How to solve the most complicated puzzles inside Faron Temple in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is, just as expected in a Zelda game, filled with puzzles that will put your brainpower to the test. Many of the game’s puzzles are relatively straightforward, but some may put your brain into overdrive.

Faron Temple is a dungeon encountered about halfway through the adventure. It features a few complicated puzzles that some may find frustrating.

Faron Temple statues puzzle #1

There is a room inside Faron Temple with three statues and two switches on the floor. If you step on a switch, both switches will light up with a blue light, but nothing will happen.

One of the statues does come to life when you approach it. This is an enemy called an Armos. Defeat it by hitting the gem on its back. Once its defeated, make sure you learn the echo, if you haven’t already.

Solving this puzzle is actually easier than you think. You just need to press the two switches simultaneously. Use your Bind ability to line up one of the statues very close to one of the switches, then stand at the same spot as the statue next to the second switch. Use Bind on the statue and step on the switch. If done correctly, both switches will be pushed down at the same time, opening the door.

You can also use an Armos echo to solve the puzzle. Align your echo in front of one of the switches so that it will walk over it. When the echo walks over one of the switches, step on the other so both switches are pushed simultaneously.

Or, do it the hard way: Use two Armos echoes and make sure they walk over the switches at the same time.

Faron Temple statues puzzle #2

One more puzzle in Faron Temple is solved the same way, but this time, the switches are positioned differently.

Use your Armos-echo and align your Armos in front of one of the switches. Wait until it steps over the switch, then make yourself walk over the second switch. The trick is to time it so that both switches are being pushed down simultaneously.

You can also have two Armos echoes walk over the switches at the same time, though this strategy is harder to pull off.

How to press the gem under the scale in Faron Temple

In one particular room in Faron Temple, there is a gem/button located under a scale. The scale, however, is unreachable because of a locked gate. The trick to solving this puzzle is to spawn some heavy echoes at the other side of the scale, located at the bottom floor, weighing it down and making the other side of the scale move up. Put enough echoes on the scale so that it is all weighed down to the bottom. Now, there will be an opening underneath the scale on the floor above – revealing a path to the gem/button. But we still can’t reach it because of the locked gate.

What you will need to do is stand in front of the iron bars, next to the bottom floor scale, and spawn an echo at a distance by holding down the Y-button. If done correctly, the echo will spawn at the other side of the iron bars. Make sure to use an echo that either can attack the gem/button, or hit it with enough force to trigger it.

Now, use your Bind-ability to move your echo up to the floor above and push it down under the scale we lifted earlier. Release the echo so that it will fall down on top of the gem/button or next to it. Depending on what echo you use, it will either trigger it by falling on top of it or attack it if it is an enemy echo.

This puzzle can be tricky to solve, but it is relatively easy once you know what to do.