10 secrets you do not know of 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' celebrating the 20th anniversary

by Mike Mozart

"The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time " was released as an action game for NINTENDO 64 on November 21, 1998, celebrated its 20th anniversary. With such a memorable timing, IGN of the game media summarizes "10 secrets you do not know about Ocarina of the Legend of Zelda".

10 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Secrets You've Probably Never Heard Of - IGN
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◆ 01: The Secret of the Lava Falls in Dodongo's Cave One of the dungeons where links will be visited during childhood in the "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is "Don Dongo's Cave". There is a room that will fight with the two Lizarfos, and a lava waterfall is flowing in this room. There is a hidden space behind the lava waterfall at the corner of the southeastern corner of the room, and if you jump toward the lava, you can enter a small room. However, there is only one recovery heart in this room, there are no other hidden items etc in this room.

◆ 02: Fairies of Ganon Castle - "Ganon Castle" which is the site of the final battle of the link and Ganondorov has the most challenging and oppressive place in Ocarina of the Legend of Zelda. The hidden room is Ganon Castle where there are many enemies and gimmicks, and it seems that there is Akindo nuts that sell fairies and items, even if it is a little helpful for the hero. This room exists under a bridge leading to Ganon Castle and it is said that it is hidden by a fake wall, but if you use "true glasses" that you can get in the work, you can see the entrance It is said that it is.

◆ 03: A soldier (also called a death soldier) appearing in the back street at the castle town of Hyrule Castle, a soldier appearing in the back street of the castle town "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" is a very severe NPC in time, only once during play He seems to have no chance to see him. In order to meet soldiers of death, after gathering three spirit stones, you need to go to the back street of the castle town before heading to the temple at the time. Players can talk only once before the dead soldiers pass by. A death soldier says that "Ganondorough betrayed the royal family and Princess Zelda fled from the castle." Moreover, it seems to advise that if you acquire Ocarina of time in the temple of the time to the player, you can continue the adventure.

You can check the movie that shows the conversation with the soldier of that death from the following.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The dying soldier in "Back Alley" - YouTube


◆ 04: Song of Kakashi at the Temple of Flame In Ocarina of Legend of Zelda, it is possible to blow various songs with Ocarina. When you blow "Kakashi no Uta" which is one of the songs that can be played with such an Ocarina, Kakashi will appear in a specific place. There is an area where Kakashi can appear in Kakashi's song also in "Temple of Flame" which is one of the dungeons where the link will visit in adulthood. You can summon Kakashi in the maze where the rock of the third floor of the flame rolls, and you can check the state of invading the hidden room on the upper floor from the following movie.

How to get to the "Hidden" Room on the Top Floor of the Fire Temple - YouTube


◆ 05: Kings of Kingsola In the legendary series of Zelda, it is one of the rulings of the series that the great fairy enthusiastically kisses the link. However, in Ocarina of time it is possible to get an enthusiastic kiss from King Sora besides the Great Sidhe.

When adults, the link goes towards the solar fountain, the King sola is clumped with red ice. Melting this with a blue flame and getting Zola's clothes is a usual strategy step, but if you get solar clothes at a shop before melting the red ice here, you will receive a kiss gift from King Solar You can receive it. You can see in the following movie how you melt the red ice of Kingzola while actually getting solar clothes.

Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D - King Zora's hidden message - YouTube


◆ 06: Big Paw spirit - In the occasion of the occasion, you can put items useful for adventure such as fairies, medicines, milk into an empty bottle. "Soul of Big Paw" appearing during the game One of the items that can be packed in a bottle. The soul of this Big Paw tends to be thought of as an item used only to sell to the owner of the ghost shop in the castle town, but if the link drinks this, life will decrease and recovery will recover, and lots of lives will recover at a stretch There seems to be one.

◆ 07: Usage of Ice Arrows ___ ___ ___ 0 ___ ___ 0 ___ ___ 0 ___ ___ ___ 0 It is an item. When battle with the boss character "Bongo Bongo" that appears in the shrine of darkness, when one hand is frozen with an arrow of ice, Bongobonggo tries to break the ice with the other hand. So when attacking the hands of those who are not frozen with a bow and arrow, Vongo Bongo appears in front of you soon and it seems to be all you can attack.

You can see the scenes fighting Bongobongo with arrows of ice in the following movies. From around 3 minutes of the movie, you can see the case of attacking one hand with an arrow of ice and the other hand with normal arrow.

Zelda Ocarina of Time Three Heart Speed ​​Run Special Episode 5: Bongo Bongo Ice Arrows - YouTube


◆ 08: Critical Wiggle
"Critical Wiggle" is one mechanism hidden in Ocarina of the Legend of Zelda. In the occasion of the time. In the event that the player's life is reduced and it falls into a pinch state, the mechanism adopts a mechanism that the game randomly invalidates the direction of input by the player, which the fans called "Critical Wiggle". Most players will not notice this minor difference, but some users are aware of this incident and have released a movie to verify "Critical Wiggle" like the following.

DannyB explaining Critical Wiggle - Twitch


◆ 09: Power Crouch Stab
" Power Crouch Stab (PCS)" also informally called one of the in-game mechanisms. In the Ocarina of the NINTENDO 64 version, the damage value of the attack of the last executed link was applied as it was because damage value was not allocated to "Scratching thrust (doing strike with crooked state)". Therefore, if the link releases the bending stick after doing the jump attack with the master sword, it will be able to easily carry out attack with the damage value similar to the jump attack. PCS was loved by Speedrunner etc which is competing game's capture time as a useful technique because not only one hand sword but also two handed sword such as "Daigoron sword" and "giant knife" were able to be extended, but in the 3DS version It seems that it got modified and it became unusable.

MM: Power Crouch Stab - Attack Damage - YouTube


◆ 10: Change color of clothing of the Geld family <br> <br> Late in the game, the link releases carpenters caught in "Fort of Geld" to repair a broken bridge in "Valley of Geld" You should not. If you help all the carpenters, you can get a Geldo membership card from the Geld family, but the Geld family that emerges at this time will appear with the same color clothing as the link. Therefore, changing from the usual clothes to solar clothes and goron clothes will change the color of Geld clothing.

OoT: Gerudo color changing glitches - YouTube