Zelda: Link's Awakening: How To Defeat Façade - Face Shrine Boss (Level 6)

Concluding part seven of our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough we'll need to learn how to defeat the Face Shrine Boss: Facade.

How To Defeat Façade - Face Shrine Boss (Level 6)

Leaving the long hall via its lower exit, you will enter the room in which you fought the four Wizzrobes. Take the lower exit this time. In the next room, the Owl Statue will state:

Hop on top of the crystals to move forward.

Climb the steps directly below and drop off the ledge and onto the raised orange barrier. Jump to the single barrier on the right, and then head up the stairs and leave via the raised area. The chest in the next room contains some of Crazy Tracy’s lotion.

At this point you will need to loop back to the room with the flying tiles (from the beginning of the Nightmare Key section above.) This time, head south – you will find a room with a Vacuum Mouth in the centre – when it stops inhaling, jump and swing your sword at it. Tour the rest of the room and take out all green Zol to open the door to the right.

Take out the Wizzrobes in the next room to open the upper door. On the right side of the room you should jump the gap diagonally to access the upper area – just avoid the pit and the laser gaze of the Beamos in the lower right.

Light the torches in the next room to take out the Sparks and open the Nightmare door.

Enter the boss arena and a cartoonish face will form in the floortiles, ready with a taunt:

Hey, dummy! Need a hint? My weak point is…
Whoops! There I go, talking too much again…

This Nightmare is Façade. Considering he is only a face, the weak-point he isn’t telling you about is in fact, his face. In all upcoming phases, lay/throw a bomb on his face to hurt him.

The first phase of his attack will involve more tile dodging – get as many bomb throws in as possible. The pots will also get thrown once all of the orange tiles have been used up.

Once the room is clear, Façade will start to move around the arena, and pits will open up in his wake. Avoid the pitfalls and throw your bombs wherever he comes to a stop. When you need just one more hit there will be a large number of pits to dodge. Deal the killing blow and hear his last words:

Ok, listen up!=
If the Wind Fish wakes up, everything on this island will be gone forever!
And I do mean…EVERYTHING!

As ever, leave via the top door and claim your next instrument – the Coral Triangle – and hear the voice guiding you forward.

...MOUNTAIN…
Something calls…from the mountains…

Excellent progress, Link. Don't stop now, let's continue our Zelda: Link's Awakening walkthrough and seek out the Bird Key Location, Mountain Tower and Resurrecting the Rooster before heading to Eagle’s Tower and learning How To Defeat Eagle's Tower Boss (Level 7).