The Legend of Zelda is one of the most popular gaming franchises of a🍰ll time. It proved that video games can equal books and movies in terms of telling a compelling story. The games follow the adventures of a young hero named Link, his frequent meetings with Princess Zelda, and the magical adventures their meetings result in.
Every game in the series finds Link getting sucked ൩into yet another mission to stop the forces of evil from taking🀅 over the lands. With each new game, Link has traveled through dimensions, time, and even ventured into his own mind to bring order out of chaos.
In Ocarina of Time, the legend of Link can be said to have truly begun. We find Link in the beginning of the game a young boy unaware of his destiny as the hero of time. A call from the magical Deku tree brings Link ♛into contact with his unknown past, as well as a purpose for his future.
Now Link must travel all over the land of H💫yrule with his guardian fairy Na'vi, encountering danger, powerful weapons, and some unexpected alliances as he races against time to stop the evil sorcerer Ganondorf from obtaining the Triforce of power.
The Ocarina of Time is a long and spraw🌱ling game, with innumerable threads running parallel and crisscrossing with each other. With such a comple👍x narrative, it is only natural that the story and gameplay do not make perfect sense all the time. Here are 25 mistakes that the game makes which casual players might not have noticed:
25 💙 Lose Random Bottles Of Stuff
One of the favorite pastimes of Ocarina of Time players is to wander around Hyrule catching bugs and things to put in their bottles. Because what person, when equipped with a sword and shield and tasked with fighting a demon king doesn't want to take ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚup entomology instead?
Anyway, if you catch a bug or a fish in a b⛦ottle, and then put another item in the bottle's place, you can turn it into another empty bottle. The previous item will get permanently erased, while the new bottle will behave exactly like the old one.
24 ⛄ Link Randomly Teleports 💎
A great deal of effort went into making Ocarina of Time feel like a cinematic experience. The cut scenes were carefully thought out as a means not just to move the story forward but also to be interestingly shot and directe💎d to resemble a mov🀅ie scene.
One time this leads to an amusing continuity 🌠error.
When Link first le🙈aves Kokiri Forest, he runs across the bridge. An overhead shot shows ♏him get almost to the other end of the bridge. Then when Saria appears, the scene changes and Link is shown to still be only halfway across.
23 A Big Pot🐈 🌠Of Nothing
This shows up in both the N𒀰intendo 64 and the 3DS version of the game. When inside the thieves hideout in Gerudo Valley, you can spot a pot of boiling water. Go up to the pot and stand next to it. As is her habit, Na🃏vi pops out and turns green.
This usually means the object nﷺext to you can be interacted with. But not this time. You can 𒊎play any song on your ocarina, but nothing will change about the pot. It will continue boiling, and you'll become the weird guy who serenades pots with music.
22 ꧟ The Unmagical Mask 𝓰
One reason✅ why players like to go around feverishly destroying plants and public property objects all over Hyrule is that this often yields items th✤at you can use to make the game more interesting. But one time the opposite happens.
There is a guy running around Hyrule field. On his head is a strange contraption known as the Rabbit Hood mask. As stupid as the thing looks, it becomes instantly cooler when 𒁏you realize it gives the guy wearing it super speed. Unfortunately, even if you go to the trouble of acquiring the mask, you will find it𒈔 does not make you faster.
21 🌺 This Cow Is Super Low-Maintenance
Once you have put in the work compꦕleting a few tasks at Lon Lon Ranch, you get a dairy cow of your own! It's not going to be of much use in your bat⭕tle against the forces of the demon Ganondorf, but still... free cow!
When next you see the cow, it h🍷as somehow been teleported back to your house in Koki⭕ri Village.
Even though the cow will have had to get up to the house via a ladder. And the doorway is like, super tiny. Anyway, the cow now hangs out inside your house, without apparently needing food or drinks to 💎survive while you're out adventuring.
20 🥂 The Possibly R𒁃ude Merchant
A significant difference in intent can be created simply by adding a space between two words. Like 'Welcome' and 'Well come'. The first one is a siꦬgn oꦦf hospitality. The second one makes you sound pretty rude, as in 'Well, come on, I don't got all day!'
This is the confuꦛsion brought about by a piece of dialogue by the carpet merchant when he greets Link for the first time,ꦑ saying 'Well come!'. Was the merchant being welcoming or rude? The confusion was cleared up in the Gamecube version of the game, where the merchant declares, 'Welcome!'
19 ⭕ Not A Good Archer
When Link draws his bow in t𒁏he game, he is shown to be ho🍃lding the shaft of the arrow on the underside of the bow. This is a rookie archery mistake since everyone knows that the arrow should be held on the top of the bow. Everyone who still uses this 18th-century weapon, that is.
It's actually sad when you think about it. Link is so inexperienced, he didn't even have time to learn how to hold🦹 a bow properly before he was sent off to fight the most powerful and evil warlock in all of Hyr💞ule.
18 The Sword Mirage 🐈
The final battle between Ganon and Link is a long and intense affair. Ganon tries every trick in the book to gain the upper hand, and Link has to rely on hi🀅s speed and agility 𝓡to hold his own.
One of the biggest losses for Link occurs early on ♒in the fight when Ganon manages to knock the master sword out of his hands and awa💯y from the fighting area.
But apparently, no one told the animators about this part of the story, because the master sword can still be seenꦓ ꦺstrapped to the back of Link.
17 ♏ Two Swords🥂 At Once
A vari💜ation of the previous point occurs during a different part of the gameplay. As powerful as the Master Sword is, it's still no match for the Biggoron sword you can manage to unlock after completing a series of tasks for the Goron tribe. It's a gigantic weapon, especially in the hands of a little guy like Link.
That means Link must relinquish his master sword if♏ he wants space on his perso𒊎n to carry the Biggoron sword. But once again, the Master sword can still be still strapped to Link's back even while wielding the Biggoron one.
16 ♋ The Disappearing Racer
In order to come into possession of the 🌼Rabbit Hood mask, you first must beat the current owner in a race that takes you all over Hyrule. The race track is a long and twisting thing, but you can beat the course sin🃏ce you're taking the help of Epona, your trusty steed.
Once the race starts, your competitor is only seen once you get to the bridge. Doesn't matter whether you win or lose. But if you win the race, you should logically have pasಌsed the guy at some point on the race course. Or was he using a shortcut? That sneaky rat!