Kokori Forest

Do: Check the Kokori Forest
Get: the Sword and Shield, Rupees, To the Deku Tree
Meet: Nobody

Ok, you start here because this is your home. It is called the Kokori Forest. You will start off in your home. You must exit this place first. Walk forward and climb down the ladder. Talk with Saria (the girl with the green hair standing close to the ladder). OK now move forward up a slope and come to a fence guarding water. Turn right and skip across the water and come to an opening. Get really close to that opening and you will notice that there is a boy named Mido guarding it and he will not let you pass unless you have equipped both a sword and a shield. Okay then, we can manage. Before you really go on any main quest, stop and have a look around any new place and even old places. Try to talk to everyone and memorize the layout of everything.

Okay now lets start looking for the sword. Get to Link’s house then follow the dirt path left until you come to a girl with orange hair (as most kokories do). She should be standing at the bottom of a small hill. On the hill is the forest training center. Ignore the fact and move in and out through the fences until you see a guy hitting the air. Ignore him as well. Go forward to a hole in the wall. Wait until A says ENTER then press A. Move the control stick forward. Now be careful. Make your way through this one-way maze until you come to a treasure chest. Open it to obtain the sword. Press start and go to the equipment subscreen, move the highlighter over the picture of the sword, and press A. You have equipt the sword. One of the items to get by Mido.

Two other items I prefer to have equipt and obtained are the Deku Sticks and Deku Nuts. You can find a ton of these in the great deku tree but I prefer to be ahead. You should too. One great place to look is in the Kokori Shop. They sell you many items of which you can’t even use yet. The item you need to buy anything from this shop are, no not dollars but a different currency. They are called rupees. They are shiny little gems that you can collect by walking into them. You can find them by cutting grass, throwing rocks, opening chests, and other ways in the future. But right now you are stuck in the Kokori forest.

You can enter the shop and buy as many nuts and sticks as you can buy, but unless you have both the sword and the shield you will be stuck in the Kokori forest forever. You may ask: how do I get the shield? Well, if you went into the Kokori Shop you would know but if you would have paid attention, you would know that in the Kokori shop there is a Deku Shield for sale. It costs 40 rupees but that is no problem. Just wonder in and out and everywhere until you have enough money for a Deku Shield, 5 Deku Nuts, and 5 Deku Sticks.

Okay now once you have equipt everything, and then go see Mido. He will let you pass. (By the way, to equipt anything at the area the nuts and sticks are in, highlight one and press either Y, Z, or, X. So now when you want to use one, just press that letter). Dodge the plants/babas and follow the path to the deku tree’s lair. He will talk to you and ask you a question, say yes and he will let you enter him, THAT’S RIGHT IN HIM! You will do this once more with Jabu Jabu.