Phantom Hourglass - video guide

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).

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

CATEGORIES
Brett Elston

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. 

Latest in The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time screenshot showing Link, a young boy with elf-like ears and blond hair, with a surprised expression on his face
"I can't go through [with] this": The weirdest Zelda ad didn't get Nintendo's approval, but it probably happened anyway because the marketing execs were already on-site
Link and Epona
A Zelda movie is finally happening, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto used to adamantly oppose the idea even "if Steven Spielberg himself" wanted to do it
A screenshot of the moon in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Despite Zelda: Majora's Mask basically being a horror game, one of its key devs didn't think its creepiest features were scary at all: "People on the team were like 'whoa!'"
The Witcher 3 next-gen
Zelda and Star Fox legend Takaya Imamura would "love" to make a Star Wars game with The Witcher 3's CD Projekt Red – and now I'm desperate to make it happen
Botw
Legendary Zelda dev "wasn't too pleased" about working on A Link to the Past as it robbed his enjoyment of playing the finished game: "I still really don't want to play that game"
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is at the front line of the debate over the Nintendo Switch 2's computing power, because if the Switch 1 can load three worlds at once, imagine what its sequel can do
Latest in News
Jordan A. Mun looks at herself in a mirror in just a vest in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet screenshot
5 years after starting development, Neil Druckmann says Naughty Dog's new game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "still evolving and changing as we're making it"
Silent Hill f
After 2 years of silence, the next mainline Silent Hill game is getting a dedicated stream this week with "the latest news"
Original Xbox console
Former Microsoft exec says the first Xbox was killed early in favor of 360 because it was "losing money left right and center," but luckily "we could afford to hemorrhage cash"
A Monster Hunter Wilds character holding binoculars.
Despite Monster Hunter Wilds suffering monstrous performance problems on PC, it still outsold the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in the US
Jordan A. Mun looks at herself in a mirror in just a vest in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet screenshot
The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann says Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will also be about "being lonely," as if his zombie apocalypse wasn’t isolating enough: "I really want you to be lost"
A screenshot of Jordan drinking a soda during the reveal trailer for Intergalactic: The Hertic Prophet.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "a game about faith and religion," which Neil Druckmann jokes will surely get less hate than The Last of Us 2