My Guess about the Gerudo Mask: In the ROM file for Ocarina of time, there is an unused text hint for the Haunted Wasteland called "Desert Hint 2" which reads: "WHAAAT!? Look at all those flags! Can you figure out which ones are real?" Seeing as how it's the desert right after the Gerudo Fortress, and the mask shows the flags, it's probably a safe bet that there were fake flags at one point in development, and no Lens of Truth, and this was the solution to the puzzle.
i am doubtful, especially with the label of hint *2*. if it is the second hint, then that means hint one was likely written first. In that case, it makes it hard to believe there was no eye of truth for the solution. such a theory also bring into question why it is the mask, specifically? the absolute best answer i can come up with is that the gerudo training grounds was not as optional in early development, and the mask was the reward needed to progress. Even then i have some doubts, especially because the same hint gives 0 direction towards needing a mask in particular, and if there was a third hint that DID imply it, it would be too conclusive of evidence for you to leave it unmentioned. With everything considered, the lens was likely always the intended solution to the puzzle, but when the puzzle was scrapped, they had to scrap the function of the lens as well to avoid confusion. In doing so, the code got lost in the process, and ended up getting attached to the mask to avoid complications that removing said code could cause. Since the masks were only worn as a child and the feature was a solution to an adult puzzle, normal gameplay would never come across it. Now i am thinking about the world in which the puzzle was scrapped, but the mechanic remained. That blasted sandstorm can make it difficult enough to see the flags as is, and you already need the lens to cross (without insane dedication to memorize the path), so in a world where the flags glowed with the lens, the desert would be far less annoying. As for the doors, the answer to the place they fit comes in the form of the fake doors found in places like the fire temple. fake doors dont glow, so blow them up. It also leaves room for the doors to be far more punishing, as if the doors can be seen with the lens, then they dont need another tell. either risk opening the door and take damage, or flick the lens in front of your face for a second to check. slashing the wall next to or behind the fake door wouldn't do anything. The only problem in this world is that the lens is unlocked relatively late in comparison to the fake doors. Yes, it is technically possible to have the lens before the first instances in the fire temple, but you need to know it exists and go out of your way to get it without any such hint from the game. spirit and shadow temples coming sooner in progression? well, they are balanced around being the last 2 dungeons in the game before the assault on ganon's castle. To us experts it might not seem it, but the puzzles are more complicated and the enemies are more difficult or at least placed in spots more convenient to the enemy's role. All i really need to say to prove that point is iron knuckle, the most powerful non-boss enemy in the game, even if they move slow.
I always loved that if you talked to the Gerudo guard while wearing the mask, she would find it funny and say you were clever, but that she still wouldn't let you in.
I liked speaking to some of the men around Hyrule Castle Town and Kakariko Village with it, because it would scare them into thinking you were a Gerudo seeking a boyfriend.
I like talking to Talon while wearing the Gerudo mask. He'll say it reminds him of his wife, then immediately deny it. You get funny dialogue from Ruto while wearing the Zora mask as well. XD
I do one better In botw I use thunderstorms rod and blizzard rod i freeze 1 or more than shock them multiple times on single enemies with the group have fun 🤣
Ah, the toadstool trick in Link's Awakening. A classic. I remember finding that one out on my own, and it was hilarious to me then. I always positioned myself to the boss to try to hit it with the shroom like it was a sword, just kinda shoved it in the guys face. The ONLY explanation I can give for that is that the Gameboy version of the game only had, like 16 active items you could have in game, and the toadstool took up the magic powder slot, so, in order to not soft-lock anyone at the final boss who had the sleepy toadstool instead of magic powder, they just gave it a pass.
the funny thing is that form of the Nightmare is what I always thought of as the easy one anyways since after a few goes I could basically insta-kill it with the powder. IIRC while you technically had to hit the boss more than once, it had no i-frames and thus I could rapidly sprinkle it and kill it before it got a chance to retaliate.
4:03 I've been playing ocarina of time for a very long time and never knew that blue fire could remove certain walls in the game! This game is truly amazing. I also wonder how this was discovered lol
I'm guessing it's probably a bug with bitflags being set that shouldn't be for vulnerability to blue fire as well as bombs. Doesn't seem like something that would've been intended.
best guess on the discovery was that someone had too much blue fire after the ice cavern, but was too lazy to empty the bottles immediately. when they found the need to empty the bottles in question, there just happened to be a valid bomb wall nearby. the other option was that someone went out of their way to try breaking blue fire, which is otherwise exclusively used in frozen domain, ice cavern, and ganon's castle.
I feel like the other masks in OOT may have some undiscovered special uses that are still hidden. It would be amazing to find out what they are after over 20 years.
In the GameBoy version of Link's Awakening, the second nightmare form of the final boss, you can reflect the projectiles back at the boss using the shovel. You can't do this in the Switch version.
So the shovel replaced the bug catching net (which could do it in Link to the Past), and got replaced by bottles (which can do that in Ocarina of Time).
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge but in Links awakening, if you have a boomerang and the flying chicken. Throw the boomerang and pick up the chicken before it comes back and you will have a pretty cool outcome. It kills or stuns enemies and even picks up items.
boomerangs are so glitchy, I loved using the 'put away and re-put-out your sail quickly' glitch in Windtakt to OUTRUN the boomerang and race it across the sea. gave you something to do..
I found out from tv tropes that if you wear the bunny hood during the postman’s 10 second challenge, the timer never disappears, making it easier to nab a piece of heart
You deserve this tip In botw I use thunderstorms rod and blizzard rod i freeze 1 or more than shock them multiple times on single enemies with the group have fun 🤣
GBA ALttP: it only lasts for the screen you're currently on, but if a Like-Like steals your shield and you freeze it before it escapes, your shield will be covered in frost, giving it an icy blue recolor. It's only barely visible on the basic knight shield, but it's definitely noticeable with the others.
I think my favorite is when I was first playing Twilight Princess years ago, my cousin told me how in the final battle if you pull out the fishing rod and throw the lure out at Ganondorf he gets distracted by how shiny it is. And sure enough it happened xD I just found it funny with it being such an intense and serious battle.
Does the bottle doubling as a royalty transportation system in Majora's Mask count for this? 🙃 Seriously though, that's one of the funnier and more absurd moments in the series to me, still remember how much I laughed when I first saw it 😅
Honestly pretty hilarious that just lighting a pepper on fire is enough to make it release huge gusts of wind. How must it feel to be a hylian chef working with those things?
