in here, first and second floors
Mercay Island - In a cave near the Temple of the Ocean King (bomb to reveal)
Temple of the Ocean King - B3 (with bow); B4 (beat the sentries); B7 (with hook)
Goron Island - In the northern maze
Isle of Frost - Use the grappling hook to find it
Spirit Island - Need grappling hook
Isle of the Dead - Underground near the switch, then bomb a wall
Isle of Ruins - After the water level drops, check the labyrinth's upper right hand corner
Bannan Island - Use grappling hook
Molida Island - Grappling hook will reach a chest
Mailbox - King Mutoh sends one out after you've gathered all three metals
Wisdom Gems
Beedle's ship - Buy one
Isle of Ember - Astrid gives one after Temple of Wind
Isle of Gust - In a chest
Mailbox - After you try out the cannon game; after ice temple
Mercay Island - Bombable cave near Ocean King Temple, follow it to Freedle
Zauz's Island - Use a chicken or grappling hook to hop over
Molida Island - Dig in woods
Temple of Courage - Arrow puzzle
Temple of the Ocean King - B2 (bombchus); B9 (kill all four ghosts)
Bannan Island - During mermaid puzzle, give Joanne her letter
Goron Island - Answer questions
Temple of Ice - 3F (boomerang switch); B1 (grappling hook)
Isle of Frost - Grappling hook needed
Isle of Ruins - Push boulders near northeastern pyramid; lower water and look for cave near northwestern pyramid
Maze Island - Complete maze on beginner; chest on right side of maze
Courage Gems
Spirit Island - In a chest
Beedle's ship - The assistant will sell you one on the Masked Ship
Isle of Gust - In a chest
Isle of Ember - Use grappling hook
Temple of Wind - B1 chest
Temple of Courage - 3F (bombable wall)
Dee Ess Island - Southwestern corner of touch screen area; beat two Cyclopes
Temple of the Ocean King - B1 (grappling hook and bow); B8 (triangle gem in northeast slot)
Mercay Island - In a hidden cave
Molida Island - Northern island, grappling hook
Mailbox - From Gongoron after Goron temple
Goron Island - Grappling hook needed
Uncharted island - center cave, grappling hook
Bannan Island - In a chest north of the cannon game
Isle of the Dead - Cave near dock
Isle of Ruin - Lower water, near northeastern pyramid
Mutoh's Temple - B2, in a chest
Your ship - Stave off a pirate ambush
A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE.