Anniversary Midas: Three Lead Bars and the Golden Hand

Start at the statue room

Midas’s statue room is the hub for three lead-bar trials. Clear the initial gorillas and identify the switches and return routes before entering a trial. Do not climb onto the golden hand as though it were an ordinary safe platform.

Complete the three branches

The trials involve different traversal hazards, including the fire-pillar room. Finish one branch, recover its lead bar and return to the hub. Keeping a simple checklist prevents a long search through a room you have already completed.

Convert the bars at the hand

Use the Midas mechanism to turn the recovered lead bars into gold, then place the gold bars in the exit receptacles. Merely carrying the lead does not satisfy the final mechanism.

Save before optional timed relic attempts. A relic detour is separate from the three-bar objective, and a risky jump is not required simply because it appears in a completionist walkthrough. Wii-specific shortcuts should not be treated as PS3 routes.

Route at a glance

Visual reference

Video reference

Community video reference. Controller prompts and optional routes may differ from your version.

Keep exploring

• Anniversary Mountain Caves: Entrance, Bear Pit and Exit
• Anniversary Vilcabamba: Village Key and Temple Route
• All anniversary guides
• Start with the trilogy’s play order

Research references and scope

These are concise reference-based route notes, not a claim of personal gameplay testing or an exhaustive collectible checklist. Reference 1