One thing in BotW that I surprisingly don't see many people ever mention, and I figured out on my own, is that fire and ice weapons can alter your body heat in extreme weather. For example, if Link is sweating in the Gerudo desert, rather than changing your clothes, just equip an ice sword. You can do the same in the mountains with a fire sword. I genuinely wonder if anybody else has figured that out, because I honestly never see anyone else mention it anywhere.
I found that out by accident when I stumbled into the mountains with only a Great Flameblade and a Warm Doublet on. Everything was going fine until I broke the Flameblade fighting Ice Lizalfos, and couldn't figure out why I was suddenly cold
In my first BotW playthrough, I "abused" these common-sense properties right from the beginning --- so I was irritated to read that it's not so common-sense obviously...
I played ocarina of Time hundreds of times and never knew the blue flame to destroy bombable 💣 walls. Unbelievable. To still learn secrets about that game even now.
To be more precise, it bursts into water. Becoming covered in water cools you down. You can also, if you're careful, use it to extinguish fires (if it's too close to the fire it will ignite and become red chu jelly)
In Link's Awakening, you can equip the bomb and the bow+arrow at the same time in the A and B button slots, if you press both buttons at the same time, Link shoots a bomb arrow!
Ive always found weird that blue fire was described as "cold" in oot. Like i get it might be related to ghostly fire or something but, i know my fires and blue f8re only happens at over 6000 degrees.
**THE TWILIGHT PRINCESS SKY CITY FETCH QUEST** I just remembered a part in another Legend of Zelda game that can be considered both a trading sequence, and also a fetch quest. It's also "not," a side quest either like other trading sequences or fetch quests either. In Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, before getting into the Sky City dungeon, you are required to complete a massive trading sequence/fetch quest in order to even use the cannon. I mean, it leans way more towards a fetch quest than a trading sequence, but there's also some elements of that too.
One that's a bit obscure to regular players and definitely unintended is using the Cane of Somaria to get 1/2 magic in A Link to the Past, or to transform anti-fairies. If you use the cane while you have no magic at all, and then swap to the mushroom slot in the inventory (still works even after you do have the powder), it will activate magic powder's effect. This comes up in item randos sometimes as it is a trick that can be put into logic.
I gotta say, I'm legitimately impressed with this video... the majority of these I legitimately never knew nor even heard about. I was prepared for the usual well-known ones, but aside from the sacred water instant-kill trick, everything else is absolutely new to me. Really nice collection of lesser-known/newer discoveries
The fishing rod in Twilight Princess has a secret use. It can make Ganondorf distracted in the final battle so you can hit him. Turns out Ganon wasn't a pig, but a fish this whole time haha
Some BOTW tips: 1. Using stasis to highlight edible plants & mushrooms in woodlands can make finding and collecting them all much easier. 2. Stasis can also be used to freeze the flying acorns found in some korok archery puzzles, making them much easier to hit with a bow & arrow. 3. Stasis can also be used to highlight hidden or hard-to-see enemies in dark areas. 4. You can create an updraft using 4 lit bundles of wood; this trick is especially handy in the Sword Trials (especially in Master Mode) where you can use the updrafts to evade enemies, shoot them repeatedly in slow mo and use for other tactics. 5. Placing burning bundles of wood around a Hinox before you wake it up will give you an advantage in battle as they're prone to stepping on fires and getting distracted as they try to put the flames out. 6. If you feed a monster its preferred food while you wear a beast mask, you can get behind it while its eating and go for an easy stab in the back kill (this only works on monsters below silver or gold rank though). You can feed lizalfos critters frogs instead of fish for a cheaper option. 7. An easy way to take Lynels down is to fight them on horseback, leaping up in the air to strike them with a volley of arrows at close range and returning to the horse before the Lynel gets back up (& rinse & repeat this until it dies). If you do this efficiently you can take down a Lynel without it having the opportunity to strike once. An interesting thing about stamina recovery is that no matter how low your gauge is, it will be instantly restored once you jump back onto the horse. 8. If you gently glide onto a Hinox's belly, it is possible to steal the weapons from around its neck and run off before it can wake and attack you. This can be an especially easy way to harvest much-needed metal weapons in the early stages of the game when decent weapons are hard to find (and certainly without a fight). 9. It takes precisely 10 apples or carrots to tame a wild horse instantly. 10. You can always tell what the best horse in a herd is because it will lead the herd as they wander around. 11. 30 minute long lasting elixirs can be made using a dragon horn, 3 powerful foodstuffs and one lesser foostuff (for example 3 Mighty Banana's, 1 Mighty Thistle and 1 dragon Horn will create a 30 minute long powerful attack elixirs). Downing an elixir like this can give you a handy advantage in the Sword Trials. 12. The diving korok puzzles can be easily completed by jumping off a Cryonis block into the Lily ring. (Etc)
I remember when I discovered that the ball and chain could be used like a shield I was amazed, but I also remember discovering that the (regular)shield can protect even if you dont have it raised, my brother one time was running around doging arrows from bulblins with his sword drawn, and an arrow impacted the side where the shield was even though it wasnt raised(z targeting) and it blocked the arrow, I think that will be very hard to replicate but I assure you it happened
makes sense for a game with directional blocking. IIRC in Zelda games the shield never protects you from the side you're not holding the shield on, so it sort of makes sense for at least in some game it to passively protect on the side it's held on.
Here's an oldie but a goodie you missed. In The Legend of Zelda (USA ver) the Bow and Arrow has 2 secret functions the game does not mention. Not only can you kill Pols Voice in one hit with an arrow, you can also collect items with a shot arrow like a boomerang even though the arrow doesn't return to you.
I feel like the fact that Yiga soldiers can be baited by mighty bananas counts. I didn’t realize it until my second play through of BOTW, but that could be because I’m an idiot.
Using a bottle or bug net to deflect Agahnim's spell ball is another one in ALttP. The different race masks in OoT gives you different dialogue when talking to the Zoras and Gorons, also the Gerudo guard as young Link and certain characters will be afraid of you wearing the Gerudo Mask. There's also the different things you can do with the Stones of Truth by bombing them, using the hammer, or using Din's Fire on them, aside from talking to them with the Mask of Truth. Also some of them have hidden fairies in them if you use Zelda's Lullaby.
