Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Guide | The Sacred Flame Ceremony Puzzle

Here's how you solve the Sacred Flame Ceremony Puzzle.

Game Guide by Joy Rahman on Dec 16, 2025

The Sacred Flame Ceremony in Green Fury is a pretty simple environmental puzzle that requires you to utilize your psychic mode. Although it's not the most challenging of puzzles in Metroid Prime for Beyond, it's one of those that can be a bit confusing.

Completing this section will allow you to progress through the ceremony and help you unlock the final reward. This guide will explain how.

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To initiate the ceremony, you are first required to step on the central platform. Doing so will activate the mechanism, allowing you to manipulate and move the ring using your psychic abilities.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, The Sacred Flame Ceremony Puzzle, Nintendo Switch 2, Screenshot, Gameplay, NoobFeed

After which, you'll need to move the ring towards the fire pit. Once it's aligned towards the fire pit, you'll want to then shoot at the ring and aim directly at the fire pit to ignite it.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, The Sacred Flame Ceremony Puzzle, Nintendo Switch 2, Screenshot, Gameplay, NoobFeed

You will then want to move to the next fire pit. It is then that you will realize that the path is blocked, and it's where most people get confused. The solution to making the ring move is to push it towards you by observing the grooves on the floor.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, The Sacred Flame Ceremony Puzzle, Nintendo Switch 2, Screenshot, Gameplay, NoobFeed

Doing so will allow it to move again and then position the ring towards the next fire pit to ignite it. You'll then want to move the ring all the way back towards another fire pit.

Using the grooves to ignite the final fire pit will allow you to access a different section of the Sacred Flame ceremony. Once you finish the puzzle.

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