In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the Ice Arrows have at all times been fairly ineffective, seeing as how one can play via the sport with out them. Even when you do get hold of them from the Gerudo Coaching Grounds, you encounter the ultimate space to battle Ganon fairly rapidly after.
The sport acknowledges this as gamers who get entry to a gossip stone message, positioned within the Desert Colossus, might have observed it reads, “They are saying that the treasure you’ll be able to earn within the Gerudo’s Coaching Floor is just not as nice as you’d count on, given its issue!” Clearly calling out the unintuitive merchandise.
That’s, till a Japanese fan, named @chikara_shuzei, observed one thing that the magical merchandise is in truth helpful for. Within the publish beneath, the Zelda fan demonstrates the arrow is ready to freeze the shifting spikes which are positioned previous to the Water Temple’s boss battle. That is an impediment many followers keep in mind, with gamers having to frantically run previous and danger shedding hearts within the course of.
これ最近初めて知って衝撃を受けた。
まだまだ知らないことあるよね。#時のオカリナ #NINTENDO64 #NintendoSwitchOnline #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/TP5TKi6oRJ— ちから (@chikara_shuzei) April 22, 2023
This was unknown for therefore lengthy since having the Ice Arrow at this level within the sport appeared fairly ineffective. You’ll have needed to full a lot of the Water Temple so as to get the Longshot earlier than you exit the realm to face the dungeons out of order. Then, you possibly can optionally head to Gerudo Coaching Grounds mini-dungeon to accumulate the ice arrows earlier than heading again to the room simply earlier than the Water Temple’s boss. This can be a lot of effort simply to keep away from a single impediment within the sport, and if you have already got loads of coronary heart containers then it isn’t actually obligatory. @chikara_shuzei appears to have returned to this space after finishing the sport to indicate off what the Ice Arrows can do.
Most of the hardcore Ocarina of Time gamers are seemingly pissed off from this revelation, as they’ve extra seemingly than not explored the functions of each merchandise, but nonetheless missed this cool trick. This simply goes to indicate that there’s probably extra to find inside this, and different, N64 video games.
Supply: chikara_shuzei Twitter Web page