Zeltik may already know this as his fave Zelda game is Wind Waker but when Phantom Ganon does Dead Man's Volley, we can deflect it with a bottle. & Idk if this counts but the Master Sword can be used to increase our inventory. In Botw, when you draw the Master Sword with all weapon spaces filled, a new, permanent spot is created for the sword
Also in LA, if you use the screen warping trick to avoid getting the sword in the beginning, and then collect enough shells to get the sword there, the one on the beach turns into a shield. If you go get the shield off the beach, your shield turns invisible.
In A Link to the Past, a bug net will repel orbs of magic thrown at link by Agahiem just like a sword. In Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, where the bug net was replaced by just swinging an empty bottle, swinging a bottle will repel the magic blasts the same way in both ganondorf fights. In context, this is pretty funny- a powerful evil consistently being turned back by children wielding bug nets and bottles.
The royal guard uniform in BotW is one of the few outfits that retains some use late in the game. It combines the effects of the Barbarian armor, Salvager Gear, and Climbing Gear into one to let you conserve stamina regardless of what action you perform. Except for sprinting, sadly. That might be why the pieces are stored in Hyrule Castle. It’s an early game breaker in exploration if you only used up a fraction of your stamina with rapid climbing or swimming.
Oddly enough the mushroom is even more broken in the original version of Link's Awakening on the Gameboy. if I recall correctly it's actually used in the speed run in some categories to help do sone interesting tricks in them. Although nothing as broken as how unintentionally and disgustingly broken some items some items are from OoT and A Link to the past are respectively.
The object highlighting seems like a debug feature. I’d bet they had some item they used to get that feature early in development, and later when they didn’t need it anymore overwrote it’s spot in the inventory with the gerudo mask. But since it’s a child-only item, and the same inventory item can link to different code between child and adult link (IIRC the slingshot & bow look like distinct inventory items but are technically just the adult and child versions of the same item as far as the code is concerned), the old debug tool is still accessible if you force adult link to use the gerudo mask.
Not super unknown but:. The Skull Hammer in Wind Waker could kill any frozen enemy in one hit. This includes Darknuts and Wizrobes. Only issue is they stay frozen a very short duration so it's tough to time.
Pretty sure the song of healing is never referenced to be able to repair broken signs. Also I love that the wind waker shirt. Does it scale as you upgrade it?
That boomerang is the most powerful boomerang in the Zelda games, and actually makes getting the upgraded sword useless. From what I saw, they seem to have even nerfed it in the remake, making one hit kills take two hits in at least some places. The shield is also really powerful, with the only real drawback being you had to have it equiped, taking up an item slot. The remake gave you a dedicated shield button, so they had to slow down your movement to compensate.
@@marhawkman303 yeah and it is blue which can be related to wisdom and so that could connect it with tech… also I could see it playing the role as a kind of electricity here, but I wonder if there could be something more going on
I wonder if the magic arm from the Botw two trailer has something to do with the Twilight realm,its green energy is similar to some of the stuff from the game.As well as the this it's also similar to the green liquid from the royal tomb and the bottom of the well from Oot.What if malice represents Din,Sheikah energy represents Nayru and this green stuff is the power of Faron? I would definitely like to learn more about these things in Botw two.Maybe this has something to do with items such as Midnas helmet and Majora's mask in Botw`s expansion pack.Also just to strengthen this,Ganondorfs corpse looks similar to that of a Re-Dead,which are associated with the first in-game appearance of this energy
The three energy types make sense with the traits each one shows as well, power, wisdom and courage. Malice is a substance that can grow, infect, and harm creatures. You can describe that as representing power. Sheikah technology is... well technology, which requires wisdom to create. We know less about the green energy, but it seems to be able to combat malice. And what's a common trope in media? Any power can be defeated with courage in the face of evil.
For you DS veterans: In phantom hourglass, the hammer tool allows link to smash enemies and broken pressure plates. But if you charge up the hammer and hit a phantom, you can stun it.
You can use the magic powder to turn a chicken back into a human old lady in Kakariko Village in Link to the past. It will also make the old lady sweeping disappear if u sprinkle it on her. It turns the green wabbly guys into large potion bottles as well.
Just had a thought - who made the elemental weapons? Why are there great elementals blades placed around seemingly with intention go be found (by the hero?) in such far away places?
Here’s one- In twilight princess, in the one on one fight with ganondorf at the end, his last phase, you can use the fishing rod to distract him and easily get a few hits on him
Question: So, if you were to lead a Guardian into an area with blue fire, could you use a blue fire arrow as a pseudo ancient arrow to do more damage to them if shot in the eye?
The Bugnet to reflect Agahnim's projectiles in Alttp or the bottle which does the same with Ganondorf's projectiles in OoT and the fishing rod to distract Ganondorf in Twilight Princess
This is not so much or a secret use but it's a nice little trick. In Wind Waker on the GameCube there's a way to get both the Cabana Deed AND the Hero's Charm RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST DUNGEON! Does anyone remember that the Grappling Hook can pull items right off of enemies? Well, you can use this to your advantage. Remember the 2 Bokoblins from the very beginning of the dungeon? You need to use the Grappling Hook on them (also, I could be mistaken that there's 2. There might be more but it's been forever) and that's how you'll get those *Joy Pendants.* After you grapple them, proceed through the door going further into the dungeon then go right back into that room. Grapple them again until you get 61 Joy Pendants. There's actually a Joy Pendant on Wind Fall Island but it's through a mini-quest sooooo... it's best just to play Hide & Seek and then go straight to that teacher for those rewards. There's another part to this. I think the game will try to force you to not go off the path but since Wind Fall Island is lined up horizontally with Dragon Roost Island it seems that the game is okay with it, weirdly. And I noticed that opening and closing the sail gives you a boost so I just opened and closed the sail to keep up that boost. And when you get there, all should be good. (P.S I made sure to get those Joy Pendants first then I fought the boss so I got warped right to the beginning. Plus, I think you need to kill that boss first anyways so you can make your way to the "Forest Haven".)
I’ve always liked how in breath of the wild you can use thunderstorms against your enemies. I don’t recall it being mentioned or even hinted at in game, and many people simply avoid wearing any metal during one, but I like to just drop my weapon/shield and magnesis it towards enemies so the lightning hits them instead. Another one I think many people know about is that just by having a fire rod out you can stay warm and melt ice blocks. Oh, and shooting shock arrows at a metal object will create an electric force field, which is another well known mechanic.
Works with any fire weapon as well as primed fire arrows, lit torches, lit wooden weapons or lit arrows. Lighting campfires from wood piles also gives off ice melting heat.
Using the bobber fishing rod to distract ganondorf in TP Using fire and ice arrows to damage kotake and koume in OotT, although is quite difficult, because 99% of the time they block them... If you get the fire arrow before fighting morpha, you can use It to evaporate its tentacles Using the deku stick to get fairies in OotT I remember more but they are known by a lot of people at this point
Well, keese are like "oh, he works here" when you wear the skull mask and the stalchilds... stalchildren? think that he's a bunny and not a child, so they don't jump out. They're not stalbunnies.
Only strange/secret uses I can think of are well known ones like how you can play energy ball tennis with Ganondorf with a bottle instead of using your sword like you’re supposed to and how in either OoT or Twilight Princess (don’t recall which, might even be both), you can distract Ganondorf with the fishing rod. Also, not an item, but in the same vein, and again a well known one, is weaponising cuccoos in BotW.
I've played Twilight Princess casually so many times, and I never knew about the ball and chain having the properties of a bomb!! I'm definitely trying that out next time I play!
I know it's probably too late, but the bottle in OOT used to deflect ganon and phantom ganon's energy blasts. I feel like most people know about that one so it might not be interesting enough
I remember reading in a magazine that you could use Deku Sticks to turn butterflies into Fairies. I never could get that trick to work. Figured it was a lie or some sort of april fools gag, but no it's apparently true. Damned if I know how to pull it off though. Chasing butterflies with a stick out does nothing. Attacking them with the stick does nothing. I even tried standing still hoping one of them would land on the tip. Eventually I said "fuck it" and went to the Fairy Fountain that was like 50ft away under a gravestone.
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My Guess about the Gerudo Mask:
In the ROM file for Ocarina of time, there is an unused text hint for the Haunted Wasteland called "Desert Hint 2" which reads:
"WHAAAT!? Look at all those flags! Can you figure out which ones are real?"
Seeing as how it's the desert right after the Gerudo Fortress, and the mask shows the flags, it's probably a safe bet that there were fake flags at one point in development, and no Lens of Truth, and this was the solution to the puzzle.
oh dangles, that is cool.
i am doubtful, especially with the label of hint *2*. if it is the second hint, then that means hint one was likely written first. In that case, it makes it hard to believe there was no eye of truth for the solution.
such a theory also bring into question why it is the mask, specifically? the absolute best answer i can come up with is that the gerudo training grounds was not as optional in early development, and the mask was the reward needed to progress. Even then i have some doubts, especially because the same hint gives 0 direction towards needing a mask in particular, and if there was a third hint that DID imply it, it would be too conclusive of evidence for you to leave it unmentioned.
With everything considered, the lens was likely always the intended solution to the puzzle, but when the puzzle was scrapped, they had to scrap the function of the lens as well to avoid confusion. In doing so, the code got lost in the process, and ended up getting attached to the mask to avoid complications that removing said code could cause. Since the masks were only worn as a child and the feature was a solution to an adult puzzle, normal gameplay would never come across it.
Now i am thinking about the world in which the puzzle was scrapped, but the mechanic remained. That blasted sandstorm can make it difficult enough to see the flags as is, and you already need the lens to cross (without insane dedication to memorize the path), so in a world where the flags glowed with the lens, the desert would be far less annoying. As for the doors, the answer to the place they fit comes in the form of the fake doors found in places like the fire temple. fake doors dont glow, so blow them up. It also leaves room for the doors to be far more punishing, as if the doors can be seen with the lens, then they dont need another tell. either risk opening the door and take damage, or flick the lens in front of your face for a second to check. slashing the wall next to or behind the fake door wouldn't do anything. The only problem in this world is that the lens is unlocked relatively late in comparison to the fake doors. Yes, it is technically possible to have the lens before the first instances in the fire temple, but you need to know it exists and go out of your way to get it without any such hint from the game. spirit and shadow temples coming sooner in progression? well, they are balanced around being the last 2 dungeons in the game before the assault on ganon's castle. To us experts it might not seem it, but the puzzles are more complicated and the enemies are more difficult or at least placed in spots more convenient to the enemy's role. All i really need to say to prove that point is iron knuckle, the most powerful non-boss enemy in the game, even if they move slow.
I always loved that if you talked to the Gerudo guard while wearing the mask, she would find it funny and say you were clever, but that she still wouldn't let you in.
I liked speaking to some of the men around Hyrule Castle Town and Kakariko Village with it, because it would scare them into thinking you were a Gerudo seeking a boyfriend.
I like talking to Talon while wearing the Gerudo mask. He'll say it reminds him of his wife, then immediately deny it. You get funny dialogue from Ruto while wearing the Zora mask as well. XD
@@Elementianhero22 King Zora and Darunia will get offended by it.
@@Nosretep yeah, but Ruto is funny
using water on the red gem to invert Stone Tower Temple in Majora's Mask of course!
Wait.... What?
I do one better
In botw I use thunderstorms rod and blizzard rod i freeze 1 or more than shock them multiple times on single enemies with the group have fun 🤣
"Of course" he says, as if this is the most basic common knowledge
On that note... WHAT? 🤯
I'm crying because I'm so angry I never thought of this
POST A CLIP OF THAT OMG
Ah, the toadstool trick in Link's Awakening. A classic. I remember finding that one out on my own, and it was hilarious to me then. I always positioned myself to the boss to try to hit it with the shroom like it was a sword, just kinda shoved it in the guys face.
The ONLY explanation I can give for that is that the Gameboy version of the game only had, like 16 active items you could have in game, and the toadstool took up the magic powder slot, so, in order to not soft-lock anyone at the final boss who had the sleepy toadstool instead of magic powder, they just gave it a pass.
the funny thing is that form of the Nightmare is what I always thought of as the easy one anyways since after a few goes I could basically insta-kill it with the powder. IIRC while you technically had to hit the boss more than once, it had no i-frames and thus I could rapidly sprinkle it and kill it before it got a chance to retaliate.
@@marhawkman303 Good to know...
