DarkIce Mines

Written by: Grant - (A.K.A fox 45505)

Once you land, trudge on up the sloping path (either direction), while shooting down Bloops that get in your way. Continue along the thin path, avoiding lava balls and hopping over gaps. Soon, you'll reach the camp. Clean it out of SharpClaws if you wish. Note that one of the SnowHorns here is in shackles. Next to him is a cabin with a snow wall in front of it, but it has a crack. Have Tricky Find and he'll burrow through. Follow him in, defeat the two Grunts inside, and find the chest in a little sideroom that has the Shackle Key.

Release the SnowHorn outside and she'll ask you to help Belina, the Gatekeeper's daughter. She'll also give you a Bridge Cog. Head past the cabins and through the archway and you'll find a river. Drop down to the ledge below and make your way towards the waterfall, where you'll find a cog mechanism. Put the missing Cog in its place then pull the lever to extend the bridge. Climb back up and cross. Follow the path and you'll find two Grunts beating up a SnowHorn. Beat them up, instead. The SnowHorn will tell you about Tricky's Flame Command, and he'll also ask for some food.

Now that you have Flame, head back to the cabin area and have Tricky melt the ice on the cabin blocked by ice. Head inside and have him also use it on the firewood to melt the ice in a somewhat delightful manner. Drop down, take care of the Snipluk, and melt the ice wall in here. Have Tricky Find near the patch of dirt and you'll get an Alpine Root.

Head back out and back to where the SnowHorn is. No need to feed him yet, as there's one more we need. Drop down into the trench with the rolling rocks. Go up the trench in the direction the rocks are coming from and you'll eventually come upon an ice wall. Flame it down, and use Find to get the second Alpine Root.

Head back out of the trench to the SnowHorn and give him the Roots. He'll ask you to hop on his back for some smashing good times. Climb up the nearby ladder and press A to hop on. Move him to the gates and knock them down. That's all you need him for, so head to the right to the nearby platform to hop off. Ignore the Cannon firing at you for a moment and head back in the direction of the gates. Flame down the nearby ice wall and pass through. Climb up the nearby ladder and you'll pass another cog device. Boost up off the pad to head back into the Cannon area. Hop across the platforms along the wall. When you reach the one with the torch, head inside and you'll reach the Cannon. Knock out the Grunt guarding it and you'll be able to commandeer it.

Start firing on the Grunts that come out of the hut. Once you take out all five, the Life Force Door will open. While you're here, see that wall that's boarded up far to your right? Bust it up, too. Now, head back down to the ground level. Go through the door under the Cannon to get a Bridge Cog. Go into the hut the Grunts were coming out of to get a second Bridge Cog. Head through the former boarded up wall by climbing up to it. In this windy area, walk up the slope and past the weird pad. Have Tricky Flame the wall and you'll get the last Bridge Cog.

Head back to the cog mechanism (on the path to the cannon). Place all three Cogs and use the lever to extend another bridge. Cross it and at the end, have Tricky Find the wall and crawl through. In this next room, shoot the Blast Button high up, then have Tricky Flame all four vents on the ends of the structure in the middle of the room. This will open the door at the other end. Walk through and leap across the pit. You'll land on an invisible bridge. Go into the next room and Flame down the ice block to get the Dinosaur Horn.

Now that you have the Horn, go back to the Cannon Snow Field. Climb to the hole that was boarded up, then go up the slope to the platform with the Horn inscribed on it. Blow it and you'll call a SnowHorn to take you through the nearby blizzard. This next part is best during daytime with the higher visibility. What you have to do is keep walking to the next Alpine Root to keep going through the blizzard and not get tossed back to the beginning. Follow the Roots and you'll find the end point between two torches. You'll notice that Tricky is missing. Have the SnowHorn bash down the boarded-up wall, then hop off him at the nearby platform. Head into the cave and beat up the two Grunts to open the Life Force Door, then head further and hop on a SharpClaw Racer. This time, there's no rush. Just race through the caves and you'll eventually reach the mine proper.

You'll have crashed up onto a dangerous situation. Stay in control on the conveyor belt and avoid the flames and hop off at the little ramp at the end of the belt. You can kill the three Grunts in this area to open the Life Force Door, but then you're up against an ice wall, which you'll need Tricky for, and you can hear him whining from here. Search the floor near the conveyor belt until you find a Boost Pad. Boost up, crawl through the hole, and follow the rolling rocks. At the third alcove, you'll see a flame jet. Look up and shoot the Blast Button above it to shut it off, then open the chest to get the Silver Key. Head back to the belt area. Head over to the platforms with rotating flame jets. Time your moves past them and head to the cells. Open the one on the right, which has Tricky.

Now that your pal's back, kill the Grunts in the area to open the Life Force Door. Head through and Flame the ice wall. Open the chest to get the Gold Key. Go back to the cells and release Belina. She'll act all huffy about her father and bust through the back wall (why she didn't do just that earlier is a mystery). She'll call back to follow her to the bottom of the mine.

Use Find on the nearby crack and crawl through to an underground lake. Look up at the stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Shoot at the three that aren't curvy and they'll fall into the lake. Hop across the floes formed by their falling and flip the lever to start some floes moving further upstream. Boost up to the upper area and start hopping onto the ice floes. Bounce over to the far end slow moving ones, then wait until it reaches close to the end and hop to the far shore. Up here is a pushin' block. Drop it over the side, then climb down to the lake level. Head to the now-accessible passage. At the end, beat up the two Grunts if you wish and head to the next huge room.

More conveyor belts. Watch the flames and move on down the circular slope where you'll run into Belina again. She'll tell you about the SpellStone. Head into the huge room. Don't bother fighting too much unless you really have a thirst for blood. What you're looking for is a ladder with barrels exploding near it. Climb up and you'll see a Barrel Pad next to you. Carry a Barrel all the way up the slope, avoiding the barrels rolling down. They all roll the same way, so watch the pattern for openings. Once you reach the top, you'll be at a circular path. Move to the next circular path and you should see a faint circle with a picture of a Barrel on it. Set the Barrel down there. Climb the nearby ladder. On this circular path, you'll find a lever switch. Pull it and a little robot guy will pick up your Barrel and put it on your level. Carry it over to the next circular path, and watch out for the cannon shot. Time your way past the flame jets and head for the cracked wall at the end. Toss your Barrel to blow it, and flip the switch. This will drop a bridge near some red torches, which is near the rolling barrel dispenser. Run all the way back down and cross the bridge. Follow the rollling boulders down the path, and you'll eventually come upon a switch. Flip it and you'll raise the bridge near the green torches, which is near the Cannon.

Once at the Cannon, take out the Grunt there, then shoot the two barricades on the pillars. Once they're both gone, stones will rise at floor level and you'll be able to step on a teleporter. This will warp you to the boss of this area.

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