One of the bosses that you will come across in the Fire Temple in Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake is the Flare Dancer. With its flaming body, you cannot injure it with normal attacks, but you can make use of your Hookshot to uncover its weak spot. It will be much easier to defeat it once you learn how to do so. Here’s how you can defeat Flare Dancer and move on to the next floor.
Flare Dancer Locations
Flare Dancer can be found in the Fire Temple. This is where you will battle this enemy as part of your progression. Flare Dancer can be battled again in the Hall of Fallen Foes. This place is accessible once you have unlocked the feature to transform into both Adult Link and Child Link. The hall is accessible once you are able to reach the rest points located in Hyrule.
How To Defeat The Flare Dancer
While Flare Dancer is burning, you cannot harm it by attacking it with your sword or arrows. To extinguish the flames of Flare Dancer, use your Hookshot and aim it at the metal chest located inside Flare Dancer’s body. Once you have hit the chest with Hookshot, the flames will extinguish, and Flare Dancer’s core will be revealed to you.
After the core of Flare Dancer is exposed to you, it will run away in some direction. Pay attention to the direction in which it runs and try to get behind it so that it can be surprised when it tries to run from you.
Using your Hookshot, try to extract the red core of Flare Dancer out of the flames. Once the core falls down onto the ground, use your sword to destroy it. Continue repeating this process until Flare Dancer is killed. Then the stone platform on the middle floor will rise to take you up to 4F.