Chuchu jelly can be placed on the ground and shot to cover link In water. This resets links heat and can be used in gerudo desert
I hear you can use the Master Sword to attack enemies
You shut your lying mouth! Lol
Legends say if you pull the Master Sword from it's resting place as a child, you'll awake years later as an adult
Why would you ever use a lawn mower for that?
No way
I thought it was only for breaking ore...
4:03 I've been playing ocarina of time for a very long time and never knew that blue fire could remove certain walls in the game! This game is truly amazing. I also wonder how this was discovered lol
I grew up with Ocarina and never knew about that either
I'm guessing it's probably a bug with bitflags being set that shouldn't be for vulnerability to blue fire as well as bombs. Doesn't seem like something that would've been intended.
best guess on the discovery was that someone had too much blue fire after the ice cavern, but was too lazy to empty the bottles immediately. when they found the need to empty the bottles in question, there just happened to be a valid bomb wall nearby.
the other option was that someone went out of their way to try breaking blue fire, which is otherwise exclusively used in frozen domain, ice cavern, and ganon's castle.
I feel like the other masks in OOT may have some undiscovered special uses that are still hidden. It would be amazing to find out what they are after over 20 years.
We know everything about that game those masks have no use mark my words
That game has been reverse engineered. There is no more secret.
@@LamperougeZKreutz how u felt after typing that 👹🐶
The masks just have some unique dialogue for certain NPC's. You can check a text dump for them; they're organized quite logically
The night mask let’s you stay awake during granny’s storytelling,
Edit: nvm that’s from MM not OoT
"A mellow aroma wafts into your nostrils"
Gelatinous bosses: No, wait, I'm allergic to mellow!
"They call me mellow yellow (quite rightly)"
Would it KILL these homicidal bosses to CHILL OUT for a minute?
(yes it would)
In the GameBoy version of Link's Awakening, the second nightmare form of the final boss, you can reflect the projectiles back at the boss using the shovel. You can't do this in the Switch version.
So the shovel replaced the bug catching net (which could do it in Link to the Past), and got replaced by bottles (which can do that in Ocarina of Time).
Switch is the inferior version
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge but in Links awakening, if you have a boomerang and the flying chicken. Throw the boomerang and pick up the chicken before it comes back and you will have a pretty cool outcome. It kills or stuns enemies and even picks up items.
boomerangs are so glitchy, I loved using the 'put away and re-put-out your sail quickly' glitch in Windtakt to OUTRUN the boomerang and race it across the sea. gave you something to do..
Nintendo Power itself mentioned that trick in an issue. Too bad it’s way too situational and is no longer possible after a certain point.
I found out from tv tropes that if you wear the bunny hood during the postman’s 10 second challenge, the timer never disappears, making it easier to nab a piece of heart
I was just about to write this lol
Did you know the Song of Storms can be used to grow magic beans in Majora's Mask
@@darkcloak100 and in oot, it makes the bean summon fairies
darkcloak100 oh yeah! Once i learned the song, no more bottled water!
You deserve this tip
In botw I use thunderstorms rod and blizzard rod i freeze 1 or more than shock them multiple times on single enemies with the group have fun 🤣
Why does no-one ever remember the grapple hook picks pockets in Windwaker. Great way to farm and guarantee drops for items
And a great way to survive the Savage Labyrinth. The lack of drops is no big deal if you do this.
Using it on zelda in the final boss will get you a heart every time
Already covered.
i forgot about that
The game tells you about that (one of the talking fish), so I don't know if I'd call it a secret. It is useful, though!
GBA ALttP: it only lasts for the screen you're currently on, but if a Like-Like steals your shield and you freeze it before it escapes, your shield will be covered in frost, giving it an icy blue recolor. It's only barely visible on the basic knight shield, but it's definitely noticeable with the others.
I think my favorite is when I was first playing Twilight Princess years ago, my cousin told me how in the final battle if you pull out the fishing rod and throw the lure out at Ganondorf he gets distracted by how shiny it is. And sure enough it happened xD I just found it funny with it being such an intense and serious battle.
Does the bottle doubling as a royalty transportation system in Majora's Mask count for this? 🙃
Seriously though, that's one of the funnier and more absurd moments in the series to me, still remember how much I laughed when I first saw it 😅
I stared at the screen in stunned disbelief as my brain blue-screened.
Bruh...How?
@@nousername191 he means transporting the deku princess in a bottle 😊
@@Mondelfe I think he meant when he saw that in the game his brain bluescreened.
Zelda confessions time: I once tried to sell the bottled Deku Princess to the Curiosity Shop guy. He wasn't interested though.
@@QuasarEE me too!!
Igniting spicy food you threw on the ground to create an updraft is one of the silliest things I’ve seen from the Zelda series, I love it
Honestly pretty hilarious that just lighting a pepper on fire is enough to make it release huge gusts of wind. How must it feel to be a hylian chef working with those things?
One thing in BotW that I surprisingly don't see many people ever mention, and I figured out on my own, is that fire and ice weapons can alter your body heat in extreme weather. For example, if Link is sweating in the Gerudo desert, rather than changing your clothes, just equip an ice sword. You can do the same in the mountains with a fire sword. I genuinely wonder if anybody else has figured that out, because I honestly never see anyone else mention it anywhere.
I found that out by accident when I stumbled into the mountains with only a Great Flameblade and a Warm Doublet on. Everything was going fine until I broke the Flameblade fighting Ice Lizalfos, and couldn't figure out why I was suddenly cold
In my first BotW playthrough, I "abused" these common-sense properties right from the beginning --- so I was irritated to read that it's not so common-sense obviously...
I'm guessing pouring water on Wind Waker's second boss
I guess the bottle and the net for ocorina of time and skyward sword respectively
@@JamisonHingle And Twilight Princess.
Link leading the children away from the village gave me creepy pasta vibes...
Just about everybody knows about using the fishing rod/bug net/bottle in the final battles, but I always find those uses funny.
I played ocarina of Time hundreds of times and never knew the blue flame to destroy bombable 💣 walls. Unbelievable.
To still learn secrets about that game even now.
hell i just watched this video and still didn't know that.. how'd I miss that?
Hey fun fact: if you hit a chuchu jelly in botw, it will explode and cool you down. So if you use it in the desert you can reset your temp! :)
To be more precise, it bursts into water. Becoming covered in water cools you down. You can also, if you're careful, use it to extinguish fires (if it's too close to the fire it will ignite and become red chu jelly)
In Link's Awakening, you can equip the bomb and the bow+arrow at the same time in the A and B button slots, if you press both buttons at the same time, Link shoots a bomb arrow!
Twilight Princess acknowledges that easter egg by making it canon and being told about it by Barnes, allowing you to shoot bomb arrows in that game
Facts. It would absolutely wreck some bosses
In twilight princess you can use the ball and chain to move pushable blocks for puzzles
Ive always found weird that blue fire was described as "cold" in oot. Like i get it might be related to ghostly fire or something but, i know my fires and blue f8re only happens at over 6000 degrees.
To me it raises the more confusing question of whether red ice is hot.
There's also the question of how this blue fire can be contained in a sealed bottle. It hardly behaves like fire at all when you think about it.
@@wesnohathas1993 so magical!
@@wesnohathas1993 Maybe it's more like a fluorescent gas that somehow draws energy from the surroundings thereby decreasing local temperature.
only over 6000F? have you never seen a flaming sambuca before? Alcohol burns blue at about 3500F.
I just like that you can distract bosses with ambiguous items. Like Ganondorf with the fishing pole in TP.
The ball and chain is how I would always destroy the piles of Stahl bones lol
Over 600 hours spent playing botw and I never knew wearing the WW shirt makes sailing faster. Cool!
There's just always more to that game. It simply never ends.
@@lonestarr1490 Seriously, it never fails to amaze. Just when I think I know all the secrets I find out something I had no idea about before
**THE TWILIGHT PRINCESS SKY CITY FETCH QUEST**
I just remembered a part in another Legend of Zelda game that can be considered both a trading sequence, and also a fetch quest. It's also "not," a side quest either like other trading sequences or fetch quests either. In Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, before getting into the Sky City dungeon, you are required to complete a massive trading sequence/fetch quest in order to even use the cannon. I mean, it leans way more towards a fetch quest than a trading sequence, but there's also some elements of that too.
One that's a bit obscure to regular players and definitely unintended is using the Cane of Somaria to get 1/2 magic in A Link to the Past, or to transform anti-fairies. If you use the cane while you have no magic at all, and then swap to the mushroom slot in the inventory (still works even after you do have the powder), it will activate magic powder's effect. This comes up in item randos sometimes as it is a trick that can be put into logic.
I get so hyped when I get notifications for this channel, these videos are so immersive.
I gotta say, I'm legitimately impressed with this video... the majority of these I legitimately never knew nor even heard about. I was prepared for the usual well-known ones, but aside from the sacred water instant-kill trick, everything else is absolutely new to me. Really nice collection of lesser-known/newer discoveries
The fishing rod in Twilight Princess has a secret use. It can make Ganondorf distracted in the final battle so you can hit him. Turns out Ganon wasn't a pig, but a fish this whole time haha
Isn't there a similar use of an item in skyward sword too??
Some BOTW tips:
1. Using stasis to highlight edible plants & mushrooms in woodlands can make finding and collecting them all much easier.
2. Stasis can also be used to freeze the flying acorns found in some korok archery puzzles, making them much easier to hit with a bow & arrow.
3. Stasis can also be used to highlight hidden or hard-to-see enemies in dark areas.
4. You can create an updraft using 4 lit bundles of wood; this trick is especially handy in the Sword Trials (especially in Master Mode) where you can use the updrafts to evade enemies, shoot them repeatedly in slow mo and use for other tactics.
5. Placing burning bundles of wood around a Hinox before you wake it up will give you an advantage in battle as they're prone to stepping on fires and getting distracted as they try to put the flames out.
6. If you feed a monster its preferred food while you wear a beast mask, you can get behind it while its eating and go for an easy stab in the back kill (this only works on monsters below silver or gold rank though). You can feed lizalfos critters frogs instead of fish for a cheaper option.
7. An easy way to take Lynels down is to fight them on horseback, leaping up in the air to strike them with a volley of arrows at close range and returning to the horse before the Lynel gets back up (& rinse & repeat this until it dies). If you do this efficiently you can take down a Lynel without it having the opportunity to strike once. An interesting thing about stamina recovery is that no matter how low your gauge is, it will be instantly restored once you jump back onto the horse.
8. If you gently glide onto a Hinox's belly, it is possible to steal the weapons from around its neck and run off before it can wake and attack you. This can be an especially easy way to harvest much-needed metal weapons in the early stages of the game when decent weapons are hard to find (and certainly without a fight).
9. It takes precisely 10 apples or carrots to tame a wild horse instantly.
10. You can always tell what the best horse in a herd is because it will lead the herd as they wander around.
11. 30 minute long lasting elixirs can be made using a dragon horn, 3 powerful foodstuffs and one lesser foostuff (for example 3 Mighty Banana's, 1 Mighty Thistle and 1 dragon Horn will create a 30 minute long powerful attack elixirs). Downing an elixir like this can give you a handy advantage in the Sword Trials.
12. The diving korok puzzles can be easily completed by jumping off a Cryonis block into the Lily ring.
(Etc)
Nice collection. This deserves more thumb-ups.
I remember when I discovered that the ball and chain could be used like a shield I was amazed, but I also remember discovering that the (regular)shield can protect even if you dont have it raised, my brother one time was running around doging arrows from bulblins with his sword drawn, and an arrow impacted the side where the shield was even though it wasnt raised(z targeting) and it blocked the arrow, I think that will be very hard to replicate but I assure you it happened
makes sense for a game with directional blocking. IIRC in Zelda games the shield never protects you from the side you're not holding the shield on, so it sort of makes sense for at least in some game it to passively protect on the side it's held on.
@@marhawkman303 This also happens in botw, most notably with the ancient shield
I belive that you can do this in ALttP while charging your sword.
Here's an oldie but a goodie you missed. In The Legend of Zelda (USA ver) the Bow and Arrow has 2 secret functions the game does not mention. Not only can you kill Pols Voice in one hit with an arrow, you can also collect items with a shot arrow like a boomerang even though the arrow doesn't return to you.
I feel like the fact that Yiga soldiers can be baited by mighty bananas counts. I didn’t realize it until my second play through of BOTW, but that could be because I’m an idiot.
Zeltik: you can lead the children out of the village!
Me: *proceeds to lead the children into a mob of monsters*
Zeltik the Zelda Boss kills with one hit.
The ball and chain makes sense honestly, like what spider web or crumbling wall is going to stop a solid metal ball that size with ease.
Using the bug net to distract Demise in BOTW was pretty random too lol
You mean Skyward Sword?
Fishin' for gannondorfs in twilight princess during the final boss lol
… Dude.
I heard that the master sword is actually a lawn mower in disguise
Finally another zeltik video. Your great zeltik
Here's one, if you use Song of Storms in the desert, you can see the flags during the Lightning flashes
Using a bottle or bug net to deflect Agahnim's spell ball is another one in ALttP. The different race masks in OoT gives you different dialogue when talking to the Zoras and Gorons, also the Gerudo guard as young Link and certain characters will be afraid of you wearing the Gerudo Mask. There's also the different things you can do with the Stones of Truth by bombing them, using the hammer, or using Din's Fire on them, aside from talking to them with the Mask of Truth. Also some of them have hidden fairies in them if you use Zelda's Lullaby.
It’s amazing that I’m still learning new things about these 15-30 year old games!
While I was playing Ocarina of Time, I figured out that I can use Link's good looks to run a different kind of business.
Zeltik may already know this as his fave Zelda game is Wind Waker but when Phantom Ganon does Dead Man's Volley, we can deflect it with a bottle. & Idk if this counts but the Master Sword can be used to increase our inventory. In Botw, when you draw the Master Sword with all weapon spaces filled, a new, permanent spot is created for the sword
Also in LA, if you use the screen warping trick to avoid getting the sword in the beginning, and then collect enough shells to get the sword there, the one on the beach turns into a shield. If you go get the shield off the beach, your shield turns invisible.
*Lillie holds blue fire* I’m like Azula now, fear me or else!!!!
I am always amazed when I learn something new about Ocarina of Time. Never knew about blue fire destroying bombable walls.
Very cool stuff man! Always look forward to new stuff, I had no idea about the Island shirt in BoTW
In A Link to the Past, a bug net will repel orbs of magic thrown at link by Agahiem just like a sword. In Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess, where the bug net was replaced by just swinging an empty bottle, swinging a bottle will repel the magic blasts the same way in both ganondorf fights. In context, this is pretty funny- a powerful evil consistently being turned back by children wielding bug nets and bottles.
The royal guard uniform in BotW is one of the few outfits that retains some use late in the game. It combines the effects of the Barbarian armor, Salvager Gear, and Climbing Gear into one to let you conserve stamina regardless of what action you perform. Except for sprinting, sadly.
That might be why the pieces are stored in Hyrule Castle. It’s an early game breaker in exploration if you only used up a fraction of your stamina with rapid climbing or swimming.
I love this channel, I always learn something new from LoZ
Thanks Zeltik for keeping the Zelda love flowing through the internet
In botw ravios hood increases your sideways climbing movement! I was laughing so hard in delight when I found out XD.
Oddly enough the mushroom is even more broken in the original version of Link's Awakening on the Gameboy. if I recall correctly it's actually used in the speed run in some categories to help do sone interesting tricks in them.
Although nothing as broken as how unintentionally and disgustingly broken some items some items are from OoT and A Link to the past are respectively.
One of my favorites is the Wolfos tail weak spot in Ocarina of Time, something only hinted at in Majora's Mask.
The object highlighting seems like a debug feature. I’d bet they had some item they used to get that feature early in development, and later when they didn’t need it anymore overwrote it’s spot in the inventory with the gerudo mask. But since it’s a child-only item, and the same inventory item can link to different code between child and adult link (IIRC the slingshot & bow look like distinct inventory items but are technically just the adult and child versions of the same item as far as the code is concerned), the old debug tool is still accessible if you force adult link to use the gerudo mask.
Incredible how overpowered some of the weakest weapons are
4:44Bunny Ears are a reference to Link To The Past, BunnyLink is equal in ATK to Stalfo Swords.
In Ocarina of Time the Goron, Zora, and Geroudo mask actually enables unique dialog when worn.
Not super unknown but:. The Skull Hammer in Wind Waker could kill any frozen enemy in one hit. This includes Darknuts and Wizrobes. Only issue is they stay frozen a very short duration so it's tough to time.
That originally started in ALTTP.
Freezing an enemy then hitting them with a hammer kills instantly and grants magic.
Pretty sure the song of healing is never referenced to be able to repair broken signs.
Also I love that the wind waker shirt. Does it scale as you upgrade it?
You can’t upgrade dlc items
You can repair broken signs with the song of healing?
@@jonahstein3034 yes in both games
@@TheSignificantHarassment2 could have sworn you could.
@@Perroden wait you’re talking about the botw wind waker shirt right?
I don't know how secret it is, but the boomerang in Link's Awakening will one hit KO the final Nightmare form of the end boss.
That boomerang is the most powerful boomerang in the Zelda games, and actually makes getting the upgraded sword useless.
From what I saw, they seem to have even nerfed it in the remake, making one hit kills take two hits in at least some places.
The shield is also really powerful, with the only real drawback being you had to have it equiped, taking up an item slot. The remake gave you a dedicated shield button, so they had to slow down your movement to compensate.
Sadly that was taken out in the remake. =( Though it's still fairly powerful for regular enemies that can be hurt by it.
Somehow I totally forgot about questing for blue flame in OoT as well, are there theories about it’s origin?
welll, it's the same force that powers the magic tech?
@@marhawkman303 yeah and it is blue which can be related to wisdom and so that could connect it with tech… also I could see it playing the role as a kind of electricity here, but I wonder if there could be something more going on
if you slash Cucoo's in Twilight Princess you can control them for a short while
I wonder if the magic arm from the Botw two trailer has something to do with the Twilight realm,its green energy is similar to some of the stuff from the game.As well as the this it's also similar to the green liquid from the royal tomb and the bottom of the well from Oot.What if malice represents Din,Sheikah energy represents Nayru and this green stuff is the power of Faron? I would definitely like to learn more about these things in Botw two.Maybe this has something to do with items such as Midnas helmet and Majora's mask in Botw`s expansion pack.Also just to strengthen this,Ganondorfs corpse looks similar to that of a Re-Dead,which are associated with the first in-game appearance of this energy
The three energy types make sense with the traits each one shows as well, power, wisdom and courage.
Malice is a substance that can grow, infect, and harm creatures. You can describe that as representing power.
Sheikah technology is... well technology, which requires wisdom to create.
We know less about the green energy, but it seems to be able to combat malice. And what's a common trope in media? Any power can be defeated with courage in the face of evil.
For you DS veterans: In phantom hourglass, the hammer tool allows link to smash enemies and broken pressure plates. But if you charge up the hammer and hit a phantom, you can stun it.
Most of them make completly sense, and it shows how much love these games get by their developers
Was surprised the bottle to reflect Ganondorf's blasts in OoT didn't come up. Just as an acknowledgement.
You can use the magic powder to turn a chicken back into a human old lady in Kakariko Village in Link to the past. It will also make the old lady sweeping disappear if u sprinkle it on her. It turns the green wabbly guys into large potion bottles as well.
Just had a thought - who made the elemental weapons? Why are there great elementals blades placed around seemingly with intention go be found (by the hero?) in such far away places?
Here’s one- In twilight princess, in the one on one fight with ganondorf at the end, his last phase, you can use the fishing rod to distract him and easily get a few hits on him
Question: So, if you were to lead a Guardian into an area with blue fire, could you use a blue fire arrow as a pseudo ancient arrow to do more damage to them if shot in the eye?
There's a damaged guardian in the Akkala area that you could possibly test that on.
@@QuasarEE ohhh right
I really thought I knew everything about ocarina of time! Really interesting, thanks!
The Bugnet to reflect Agahnim's projectiles in Alttp or the bottle which does the same with Ganondorf's projectiles in OoT and the fishing rod to distract Ganondorf in Twilight Princess
The ball and chain and mushroom secrets really surprised me. Had no idea they could be used like that
*Lillie wears Gerudo mask*
Lillie: “Yes I’m a guerdo. I can see secret.”
You forgot to add guays also don't attack if you have the skull mask
Did not know about the bones and magic powder...definitely getting on Link's Awakening this weekend 👍
"you can lead the children like a pide piper"
*Leads the children to a guardian*
if games like Skyrim is any indication, they'll likely be invincible to all harm :P
This is not so much or a secret use but it's a nice little trick. In Wind Waker on the GameCube there's a way to get both the Cabana Deed AND the Hero's Charm RIGHT AFTER THE FIRST DUNGEON!
Does anyone remember that the Grappling Hook can pull items right off of enemies? Well, you can use this to your advantage. Remember the 2 Bokoblins from the very beginning of the dungeon? You need to use the Grappling Hook on them (also, I could be mistaken that there's 2. There might be more but it's been forever) and that's how you'll get those *Joy Pendants.*
After you grapple them, proceed through the door going further into the dungeon then go right back into that room. Grapple them again until you get 61 Joy Pendants. There's actually a Joy Pendant on Wind Fall Island but it's through a mini-quest sooooo... it's best just to play Hide & Seek and then go straight to that teacher for those rewards.
There's another part to this. I think the game will try to force you to not go off the path but since Wind Fall Island is lined up horizontally with Dragon Roost Island it seems that the game is okay with it, weirdly. And I noticed that opening and closing the sail gives you a boost so I just opened and closed the sail to keep up that boost. And when you get there, all should be good.
(P.S I made sure to get those Joy Pendants first then I fought the boss so I got warped right to the beginning. Plus, I think you need to kill that boss first anyways so you can make your way to the "Forest Haven".)
finally! the first video in years where i actually didn't know most of it!
I’ve always liked how in breath of the wild you can use thunderstorms against your enemies. I don’t recall it being mentioned or even hinted at in game, and many people simply avoid wearing any metal during one, but I like to just drop my weapon/shield and magnesis it towards enemies so the lightning hits them instead.
Another one I think many people know about is that just by having a fire rod out you can stay warm and melt ice blocks.
Oh, and shooting shock arrows at a metal object will create an electric force field, which is another well known mechanic.
Works with any fire weapon as well as primed fire arrows, lit torches, lit wooden weapons or lit arrows. Lighting campfires from wood piles also gives off ice melting heat.
Using the bobber fishing rod to distract ganondorf in TP
Using fire and ice arrows to damage kotake and koume in OotT, although is quite difficult, because 99% of the time they block them...
If you get the fire arrow before fighting morpha, you can use It to evaporate its tentacles
Using the deku stick to get fairies in OotT
I remember more but they are known by a lot of people at this point
The spinner in Twilight Princess is great for absolutely massacring baby gohmas.
BLUE FLAME DESTROYS WALLS!?
The Scarecrow's Song because it's so missable, yet so useful in ways most people wouldn't even bother to try/thinking of.
I need to watch this channel a lot more
Well, keese are like "oh, he works here" when you wear the skull mask and the stalchilds... stalchildren? think that he's a bunny and not a child, so they don't jump out. They're not stalbunnies.
Only strange/secret uses I can think of are well known ones like how you can play energy ball tennis with Ganondorf with a bottle instead of using your sword like you’re supposed to and how in either OoT or Twilight Princess (don’t recall which, might even be both), you can distract Ganondorf with the fishing rod.
Also, not an item, but in the same vein, and again a well known one, is weaponising cuccoos in BotW.
I've played Twilight Princess casually so many times, and I never knew about the ball and chain having the properties of a bomb!! I'm definitely trying that out next time I play!
I know it's probably too late, but the bottle in OOT used to deflect ganon and phantom ganon's energy blasts. I feel like most people know about that one so it might not be interesting enough
Something tells me the Gerudo's Mask thing was a debug feature.
Just realized the Darkhammer’s chainmail in TP looks like the scales of the Imprisoned from SS :hmm:
For the longest time, I didn't know deku sticks could be used as a weapon in OoT. It was only after watching a ZFG randomizer that I found that out.
I remember reading in a magazine that you could use Deku Sticks to turn butterflies into Fairies.
I never could get that trick to work. Figured it was a lie or some sort of april fools gag, but no it's apparently true.
Damned if I know how to pull it off though. Chasing butterflies with a stick out does nothing. Attacking them with the stick does nothing. I even tried standing still hoping one of them would land on the tip. Eventually I said "fuck it" and went to the Fairy Fountain that was like 50ft away under a gravestone.
@@jonathanprince707 I've never been able to get the butterfly stick thing to work
In BotW, the blasts from the blizzard rod will return octorok rocks as if you did a perfect parry with your shield. :)